Commodities Spread Trading Records show that the first futures contract was introduced in 1851 and futures contracts have been in operation ever since. The great thing about futures is that they turn all physical goods into paper...
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Risk Free Arbitrage with Spread Betting?
Credit to Peter Marsden I noticed a while ago spread betting companies let you buy and sell currency pairs and many of them allow you to select which currency you want to use for each pip value. For example if you open a long...
Currency Pairs and Correlations
Some currency pairs often move in correlation to each other, either in the same direction or in opposite directions. Correlated pairs include EUR/USD and GBP/USD, USD/CHF and USD/JPY, AUD/USD and GBP/USD, EUR/USD and NZD/USD...
Mortgages in the UK with European Interest Rates?
Sometime ago I mentioned the following when discussing Euro mortgages. Which I repeat here, adapted for Euros as a few people were interested in the concept. It is a little long, but maybe of use to some… This answer is...
Spread Betting on Foreign Exchange
The currency trading market is the largest and most liquid trading market in the world with average daily turnover estimated at $3.98 trillion, according to the Bank for International Settlements. The currency trading market...
Currency Spread Betting Tips and Strategies
There are seven major world currencies. Apart from sterling (GBP), these consist of the US dollar (USD), the euro (EUR), the Japanese yen (JPY), the Swiss franc (CHF), the Canadian dollar (CAD) and the Australian dollar (AUD). To...
Exclusive Oanda and FXBoxOption Interview
OANDA discontinued its BoxOption product in August 2012 due to new regulations imposed under the Dodd-Frank Act in the United States and similar initiatives in other major financial centers. Since then, OANDA has not reintroduced...
The Great DIP (or shall we say crash) at OlsenInvest…
OANDA is the creation of Richard Olsen and Olsen Capital but we also know that Oanda manages forex accounts on behalf of investors… Here at Financial-Spread-Betting.com we have an open policy of saying things as they are...
A Day in the Life of Dr. Richard Olsen – Founder of Oanda
Chairman and CEO of Olsen, Dr. Richard Olsen holds a Licentiate in Law from the University of Zurich (1979), a Masters in Economics from Oxford University (1980) and a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich (1981). He worked in...
First Direct, The End of Free Banking?
First Direct (www.firstdirect.co.uk), the branchless bank, is going to start charging a monthly fee of £10 to some of its customers. The fee will apply to those paying less than £1,500 into their account each month or...