Monitoring the activity of Directors’ transactions and ‘shrewd’ investors can also prove profitable for those without the resource to do their own analysis and research. As well as providing long and medium term...

Definition of Shorting Shares: – selling securities you do not own in the hope of buying them back at a lower price in the future and pocketing the difference. Example David thinks share in XYZ Plc are going to fall from...

I’m not quite sure why, but it always seems more satisfying to make money from shorting a share (profiting from it going down). Maybe it’s because it doesn’t feel conventional. With shares doing so well at the...

Have you heard about short selling or shorting? I have already gone through a short introduction to shorting and placing down bets in the introductory series but here I’m going to review some helpful tips for spread betting...

We have already covered some of the dangers and pitfalls in a previous article so I’m going to keep this brief. For these reasons my shorts tend to be fewer and even more tentative than my longs. For one thing when you go...

Triple witching hour occurs four times a year, and is a time when traders should watch out. It’s actually when single stock options, stock index options, and stock index futures contracts all expire at once. In the United...

The period surrounding the release of the non farm payroll figures is undoubtedly the most exciting time of the month for traders and for good reason. Recent research has found that US data releases on nonfarm payrolls, the...

Arbitrage Opportunities Arbitrage is the profiting from differences in price when the same security trades on two or more markets. With an increasing number of financial spread betting companies quoting prices, opportunities...