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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Betting on Barratt (again)
Regular readers will realise that no week would be complete without me having placed another bet on Barratt. So here it is, a new pyramided position that takes my total stake in my Capital Spreads reference account to £7-per-point: This is turning into a really nice example of a pyramided position trade, but you will […]
Has London Capital Group (LCG) turned the corner?
By Tony on May 13, 2013 in barratt, capital spreads, intertrader, lcg, position trading, pyramiding, stop orders
I ask the question “Has London Capital Group (LCG) turned the corner?” because I have a couple of modest spread bet exploratory positions riding on the hope that it has: Both positions (blue lines) are now in profit, with my common guaranteed stop order (red dashed line) somewhere between the two entry prices… which means that I […]
Six of the Best on Barratt
I’m beginning to sound like a broken record with all my posts about the Barratt position trade, but here I go again. I’ve added yet another £1-per-point position in the Capital Spreads account, making six of the best pounds-per-point as shown here: A discussion on a forum elsewhere now prompts me to say something about […]
£500 Profit from £25 Risk
Anyone who has read my blog regularly will be well aware of the example (but real) Barratt position trade that I’m running in a Capital Spreads account. You will recall that this position trade began life as a single £1-per-point position with an initial risk of (about) £25 to my guaranteed stop order. By pyramiding this […]
Why Pyramid Positions?
After my little April Fool joke yesterday, I thought I’d post something rather more positive (and educational) today on the subject of pyramiding positions. My demonstration vehicle will of course (if you’ve been following me) be Barratt; but it could have been Sainsburys. The following chart shows the vastly increased profit potential resulting from having pyramided […]
This is how Position Trading works…
It seems a good time to show what a couple of position trades look like when they progress as expected. Those of you who follow my “trade of the week” features will not be surprised to see that the two stocks I have chosen are Sainsburys and Barratt. The following screenshot shows how the example […]
Barratt Benefits from the Budget
You can imagine how interesting it was for me to see the Barratt share price shoot up in response to Chancellor George Osborne’s budget announcements about supporting buyers of new homes. It was interesting to me, obviously, because I’ve been pyramiding Barratt recently. The bottom line is that the guaranteed stop order on my most recently […]
Pyramiding Sainsburys
You may have read at The Motley Fool and other places today that J Sainsbury plc Rallies As Sales Jump 7.1%. I took advantage of the positive gap-up and partial-gap-close to add a third pyramid position to my aforedocumented (it’s a new word) Sainsburys “trade of the week”. The following picture shows what this pyramided […]
Barratt and the Four Step Pyramid
If I’m serious about extolling the virtues of pyramiding in my Position Trading book, I’d better show you convincingly how it can go beyond the usual two- or three-step pyramids that I have posted here before. So following my Three Steps to (Trading) Heaven article in which I described my three-step pyramid trade on Barratt, […]