Over the last few years, especially following Ireland’s bailout, many voices have been heard, many debates have been made and many newspapers have been sold; all centred on the Eurozone’s problems and trying to explore the potential consequences of a possible breakup.

Angus Campbell, Chief market analyst at London Capital Group, provides Spread Betting Magazine readers with an interesting take on just what their clients have been trading this year – were you in the majority or minority?

Let us start with a simple statement of fact; and that is that spreadbetting is, quite simply, trading and trading is hard – we make no bones about this. An open industry secret is that of all novice futures, FX and stock day-traders, less than 10% are successful over the long haul based on anecdotal evidence.

ROLL up, roll up – the circus is in town. More than seven years of waiting are almost over as athletes from 204 countries descend on London town for the Olympics.

Robbie Burns’ Top 10 Tips for surviving the markets. Here are Robbie’s top 10 tips for surviving the current market environment.

NOT even the champagne at Henley or strawberries at Wimbledon can lift the mood in the City at the moment. The rain keeps falling and the sky is permanently grey.

AND so the drama continues. Last weekend it was Spain’s turn to get an eye-watering bailout for its beleaguered banks – yet few of us here in the City believe the €100bn rescue will bring the eurozone debt crisis any closer to a resolution.

Barring Greece – where exit from the euro and a return to the drachma could ultimately be decided at a second election on June 17, I am told that speculation about a Spanish bailout and imminent action from the European Central Bank to prop up the eurozone’s banks is growing by the day.

I’ve heard several allusions to the fact that, economically at least, it’s the 1970s all over again. Judging from the plethora of charity shops, pawnbrokers, and the ‘we weigh your old rags and pay you cash’ clothes banks populating the high street…

It’s not very often that I write anything at all related to macro economics, but here goes. Suppose you’re sitting in a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea and, unfortunately, it’s sprung a leak. You could expend your energy by bailing out the boat using the bucket that (quite conveniently) you have on board. This will keep you afloat but will get you no closer to safe harbour.