We don’t all have iPhones, although I did have one for a short while in order to review some of the spread betting iPhone apps. No, I’m an Android man, mainly because I’m otherwise bought into the Google cloud computing ecosystem for email, docs, and on-line storage accessible via my Chromebook. On the subject of […]
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Trade of The Week: Centamin Sentiment
By Tony on October 30, 2012 in capital spreads, ig, intertrader, spread co, spreadex, trade of the week
Not so long ago I edited a book (not this one) for a guy who postulated that one sure way to make money in the markets is to bet against the recommendations of a particular investment bank; not straight away, but a few weeks later. It is in this context that I re-read this article, […]
You Can Never Have Too Many Spread Betting Accounts!
By Tony on October 9, 2012 in capital spreads, etx capital, ig, ig index, intertrader, spread co, spreadco, spreadex
The sensationalist headline “You Can Never Have Too Many Spread Betting Accounts!” is not exactly true, of course, because too many accounts can become unmanageable and time-consuming. But I believe that you do need more than one account, and ideally more than one account provider (because some brands are run by the same provider). Here’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Upside / Downside of Diversification
By Tony on August 17, 2012 in capital spreads, diversification, financial spreads, ig index, intertrader, spread co, spreadco, spreadex
Over on The Motley Fool (for whom I used to write), Malcolm Wheatley asks How much diversification is enough? First of all, I think there are two reasons to diversify: On the downside we need to diversify to spread our risk, because any stock can suffer a sudden collapse and take much of our portfolio […]
Can’t Move Guaranteed Stop Orders When Markets Are Closed
By Tony on August 14, 2012 in capital spreads, ig index, intertrader, spread co, spreadco, spreadex, stop orders
I’ve been out walking and enjoying the sunshine today rather than trading or writing, and when I got home I was keen to review and adjust my stop orders so as to lock in more of the profits on of today’s rising positions. Except that I couldn’t, because for the most part my stop orders […]
Selftrade (spread betting) moving to the London Capital Group (LCG) trading platform.
By Tony on July 28, 2012 in capital spreads, financial spreads, ig index, intertrader, lcg, selftrade, spread co, spreadco, spreadex
A couple of days ago I received an email from Selftrade — with whom I’d forgotten I held a spread betting account, to be honest — informing me that their CFD and Spread Betting offering would be moving from the current City Index trading platform to the London Capital Group (LCG) platform. It means that in […]
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 […]
Yet another thing…(advice for spread bettors and other traders)
Just like the contribution from Spread Co, the following answer to my “one more thing” question didn’t meet the deadline for the first edition of my Better Spread Betting book but is sure to be included in any subsequent edition. In the meantime, here is the one piece of advice (if he could give only […]