How much money do you need to begin day trading? This is a common question, asked by beginners who are keen to understand if they have enough cash to run …
How Easy or Difficult is Day Trading?
If you look online to find out how easy or difficult is day trading, you will probably come across a lot of marketing material. These may be ads for training …
The Drawbacks of Day Trading
Many ‘get rich quick’ schemes on the web currently holding up day trading as an easy way to make a quick buck. But there are drawbacks of day trading that these …
Day Trading – A Beginners Guide
Day trading is a fast-paced, technically demanding and potentially lucrative form of investing. It carries prestige and risk in equal measure. This is the Financial Expert beginners guide to day …
The Different Types of Financial Advisers
You often hear the term ‘financial adviser’, meaning a finance professional who will design an investment plan for you and recommend specific investment products. It’s also a loose term – …
The Perks of Sending Money Online
Have a look around you, how many of the people you know have relatives who live abroad? Almost every family does know at least one person who lives or has …
Growth Investing – A Beginners Guide
In this beginner’s guide to growth investing, I’ll be guiding you through this popular investing strategy. I’ll explain the theory of growth investing, how to spot a hot growth stock, …
How to Get Cheap Financial Advice
Financial advice, provided by a qualified and regulated provider, get be invaluable for a new investor. Without this advice, they may have never taken the dive into the stock market …
How to Save Money on Financial Advice
Financial advice isn’t cheap. Knowing how to save money on financial advice can really make a difference to your financial returns, because every penny saved on financial advice is an …
How to Trade Forex – A Beginners Guide
How to trade forex is a science, rather than an art form. This beginners guide on how to trade forex will introduce you to the forex markets and explain how …
How to Invest £1,000 – The Ultimate Guide
This investing blog is home to over 300+ articles on investing. From portfolio design, to investing psychology and trading strategies. But I appreciate that if you just want a quick …
Value Investing – A Beginners Guide
In this beginners guide to value investing, I’ll explain the basics of how this investing strategy works. I’ll explain how to identify value stocks, how to apply the strategy and …
How to Invest With Little Money
How to invest with little money is a careful art form. It can be done if you follow these tips on investing. If you can master these techniques, you’ll be …
Do I Need Financial Advice?
‘Do I need financial advice?’ is a common question asked by people when their circumstances change. Most people are happy with their current savings and investment plan. It might be …
When Should You Get Financial Advice?
The need for financial advice is as evident as the fact that the stock market is risky. But when should you get financial advice? Financial advice from a regulated professional …
Why Financial Advisers Struggle to Convert the Public
Did you know that financial advisers only serve a slim minority of the public? I’m talking about financial advisers who manage the savings and investments (and potentially insurance) of individuals. …
How False Expectations can Affect your Financial Trading
Many people go into financial trading with unrealistic expectations. These are often caused by equally unrealistic hype, marketing and overinflated success stories promoted on the internet by websites keen to …
What Type of Investing Book is Right For You?
The total range of investment books has grown exponentially over the last 30 years, creating an overwhelming level of choice for personal finance readers. How can we filter through this …
Is Financial Advice Worth the Cost?
With financial advice costing hundreds or thousands of pounds, many would-be investors are asking themselves the question: Is financial advice worth the cost? Is it worth losing a small sum …
Do Financial Advisers Have a Good Reputation?
Do financial advisers have a good reputation? Our article on how to become a financial adviser in the UK is one of the most popular posts on this website. It’s …
Six Factors That Could Pump up your Premiums
Every insurance company has a set of underwriting guidelines that influence the premium rates of different applicants. How much premiums you pay depend on the risk you pose to the …
Generating Returns from Overseas Property
If you’re a full time investor with a mix of interests, you’ll already be aware just how difficult it is to generate a reasonably well guaranteed rate of return in …
Investing Mistakes: Mis-sold Pensions/SIPPs
What is a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP)? Mis-sold pensions are common cases through the doors of a Financial Litigation department in a community law firm. Self-invested personal pensions, or SIPPs …
How to Fix Your Credit After Filing for Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a very serious matter, but it isn’t the end of the world. Although filing for bankruptcy can hurt your credit for a long time, there’s a way to …
Investing and Share Dealing on the Go
Not so very long ago, anyone interested in investment and share dealing would have had little choice but to place his or her faith in a phone-based or bricks-and-mortar stock …
The 5 Cheapest UK Equity ETFs
I will run down the 5 cheapest UK equity ETFs in this quick guide, to help cost-savvy investors pick funds which match their desire to pay less in fees. Why …
How to Pick Funds
If you’re a lazy investor like me, you love investing funds. Funds help us do away with the torturous process of stock picking. However, picking a fund can be just …
5 Ways to Protect your Finances after Divorce
Divorce is never easy on you emotionally, mentally and very often, financially. Whether it comes during the divorce process, or before or after the papers are signed, economic difficulties are …
Wealthify Review – Is this the Best Investment Platform in the UK?
