Brain Teaser Trading Test Take the personality test…a little mind teaser by Michael Still! See how you perform. The test is based on actual experiences from my own trading with actual outcomes. Try going through it twice and see where you end up if you made a different decision… Brain Teaser Trading Test You have […]

Things to be Aware of In our commodity examples we use Ayondo to illustrate our points, however keep in mind that what most of what applies to Ayondo applies to most other spread betting providers – although one has to note that different providers might have slightly different policies. Trading Hours Different markets have different […]

Trading Soft Commodities Soft commodities are products that are normally grown (or reared) or processed from such products as opposed to mined or drilled for (and their derivatives). Common soft commodities are corn, wheat and coffee but there are others such as soybeans which are the processed product. Underlying futures markets in soft commodities were […]

Spread Betting on Oil Prices Energy markets mainly consist of oil, gas and coal based products and the price of your fuel is to some extent dependent upon their market prices (the bit that is not tax!). Like the farmers who use soft commodity futures, oil producers nation states represented by OPEC, oil companies…etc) and […]

Gold Spread Bet | Gold Spread Betting Ever since King Midas said, “Hey, look what I did” gold has been traded, primarily as a method of payment, but also to back currencies (the gold standard). Gold is much more than just a show-pony; its unique physical and chemical properties mean that it’s well used in […]

Spread Bet Markets: Government Bonds Spread Betting on Long-Term Interest Rates Now just to make things a little more confusing for you, I am going to throw Long Term Interest Rate Futures at you. Long Term Interest rates are reflected in the price of government bonds. Bonds, or fixed-income securities, bonds are similar to shares […]

Rolling Forex Daily Contracts Foreign exchange or FX Trading is currently the largest and most liquid trading market in the world. It basically allows you to speculate on the value of one currency against another. There are many reasons why this form of trading has become so popular, the main one probably is the ease […]

Spread Bet Markets: Shares/Equities – Rolling Contracts Shares represent the value of a quoted company at that precise moment in time. So if a company has issued 10,000,000 shares and these are trading at £10, the value of the company is said to be £100m. As the declared past performance or future expectation of that […]

Emotions and Trading Psychology Trading is very subjective and there are various types of personalities that can arise at different times when faced with making a decision. Here you will find a lighthearted list of the different types of traders that we can all be at different times during our trading career. Mr Stupid – […]

Market Orders You decide what type of order you want to make. Let’s say you’re trading Vodafone shares.  These are the different types of orders you can place: Open Trade – you get the price at which Vodafone is trading when you place the order. Let’s use the example that Vodafone is currently offered on […]