ADVFN Regulatory News (AFN)

ADVFN PLC

31 July 2014

ADVFN launches new state-of-the-art stock charts for private investors

ADVFN teams up with TradingView to provide best HTML5 charts on the webADVFN (LSE:AFN) has added advanced HTML 5 charting and tools to the ADVFN site - www.advfn.com, powered by TradingView.

Customers of the global financial website can now access free, user-friendly and fully customizable charts with more than 60 indicators and technical analysis (TA) studies. The new charts no longer require users to install Java and also work on smartphones and tablets.

Anyone using ADVFN can view full screen charts, compare multiple stocks on the same chart with just a click, and view as a bar, candlestick, hollow candle, line, area or Heikin Ashi line chart. A vast range of drawing objects can be added such as: Pitchfork, Pitchfan, Gann Box, Gann Fan, Fibonacci Retracement, Fibonacci Speed Resistance Fan, Fibonacci Circles, XABCD pattern, Three Drivers Pattern and Elliot Wave Subminuette. In addition, users can retrace bar patterns on charts and modify all the coordinates as well as the style.

The charts also enable traders and investors to set an entry point and assume a long or short position from that point. They can also place an entry and an exit price for a trade to help define a trade's duration by extending the forecast line.

For the social media aficionados, emoticons can be added and charts can be Tweeted in a click.

Registered users can access the charts simply by going to www.advfn.com, clicking the 'Chart' tab and selecting 'TradingView Chart'.

"ADVFN has provided a comprehensive charting package to global private investors for many years. We continuously strive to enhance our offering and teaming up with TradingView enables us to provide best on the web stock charts," said Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN.

"We are very happy to partner with ADVFN. It's a solid business and a premier provider of financial information that thousands of individual investors worldwide rely on. Working with ADVFN enables us to improve the user experience for these private investors," said Stan Bokov, COO at TradingView.

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Notes to editors

About ADVFN

ADVFN (www.advfn.com) is a global stocks and shares information website providing market-leading financial tools and data to private investors around the world.

Offering real-time share prices, news feeds, charting, portfolio management, monitor lists, financials, data from 79 global stock exchanges, Level 2 and the most active financial bulletin board in the UK (along with many other features), the site is the destination of choice for day traders and retail investors.

Established in the last quarter of 1999, ADVFN (LSE:AFN) was floated on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market in March 2000. The site currently has over three million registered users who generate in excess of 177 million page impressions a month.

Originally a UK-based site, the company currently operates in the US, UK, Brazil, Japan and Dubai. Global expansion has been a key area for ADVFN in recent years.

 ADVFN has a joint venture in Brazil, a country in which ADVFN has a geographic and language targeted website. This is in addition to its US, French, German, Italian, Canadian, Japanese, Indian, Mexican and Filipino ADVFN financial sites.

In September 2006 ADVFN acquired InvestorsHub.com, a leading online investment community website in the North American market.

ADVFN bought All IPO, an online IPO trading platform, as well as stock brokerages TSCTrade and Throgmorton Street Capital in July 2009.

In 2013 ADVFN acquired Finance Manila, a key resource in a rapidly growing market economy.

About TradingView

TradingView (www.tradingview.com) is the first real social network that brings together individual investors to share ideas about the markets. It comes with free online financial tools that beat most of the existing competition, even on PCs.

Users analyze worldwide markets (stocks, currencies, indexes Bitcoin and futures) and share with the community on TradingView and other networks, such as Twitter. They publish ideas, chat, learn and make better investment decisions. Investors can buy premium subscriptions for features, extra data and 3rd party tools from the TradingView Marketplace.

Enquiries

Clem Chambers clemc@advfn.com

Salmaan Khawaja / Ed Thomas 0207 383 5100

Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Advisor)