The speed of market activity is higher than ever before, which is why it’s becoming increasingly important to understand and respond to new developments as they’re happening.
A number of exciting new enhancements were introduced to help you, meet your investment goals by enabling you to stay on top of the markets and by giving you access to top-notch tools, information and resources.
In addition to an intuitive and user-friendly site navigation, you can now look forward to some impressive new features and tools designed to enhance your online investing experience and make the RBC Direct Investing site truly world-class.
New and Enhanced Site Features Include:
A Community Outlook
A brand-new “Community” feature will monitor and filter various online sources for discussions and information relevant to investors. The information will then be sorted and categorized by “theme” and “ticker” — based on numbers of hits, shared links and blogs. You’ll be able to:
| • | Investigate various sources of news and identify factors causing price movements |
| • | Consolidate a variety of information sources, including blogs, in one place |
| • | Read unique perspectives from credible sources |
This new feature, unique to RBC Direct Investing, will be particularly useful to find information about smaller companies that may have been overlooked by some of the more traditional media outlets.
Sectors and Industries
“Sectors & Industries” offers the market equivalent of a zoom lens on a camera. Start with a sector, like technology, and view activity over a period of five days, three months or a year. Zoom in a little closer and look at the particular industries supporting that sector – in this case, communications equipment, computer hardware, etc. Find full industry overviews, performance and fundamentals, as well as the number of companies within an industry. Zoom in closer still for a comprehensive breakdown of the stocks of the various companies feeding the parent industry and their respective movements – essential for understanding and taking advantage of sector rotations.
Easy Access to Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Model Portfolios
View various model portfolios, along with historical performance and additions and deletions over the past four weeks. Get year-to-date performance comparisons and compare your own holdings to a given portfolio. In addition to providing in-depth technical analysis, S&P’s Model Portfolios also indicate which stocks – Canadian or US – have been up- or down-graded in the last week, with previous and new ratings as determined by S&P or Thomson Consensus.
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Coming on May 16 and available exclusively to active traders, a new web-based application will consolidate all of your trading needs – letting you research the stocks that interest you, track your order activity and make new trades – in a single screen. This new trading application provides real-time streaming market data and quick order entry. |
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† To qualify for Active Trader status, you must perform a minimum 30 equity and/or option trades++ per quarter in your RBC Direct Investing account(s).
++ A trade is defined as a commissionable filled equity or option order. Multiple trades on the same account, same security, same exchange, same side of the market (buy versus sell) and same day are consolidated; and commissions are charged based on the consolidated end-of-day total share quantity.
+ $6.95 flat CDN or US equity trade when you trade 150 or more times per quarter. $9.95 flat CDN or US equity trade with $100,000 or more of household assets held in RBC Direct Investing account(s) or trades between 30 and 149 per quarter. This pricing applies to trades placed through the online investing site and the automated telephone service. Additional terms and conditions apply. Visit www.rbcdirectinvesting.com/lowtrades details.
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