As 2011 nears its end, City Index Chief Technical Analyst Sandy Jadeja summarises 2011 analysing the stock market from a technical viewpoint and delivers his thoughts on important benchmark markets like the FTSE 100, Wall Street, Gold, Crude Oil, EUR/USD for currency exchange rate and what may be in store for 2012.

Capital Spreads are now offering a trailing stop facility, permitting the stop to be moved automatically every time the trade moves by a user defined amount in the spread bettor’s favour.

Despite the worsening economic outlook in Europe and around the world, the number of spread betters and contracts for difference (CFD) traders continues to rise in the UK. 88,000 people used financial spread betting in the 12 months to July 2011, up from 83,000 in October 2010.

Many years ago there were just a handful of spread betting companies. Three or four years ago the number of spread betting “brands” ballooned, and I use the word “brands” because, while some of these were entirely new spread betting companies, a large number were…

GFT has announced that it has added a number of additional markets to its binary offering.

IG Index has cut deposit rates across 59 markets, including leading indices, commodities, treasuries and interest rates.

CMC Markets has announced that it has added nine new cash commodity markets for clients to trade on its Next Generation platform. CMC Markets has also cut its spreads on a number of commodity markets…

Irish based spread betting firm Delta Index has been acquired by UK spread betting provider Gekko Global Markets.