Trading shares/stocks/options or spread bet, depends on your experience and available time. If you are trading in The States, then market data have to be downloaded the next day as the markets only close at 9.00 pm UK time and update overnight. For the UK, look at the FTSE100 index (250 and 350), for the [...]
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8 Types of Penny Stocks to Avoid
June 24, 2009 – 10:03 pm
There are many fine penny stock investments existing, which could turn a small amount of investment into a small fortune very quickly. The Phone Salesman – Anyone who is trying to sell you investments over the phone should be considered an enemy. They have high-pressure sales tactics, and effectual, believable arguments. There has never been [...]
The Guppy Multiple Moving Average (GMMA)
June 24, 2009 – 8:35 pm
The Guppy Multiple Moving Average (GMMA) is an indicator that tracks the inferred activity of the two major groups in the market. These are investors and traders. Traders are always probing for a change in the trend. In a downtrend they will take a trade in anticipation of a new up trend developing. If it [...]
Trading for a Living
June 24, 2009 – 6:42 pm
Prior to you even think about trading for a living you have to know how much money you need to live on, that is, how much cash do you need to produce every month in order to survive. As a fiscally minded person you already have good home accounts, or are at the very least [...]
How to Take a Loss
June 24, 2009 – 5:01 pm
There are quite a few books written on how to make money in the market. Some of them are even written by people who have made money as traders! What you don’t see often, however, are books or articles written on how to lose money. “Cut your losers and let your winners run” is commonsensical [...]
History of Spread Betting – A Brief History of the Financial Markets
June 24, 2009 – 3:43 pm
In the past hundreds of years, companies and wealthy derived the asset values of other sources only to invest and mange their risks. They exist for everything from sugar, rice and wheat to the price of gold or the level of rainfall. Spread betting and CFD (Contracts for Difference) are intense relatives of the most derivatives. These retail derivatives make international markets accessible to normal investors and can reduce their tax liabilities for spread betting.
Time Based Trading Part 1
June 24, 2009 – 2:17 pm
Many traders find themselves in a recognizable minefield with enormous intraday losses. Out of desperation, they put on double, triple, and quadruple the normal size of efforts and time just looking for a miracle. The one word that injects fear into the heart of every trader is blowout. This is purely because traders speculate on [...]
The Stock Market: A Beginners Guide
June 24, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Over modern times progresses in technology have made the Stock Market far more available to the general public. Regrettably involvement in the Stock Market is not a one-way street. It is commonly acknowledged that losing a chance in Stocks is much easier than gaining one. The chances are that all you hear concerning the Stock [...]
Shorting Stocks – The Basics
June 24, 2009 – 11:07 am
Shorting stocks means to borrow the stock from your dealer and to sell to a third party. At a later date, the short seller buys back the stock they shorted and returns the stock to close out the loan. If the stock has reduced in price since they sold short, they can buy the stock [...]
Gap Trading in the morning
June 24, 2009 – 9:06 am
The Art of Trading the Morning Gap Open trade is a fantastic opportunity for the smart trader who knows how to identify supply and demand. Most of the time, our entry is within seconds to minutes of the opening bell. Prices gap up because there are more buy orders at the open morning than there [...]
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