Example: Forex Trade Transaction Foreign Exchange (Forex) trading is simply the exchanging of one currency for another – Each Forex trade can theoretically be viewed as a ‘spread ‘ trade where to buy one...

In the past most spread bets were based on a quarterly basis and quarterly contracts, but that is no longer the case these days as most traders opt for the rolling contracts especially when they’re only looking to be in the...

What I Like and Hate About Spread Betting

Spreadbetting is most easily explained through an example – the concept is the same whatever the market. Imagine that in early August you believed the FTSE 100 index’s value of around 6230 was too high and that share...

by Alex Cruickshank Most investors are aware that to be successful at the stock market you should buy low and sell high. What less people know is that you don’t essentially have to do it in that order. Buying low and...

Spread Betting can be bewildering to anyone coming across it for the first time, with terms such a ‘pips’, ‘margin’, ‘spread’ and so on being bandied around. But the concept is actually very...

Invest in what people want, rather than what they actually need, and you can make money – and plenty of it. In recent years, I have done very well by investing in tobacco, confectionery, beverages (hard and soft) and fast food...