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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Making A Little Money Go A Long Way

Posted on 00:57 by Unknown
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Sometimes people ask me how much money they need in order to begin financial trading.

In a regular stockbroker share dealing account it's quite a lot, because you probably need to "invest" at least £1000 in any one share in order to overcome the fixed buying and selling fees of (let's say) £10 each way. Those round-trip fees would account for a massive 8% loss
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