Friday, May 09 2008

Buy and sell your shares the easy way..

Telephone Dealing

High quality trades from just £20 per trade..

If you know what trades you want to make and want to make them in the most profitable way possible, consider Direct Sharedeal. We strive to offer the highest quality trades, with our execution-only telephone dealing starting from just £20 per trade (see our rate card for more details).

  • A wide range of instruments at home and abroad
  • UK, European and US shares
  • Government and Corporate bonds
  • Contracts For Difference and Spread Bets
  • Unit Trusts and Investment Funds

If you are looking at investment opportunities overseas, Direct Sharedeal can help. We can quickly and cheaply transfer your funds into a foreign currency and the shares you buy will be held in our overseas custody accounts. This reduces your paperwork and simplifies the transaction.

Interest on your cash

Place your money with Direct Sharedeal and receive a competitive rate of interest on your cash balance. Our high-interest accounts are available in UK Sterling, US Dollars and Euro, and allow instant access to your money.

Security and choice

Open a Direct Sharedeal account and you can choose whether to hold your shares in a Crest Account (which carries your name) or a nominee account (which carries the Direct Sharedeal name). Either way your shares have a separate legal status and are ‘ring-fenced’ from Direct Sharedeal’s assets.

At Direct Sharedeal, the security of your investments is all-important. As we are regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), our private clients are automatically covered by the FSA Investor Compensation Scheme. And in order to offer you additional peace of mind we also have a supplementary insurance policy.

A range of services for experienced traders

Experienced investors may wish to take advantage of our extended settlement options, which allow trades to be settled on a T+20 basis.

Not all Trades are the same

At Direct Sharedeal we aim to find the best possible price for your trade. For example, if you were buying or selling a UK stock, we would try to obtain a better price for you than that shown on the London Stock Exchange.

How is this possible? Through a combination of investing in market-leading technologies and employing the best people available.

Whether you place your trade by telephone or over the internet, Direct Sharedeal’s technology interrogates several price sources at once and selects the one that offers the best price. However even with the latest technology it’s the people that make the difference, and at Direct Sharedeal our traders have previously worked “on the other side of the fence” as market-makers. This gives them the advantage when it comes to finding the best deal for you and knowing how to place difficult or unusual trades.

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