This month Zak interviews self proclaimed spread betting guru Vince Stanzione.

ZM: There are cynics out there (including our beloved editor!) who suggest that those who can trade do, and those who can’t […]

One of the first things a novice trader – whether spread bettor or otherwise – is taught, is that the use of stop losses is paramount. It is deemed to be the number one trading rule that you should obey before […]

The more regular readers amongst you will know that I hold a lot of participants in the financial markets industry in extremely low regard. This is not without reason or experience however.

Having been a former […]

The current financial crisis has been extremely frustrating for almost all of the major global economic regions as five or six years after it started the end still seems elusive. Indeed, in recent months the UK […]

5 of the Worst Rogue Traders in History
Do you get frustrated when you make a loss in the markets? Have you ever lost £1000? Maybe £10,000? Forget about it. That’s absolutely nothing when compared with the […]

Gold has most certainly been in an impressive uptrend for the last 15 years. In fact, pretty much from the point when probably the UK’s most ineffectual Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, sold almost all our stock in […]

Last month, we kicked off the first of two articles looking back over the major stock market shakeouts of the last 100 years. We started by analysing two sets of panic (the Panic of 1901 and the Panic of 1907) […]

In a special two part piece that will conclude next month we look back at the major stock market crashes of the past 100 years.

Since the creation of the Wall Street Stock Exchange, at the beginning of the 20th […]

Oil, crude, brent, light sweet, black gold – whatever you want to call it, one thing’s for certain, it is perhaps the most important of all commodities, one we cannot currently live without, being the source of […]

So, the best law in trading worked in August. Yes you guessed it – Sod’s law. Last August was horrible so this one was bound to be good, right?

This month I’d like to talk about averaging up. Okay with you? No? […]

for surviving the markets

The editor of this magazine emails me to give me a deadline for this month’s issue but adds whether I could write something a bit different this time.

Obviously I began to write […]

Well, as I write, volatility has returned big time to the markets and this volatility is actually what spread betters really need to make the quick money they are always after! And remember, spreadbetting is a […]

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 […]

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 […]