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Thank you both for your helpful replies. I am sorry to bother, I have looked up FTSE on investopedia and read the description, however I am still a but stumped on why you are suggesting I look into FTSE. Does this mean look at markets listed in this list; http://www.stockchallenge.co.uk/ftse.php and find markets which are a low enough price for me to trade?

Also I don't suppose you could quickly help me understand why I cannot see many of the candlesticks on this chart. It was the same for a few more other charts I looked at.

Hi Caseynotes, Thank you very much for your reply I really appreciate you taking your time to help answer my question. Sorry for not using correct terminology, I am still learning. I am looking into day trading. I will continue to play around with the virtual £1,000 and see how it is goes before starting to use my own money.

Hi there I am fairly new to stock trading and have played around on coinbase with bitcoin and there I was able to invest my starting budget of £100-200 however now on IG I can see I am unable to buy stocks of larger companies as the minimum per point is 0.5 does this mean I can only invest in stocks which have a lower price eg ether and barclays and not the larger ones such as tesla/amazon etc. I though as a beginner I could start out with only a small sum/budget and was wondering if the only way to buy stocks of the larger companies is to have a much larger budget/portfolio. I have started on IG demo for now with virtual money (reduced it from 10,000 to 1,000), however when I want to switch to my actual budget (100-200) will I be quite limited? Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you.