You can use Google Sheets. or much better Office365, to get share prices automatically into a spreadsheet.
I have bank etc apps on the phone so I can see quickly. Some would be awkward, eg if they only give interest at the end of the term but there are various conditions for early access.
FOr shares you can use various screners (I haven't heard of moneyhub) but I don't know of one which really shows you how a stock is doing, like how much it changed in each of the past weeks. Piece of cake in Excel.
It's easy to get a bit paranoid. The pound/dollar rate variation makes a mockery of close monitoring of US share prices.
Must say it's a bloody hassle keeping watch on the likes of building society ISA interest rates as they're high and moving. Have you looked at one of the "
Savings Platforms". Sometimes they don't have the absolutely most attractive options for some people, but with your dosh in one place it's easy to switch about. You get your 85K FSCS cover on each individual institution, not per platforrm.
Flagstone is quite good in that you can show and decide how much will be covered by the FSCS.
I have over the limit in an Close Brothers easy access account. It's a good rate, and they're well enough capitalised, and dead helpful. Its too much hassle to split things up too much.
Good is relative, at around 5-6% pa.
Like everyone ( & I) said they would, crypto related stocks have been going up for a while. Like 86% just in November .
You can look for a stock with a good result/upgrade and see how it goes - the info is free - and stick money in one doing OK. I just used a company (big in the US) called Affirm. It's grown 43% over the last 4 days.
Rolls Royce has grown 35% in the last month.
These have all been slow enough rises, unlike simple reactions to results, that any old fool can hitch a ride.
Zero skill, just look for them. Why should anyone bother with 5-6 percent?
If you CBA to look for that sort, just check one of the indexes. US ones did 12% last month. It could be under a mattress for 11months and you'd still be better off. There are 3x and 5x index funds, too.
It pains me to say it for some reasons, but eToro is an easy broker to use for slowish - say weekly, trading. You can stick money in and leave it in something slow, or single stocks. A nice thing is that you can use and guarantee a " trailing stop loss" so if the price should fall by more than some amount you set, like like 1%, it'll sell automatically and you get 99% regardless of how far it goes. The guaranteed stop-loss price you'd get ratchets up as the price goes up. (If you want to do scalping which gets you 2-3x the daily rise, you'd need a different broker)
