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This article was written by Andy of http://www.financial-spread-betting.com, a UK financial website which specialises in offering free guides and information on stockmarket products such as financial spread betting Sort By: Date | Popularity
 Trading Platforms - CMC Markets, IG Index or Etrade?This week I noted that CMCMarkets have again upgraded their software so I decided to write down my thoughts on their Market Maker spread betting platform. What is Spread Betting?The spread in spread betting means that the price of the securities is quoted as the offer and the bid. The difference between them is the spread. Here, you bet on the movement of share values and incur either profits or losses depending on which way way the market moves... My Stock Market Rantings - 2003 Market Bottom or 1930's Crash?I've been studying a few stock market charts lately. One showed DOW 1930 and 2009, suggesting we are but 50% through at best but that assumes this recession becomes a depression and it doesn't look like that's going to happen. What's Really Happening in Retail and the High Street?We recently had the Marks & Spencer retail division update the market with a 40% fall in profits. The problem occurs when, say, MKS finds it has sold less knickers next year than this and is forced to cut dividends further and say that profits down another 30%. We wait. In the meantime we open short contracts for differences positions on the retailers and we wait. Professional Horse Racing is a whole lot like Stock Market Trading!Let's face it. Trading is Gambling. The more you understand that relationship the better off you are IMO. In horse racing some say that handicapping as a trading strategy is more important than money management but most agree that both are important. I am a professional horse player and trade. And if the take in horse betting were as low as the stock trading commissions I would easily be a horse betting winner. Picking horse bets is much easier than stocks. Both are easy to beat... Avoid Funds: The Only Way To Make Money Is To Take ControlAs for investing, avoid funds, especially the latest fashionable ones; usually when Barclays come up with a new specialist fund the trend would be ending which makes sense as it takes considerable time to launch a new fund. Using my individual savings account and putting money managed by professionals with good ratings hasn't been a good idea and I'be been losing money ever since... Spread Betting: Trading on AdrenalineWhen we trade or spread bet our aim should be of trading without emotion, but this is easier said than done. I believe very few people could feel the same if they had a string of losers compared to a string of winners, but excluding emotions altogether is still a good thing to aim for. I remember reading, I believe it was an interview in "new market wizards" where one trader said that if you were sat on the opposite side of the monitor, you couldn't tell if he was losing or winning. A Trading System Based on the Strategy as Pioneered by Irish Trader Mark ShipmanOne of the strategies I use to predict the market is based on the trading system pioneered by millionaire Irish trader Mark Shipman - this strategy is aimed at spotting trends with potential in the early stages. With this strategy you will not buy stocks at rock bottom prices, and never sell at the peak either and in this stance Mark's system is a reactive rather than predictive strategy... Spread Betting Experience - Ig IndexHaving again started using IG Index for my spread betting over the last past few weeks, I am narrating my experience. The only things I still don't like is that their charts seem to be a bit delayed and sometimes can just freeze. Yet, they still insist that prices are indicative only... Holy Grailism and Trading Systems – Why Do so Many Traders Fail?Humans are hard wired in life to succeed and by definition we measure success by successful achievements. What will the average spread better do when faced with the inevitable, a succession of trades going against them? They lose faith, dump their system, and go looking for a new one...
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