When running the trading trail portfolio according to my preferred position trading approach, I have a routine that I run through at least once per day… sometimes more.

Rather than offering some trading guidance today, I thought I do exactly the opposite and tell you why you should beware the experts.

In my trading trail account, my Admiral position finally stopped out when the price fell today to trigger my guaranteed stop order at 892p. At first glance it netted me a £89 profit, but that’s not the whole story.

When are dividends paid? Is it possible to spreadbet for dividend income? And why are dividends paid out on UK 100 rolling spread bets but not on DAX 30 rolling spread bets?

Having demonstrated nine Financial Trading Patterns stylistically, in this article I’ll put a couple of those patterns into the context of real market charts. My idea is to show not only how the trading patterns can work in practice.

This article completes my compendium of Financial Trading Patterns that utilise the various stockbroker (and spread betting provider) order types in various combinations to achieve specific trading objectives.

In this article I describe a financial trading pattern that is motivated by a failure scenario of the STOP BUY, STOP SELL pattern.

In this article I describe a financial trading pattern that is motivated by a failure scenario of the STOP BUY, STOP SELL pattern.

This is the second article in which I combine two previously-defined trading patterns in order to create a more complex composite trading pattern.

If you recall I had established a position in Thomas Cook at a gapped-down price of 20p and had then “averaged down” by establishing a second position at an even lower price 11p.