"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)

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



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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