Your Spread Betting Strategy And Attitude You need the right strategy The stock market, including spread betting, is full of rules that may sound good, but in many cases turn out to be rather less useful than they appear. Spread...

Managing Losing Trades Losing is a necessary part of successful trading. Everyone seems to have this infatuation with always winning and never losing. The problem is in trading there is no such thing as a no lose system or...

Things to Avoid: Overtrading and Oversized Positions In speculation and in financial spread trading it is best not to overtrade. Overtrading has been the bane of my trading career to date.  I have mastered timing, I have mastered...

Greed and Understanding Risk Spread betting is like every other form of gambling, there are do’s and don’ts. Here are some pitfalls to avoid… Risk, when it comes to shares, is something very subjective...

Don’t Procrastinate & Don’t try to Rationalise the Market -: Spread betting is like every other form of gambling, there are do’s and don’ts. Here are some pitfalls to avoid… Procrastination...

Don’t over-stretch – leave plenty of headroom on the account for adverse price movements in the underlying share. I would say that one should never really gear up more than say double the value of your equity. Whereas...

Managing Trades and Profits One basic tip would be to never, ever, risk more money than you have the potential to make on a trade. It’s totally pointless. It should be more like risking x to make 2x, 3x, 4x, etc. This might...

Make use of Stop Loss Orders With trading we all will have disappointments and losses. That is just a fact you have to be able to accept and manage according to your rules and stick to it as we say. Anyone can manage a winner it...

Be careful and try a few small bets first when trading for real money – do look at the graphs, the highs and lows are crucial!! When starting out it is sensible to keep the stakes low to understand how the market you are...