Trade of The Week: A Tale of Two Pyramids

As it's the last day of 2012, this "Trade of The Week" feature might be better titled "Trade of The Year", but I'll stick with the usual title so as not to confuse you into thinking it was the best trade of the whole year. And in fact it's two trades, not one.



Readers of my Position Trading book will know that one of the seven pillars of position trading (or at least my interpretation of it)

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High Performance Trading (with Steve Ward and InterTrader)

I wonder what you got for Christmas? A surprise present that arrived for me just before Christmas was a copy of Steve Ward's book High Performance Trading, courtesy of InterTrader.



It's fortunate -- and more than a little surprising -- that I didn't already own a copy of this book, because I was well aware of it. I remember talking with Steve Ward at a trading conference, at a time when his

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"Bonus" Trade of The Week on Regal Petroleum

Yesterday I told you how difficult it was to choose a "Trade of The Week" example because I was spoilt for choice. And so today, here is a "bonus" trade of the week on Regal Petroleum. Well, it is nearly Christmas.



You might have noticed that the share price has been up and down like a yo-yo over the past few days, as shown in the InterTrader chart below. Between Friday 14 December and Monday

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Trade of The Week on Centamin

Choosing the example for this week's "Trade of The Week" feature wasn't easy. Not because there were no good ones to choose from, but because there were too many to choose from. I've chosen Centamin, not only because it's been an "exciting" (read "volatile") stock of late, but because it provides me a chance to remind you how ETX Capital charts can helpfully show your "in play" trades along with

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Has Santa Claus come early?

You have no doubt heard of the Santa Claus rally; the tendency for shares to rise in the second half of December in anticipation of new money coming into the markets in January. Well, I'm wondering if Santa Claus has come early.



After trading sideways for a couple of months, then dipping downwards, the FTSE 100 has appreciated by about 6% over the course of the month from mid-November to

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My 2012 Christmas Wish: Trailing Guaranteed Stop Orders

You know how sometimes the spread betting companies ask for feedback on what features you would like to see introduced? Well, here is the suggestion that would be top of my Christmas 2012 wish list:



Guaranteed Trailing Stop Orders



After something of a love-hate relationship with them, I have once again become a fan of guaranteed stop orders. Top marks to the spread betting companies such

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"SOUND FX : The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading" featured in TRADERS' Magazine

I only just got round to reading the latest issue of TRADERS' Magazine, so I only just noticed that they were kind enough to feature my book SOUND FX : The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading on page 23 in their New Products section. Check it out, and hey -- you might as well read the rest of the magazine while you're there.


If you're looking for a foreign exchange trading provider that

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Trade of The Week: Two-Bagging Thomas Cook

Do you remember that a couple of months ago I talked about the "flatliners" -- those stocks that have fallen a long way over a long period of time and whose price is just bumping along the bottom now that all the sellers have sold and no-one (for the moment) wants to buy?



One such flatliner that I identified on 15 November was Thomas Cook. I took a punt at 20.9p-per-share, and I was pleased

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If someone is discouraging you from doing something, you should probably be doing it!

I received emails from the various London Capital Group spread betting brands (including Capital Spreads and InterTrader) to say that they will no longer be offering UK ex-350 shares except on a subscription basis. I like these spread betting brands, I really do, but it presents me with a bit of a problem in my preferred position trading strategy. So thank goodness that IG (and possibly SpreadEx

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Trade of The Week: Tesco

What was the most important news story today (5 December)? Was it something in George Osborne's autumn statement? No, it was the news that Tesco is thinking about pulling the plug on its loss-making Fresh & Easy chain in the USA.


This was good news because it caused the Tesco share price to "gap up" this morning, thereby allowing me to raise my guaranteed stop order to a level that guarantees

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Introducing Direct Market Access (DMA) Spread Betting

Recently I've been trialling Direct Market Access (DMA) spread betting, of the kind offered by ISE Spreads and a few other providers.



DMA spread betting has the same benefits as conventional spread betting: the ability to go long and short with equal ease, access to numerous international markets, the advantage (and risk) of leveraged trading, and tax-free* profits.



* At least in the UK,

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"Dealing with Draw-Downs" in Spreadbet Magazine

For my second outing in the December Issue of Spreadbet Magazine I've written something on the subject of "Dealing with Draw-Downs", or to give the article its published title: How to deal with a losing streak.



This article is packed full of invaluable tips like "When you're in a hole... stop digging!" and "Trading isn't a matter of life and death... it's more important than that!"



Take a

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Trade of The Week: Skyepharma

You may remember that previously I had a couple of nice trades in Skyepharma documented here and here.



Having last stopped out of this stock at 95p-per-share, I noticed that today (22 Nov 2012) I could re-enter at about 70p-per-share; a discount of about 25%. I knew this because the "Stop-Out List" explained in my Position Trading book told me so.



Being able to re-enter at a discount, or

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Eurasian Natural Resources: To Buy or Not To Buy?

Over at The Motley Fool, Rupert Hargreaves has pondered whether Eurasian Natural Resources is a good buy (or a "goodbye" -- my pun, not his) at today's ~270p-per-share. Fundamentally (another pun) he thinks it's not a good buy.



Meanwhile over at Spreadbet Magazine, ENRC was listed as a "Conviction Buy" at 334p-per-share at the end of last month, so presumably it's even more of a "conviction

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Reviews of "SOUND FX : The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading"

Did you see the first review of my SOUND FX book on Amazon.co.uk? I didn't ask for such a glowing testimonial, but I was pleased to see it, and I'd like to see more of the same: complimentary but credible, and written by people who have actually read the book. So I'd like to offer you the chance to...



Have one on me!

Drop me a line to say you'd like to receive a "review copy" in exchange for

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Spread Co on Android

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 Android, I received an email this morning announcing the new Spread Co Android App

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Think like a Trader... with SpreadEx

My contact at SpreadEx informed me that they have just commissioned an "infographic" explaining how traditional investors and non-spread-bettors might "Think like a Trader". You can see it on my SpreadEx page, but it's easier to read on the SpreadEx Web Site.




