What to use instead of London Stock Exchange My Account

The product

My Account was the registered side of the London Stock Exchange's public website, and for a UK private investor it was the free part worth signing up for. The exchange's own pages describing it are archived as the content its website loaded by script; the captures we read are dated 27 March 2026, under three months before the switch-off.

• Virtual Portfolio. Free, for "thousands of stocks, funds or covered warrants available on our markets", along with "a selection of global securities". You chose the starting capital and the currency, and could enter a transaction at any past date and price.
• Trading Simulator. A fixed £10,000 of virtual money, traded "at market price (subject to a 15 minute delay)", competing against other users in groups. No back-dated trades.
• Watchlist. Lists of securities to follow, with alerts when a watchlist's value reached a target and daily watchlist summaries.
• Email alerts. Share price alerts on a target or on a rise or fall, RNS news alerts on companies, indices or sectors, and portfolio and simulator performance alerts, up to 200 alerts per person.

Its prices were the exchange's own: the portfolio FAQ says "All prices match those found across London Stock Exchange website", 15 minutes delayed. An older archived page, captured on 10 March 2020, describes much the same portfolio and simulator as "completely FREE", and records that a new Portfolio was released in 2014 and the old one switched off on 29 March 2015.

The fifth piece was not free. The Historical Price Service, in the March 2026 capture, provided "online access to request individual DOL quotations for all securities traded on London Stock Exchange", from June 1999 onwards only, the DOL being the exchange's Daily Official List. "Quotations are charged at £5.00 + VAT per quotation", by card only, and the results were downloaded from My Account under Order History. It is the kind of service somebody valuing a holding at a past date, for probate or a capital gains computation, would use to get the exchange's own figure.

What happened. The date comes from the exchange's own site. The SparkLive Account Management FAQ on londonstockexchange.com, which carries no publication date and which we read on 27 October 2026, says LSEG is "evolving our online services" towards SparkLive, "LSEG's platform for live and on demand events, company insights and direct engagement between market participants", and that "the My Account section of londonstockexchange.com was decommissioned on 20 June 2026." It lists what went: the Portfolio and Trading Simulator, Price Alerts, and the Historical Price Service. The old My Account and registration addresses now redirect to that FAQ. We could not retrieve whatever notice was shown before the switch-off; the page that replaced it speaks in the past tense.

The same FAQ explains how to create company watchlists in SparkLive, up to 20 of them with 50 companies each, and news alerts on every company, one company or a watchlist, filtered by news source and announcement category. It does not say that anything was moved across from My Account, and it says nothing about a portfolio, a simulator or a price alert.

What to use instead

My Account was five jobs behind one login: a portfolio, a simulator, a watchlist, alerts, and paid official price quotations. Nothing in this catalogue does all of them, none of it carries the exchange's name, and none of these is a drop-in replacement: every one starts with an empty portfolio.

If what you used was the watchlist or the RNS alerts, you may not need anything on this page. Those are the two jobs SparkLive's watchlists and news alerts cover, and its FAQ walks through creating an account to set them up.

If what you used was the portfolio, there are two honest routes. Hosted: Sharesight holds up to 10 holdings free, closed positions included, prices London listings 15 minutes delayed, and its UK pricing page, read on 27 October 2026, says every plan includes price and portfolio email alerts, which is the nearest thing to My Account's daily valuation email. Paid plans are £8, £18.67 and £28 a month, or £6, £14 and £21 a month billed annually. Its UK tax reports are a starting point for an accountant rather than a capital gains computation, being worked on simple average cost, and the free plan includes the Sold Securities report but no taxable income or capital gains report. On your own machine: Portfolio Performance is an open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that keeps the whole portfolio in one file. Its manual, dated 6 March 2026, says the built-in price feed covers more than 20 European exchanges and the major American ones without naming them, and we could not confirm London is among them; Yahoo Finance is one of the feeds you can assign to a security instead, and you set that up yourself.

If you want the whole UK toolkit and will pay for it, ShareScope is the portfolio and alerts job done properly: unlimited portfolios with CGT management, 500 alarms on price, news and RNS, live RNS, and an "Export price series" option, at £36 a month on prices 15 minutes delayed or £84 for live prices and LSE Level 2, read on its comparison page on 27 October 2026. It has no free plan and no simulator. ShareScope against Stockopedia covers the other UK-first subscription.

