An important part of  financial spread betting is managing the inevitable individual trading losses that will occur. Money management discipline has been pounded home in every trading book and seminar by every guru or market wizard. The mantra goes: manage your losses and the wins will take care of themselves. (more…)

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One of the things financial spread betting has done has brought a whole range of capital markets to the attention of the retail investor. Spread betters can trade stocks on a wide variety of world indices, as well as bet on commodities, currencies and bonds all from one trading platform. Even the professionals and institutions would have difficulty doing this. (more…)

On the 18th March we had the Federal Reserve start its campaign of buying of US treasury bonds in an attempt to put a cap on bond prices. Some call it quantitative easing, others call money printing while others refer to it as the ‘nuclear option’. So finally Ben Bernanke has got his wish of  dropping dollar bills from helicopters.  (more…)

Most traders and financial spread betters lose money consistently. There are a number of factors why this happens. Some are psychological; others are because of poor analysis, while others still are due to money management issues. Many of the reasons that regular losses occur can be boiled down to one factor; traders and spread betters over-complicate things.  (more…)