This Wealthify review will explain the attractions and drawbacks of this new UK investment platform. I’ll also show how you can get a welcome bonus for signing up and making …
Nutmeg Review: Is this the Best Investment Platform in the UK?
As promised, here’s my long-awaited review of the Nutmeg investment platform which has taken the stockbroker and fund management industry by storm. This Nutmeg broker review will help you decide …
Forex trading order types: what are they and how can I use them?
In a market that is as volatile and liquid as the forex trading markets are, you need to always be on top of your game to respond to the changing market conditions. That is not …
EIS – Enterprise Investment Schemes Explained
Introduced in 1 January 1994. The EIS scheme replaced the ‘Business Expansion Scheme’ (BES), which was more lucrative and covered some less risky companies. While EIS hasn’t been as popular …
Why I Choose the Best Investing Books over Financial Advisers
When we set out to invest for the first time, we consider where to get the right financial advice. There are many sources of information which each carry their own …
Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) Explained
A venture capital trust is similar to an investment trust. They provide investors with generous tax incentives to encourage investment in a variety of small, unlisted companies. Disclaimer: Please note …
End of the Trend Strategy
When a trend reverses, it can happen in a number of ways. It could simply turn around, without any warning. In most instances a parabolic price run up is needed, …
Book Review: The Long Good Buy – Analysing Cycles in Markets
The Long Good Buy is a book in which Goldman Sachs Equity Strategist Peter Oppenheimer explores the fascinating interconnectivity of the real world and financial markets. Central to the book …
How to Invest in Property Without Buying Property Directly
Investing in property is an attractive proposition for many people aged 30 – 60 who have surplus income to save, and who are looking for an investment opportunity. Property investment …
Why Excellent Financial Advisers Avoid Portfolio Churn like the Plague
Portfolio churn is a slightly naughty word in the financial adviser / investment manager profession. So why is churn a slightly dark concept, and why is avoiding portfolio churn an …
The Most Popular Articles on Financial Expert
This month, Financial Expert is celebrating a year since its July 2019 refresh. The result was a total transformation of the site from a simple investing blog, to an investment …
How Investing Books Can Prepare you For the Future
Investing books, in particular the best investing books, have the ability to convey difficult concepts in an understandable way. As books about investments are tailored towards the mainstream public, investing …
How to Earn up to £820 in Free Shares & Sign-up Offers
We’ve found five new stockbrokers who so keen to get your business, they are prepared to offer you free shares to encourage you to register with them and fund your account with a small balance.
What to Look For in a Forex Broker
If you’re thinking of signing up to a forex broker for the first time, there are a few things that you should know and some that you should look out …
The Difficulties of Investing in Property as a Beginner
Getting on the property ladder is an aspiration shared by many 20 – 40 year olds. When prices have been rising generally for many years, it’s natural to experience FOMO …
Further Venture Capital Platform Review
This Further Venture Capital Platform Review is a placeholder page about an upcoming product that is not yet available. Information is based upon the little publicly available information about Further …
Investing Books Galore: Why Penning a Title Became Fashionable
“I have a book out” This is the phrase we normally expect from celebrities, ex-politicians and of course, career authors. But I’ve noticed a trend in this increasingly applying to …
3 Frugal Habits that Allow you to Spend More
In a bit of a twist, this article is about spending more money in order to spend less. It’s not about deprivation, but the elevation of our day-to-day activities. By …
How I Built a Millionaire Legacy by Age 30 (and how you can too!)
I found a way to create an instant £1 million pound estate – a guarantee that those I love will receive an unbelievable thank you if the worst should happen …
My Portfolio: Calculating my Expected Return
A rare advantage that bank account savers enjoy over investors is that they can save with certainty. When they move their cash to a higher-performing account, they can easily measure …
The Ultimate Guide to Life Insurance (UK)
What is life insurance? Term life insurance is a highly popular type of insurance policy that pays out an agreed sum if you die within an agreed period (the term). …
My Portfolio: What Have I Invested In?
Selecting investments has to be the most time-consuming aspect of building an investment portfolio for the first time. In the first My Portfolio article, I showed how I allocated my …