3 things you can learn from Nick Leeson Nick Leeson was regarded as a trading genius by his colleagues at Barings Bank. Back in 1992, Leeson’s appetite for risk and skill at making speculative trades earned his employer; Barings Bank upwards of $10 million ($16 million today) which accounted for nearly 10% of the merchant […]

Spread Betting vs CFDs Investing in financial markets can truly lead to substantial rewards. However, investors don’t always have enough capital to be able to make the most of their investments and secure opulent returns. That’s why some investors use leveraged products to gain a significant market exposure without necessarily having to secure a large […]

Becoming a Good Trader: How to Learn from the Best If you want to achieve the best results with your trading, you need to understand how to act like the best. You can have access to a gold price chart, an economic calendar and the best software possible but it’s only by analysing this correctly […]

Counter Trend Trading Strategy You may have heard the traders’ expression ‘Let the trend be your friend’, which means you should, by and large, trade with the trend. So it appears contradictory to talk about counter trend trading strategies. Still, it becomes a little easier to understand when you call them by a more common […]

Trend Trading Strategies If you’re conservative in outlook, then trend trading, sometimes called trend following, may be your favourite spread betting strategy. It relies on the old trading adage, ‘Let the trend be your friend’. Sometimes it is also compared to one of Newton’s laws of motion, the law that says that a body in […]

Range Trading Strategies What is range trading? Most people on the street would understand when you talk about trend trading, or even trading against the trend, but range trading needs a little more explanation. If you’re familiar with trading charts, you will have seen that prices tend to trend up or down about half the […]

Indicators and Oscillators Anyone hoping to enter the world of trading may find themselves bewildered by the vast array of jargon that is casually thrown around. However, in reality the concepts are not that difficult to grasp. Indicators and oscillators is a phrase often heard in the market and is a fundamental part of technical […]

My Discipline Is Being Tested When I first started trading with Forex I always got attached to my trades that it had a direct impact on my actions and even affected my self-esteem.  Every time I won I felt like a million and seriously believed I finally “got it” and can’t possibly lose again so […]

Scaling into Positions Sometimes you want to place more money on a trade than you know you should. In trading, it is very important not to risk too much, because you can’t tell which trades are going to go against you. That means you must work out your “expected” loss, the downside of any trade, […]

Martingale and Anti-Martingale Trading Strategies Martingale has to be one of the most popular and recognised gambling systems around, with the system dating back to the 18th Century. Many of the systems sold on sites such as eBay simply contain a basic martingale system with maybe one or two slight changes to spice things up […]