Three Steps to Better Spread Betting:

1) Buy the Better Spread Betting Book or e-Book
2) Sign up with  Capital Spreads, IG, 

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So you'd like to... Trade Currencies on the Foreign Exchange Markets

Over on Amazon.com I have written a brief guide titled So you'd like to... Trade Currencies on the Foreign Exchange Markets, which is a very condensed version of the information contained in the first chapter of my SOUND FX book. If you like the guide, buy the "SOUND FX" book.









If you're looking for a forex trading account provider, take a look at RPD FX.




Three Steps to Better Spread

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Trade of the Week on Trinity Mirror

Way back on 16 August I used my position(s) in Trinity Mirror to demonstrate How to Average Down (Safely). In this week's "Trade of the Week" feature I thought I'd update you on how the averaged-down position(s) played out, and to tell you what I'm up to now with the Trinity Mirror.



Well, here's what happened to those positions:



Position #1 (the original position)

This report is pretty

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Read "The Guide to Better Spread Betting" for free!

If you're thinking about picking up a copy of my Better Spread Betting book, but you're having trouble digging out your debit card, I have some good news for you:



You can get hold of an abridged (meaning it's shorter) edition for free courtesy of Spreadbet Magazine at http://www.spreadbetmagazine.com/better-spread-betting-ebook.








Three Steps to Better Spread Betting:

1) Buy the Better

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Pyramided "Trade of the Week" on Bowleven

I was first alerted to Bowleven as one of the "conviction buys" listed over at Spreadbet Magazine. I got in at a similar price, too, at 60p-per-share.



With both Spreadbet Magazine and The Motley Fool today reporting a tie-up between Blowleven and Petrofac, and with the share price gapping up as a result and then falling back to part-close the gap, I thought that now might be a good time to

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Spread Betting 10 Pounds Profit in Only 10 Minutes!

While not motivated to do much of my "real work" this morning, the devil made work for my idle hands in the form of a little index "day trading". Well, it wasn't even day trading because these trades lasted only ten minutes... but generated £10 in the process.



Here's the proof from InterTrader that I did make a little more than £10 profit:







And here's the proof (again from InterTrader)

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Now in paperback, SOUND FX: The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading

Just a short note today, to say that my new book SOUND FX: The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading is now available in paperback from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in addition to the original e-book formats.





Three Steps to Better Spread Betting:

1) Buy the Better Spread Betting Book or e-Book
2) Sign up with  Capital Spreads, IG, InterTrader, ETX Capital, SpreadEx, Spread Co, or

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Trade of The Week: Centamin Sentiment

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, dated 15 October, in which Goldman Sachs cited Centamin as a favourite stock that offered "inexpensive exposure

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Start with Stops! (at Spreadbet Magazine)

The other week, I dropped in on Richard Jennings -- editor of Spreadbet Magazine. We talked about some of our mutual acquaintances in the industry, and our favourite stocks. We also popped out for a "steak sandwich" at the local Italian (as you do at an Italian restaurant).



The upshot is that I found myself contributing an article to this month's edition of the magazine. My original title of

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Trading with the Market's Money

Over at TRADERS' Magazine you can find my latest article Trading with the Market's Money. The tag line pretty much summarises the article:


"You're profitable when you take out more than you ever put in!"



And if you're interested, I can tell you that the real-life account used to demonstrate the point was an IG account.



Enjoy.



Three Steps to Better Spread Betting:

1) Buy the Better

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SOUND FX : The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading

I told you several weeks ago that I was embarking on a project to write a new introductory book about foreign exchange (forex or fx) trading based on the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) trading platform provided by RPD FX -- a sister company of spread betting firm ETX Capital. Well, here is is:



Now Available as a Kindle Edition from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk, and as a Kobo book.
Now Available as a PDF

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Is the London Capital Group a Flatliner?

I noticed that one of the casualties of today's heavy sell-off was the London Capital Group. A quick look at its longer-term price chart (see below) caused me to notice also that it might now be categorised as one of the Flatliners.






According to the Peter Lynch principle, I should now be taking up a long position. Not because it appears to be flatlining, though that's good, but because it's

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Spread Betting the Flatliners

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what I mean by a "flatliner"; it's a stock that has fallen a long way over a long period of time and whose price is just bumping along the bottom now that all the sellers have sold and no-one (for the moment) wants to buy. The best way to illustrate is with the following price chart for Aquarius Platinum (courtesy of InterTrader, don't miss out

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Rave Reviews of Ravee's Book

A few weeks ago I introduced you to Ravee Mehta's new book The Emotionally Intelligent Investor, which I had helped edit and publish.

Since then, I see that it has been selling well and attracting rave reviews on Amazon.com, so you might like to take a look at it. Of course, you can also get it from Amazon.co.uk. And before you ask: no, I don't get any royalties from sales of the book;

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Trade of The Week: Has Lonmin Bottomed Out?

If like me you've been trying to catch the Lonmin falling knife, you might be just about ready to throw in the towel. But you might be doing so at exactly the wrong time, just as the price has bottomed-out.

I'm not in the prediction business -- especially about the future -- but I think there are at least two plausible reasons to conclude that the price of Lonmin shares may now have bottomed out

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Can you guard against "Black Swan" events?

If you don't know what a "Black Swan" event is, you might first want to read Nassim Taleb's book The Black Swan, which has nothing at all to do with ballet dancers and everything to do with the effect that low-probability high-impact (and unexpected) events can have on your investments.

Over on the Motley Fool (UK), Tony Reading published an article titled "Three In Four Investors Fear A Black

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You Can Never Have Too Many Spread Betting Accounts!

