This week’s “Trade of The Week” might be better described as “Trade of the Six Months” since it is a longer-term position trade that was in play from 28 December 2011 to 19 July 2012. In that time my nominal £1-per-point spread bet notched up a gross profit of £27.62 and a net profit (minus […]
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Spread Betting Company Minimum Stakes
Over on the “Talk with Tony” page, Mrmenstig asked a question (edited for clarity) as follows: Recently I’ve noticed a lot of the instruments I’d like to bet on have a mininmum size of £5-per-point with the provider I use. I was looking at ETX Capital over the weekend and found they have a minimum of […]
Trade of The Week: Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione (IGD)
For this week’s trade of the week I thought we’d go abroad, to Italy. On or around 19 June, with Italy getting a lot of economic bad press, I decided to take some punts on several Italian stocks that might recover from what looked liked historic low prices. One of these stocks was Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione […]
Adjusting Stop Orders on the London Capital Group Trading Platform(s)
My daughter, who is a budding trader but who is still practising in a demo account, asked me a question the other day: “Dad, how do I adjust my stop orders on Capital Spreads?” It seems so obvious to me now, after years of spread betting, and I never really give it a second thought; […]
When a Slow Stop-Out is No Bad Thing
This morning I took it upon myself to establish a long position in a gapped-down stock, with a reasonably tight stop order placed not far below my entry price. The price fell further (of course) but didn’t gap, and my stop order with ETX Capital stopped me out exactly as expected. Well done them. When I […]
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?
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 […]