ETX Capital sent me an email announcing that their own Trade Through Charts facility would be operational from Monday 16 January. In case you hadn’t noticed, that was today!

I’m quite fond of spread betting individual equities rather than the more usual indices, foreign exchange currency pairs and commodities — though I do dabble in those too.

In my article How many spread betting accounts do you need? I referred to something called The Trading School of Hard Knocks. It’s not a real school, of course, but is what I affectionately call the recipient of the trading losses that I made while learning the ropes (and which I sometimes still do).

Everyone is trying to sell you something these days, and that something is usually insurance. Have you ever tried walking out of a mobile phone shop with your new phone and no insurance policy?

For reviewing the different providers I have at one time or another held spread betting accounts with most of the spread betting companies and their white label partners. By white label partners I mean companies like Barclays Stockbrokers who sit on the City Index spread betting platform

Despite holding accounts with most of the spread betting companies, I came rather late to the IG Index party. I think that somewhere along the line — don’’t ask me how

When you look to open a new spread betting account, what do you look for? Is it the things that the spread betting companies usually shout about like tight spreads, fast execution and no re-quotes? As a day trader those things might be important to you, but for a longer-term spread bettor like me like me those criteria are not so important…

Day trading is all about notching up a series of small profits every day. Position trading, at least in the way that I practice it, consists of two distinct phases.

I’ve read many books on trading, and written a few, but only a handful have retained pride of place on my trading bookshelf as lasting inspiration. They are…

Recently I reviewed the mobile spread betting apps for Android phones that are provided by Capital Spreads, IG Index and City Index. As far as I can tell, at the time of writing these are the only Android apps provided by spread betting firms.