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 why:


I've lost count of the number of times I have

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Spread Betting with SpreadEx

I think it is important to spread your spread betting across a few different providers. So it you are using one or more of the spread betting brands run by the London Capital Group (fine though they are, and if you don't have one then you should get one) then you might want to look at one of the other entirely separate providers such as SpreadEx.






What I like most about SpreadEx is the fact

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Spread Betting with Spread Co

I think it's important to operate more than one spread betting account, for a number of reasons, not least because of the unlikely but not impossible risk of our trading counter-party going to the wall; as did World Spreads in 2012. Don't get me wrong, I got my money back from the World Spreads collapse via the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), but it took a few months-- a few

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Spread Betting with ETX Capital

Regular readers will know that I have spread betting accounts with most providers. This is not only for journalistic reasons (so I can write about them) but also because their slightly different offerings means that they can be useful in different scenarios.

One of my longest-standing spread betting accounts is with ETX Capital. They are based in the City of London, and I have visited their

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Spread Betting with Capital Spreads

Regular readers will know that I have spread betting accounts with most providers. This is not only for journalistic reasons (so I can write about them) but also because their slightly different offerings means that they can be useful in different scenarios.

One of my all-time favourite spread betting companies is Capital Spreads, the award-winning home brand of the spread betting behemoth the 

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Spread Betting with InterTrader

Regular readers will know that I have spread betting accounts with most providers. This is not only for journalistic reasons (so I can write about them) but also because their slightly different offerings means that they can be useful in different scenarios.

Let me tell you what I think about spread betting company InterTrader. These are not the usual plus points of tight spreads and fast

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Spread Betting with IG

Regular readers will know that I have spread betting accounts with most providers. This is not only for journalistic reasons (so I can write about them) but also because their slightly different offerings means that they can be useful in different scenarios.

I don't have to choose just one spread betting provider, and I prefer not to, but if I did have to choose just one... do you know which one

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Trade of The Week: Sometimes It Pays to Average Down!

Most seasoned spread bettors and other traders will tell you that it is usually a bad idea to "average down" by adding more funds to a losing position, despite the obvious temptation to lower your overall purchase cost and therefore to break-even much sooner. I said as much in my Position Trading book. Then I had a re-think, and in the "Tricks of The Trade" chapter of my Better Spread Betting

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In and Out of Love with SpreadEx

I have to admit that I had fallen out of love with SpreadEx compared with some of the other spread betting brands like Capital Spreads, IG, InterTrader, and ETX Capital.

Now I'm growing to like SpreadEx again, because they offer two of the things I most like: guaranteed stop orders, and easy visibility of stop orders in the Financial Open Positions window, both of which are demonstrated in this

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Lucky Lamprell, or "How to Catch a Falling Knife"

It may appear a little strange, me using the headline "Lucky Lamprell" on the day that Lamprell shares gapped-down some 35%. But Lamprell has been a lucky stock for me in several ways...

1) On 26 July I told your about my Lucky Escape from Lamprell, i.e. how I had exited my long position the day before that day's massive price fall.

2) On 5 August I told you in my Update on Lamprell how I had

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Happy Birthday to Me!

It was my birthday the other day, and I was pleased to receive an email from Capital Spreads inviting me to claim a £50 top-up to me account. How kind of them!

On the same day, SpreadEx offered to cover my trading losses of up to £50 over a 48-hour period. How kind of them, too!

These sorts of offers won't make you a millionaire overnight, but they're nice touches.


Three Steps to Better

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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 of Spread Co) has developed since:




In this case, it's nice to see that the up-trend seems to be resuming after

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Trading the Price Pendulum

And now for something a little different.

My latest article over at TRADERS' Magazine is titled Trading the Price Pendulum. It draws on the idea of a pendulum as an analogy for the way markets move: swinging from bearish to bullish and back again, gaining momentum and then losing it again, meeting support and resistance at the extremes, and notionally representing "fair value" in the middle.

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No news is good news...

Sorry it's been a bit quite here at Better Spread Betting for the past few days, but I've been busy working on Project FX (the new Forex book) that I hinted at when I told you about my Grand Day Out at RPD FX (and ETX Capital).

I'll tell you more about the new book, and I'll have some other interesting content for you to read here real soon. In the meantime, no news is good news because it means

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Bonus "Trade of The Week" on Petropavlovsk

Since nobody likes to see a losing trade (whatever you argue to the contrary) I have supplemented this week's original "trade of the week" with this one featuring gold miner Petropavlovsk. Here's what the result of the opened-and-closed trade looked like with IG Index... and I must remember to start calling them simply "IG":




It was a nice £67.46 profit on a modest £1-per-point bet in just two

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ETX Capital's New Platform is Coming

Just a short note to say that ETX Capital will shortly be launching a new trading platform, so if you haven't got an ETX Capital account, now might be a good time to get one.

The new platform will be fully customisable, so that you can arrange your trading screen exactly how you like it. Actually, I like it just the way it is, so I'm pleased to hear that...

"Because we know that the original

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Trade of The Week: Supreme Skill vs. Lady Bad-Luck on Lonmin

I'm all for warts 'n' all coverage of spread betting and of trading in general, so my "trades of the week" features won't always be winning trades. In that spirit, today's examples is a good one.

When the Lonmin share price "gapped up" on news that the Marikana miners had returned to work, I thought it would be a good time to go long. But I'm not stupid, and so I waited for a significant

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Trading "Other People's Money"

A short note today, to say that I took my "Alternative Equity Curve" account positive... simply to show that I could:




The significance of this is that I have now taken all of my deposited cash (plus £25 for my trouble) from the account while leaving about £300 worth of equity (i.e. accumulated positions + cash, not shown) in the account to continue trading. In other words: this account is now

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Two Lines are Better Than One! (or are they?)

If you've used the MetaTrader client terminal to trade foreign exchange currency pairs via a provider such as RPD FX, you will have noticed how the charts that are embedded in order tickets show two price lines rather than one. The lower line shows the bid (selling) price and the upper line shows the ask (buying) price.




