Looking for a Short Trade: Red Line: Now the bottom line We Open a SHORT trade as the red line passes the Blue Line (bottom line) and the chart price continues below the green central Line. Green Line: Middle Line We set our moving stop loss in relation to this Green Line. We get additional […]

If the Chart is Trending UP: If the chart is trending up you should see something like the picture on the following page -: I have deliberately used this chart over several years to point out an obvious up trend starting at the beginning of 2002 and changing mid year to a downward trend, moving […]

The Tools and Techniques In this brief introduction I am going to outline the trading tools and techniques I use, then from the initial introduction to each, I shall let you know of the other technical analysis and further hints that I use. Then as a grand finale, I shall explain to you how these […]

Moving Averages: The first tool I want you to begin using is the easiest to use and configure. What makes it great is the fact that it’s the one that we use the most and rely on the most. The key here is in the configuration. What is a moving average (MA) A moving average […]

Technical Analysis Basic Crash Course MODULE 5: What you will learn! Now you have come a long way. Yet, as ever there is still an awful lot to learn and to get to grips with. In module 5 your mettle is really going to be challenged. This is where we cover the main nuts and […]

Dow Jones Theory I won’t bore you to death too much about how the Dow Theory works. I just want to take a couple of pages to explain to you a theory that has a degree of influence on the spread trades that I make. The Dow Theory has been around over a 100 years […]

Introduction to Technical Analysis MODULE 4: What you will learn! You will learn a technique in reading charts that has been around for coming on 100 years, yet is still as valid today as it ever was. Learn how to apply this technique to your own trading and your own analysis. The theory of what […]

UK House Prices As far as I am currently aware you can only trade on the housing market within the UK. It doesn’t matter where about you live, you just have to realise that the property values quoted are based on UK Property values. I am sure as international popularity of Financial Spread Betting grows, […]

Trading Financial Sectors What are sectors? Sectors can be seen as collectives of companies that represent a particular market, for instance British Telecom, Telewest etc. all come under the Sector called Telecoms within the FTSE350. HSBC, Barclays Plc would come under Banking within the FTSE100 as would Wells Fargo come under Banking within DJIA. There […]

Spread Betting Currencies Let’s find out more about spread betting on Forex. Forex or Foreign exchange, commonly known as ‘FX’, is the exchange of one currency for another at an agreed exchange price on the over-the-counter (OTC) market. Trading in currencies within financial spread betting is somewhat different to the other trades that you are […]