Research Centre

Being able to access the latest information when you need it is critical to investing. That’s why we give you access to our Research Centre when you open an online account with us.

You’ll be able to access all of the following resources and more online:

• Exclusive Barclays Investment Research, including reports from our in-house analysts, daily market news, stock grades and our Share of the Week
• Extensive research on a variety of topics, including company fundamentals, performance tables and news
• Market overview with the FTSE350 top risers and fallers, news, tips and latest broker ratings
• A host of stock tools and analysis, including charting, heat maps and an advanced Stock Selector
• Broker views on top stocks

Try before you buy

You’ll also be able to build your own virtual portfolios and watchlists in the Research Centre, so that you can monitor and test the performance of selected stocks before you buy them. You’ll be able to build up to five virtual portfolios and monitor the performance of each share in it against your virtual purchase price. You can also create up to six watchlists to monitor the day’s opening price, the day’s high and low, and the current buy and sell price of any stocks that you might be interest in buying.

Get the latest news with our email alerts

We have a range of tools to keep you automatically updated on the performance of your investments and the market.

• Our stock alerts let you know of crucial changes to your stock: its price, RNS, company results, director deals, and broker upgrades or downgrades
• Market insight alerts allow you to receive up to nine market alerts throughout the day
• Research grade change alerts give you access to reports by our in-house experts when our opinion changes on any of the 200 UK and selected European shares we monitor