I like this idea, and coincidentally I used the same idea in my Better

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Hot Off The Press: The New Look IG

Anyone who logs onto their IG Index spread betting account from today (Saturday 15 September) will notice a crisp new look, which I rather like. And if you don't have an IG Index (now simply called "IG") account, why not create one now?




All of the functionality that I like so much appears still to be there, and I've not heard otherwise, so it's well worth a look if you never have... or not

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Energising my spread bet portfolio(s) with Essar Energy

I was prompted to write this blog posting by an article on The Motley Fool titled 3 Oil & Gas Shares Rising Fast. I recognised one of the stocks -- Essar Energy -- as one that I took a punt on recently.

Here's what the trade looks like in a Capital Spreads account:




What you can't see there is that I have a stop order at 126 protecting protecting most of my profit... and that's guaranteed!

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An Alternative Equity Curve, Part 2

The Money In / Money Out (MIMO) Alternative Equity Curve that I discussed the other day has really grown on me as a way of demonstrating the performance of a spread betting portfolio in a way that is indifferent to whether one is day trading (putting money in and taking profits out regularly) or position trading (running a longer term portfolio with only occasional deposits or withdrawals).

To

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Trade of The Week: Cape Closed

I've featured Cape as my "Trade of The Week" before, and now I feature it again because I've closed the  trade with the result as shown in this IG Index P & L Breakdown Report:




This report, which is one of the things I like about IG Index, shows how the position trade ran for about six weeks to generate a £68.03 capital profit (P/L) plus £4.50 in Dividends (yes, you get them on spread bets)

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An Alternative Equity Curve

There are a few different ways of showing the performance of your investment portfolio, including as a traditional "equity" curve that shows how the total value of your portfolio has fallen or risen over time.

The problem is that this kind of equity curve is only really representative if you deposited an initial some which you never added to or took away from during the life of the equity curve.

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A Grand Day Out at RPD FX (and ETX Capital)

It's not very often that I talk about Foreign Exchange (Forex or FX) trading, but this may be about to change as I am embarking on the writing of a new book. Let's call it "Project X", or (even better) "Project FX".

As part of my "research" I was invited down to the offices of foreign exchange trading provider RPD FX in the City of London. If you've never heard of them, don't worry, because

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Trade of The Week: Inmarsat

This week's featured "Trade of The Week" is on Inmarsat, the Capital Spreads chart for which is shown below. You can see how I established a new long position at a price of 528.3 on 3 August, and how this position is nicely in profit at the time of writing on 6 September. This position trade is protected by a profit-locking guaranteed stop order, so now I really can't lose, and on Capital Spreads

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Deals, Dividends and Deductions

In this update I'd like to remind you of how your spread betting ledger cash balance -- which is not the same thing as you overall portfolio valuation, or your available trading funds -- is affected by three kinds of transactions: deals, dividends, and deductions.


Deals

In one of my spread betting accounts I closed several positions that I didn't wish to keep alive because the stop orders on

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Fancy a Trip to Las Vegas?

No, I'm not offering a trip to Las Vegas; nor have I taken such a trip recently except in the metaphorical sense that I will allude to shortly. But my attention-grabbing headline is relevant.

All financial speculation is a gamble, whether it is the noble art of serious "investing" or the more "risky" (apparently, but I don't believe it) pursuit of leveraged trading with spread bets or CFDs.

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Removing Currency Exposure with Spread Betting

It's a short update today because, well, I do have a life.

I wanted to highlight the fact that spread betting removes currency exposure from your trading. British spread bettors can bet on a US (or other country) stock or index, or a dollar-denominated commodity, without worrying about their "investment" falling merely as a result of the fluctuating GBP / USD exchange rate. Let the spread

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Trade of The Week: The Cape Caper

A few weeks ago at the beginning of August, Cape shares slumped by some 40%. I went in at my token £1-per-point (long), with a guaranteed stop order in place just in case the worst should happen (again) shortly afterwards. The worst didn't happen, and in fact the best happened, with the share price up at around 230p-per-share this morning (30 August) relative to my buying price of 176.56 in an IG

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A "whipsaw profit" in the making on Chemring?

In my Position Trading book I raise the possibility of notching up whipsaw profits by employing guaranteed stop orders. These are 'notional' profits (i.e. avoided losses) that accrue when the spread betting company is obliged to stop you out at your guaranteed stop order price at a time when you can re-purchase immediately at the more favourable gapped-down price in expectation of a subsequent

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Attention Financial Bloggers and Web Site Owners!

Are you a financial trading or investment blogger or web site owner? You can spice up your web site or blog by incorporating the Better Spread Betting "headline animator" using this simple HTML code:

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The Emotionally Intelligent Investor

I'd like to introduce you to a brand new book about the psychology of investing and trading: The Emotionally Intelligent Investor by Ravee Mehta. I'll admit up-front to an interest in this book; not an ongoing financial interest, but I did help out with the editing and preparation for publishing. It means I know the content inside out, and also I know the author's credentials, and on both counts

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Trade of The Week: Bottom Fishing for Borders and Southern

On 16 July, oil company Borders and Southern Petroleum gapped-down massively from about 60p-per-share to less than 20p-per-share. Pity the fools who were holding a large position through this gap-down, which all goes to show why it is important to diversify or to employ guaranteed stop orders.

So, what did I do immediately after the share price gapped down? Why, I bought in, of course, two days

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Spread Betting for Cautious Investors

I know that many "cautious" investors are put off spread betting because they perceive (or are encouraged to perceive) it as dangerous gambling. I think they're wrong, and that spread betting need be no more dangerous than any other form of stock trading and investing.

