Few serious trading authors like me would ever presume to give out “share tips”. For one thing, we’re not regulated and authorised to do so. Some of us — but not nearly enough of us, in my opinion — document our key trades retrospectively so that you (and we) can hopefully learn something about why […]
Archive | July, 2012
Better Spread Betting is Not Only About Spread Betting
By Tony on July 7, 2012 in betonmarkets, binary betting, cfd, fixed odds, plus500, position trading, stop orders, svsfx
Subscribe to Better Spread Betting by Email (I won’t give your email address to anyone else) You might have found your way to the Better Spread Betting web site because you read my Stop Orders or Position Trading book and one of the hyper-linked web addresses brought you here. Or you might have been redirected […]
How to Meet a Margin Call with a Stop Order
Jump straight to the book, or… This morning I received a “Margin Call” email from SpreadCo asking me to deposit additional funds in order to keep my open trades alive. Don’t be alarmed — this is a small account (so it’s not a big deal) in which I had pretty much invested 100% of my […]
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Jump straight to the book, or… I know what a pain it can be remembering to visit the various web sites, blogs, and newsletters about trading in general and spread betting specifically. So I’ve made it easy for you to keep up-to-date with my “Trade of The Week” features and my other blog postings here […]
Trade of The Week: Reaching for the Skye! (again)
Jump straight to the book, or… The last time I wrote about Skyepharma was over at Financial-Spread-Betting.com in my article titled Reaching for the Skye! I described how I had secured a £45 (but it could have been £450 or £4500) profit thanks to the meteoric rise of Skyepharma shares in April 2012. Oops, I did […]
Horses for Courses: Which Spread Betting Company?
By Tony on July 3, 2012 in capital spreads, etx capital, financial spreads, intertrader, spread co, spreadco, spreadex, stop orders
Jump straight to the book, or… Over on my “Talk with Tony” page, Martin asked me an interesting question about which spread betting company I would choose as a preference. He asked… “If it’s not too personal a question, what spread betting company to you place the majority of your smaller (i.e. £1 Point Spread Bets […]
Guaranteed Stop Orders on the New Spread Co Platform
Jump straight to the book, or… Historically I was never a big fan of the Spread Co spread betting platform. As far as I can recall, this was because of difficulties in attaching stop orders — and in particular, guaranteed stop orders — to specific trades, which is an essential aspect of my position trading […]
Another Look at SpreadEx
Jump straight to the book, or… I don’t use the SpreadEx spread betting platform as much as I use some of the others, and this may be because I have somewhat outgrown it. This may be a compliment rather than an insult, however, because I remember how much I liked the simplicity of SpreadEx when […]
World Spreads and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)
Today I was pleased to receive an email from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) with a claim form attached. If you’ve not received yours by 6 July, and if you are owed less than £50,000 by the spread betting company formerly known as World Spreads (or one of its former “white label” brands like […]
Capital Spreads: The Best Mobile / Online Trading Platform?
If you’ve read my Better Spread Betting book, you will already know that Capital Spreads is one of my favourite spread betting companies. And now Money AM readers have declared it to be the Best Mobile / Online Trading Platform You can read my blog posts about Capital Spreads, and don’t forget that I also like […]