If what you used was the simulator, TradingView has paper trading, which its support page says is available to all users. Its data page lists London Stock Exchange prices as free at a 15-minute delay, the same delay the exchange's simulator worked to, with real-time UK companies at $9.95 a month. The free Basic plan also carries three active price alerts and one portfolio of 20 holdings, which is why it heads the list: it is the only free plan that covers the portfolio, the simulator and price alerts at once, if thinly. Its charts show price history, but downloading the chart's data starts at the Plus plan. The rivals are there in another form: the same support page points to The Leap, TradingView's virtual trading competition with a public leaderboard, though each edition sets its own instruments and the ones we found were not London shares; the February 2026 edition, by its rules, traded eleven Eurex futures from a 100,000-dollar virtual balance. TradingView against ProRealTime covers the other charting platform here with a paper account.

If what you used was the Historical Price Service, nothing here replaces it, because nothing here issues an official DOL quotation. If a past closing price is enough, Stock Analysis has a history page for London listings. Read without an account on 27 October 2026, Vodafone's page showed daily open, high, low, close, adjusted close and volume, credited to S&P Global Market Intelligence. How far back a free visitor can go, and whether the download button works without paying, the page does not say. Its card says a free account adds watchlists, portfolios and alerts, and the quote page carries Watchlist and Alerts buttons, but we could not confirm what a free account gets for London listings, so it is ranked here for the price history alone. If you need files for a whole exchange rather than one page per share, downloading end-of-day prices in bulk covers the APIs that sell them, most of them priced and written for US listings.

What you give up

Official prices back to 1999. The Historical Price Service sold the exchange's own DOL quotation for any London security on any date from June 1999, at £5 plus VAT. A daily price table on a third-party site is a figure, not the exchange's quotation, and an executor or an accountant who needs the official one now has to find another source for it. We found none on any LSEG page.

Free, for the rest of it at once. The portfolio, simulator, watchlist and alerts cost nothing, and the exchange's pages mention no holdings cap; alerts stopped at 200. The free routes on this page each cap something: 10 holdings on Sharesight, closed ones included; one portfolio of 20 holdings and three alerts on TradingView; your own time and your own price feed with Portfolio Performance. The tool that does most of the job at UK depth, ShareScope, is £36 a month.

Prices from the exchange itself. My Account's FAQ promised prices that matched the exchange's own website. Every pick here takes London prices from somebody's feed, such as S&P Global's for the history on Stock Analysis' page, or one you configure yourself in Portfolio Performance, and a feed that misprices an AIM stock or an investment trust is your problem to notice rather than the exchange's.

A simulator with fixed rules, all year. The Trading Simulator gave everybody the same £10,000 and the same delayed price on London shares, then put them in groups against each other, with no start or end date. The Leap is time-limited and sets its own instruments, and a paper account on its own teaches the mechanics of an order ticket and nothing about how your picks did against anyone else's.

Migration notes

There is nothing to export from, so start from your broker. We found no LSEG page that offered a portfolio or simulator export before or after 20 June 2026. A simulator history was never real money and is not worth rebuilding. A real portfolio is better rebuilt from your platform's transaction history and contract notes than from memory; see exporting broker trade history and importing a broker CSV into a tracker.

Download any DOL quotations you bought, if you still can. The Historical Price Service delivered its results as downloads under My Account, not by email: the service's own page says "the actual quotations will NOT be emailed". With My Account gone, a quotation you did not save may be gone with it; we found nothing from LSEG about retrieving old orders.

Pence and pounds. Most London shares are quoted in pence, and a tracker that reads a price of 250 as £250 rather than 250p will overstate a holding a hundredfold. Check one holding's value by hand after any import, and check again after the first price update.

Every service spells the ticker differently. The exchange's own TIDM is VOD; TradingView calls it LSE:VOD, Stock Analysis LON:VOD, and Yahoo-fed trackers VOD.L. Funds and investment trusts are safer matched on ISIN, for the reasons in security identifiers.

Expect a different return. If you remember a performance figure from My Account, a new tracker will probably not reproduce it: Sharesight reports a money-weighted return, Portfolio Performance shows both a true time-weighted return and an IRR, and we found no record of which method My Account used. See why your tracker and broker disagree.