I just realised it was over a week since I last posted a “Trade of the Week” feature. How lax of me! The previous one was my Lucky Escape from Lamprell, and this week I thought I’d provide an update on the same trade, not least because it gives me another opportunity to show off […]
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Trade of The Week: Lucky Escape from Lamprell
By Tony on July 26, 2012 in capital spreads, etx capital, ig index, intertrader, position trading, spread co, spreadco, spreadex, stop orders, trade of the week
In yesterday’s sensationalist article I told you how I had closed several positions in an IG Index account in order to bank some profits. It was mighty unusual for me to close any position trades manually, instead preferring to let my trailed stop orders take me out when the tide turns. In one case it […]
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 […]
Talk with Tony (about Guaranteed Stops)
By Tony on June 28, 2012 in better spread betting, capital spreads, ig index, intertrader, position trading, stop orders
Over on my “Talk with Tony” page, Martin asked a question that I think deserves a fuller answer here in the form of a blog post. Unless I’m mistaken, this is the same Martin who just reviewed my Better Spread Betting and Position Trading books over on Amazon.co.uk. Thanks, Martin, but unfortunately your cheque is […]
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 […]