Look at it this way:


If you invest £1000 in (for example) Barclays Bank shares at 200p-per-share, you're risking £1000.
If you

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Spread the word about BetterSpreadBetting.com

Dear readers,

Thanks for tuning in. Judging by the number of page hits, email subscriptions, and purchases of the Better Spread Betting book, I seem to be doing something right here -- but I'd like to be doing better.

If you like what you see here, and if you find it informative and interesting, then please help me out by spreading the word about betterspreadbetting.com. The more you help me,

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Trade of The Week: Textbook Pyramiding of Home Retail Group

This week's "Trade of The Week" is a really interesting one because it provides an almost textbook example of pyramiding into a trending stock. (If you're wondering which textbook I'm referring to, I mean my Position Trading book, of course)

The IG Index chart (aren't they great?) illustrates it nicely:




Having established an initial £1-per-point long position in late July at a price of 73.24

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Seasoned Spread Bettors, Start Here!

As seasoned spread bettors, we may be tempted to think that we know it all. But the markets have a nasty habit of humbling even the best of us from time to time, and we discover that we all have something to learn after all. That's what this web site is all about: how to become a better spread bettor by practising -- you guessed it -- Better Spread Betting.

As a more seasoned spread bettor, you

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New Spread Bettors, Start Here!

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 are just starting out from scratch, and perhaps with a more traditional "investment" mindset,

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The Upside / Downside of Diversification

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 value with it. If we're going to take Warren Buffett's alternative advice to "put all our

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An Example of How to Average Down (Safely)

One of the golden rules of trading and investment is to never average down, despite the fact that logically this should lower your average purchase price thereby enabling you to break-even much sooner. As I see it, the problems with "averaging down" are twofold:

1) If you're not careful, averaging down on your falling stock positions can attract all of the cash away from your profitable

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First a Position Trade, then a Day Trade on FirstGroup

The first thing I did this morning (apart from having a shave) was to take a punt on FirstGroup when it was announced that the company had been awarded the West Coast rail franchise ahead of the incumbent Virgin / Stagecoach combo.

Sir Richard Branson was single-mindedly in the opinion that the government had made a mistake in taking the contract away from him, and that FirstGroup had made a

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Can't Move Guaranteed Stop Orders When Markets Are Closed

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 are all guaranteed now, and you can't move guaranteed stop orders when markets are closed.

It's one of the

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Trade of The Week: Trendy Tesco

Whoever thought I'd find myself describing Tesco as "trendy"? The trendiness of Tesco will not have been helped by it reportedly receiving an investment not so long ago from Warren Buffett -- who is probably one of the least "trendy" people on the planet (no offence)! But Buffett's interest may have helped the share price, which certainly has become trendy over the past few months as shown in the

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FSCS Payout from the World Spreads Collapse

Continuing the timeline that I had begun in my Better Spread Betting book, and which I last updated on here, I can now confirm that the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has now sent me a cheque for the money I was owed by the now-defunct spread betting company World Spreads. They didn't owe me very much -- less than £1000 -- but it's nice that it's finally back in my own pocket. If

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Dicing with Death on a Standard Chartered Day Trade

I don't usually day trade, but this morning I was simply too tempted to try and get a quick profit out of Standard Chartered, the bank that was accused of money laundering for Iran.

I heard on the morning news that the shares had fallen overnight in Hong Kong, so I knew they would fall in London at the open. I also knew that there was no way to get in before the fall; so the only way to benefit

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On a buying spree...

Ever since I used guaranteed stops to conjure additional trading funds out of thin air my trading accounts have been all dressed up with no place to go; so today I've been on a bit of a buying spree which has also been helped by freeing up yet more funds by trailing the guaranteed stop orders on my existing positions which have been rising today.

I've not been too reckless, but have taken the

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Trade of The Week: Update on Lamprell

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 the IG Index and ETX Capital charts that I like very much. I like them because they allow me to visualise existing open

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Reviews of the Better Spread Betting book

A very experienced publisher once told me that "reviews sell books". Although I think there's a bit more to it than that, I hope he's right because so far I'm pleased with what the reviewers on Amazon.co.uk are saying about my Better Spread Betting book.

The consensus opinion seems to be that the book is very accessible for beginner spread bettors while also containing more in-depth (but still

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Betting on the Betting Firms

Some people think that there is more money to be made by buying the betting firms than by placing bets with them. Suppose you thought that your favourite spread betting firm itself was onto a winner (or a loser) and you wanted to back your judgement.

If you thought that the underlying operator of your Capital Spreads, InterTrader or Financial Spreads spread betting platform was onto a winner,

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Special Offer: 100 copies of the "Better Spread Betting" PDF edition for only £1 each!

Exclusive offer for readers of this blog / newsletter who don't already own a copy of the Better Spread Betting book:

You can get the PDF Edition of the "Better Spread Betting" book for just £1 until one hundred copies have sold out. CLICK HERE to see if you can get your cut-price copy now! (and ssshhh, don't tell anyone else)




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Spread Betting Multimedia

Some people like learning about spread betting from books like my Better Spread Betting, Stop Orders and Position Trading books. Some people prefer to learn face-to-face with a spread betting guru at a seminar, and are willing to pay for it. If you want to see spread betting in practice, but without the seminar price tag and without leaving the comfort of your own own, one of these spread betting

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Use guaranteed stops to conjure additional trading funds out of thin air!

Like me, you may occasionally find yourself in the embarrassing position of wanting to make a trade in your spread betting account at a time when you have little or no "available to trade" trading funds. Like me, you may prefer your spread betting account(s) to be self-sufficient and therefore you're reluctant to feed yet more new money into your account.

You may have noticed that very often you

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The Revolutionary New Gekko Markets "TradeHub" Trading Platform

Any former clients of spread betting company Gekko Markets will have noticed that their account has now been migrated to the new TradeHub trading platform. Those former clients, and any new new ones who might care to sign up, will be interested to know why this revolutionary new trading platform is unlike most (if not all) other spread betting platforms I have used.

