There are several ways to monitor your investment. Reports are in available daily in the major newspapers. Market prices are listed in real-time on Teletext and Ceefax. You can also monitor in real-time online, and regular updates are available on television. Sky Digital and Cable companies have information posted on news bulletins throughout the day, and there are several programmes available about stock markets and investments.
You can either look at share indices, such as the FTSE, or at individual share prices. You can find out the last closing price, and the daily high and low price, to see how much it's changed during the day. You'll be given a number it has increased or decreased by i.e. 9> means an increase of nine pence, or 9< would be a decrease of the same value.
Share indices have a set score that they work by, eg 1000 points, and an increase of 9 would be nine points on the indice, not nine pence.
