Best share trading account

[Andy2]

Can anyone advise whether I can buy shares on the Indian stock exchange (BOM) via iii or HSBC Invest Direct...

AFAIK you can't buy indian shares directly.
There are indian index tracker etf listed in UK/USA e.g LNFT,MINDX.

[moorfield]

Interactive Investor ISA normally does £1.50 commission for batch buying, currently free until June 30th (I imagine their spreads may be a little wider though).

If you really are a long term-investor like you say then batch (rather than real-time) buying shouldn't be a problem.

[MrHelpful]

AFAIK you can't buy indian shares directly.
There are indian index tracker etf listed in UK/USA e.g LNFT,MINDX.

Is there no way I can buy shares in India... I don't fancy putting more money in the FTSE...

[SantaClaus]

Is there no way I can buy shares in India... I don't fancy putting more money in the FTSE...

If you wanted to trade the entire Indian stock index, try spreadbetting with IGIndex. Make sure you know what you are doing with regards to stoploss and leverage though!

[Andy2]

Is there no way I can buy shares in India... I don't fancy putting more money in the FTSE...

LNFT and MINDX are etf which track the all stocks indian index.

These are some UK mutual funds which invest in india-
HSBC GIF india equity fund
Fidelity India Focus
Jupiter India Acc

[thunderlizard]

Need an alternative to HSBC InvestDirect

Hello! Bringing this thread back from the dead because I need a new investing-via-the-web solution. HSBC InvestDirect was OK until it stopped supporting exchange traded commodities funds, and commodities is mainly what I know about. Any recommendations?

tia
tl

[ASB]

Hello! Bringing this thread back from the dead because I need a new investing-via-the-web solution. HSBC InvestDirect was OK until it stopped supporting exchange traded commodities funds, and commodities is mainly what I know about. Any recommendations?

tia
tl

Iii? But they now charge 20 qtr. But that is given as dealing credit. So trade twice qtr and its effectively free.

[badger7579]

I use YouInvest AJ Bell (formally SippDeal) £9.95 per trade and no annual charges. Platform is fine and had no issues over the last few years.

[thunderlizard]

Thanks, I shall look into both of those. Probably would be trading a couple of times a quarter.