For one thing, it allows you

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Shop Around for Minimum Stop Distances on Guaranteed Stops

I've had an on-off relationship with guaranteed stop orders, sometimes regarding the guarantees as invaluable and sometimes regarding them as too restrictive or simply unnecessary in a sufficiently diversified portfolio of spread bets. In these continuing uncertain and volatile times, those guarantees may be worth their weight in gold (if that's what your trading).

Guaranteed stop orders come

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Selftrade (spread betting) moving to the London Capital Group (LCG) trading platform.

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 future their spread betting web interface will look more like those of Capital Spreads,

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Better Spread Betting with TRADERS' Magazine

Have you read the Better Spread Betting article in the August 2012 edition of TRADERS' Magazine? It's subtitled Spread Betting for the More Investment-Minded, which sums up much (but not all) of my spread betting philosophy.

Don't forget that TRADERS' Magazine also contributed one of the tips to the final "One More Thing..." chapter of my Better Spread Betting book.


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Trade of The Week: Lucky Escape from Lamprell

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 was lucky I close the trade manually, just in the nick of time.

This morning, Lamprell shares

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Spread bettor makes almost £40,000 per year, tax free! (or does he?)

How many of you new and even not-so-new spread bettors would give up your day job if you could earn £40,000 per year, tax free? Most of you, I reckon, and here I prove that it can be done! But don't trust me just yet ;-)

Anyway, here is my proof. In the following bona fide P&L Breakdown report provided by IG Index you can see that on 25 July 2012 I banked almost £160 worth of profits in a single

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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 one) that David Jones, Chief Market Strategist at IG Index and author of the book "Spread Betting

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Oh, I do like to see my stops!

As someone who wrote an entire book on the subject of stop orders, it may come as no surprise that I do like to see those stops right alongside my open positions. Like this:




This example (but real) SpreadEx Financial Open Positions list shows not only the accrued profit or loss on each open position, but also the amount of profit (ideally) or maximum loss that is "locked-in" by the stop order

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A Short Example of Shorting Shares with Spread Bets

If you come from a traditional "investment" background, you will find one of the novel features of financial spread betting to be the fact that you can go short by selling shares (or indices, or commodities, or currencies) that you don't own just as easily as you can go long by buying them. If you thought that a particular share price would fall, and if were operating in a regular stockbroker

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Trade of The Week: Enterprise Inns

This week's "Trade of The Week" might be better described as "Trade of the Six Months" since it is a longer-term position trade that was in play from 28 December 2011 to 19 July 2012. In that time my nominal £1-per-point spread bet notched up a gross profit of £27.62 and a net profit (minus financing charges) of £25.85. The final performance of the trade is shown nicely in the ETX Capital OPEN

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Spread Betting Company Minimum Stakes

Over on the "Talk with Tony" page, Mrmenstig asked a question (edited for clarity) as follows:

Recently I've noticed a lot of the instruments I'd like to bet on have a mininmum size of £5-per-point with the provider I use. I was looking at ETX Capital over the weekend and found they have a minimum of 50p size; do they also impose this £xx per point size or is it 50 p accross the board?

This

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Review "Better Spread Betting" (the book) and Get Your Money Back!

I'm keen that purchasers of my Better Spread Betting book not only read it but also review it on Amazon.co.uk. So here's the deal for the first ten people to respond before 1 August 2012:

If you haven't already purchased a copy of the paperback or Kindle edition from Amazon.co.uk, let me know why you'd make a good reviewer. If I agree, I'll send you a link to purchase the book, and as soon as

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Hedging Our Family Bets

Continuing my read-through of The Naked Trader's Guide to Spread Betting (as I first mentioned here), I not so long ago read the section containing Robbie's description of how spread betting companies hedge (or not) your bets in order to control their own exposure and risk. he makes the points that:


If you're a good trader and you go long, the spread betting company might go long with you by

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Trade of The Week: Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione (IGD)

For this week's trade of the week I thought we'd go abroad, to Italy.

On or around 19 June, with Italy getting a lot of economic bad press, I decided to take some punts on several Italian stocks that might recover from what looked liked historic low prices. One of these stocks was Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione (IDG). I established a long position at a price of 53.23 as shown by the solid

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Adjusting Stop Orders on the London Capital Group Trading Platform(s)

My daughter, who is a budding trader but who is still practising in a demo account, asked me a question the other day: "Dad, how do I adjust my stop orders on Capital Spreads?"

It seems so obvious to me now, after years of spread betting, and I never really give it a second thought; but maybe it's not so obvious to new spread bettors. You see, each of your open positions listed in the Open

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Beware... the 8am stop-out!

I'm currently reading The Naked Trader's Guide to Spread Betting. Not because I need to learn financial spread betting, of course, but because I might spot something that I forgot to mention in my own Better Spread Betting book and which I might therefore want to include in a future second edition. Besides, I ought to have bought at least one copy of Robbie's book (I previously read it

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the IG Index P&L Breakdown

When your longer-term rolling position trades close out, it can sometimes be a little difficult to figure out how much money you actually made. Sure, the closing price might be higher than the opening price -- lucky you, on a long position -- but how much did the position cost you in overnight financing / rolling / funding charges while it was in play? And did you receive any dividend credits

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When a Slow Stop-Out is No Bad Thing

This morning I took it upon myself to establish a long position in a gapped-down stock, with a reasonably tight stop order placed not far below my entry price. The price fell further (of course) but didn't gap, and my stop order with ETX Capital stopped me out exactly as expected. Well done them.

When I checked on my identical position with SpreadEx I discovered I hadn't been stopped out, that

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Guaranteed Stops on Short Trades

As I'm currently busy editing (not writing) a book on investing psychology, it's a short and sweet update from me today.

I've found myself entering more short trades recently than I used to. Not because I'm particularly bearish at the moment, but because I'm testing a new short trading "theory". I won't tell you just yet what my theory is, but I will tell you that I have found myself more likely

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What use are retrospective share tips?

