Using this broker I cannot buy any shares in Experian (EXPN) online and find this utterly remarkable as Experian is a FTE100 company worth over 5 billion!!!
For this reason I nominate HoodlessBrennan as the worst stockbroker of 2007.


Anyone wishing to complain against Hoodless Brennan should contact the financial-ombudsman: here

On Biffa this morning, Selftrade had been a on line size of 3750 both ways, and then chopped it to 750. Last stock I took up with them for doing this was indeed lightly traded - and to be fair they did show it as for telephone trading only (discovered after the size had been chopped!) but this one makes no sense, if - as someone stated- there were 12000 on the strip.

They always blame their supplier - the RSPs - but I suspect that other online brokers may get better service from the RSPs.

Others have commented that it seems to be a shortcoming of Selftrade. Also today their new look site is hopelessly sluggish. So by the fact that we can not make trades, they are losing revenue.

I also wonder if the presence of Plus markets aggravates the effect by diverting some trades.

Does Hoodless have these issues too?

City Equities are pretty bad too.... I now do my own picking of shares with good growth prospects, improving revenue and profits etc... rather than being conned into investing in lame ducks and duffers that HBP & CE are always pushing !

Me too, Skyhigh...I would be interested to know how many clients investing through CE have found the experience profitable.

I dont think Hoodless have many clients left, they make their money partaking
in the placings of dodgy stocks nobody else will touch, such is the love of very
low penny stocks for pump and dumpers they always get a helping hand in shifting it for great returns, in playwise they are selling stock for a 49% profit in just a
few days and there's always plenty more where that come from.
They dont care about their customers, try and get a email reply from them ?

would anyone care to mention which stocks City Equities and Hoodless Brennan are pushing when they are contacted?

It would serve as an alert for the rest of the board.

First you have to get a answer to the call !

Like most city bucket shop brokers if you are lucky enough to get a
answer they are extremely arrogant.

Have you ever wondered when you see a sale in a penny stock well
below the bid what has happened ?

This is 90% of the time Hoods ripping off their clients, if you want to
see what they are pushing then look at recent news on a penny stock
and check out who has took most of the placing stock, it's usually Hoods,
CE or Seymore Pierce, the whole penny market has become so crooked
over the last 2 years that nobody seems to give a feck who rips off who
when it comes to raising more funds to prop up some very poor companies.

i wanted to sell some shares in a mining stock due to spread bet margin call but hoodless couldn't deliver on time because according to a broker there they had lent out the stock to a third party...not too sure what bloody goes on regards this but the delay cost me about 3k in spread bets having to close to cover margin...they owe me bigtime...my broker fucked off to germany having pumper Langbar...i think he must have had threats