Type Public Industry Financial Services Headquarters London, United Kingdom Founded 1999 | Traded as LSE: AFN Website www.advfn.com Founder Clem Chambers | |
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Key people Mike Hodges, (Chairman)
Clem Chambers, (CEO) Stock price AFN (LON) 27.41 GBX +1.41 (+5.42%)27 Feb, 8:39 AM GMT - Disclaimer | ||
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ADVFN (LSE: AFN) is a financial market website. It provides online data and services to private investors such as stock quotes, charts, news, FOREX, Futures & Options and stock screeners. The site currently covers in excess of 70 stock exchanges from across the globe. It is known for its active bulletin boards (internet forums).
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History
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 February 2006, ADVFN bought Equity Holdings Limited - the owner of research brand Equity Development.
In September 2006, ADVFN acquired InvestorsHub.com - an online investment community website in the North American market. 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.
Data provision
ADVFN provides real-time stocks and shares 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 London Stock Exchange.
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.
ADVFN operates both free and premium bulletin boards, which receive between 10,000-12,000 posts a day. The bulletin boards have often been a springboard for shareholder activism.