ADVFN
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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| Website | www.advfn.com |
ADVFN (: ) is a financial market website. It provides online data and services to private investors such as quotes, charts, news, FOREX, Futures & Options and stock screeners. The site currently covers in excess of 70 from across the globe. It is known for its activebulletin boards (internet forums).
ADVFN was established in the last quarter of 1999 and floated on AIM in March 2000. It now has over 2,000,000 registered users.
In September 2006, ADVFN acquired InvestorsHub.com - an online investment community website in the North American market. ADVFN bought AllIPO, an online IPO trading platform, as well as stock brokerages TSCTrade and Throgmorton Street Capital in July 2009. In 2013 ADVFN acquired Finance Manila, a key resource in a rapidly growing market economy.
In recent years, ADVFN has expanded from the UK to Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico and United States with geo- and language-targeted financial sites in these territories.
ADVFN provides real-time prices.
In February, 2011, ADVFN launched Level 2 Montage - a system combining four Level 2 order books trading simultaneously. It includes the order books of Chi-X Global, Turquoise and PLUS as well as the .
In 2016, the site introduced its Follow Feed tool to deliver stocks information tailored to the individual user. The tool allows investors to collect up the stocks that interest them and then see real-time data on: price breakouts, high volume trades, order book activity, news, regulatory announcements, broker ratings and stock chat. Follow Feed is presented in a timeline style using the social media format of news feeds. ADVFN followed up with Brexit Follow Feed, a newsfeed showing the same data as Follow Feed, but specifically for stocks, indices and currency pairs that are identified as Brexit correlated.
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