Not so long ago I had a one-to-one session with a friend of a friend who wanted to get into financial spread betting. Although he was more than happy with what he paid for the “education” I provided, I could tell in his eyes and in his voice that he wanted something else, something that […]
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Stop to read the 5-star reviews of my Stop Orders book.
Now that I have taken up permanent residence here on the Better Spread Betting blog, I’ll be starting to post interesting updates on my favourite topics of Stop Orders and Position Trading as well as Better Spread Betting. Let me kick off the more comprehensive (and regular) blogging by marvelling at the fact that my […]
As advertised in The Sunday Times
Financial spread betting offers a potentially tax-free way of buying and selling (including short-selling) stocks, stock indices, commodities and currencies. It can be more cost-effective than share dealing in a traditional stockbroker account, and it need not be any more dangerous. Most spread bettors lose money, and many of them give up after only six […]
Introduction to Better Spread Betting
Better Spread Betting is a project to create a new no-nonsense yet comprehensive book about financial spread betting. It is authored by Tony Loton: a private trader, author of financial trading books including Position Trading and Stop Orders, and a regular writer for The Motley Fool (UK), Financial-Spread-Betting.com and Traders’ magazine. The plan is to publish the […]
STOP ORDERS (the book)
Read the excellent reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and then… Buy from the Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or from your local bookstore quoting ISBN 1906659281. Buy the Kindle e-book (USA or UK). Whether you are a trader, an investor, or a spread bettor, you should regard the stop order as essential in helping you lock in your profits and succeed in the markets. Do you know how to apply stop […]
POSITION TRADING (the book)
Read the excellent reviews on Amazon.co.uk and then… BUY the paperback book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk This Second Edition includes 60 more pages of lessons learned from the 2010 Trading Trail. You have no doubt heard the phrase “a long-term investment is a short-term trade gone bad”, meaning that when a stock falls in price soon after purchase we tend to hold on ‘for […]
Tony Loton at TRADERS’ Magazine
Tony Loton has written for TRADERS’ magazine, and here is a list of his published articles: Better Spread Betting: Spread Betting for the More Investment-Minded, August 2012 Issue Fixed Odds and Binary Bets, December 2011 Issue Trading Tools: Spreadsheets for Spread Bettors (and Other Traders), October 2011 Issue Trading Templates: Generic Solutions to Trading Problems, […]
Tony Loton at Financial-Spread-Betting.com
Tony Loton has written regularly for Financial-Spread-Betting.com, and here is a list of his published articles: Is it 2009 All Over Again?, 01 Jun 2012 On the Austerity vs. Growth Debate, 31 May 2012 Adventures with Spreadsheets, 20 May 2012 Diversification: When Many Baskets are Only One, 12 May 2012 When Working Orders Eat Your […]
Tony Loton at The Motley Fool (UK)
Tony Loton has written regularly for The Motley Fool (UK), and here is a list of his published articles in reverse chronological order. 2012 Create a Portfolio News Page (with Google Finance) The Spread-Betting Attrition Rate Creating a “Stock Data Dashboard” Spreadsheet Nicolas Darvas and His Amazing Box Theory The Investment Zoo The Trouble with Cash ISAs […]