How Much To Risk Per Trade? The 3% Rule When starting out spread trading, I advise going small. I do not advise ‘paper trading’, as this gives an unrealistic experience of the emotional ride you will go through when you trade your own money! As in life, there is nothing like the actual experience of […]

It Is Not For The Faint-Hearted Do you remember the dotcom boom in the early years of this century? It seemed that everyone was day-trading dotcom stocks around the world as the NASDAQ was zooming north at a rate of knots. It was in the news all the time. There were countless message boards on […]

Let’s Review – What Kind of Trader Are You? The Right Mental Attitude – Confidence, Not Arrogance To enter the financial markets can seem a lot like feeding yourself to the lions. After all, many of the sharpest minds on the planet are all there – waiting to swallow your little account up as quickly […]

The 7 Most Expensive Mistakes Spread Traders Make Maybe I should call this chapter ‘The 7 No-Nos Of Highly Successful Traders’ after that famous self-help book! These are the mistakes that professional traders do NOT make – making any one of them will almost certainly be very expensive. Most traders and financial spread betters lose […]

Before you Start, Some Tough But Crucial Questions Your Personality – Can You Be A Winner And If So, How? Understanding the type of personality you have is far and away the greatest factor determining your success than anything else! So I shall devote a whole section on this. If this is the first time […]

Step by Step Guide: How to Get into Spread Betting Step One: Open an account with Ayondo, ETX Capital or one of their competitors. Get their literature and handbook and carefully read every word. Follow the examples they give; they are very similar to the examples in this guide. Make sure you understanding how the […]

Explaining Short Selling Pinpointing the right investment opportunity can be tricky and with the economy still in the doldrums fewer traders than ever are earning a decent return from stocks and shares. However, when the market is only rising sporadically, it is entirely possible to profit by spread betting on the downward movement instead. This […]

Index Spread Betting One of the key selling points of spread betting is that it opens the door to a variety of markets that have been unavailable to ‘at-home’ traders in the past. Some of the most popular markets to trade are called Indices. These are comprised from a number of companies in different countries, […]

Different Applications of Spread Trading Spread trading can be used in many different ways. Speculation Speculation is the most obvious motive for financial spread trading, and the reason why probably 95% of bets are placed. Financial spread trading offers several key attractions to the speculator -: It provides speed and ease of use. It provides […]

Spread Trading: Advantages and Disadvantages Financial Spread trading (also known as financial spread betting) allows you to speculate on the outcome of almost any financial market, over a set period of time. ⇑ ⇑ ⇑ ⇑ Listen to Money Talk from the The Motley Fool: David Kuo talks to Robbie Burns about spread betting. Spread […]