The historically hard-to-break world of investing in stock markets and currencies has been cracked wide open. Today there is no need to be a fat cat or fund the yachts of Wolf of Wall Street style stock brokers. You can do it all yourself with the help of free online market trading platforms.
Having spent many hours researching this new opportunity, I’ve been experimenting with
eToro.com which recently featured in the
Financial Times and has over 300m users worldwide.
So far I’m up 28% on my initial deposit, but of course it can be quite volatile and you can lose money, so don’t throw your life savings into it! Start trading with a small deposit and learn the ropes slowly. If nothing else you’ll learn a great deal about various investments and markets.
One of the best things on eToro is the
CopyTrader feature. This lets you literally see, follow and copy the investments of other top performing traders. There’s also lots of training material and videos to help you out, and it’s free to
create an account and use