"Getting Into Position" with Spreadbet Magazine

Just a quick note today, to say that those of you who are interested in Position Trading might like to check out my latest feature "Getting Into Position" published in Spreadbet Magazine. 

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 Financial Spreads
3) Subscribe to

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Trade of The Week on Severfield-Rowen: a Whipsaw Profit

You might have read over on The Motley Fool (and other places) about how the price of Severfield-Rowen shares crashed this morning, 23 Jan. It gives me an opportunity to demonstrate what I mean by a "whipsaw profit", which is one of the concepts documented in my Position Trading and Better Spread Betting books.



You will likely already know that a "whipsaw loss" occurs when a price gaps down

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(Pyramid) Trade of the Week on Barratt

Do you remember my "Trade of the Week" feature from a couple of weeks ago? It was the one in which I told you how I had just pyramided Barratt so that I had one position with a guaranteed profit and another position (in the same stock) with a very manageable worst-case loss.


Well, things have moved on, and I've been able to trail my guaranteed stop order so that both positions are now

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Better Spread Betting is like Marmite!

They say that people either like Marmite or hate, and the same seems to be true of my Better Spread Betting book. Some readers really like it, and one thinks it's a shocker. Well, after that most recent "shocking" review, I was pleased to see a more recent considered and complimentary comment from Simon posted on this page.


Maybe it's the title that divides opinion, with some readers

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Trade of The Week on Tesco

After falling off a cliff in January of last year, the Tesco share price traded sideways in a range from (about) 305p-per-share to (about) 345p-per-share throughout most of 2012. I told you before how I had managed to buy long towards the bottom of this range at 309p-per-share on 5 October 2012, and how I had subsequently managed to raise my guaranteed stop order so as to "lock in" some profit.

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Spread Betting Pays Dividends

I'm pretty sure I've used the headline "Spread Betting Pays Dividends" before; if not on a blog post then on an article that I published somewhere. But it nicely sums up what I have to say... so if it ain't broke, I won't fix it.



When I say that "spread betting pays dividends" I mean it both in the generic sense (it can be profitable) and the very specific sense that spread betting really does

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Keeping the faith in the face of draw-downs

Over on Malcolm Pryor's Spread Betting Central web site, Gabriel posed an interesting question about how far you should allow yourself to draw-down in the meantime when you think you have a long-term profitable strategy. You can read Gabriel's question, my response, and maybe join the debate yourself here.


The question was actually in relation to an FX trading strategy, but I think that the

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