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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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…)