Don’t worry, I don’t mean I’m shutting up shop. I mean that my much-documented pyramided position trade on Barratt has finally come to an end by stopping out. Here are the final scores in two spread betting accounts: By my reckoning, it’s £866 profit, having taken nothing like that much risk along the way. And […]
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A helping hand towards Better Spread Betting…
I know it’s traditional on a trading blog like this one to harp on about a constant string of real or imaginary successes, but how much more satisfying is it to hear that you helped someone else achieve their ambition of making money — or at least no longer losing it — while spread betting? […]
Three Steps to (Trading) Heaven
By Tony on February 7, 2013 in barratt, better spread betting, capital spreads, etx capital, ig, intertrader, position trading, punch taverns, pyramiding, stop orders
Today I noticed in one of my model “better spread betting” accounts that three positions in the same stock (Punch Taverns) had stopped out for modest profits, as shown here: Although profitable, I don’t regard this as a good result. Not only because of the small amounts involved, but also because of the fact that […]
Trade of The Week on Severfield-Rowen: a Whipsaw Profit
By Tony on January 23, 2013 in better spread betting, ig, intertrader, position trading, stop orders
You might have read over on The Motley Fool (and other places) about how the price of Severfield-Rowen shares crashed this morning, 23 Jan. It gives me an opportunity to demonstrate what I mean by a “whipsaw profit”, which is one of the concepts documented in my Position Trading and Better Spread Betting books. You […]
Better Spread Betting is like Marmite!
They say that people either like Marmite or hate, and the same seems to be true of my Better Spread Betting book. Some readers really like it, and one thinks it’s a shocker. Well, after that most recent “shocking” review, I was pleased to see some favourable reviews. Maybe it’s the title that divides opinion, […]
New Year Special Offers!
Did you notice that as a New Year treat the prices of the paperback and Kindle editions of my Better Spread Betting and SOUND FX books have been slashed on Amazon? Not forever, though, so if you’ve been thinking of reading either or both of these books… now is the time before they return to […]
Two Lines are Better Than One! (or are they?)
If you’ve used the MetaTrader client terminal to trade foreign exchange currency pairs via a provider such as RPD FX, you will have noticed how the charts that are embedded in order tickets show two price lines rather than one. The lower line shows the bid (selling) price and the upper line shows the ask […]
Fancy a Trip to Las Vegas?
No, I’m not offering a trip to Las Vegas; nor have I taken such a trip recently except in the metaphorical sense that I will allude to shortly. But my attention-grabbing headline is relevant. All financial speculation is a gamble, whether it is the noble art of serious “investing” or the more “risky” (apparently, but […]
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Spread Betting for Cautious Investors
I know that many “cautious” investors are put off spread betting because they perceive (or are encouraged to perceive) it as dangerous gambling. I think they’re wrong, and that spread betting need be no more dangerous than any other form of stock trading and investing. Look at it this way: If you invest £1000 in […]