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It feels like 1968 all over again. The French have turned to the left, Manchester City have won the league and I can’t stop listening to ‘The White Album”. There’s change in the air and it’s going to make the rest […]

Over on another financial web site I was reading an article in which the writer was considering buying shares in the company Tissue Regenix. One of the comments on that article suggested that…

‘You can spread […]

In this feature we cover Evil Knievil’s – perhaps the UK’s most prominent bear raider – piece on what to look for when shorting stocks, and the pitfalls that you should look to avoid when trading short.

Have […]

Robbie Burns, aka The Naked Trader offers some words of wisdom this month…

There are many advantages to spreadbetting, but one of the best ones must remain bagging a quick profit with hardly any costs […]

Reading through my previous articles should leave you in no doubt that IG Index is one of my favourite (if not my absolute favourite) spread betting account providers. But I’ve discovered something I don’t like, […]

As visitors to the website here at Financial-Spread-Betting.com, you will appreciate how important it is to find good impartial information about the subject. Anyway, I’m authoring a new book titled “Better Spread […]

While writing my new book ‘Better Spread Betting’ (which is currently ‘under development’, so you can’t buy it yet) I found myself writing the following sentence in relation to pyramiding. Or rather, in relation […]

You may have heard the term ‘whipsaw loss’ but you may be at something of a loss as to what it means. It means a loss that you suffer when you’re trying to enter a position and your newly-opened position stops out […]

I was communicating the other day with a representative from one of the spread betting firms, but I can’t tell you which one. She (I assumed from the name on the email address) divulged some information about the […]

(and eight things you can do about it)

I don’t know that you’re losing at spread betting, of course, but it’s a fact that most spread bettors do lose money. If you are one of them then it might be because you […]

Considering what I’m going to write about today, I couldn’t help going for the pun “Reaching for the Skye!”, because it’s all about Skyepharma. The following chart taken from my spread betting account at IG Index […]

Binary options are quite simply a form of option that offers one of two outcomes and hence the name ‘binary’ which typically describes an outcome of either 0 or 1.
In spreadbetting, binaries are available on a […]

Binary options are quite simply a form of option that offers one of two outcomes and hence the name ‘binary’ which typically describes an outcome of either 0 or 1.

In spreadbetting, binaries are available on a […]

Many of my posts in this community blog have been about my preferred position trading method of trading. That is, holding spread bet positions for as long as possible (but no longer) while hopefully the capital […]

THINK back to when you were a child. You blew a bubble, it grew and eventually it burst.

That’s how some of my former colleagues in Hong Kong are feeling about China’s prospects at the moment – something I […]

I’ve been reading Kyle Macdonald’s book ‘One Red Paperclip’ in which he tells the story of how he gradually traded one red paperclip all the way up to a house by playing the bartering game called ‘Bigger and […]