Few serious trading authors like me would ever presume to give out "share tips". For one thing, we're not regulated and authorised to do so.

Some of us -- but not nearly enough of us, in my opinion -- document our key trades retrospectively so that you (and we) can hopefully learn something about why those trades went well... or not.

When trying to promote my Trade of The Week feature on a

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Better Spread Betting is Not Only About Spread Betting

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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 here from one of my previous financial trading web sites or blogs such as the 2009

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How to Meet a Margin Call with a Stop Order

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This morning I received a "Margin Call" email from SpreadCo asking me to deposit additional funds in order to keep my open trades alive. Don't be alarmed -- this is a small account (so it's not a big deal) in which I had pretty much invested 100% of my available trading funds; so the margin call wan't at all unexpected.

It does give me an opportunity to discuss

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Get "Better Spread Betting" by Email

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I know what a pain it can be remembering to visit the various web sites, blogs, and newsletters about trading in general and spread betting specifically. So I've made it easy for you to keep up-to-date with my "Trade of The Week" features and my other blog postings here at Better Spread Betting.

Just enter your email address in the box at the top of the right

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Trade of The Week: Reaching for the Skye! (again)

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The last time I wrote about Skyepharma was over at Financial-Spread-Betting.com in my article titled Reaching for the Skye! I described how I had secured a £45 (but it could have been £450 or £4500) profit thanks to the meteoric rise of Skyepharma shares in April 2012.




Oops, I did it again!

I've not yet done it again, but I'm doing it again.

Having sold out

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Horses for Courses: Which Spread Betting Company?

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Over on my "Talk with Tony" page, Martin asked me an interesting question about which spread betting company I would choose as a preference. He asked...

"If it's not too personal a question, what spread betting company to you place the majority of your smaller (i.e. £1 Point Spread Bets wit) in practice?

I've noted (from your kind reply to my guaranteed

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Guaranteed Stop Orders on the New Spread Co Platform

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Historically I was never a big fan of the Spread Co spread betting platform. As far as I can recall, this was because of difficulties in attaching stop orders -- and in particular, guaranteed stop orders -- to specific trades, which is an essential aspect of my position trading strategy.

With Spread Co having launched a brand new online trading platform, I've

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Another Look at SpreadEx

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I don't use the SpreadEx spread betting platform as much as I use some of the others, and this may be because I have somewhat outgrown it. This may be a compliment rather than an insult, however, because I remember how much I liked the simplicity of SpreadEx when I was starting out with spread betting. In this context I can report that their new platform is very

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World Spreads and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)

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Today I was pleased to receive an email from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) with a claim form attached. If you've not received yours by 6 July, and if you are owed less than £50,000 by the spread betting company formerly known as World Spreads (or one of its former "white label" brands like Ladbrokes), then I understand you should call the FSCS

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Capital Spreads: The Best Mobile / Online Trading Platform?

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If you've read my Better Spread Betting book, you will already know that Capital Spreads is one of my favourite spread betting companies. And now Money AM readers have declared it to be the Best Mobile / Online Trading Platform.

You can read my blog posts about Capital Spreads, and don't forget that I also like some other spread betting companies.


Disclaimer:

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Trade of The Week: Ocado

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Unusually for me, this week's trade of the week is a short trade. I took inspiration to engage in a little more short trading from "Evil Knievel's Guide to successfully shorting stocks" in Issue 03 of Spreadbet Magazine. Not that he recommended this particular trade, but the article did remind me how my preferred position trading spread betting strategy can be

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And another thing...

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It didn't make the deadline for the first publication of my Better Spread Betting book, but here's what Ajay Pabari, Founder and CEO of Spread Co said in response to my question "If you could give just one piece of advice to a spread bettor, what would it be?”:
Be smart in the use of leverage. Margin can be a very good thing. We all recognise a spread bet is a

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"Talk with Tony" (about Guaranteed Stops)

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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 not in the post.

Anyway, his question was:

I

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Balance-Affecting Transactions in Spread Betting

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There are various events that affect the cash balance in your spread betting account, including:


the profit or loss from closing a position
an adjustment for a dividend
the debiting of overnight financing (rolling) charges


To show what these balance-affecting transactions look like, I took a 24-hour snapshot from an IG Index account (although it could have

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Profitable Pyramiding

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Readers of my Better Spread Betting, Position Trading and Stop Orders books will know that I am inclined to try and pyramid profitable positions to higher stakes. For me, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for pyramiding is that the potential loss on my second position is less than the profit accrued on my original position -- so that I am assured to exit

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"Better Spread Betting" (the book) now in print!

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I know some people still like print books that they can read in the bath, and truthfully so do I, so I have some...

Great news! The print edition of my Better Spread Betting book is now available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.


Disclaimer: this posting is for general education only; it is not trading advice.

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Why so long?

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Readers of my Better Spread Betting, Position Trading and Stop Orders books will know that I am predominantly a long trader; and some of you might be wondering why. It's not for any moral reasons (e.g. "short selling is bad") but for the following reasons:


In the long run, stock markets generally rise, but I wouldn't read too much into this.
In the long run,

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Selling the Spread Betting Sausage (not the Sizzle)

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There's a well known saying in sales and marketing circles, which is...

"Sell the sizzle, not the sausage!"

The temptation when writing and marketing any book is to make outrageous claims that will have potential readers chomping at the bit to get their hands on the book.

"Want to make millions in minutes by spread betting? Then read this book..."

Well, in my

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Making A Little Money Go A Long Way

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Sometimes people ask me how much money they need in order to begin financial trading.

