Regular readers will know that I have spread betting accounts with most providers. This is not only for journalistic reasons (so I can write about them) but also because their slightly different offerings means that they can be useful in different scenarios. I don’t have to choose just one spread betting provider, and I prefer […]
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In and Out of Love with SpreadEx
I have to admit that I had fallen out of love with SpreadEx compared with some of the other spread betting brands like Capital Spreads, IG, InterTrader, and ETX Capital. Now I’m growing to like SpreadEx again, because they offer two of the things I most like: guaranteed stop orders, and easy visibility of stop orders in the Financial […]
Trade of The Week: Two Golden Opportunities Taken
I was lucky enough to have taken a stake in gold miner Centamin Egypt at just under 65p-per-share when its share price was in the doldrums in late July, since when my SIPP holding — not a spread bet in this case — has risen by more than 40%. Here’s how the Centamin chart (courtesy […]
Bonus "Trade of The Week" on Petropavlovsk
By Tony on September 21, 2012 in capital spreads, etx capital, ig, ig index, petropavlovsk, position trading, stop orders, trade of the week
Since nobody likes to see a losing trade (whatever you argue to the contrary) I have supplemented this week’s original “trade of the week” with this one featuring gold miner Petropavlovsk. Here’s what the result of the opened-and-closed trade looked like with IG Index… and I must remember to start calling them simply “IG”: It […]
Trading "Other People’s Money"
A short note today, to say that I took my “Alternative Equity Curve” account positive… simply to show that I could: The significance of this is that I have now taken all of my deposited cash (plus £25 for my trouble) from the account while leaving about £300 worth of equity (i.e. accumulated positions + […]
New Spread Bettors, Start Here!
By Tony on August 18, 2012 in capitals spreads, etx capital, financial spreads, ig, intertrader, spread co
When you’ve been spread betting and writing about spread betting for some time, like I have, it is all too easy to get caught up in the technicalities of (for example) reviewing sample trades. And easy to forget that some readers will be just starting out with spread betting for the first time. If you […]