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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