In a regular stockbroker share dealing account it's quite a lot, because you probably need to "invest" at least £1000 in any one share in order to overcome the fixed buying and selling fees of (let's say) £10 each way. Those round-trip fees would account for a massive 8% loss

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New Spread Betting Platforms from SpreadEx and Spread Co

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Both SpreadEx and SpreadCo announced new spread betting platforms recently, so now might be a good time to take a look at them again if you haven't for some time. I like the look of the new SpreadEx  platform, and the new SpreadCo  platform which launches on 30 June 2012 will (among other things) allow guaranteed stop orders to be adjusted -- which is an absolute

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One more thing...

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In the course of constructing my new Better Spread Betting book I posed a question to spread betting industry experts and other respected spread betting author-publishers. The question was:

“If there was one more thing... (just one) that you could advise spread bettors, what would it be?”

In case you’re wondering, the “one more thing” idea was inspired by

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Better Spread Betting (the book) Available Now!

The bad news is that the draft Better Spread Betting book is no longer free.



The good news is that the first edition has now been published and is still excellent value considering how much money it might help you make (or not lose). Buy the e-book PDF or Kindle Edition (from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com).



Financial spread betting offers a potentially tax-free way of buying and selling (

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Retrospective Guaranteed Stop Orders

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In the Better Spread Betting book I talk about how some spread betting brands such as Capital Spreads and InterTrader allow you to guarantee your stops orders retrospectively, whereas other spread betting companies don't. Here is a concrete example:

On 14 June 2012 I opened a long spread bet on Supergroup at a price of 270.9 with a non-guaranteed stop order at

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Waiting for World Spreads

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Yesterday I heard from the administrators of the collapsed spread betting firm World Spreads that a payout from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is likely to occur before the proposed “interim distribution to creditors” that is estimated to take place in September.

At the time of writing, I am confident that the FSCS will make good my (and maybe

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I know it's not what you want to hear!

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Not so long ago I had a one-to-one session with a friend of a friend who wanted to get into financial spread betting. Although he was more than happy with what he paid for the "education" I provided, I could tell in his eyes and in his voice that he wanted something else, something that I didn't give him. That something was "excitement".

Ah, I remember it well -

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Stop to read the 5-star reviews of my Stop Orders book.

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Now that I have taken up permanent residence here on the Better Spread Betting blog, I'll be starting to post interesting updates on my favourite topics of Stop Orders and Position Trading as well as Better Spread Betting. Let me kick off the more comprehensive (and regular) blogging by marvelling at the fact that my Stop Orders book has now notched up fourteen

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As advertised in The Sunday Times

Financial spread betting offers a potentially tax-free way of buying and selling (including short-selling) stocks, stock indices, commodities and currencies. It can be more cost-effective than share dealing in a traditional stockbroker account, and it need not be any more dangerous.

Most spread bettors lose money, and many of them give up after only six months. You don't need to be one

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Last chance to read the "Better Spread Betting" book for free!

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I've uploaded the latest (and last) free version of the "Better Spread Betting" book here. This is your last chance to read it for free before it is completed and published. Enjoy!

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The "Better Spread Betting" book is now much much better!

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I've been away on a family boating holiday this week but when not above decks piloting the boat, I've been below decks working on the Better Spread Betting book. Some holiday, huh?

In the latest version I have corrected some spelling and grammar issues, added some new content, and included more responses to my "one more thing" question in Chapter 8. Enjoy it

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"Better Spread Betting" is now even better!

I've changed the way I am presenting the work-in-progress "Better Spread Betting" book so that it is even better!


It's better for you because the embedded PDF is more like a book, and more like what the final paperback / e-book will look like.
It's better for me because I can work off-line without being tied to the blog, and I won't have to reformat the content as a PDF when the book is

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Introduction to Better Spread Betting

Better Spread Betting is a project to create a new no-nonsense yet comprehensive book about financial spread betting. It is authored by Tony Loton: a private trader, author of financial trading books including Position Trading and Stop Orders, and a regular writer for The Motley Fool (UK), Financial-Spread-Betting.com and Traders' magazine.



The plan is to publish the warts 'n' all

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STOP ORDERS (the book)

Read the excellent reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and then...

Buy from the Global Investor Bookshop, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or from your local bookstore quoting ISBN 1906659281.

Buy the Kindle e-book (USA or UK).



Whether you are a trader, an investor, or a spread bettor, you should regard the stop order as essential in helping you lock in your profits and succeed in the markets.

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POSITION TRADING (the book)

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BUY the paperback book from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk 

BUY the Kindle e-book from the Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk 

BUY the PDF e-book which you can also read via your web browser (pay in £GBP or $USD).
BUY other e-book formats at Google Books or Smashwords.
BUY the "lecture series" at Udemy.



This Second Edition includes 60 more pages

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Tony Loton at TRADERS' Magazine

Tony Loton has written for TRADERS' magazine, and here is a list of his published articles:

Better Spread Betting: Spread Betting for the More Investment-Minded, August 2012 Issue
Fixed Odds and Binary Bets, December 2011 Issue
Trading Tools: Spreadsheets for Spread Bettors (and Other Traders), October 2011 Issue
Trading Templates: Generic Solutions to Trading Problems, on page 49 of the July

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Tony Loton at Financial-Spread-Betting.com

Tony Loton has written regularly for Financial-Spread-Betting.com, and here is a list of his published articles:

Is it 2009 All Over Again?, 01 Jun 2012
On the Austerity vs. Growth Debate, 31 May 2012
Adventures with Spreadsheets, 20 May 2012
Diversification: When Many Baskets are Only One, 12 May 2012
When Working Orders Eat Your Cash, 9 May 2012
Double the risk for not double the profit, 8

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Tony Loton at The Motley Fool (UK)

Tony Loton has written regularly for The Motley Fool (UK), and here is a list of his published articles in reverse chronological order.


2012

Create a Portfolio News Page (with Google Finance)
The Spread-Betting Attrition Rate
Creating a "Stock Data Dashboard" Spreadsheet
Nicolas Darvas and His Amazing Box Theory
The Investment Zoo
The Trouble with Cash ISAs
Why Are You Playing The Markets?
Why

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