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Financial-Spread-Betting.com : Education for Serious Spread Betters
Questions Answered by the Experts. The following questions address some of the common, important, and/or interesting spread betting issues related to margin and financing: Q. I still don’t get initial margin requirement...
Your Questions to Financial-Spread-Betting.com
These days, I’m regularly receiving questions regarding spread betting from some of you. Since I thought some of them might be of interest to our visitors I’m publishing the answers which I’ve researched here: Q...
Using the Commodity Channel Index
Q. What are Trading Channels or Bands? A: These are basically two parallel lines drawn to the moving average, one aboe and one below designed to show up to 90% to 95% of the underlying action. Channels helps a trader time...
Head-and-Shoulders Formation?
Q. What is the Head-and-Shoulders Formation? A: This is considered by many traders to be one of the most reliable analytical tool available and is becoming increasingly popular among traders as an indicator of a sizeable...
Candlestick Charts and their Application
Q. Do candlestick patterns actually work in practice, or are they just a load of superstitious, eastern-mysticism hooey? A: Well, you must have heard of the saying ‘A picture tells a thousand words’? This has...
Correlation, Stochastics, Fibonacci, Dow Indicators
Q. What is a Correlation Indicator? A: Correlation is a measurement of the interdependence of the price of a given share compared to an index or share. In ShareScope, this defaults to the FTSE 100. The value lies between 1...
Using MACD and RSI with Daily Charts
Q. What’s the difference between a 1 day 5 min chart and 1 day 1 min chart? I’m using a 1 day 5 min chart with MACD and Stoch to day trade oil and gold.delighted with it because it invariably works. I’ve...
Double Tops, Volume & Reversals
Q. What is a Double Top and Double Bottom? A: A double top refers to a situation where a market has rallied to the same or similar level a couple of times but fails to break through. Some technical analysts believe this is a...
Moving Averages and MACD
Q. What is a Moving Average? A: This is an average of a chart over a set period of time say 20, 40, 200 days represented as a linear plot on a chart. What happens is that a trader selects a pre-determined number of days to...