A Mechanical Trading System that Works “He who fails to plan, plans to fail” – attributed to Alan Lakein. There is no doubt that you can spread bet without formally adopting a trading system. You can glance at the charts, act on news items, and perhaps achieve some success. However, most people who have traded […]

Intraday Trading Strategies Intraday trading strategies are ways to improve your chances of making a profit by trading on the markets while they are open, and not allowing any positions to remain open overnight. You may also hear this type of trading referred to as “day trading”, though where you are in the world and […]

Money Supply Announcements When you are spread betting, how can you turn money supply announcements to your advantage? Money supply is something that governments control, in essence by freely printing more bank notes. In practice, so much finance is handled electronically nowadays that the government can increase the money supply simply by diktat. Increasing the […]

Trading the News Another strategy is to simply trade the news. Most of the trading strategies we have reviewed so far are based on technical analysis and charts that rely on price action to predict the future direction of an asset in time. Another approach is to take a more ‘macro’ view and this is […]

Charting Patterns Sandy Jadeja, chief technical analyst at City Index, says that it is important to focus on chart patterns. Sandy says that prefers to examine particular Fibonacci-based patterns that enable him to forecast potential price targets for support and resistance levels in advance. He says that the stock markets are three-dimensional – one can […]

Method: Trading the Daily Cash Dow using Moving Averages for Entry Trigger Trading the Daily Cash Dow (280 Kb) It is recommended that you have read and understood the previous trading method before reading this document. The following method is my current preferred trading method. It performs very well in a trending day but can […]

Volatility Untruths and Skullduggery by Chris Tate. One of the most interesting things about times of profound volatility and investor uncertainty is that it seems to give free rein to idiots who spout all sorts of drivel about what you should do in the current market. Over the past few weeks I’ve collected some of […]

Spread Betting Volatile Markets Taking Advantage of High Volatility and Financial Turmoil -: Trading in volatile markets demands a disciplined approach and there are techniques you can learn to use now that minimise your risk and increase your profits. The key lies in knowing how consistent successful traders research trades and manage them well from […]

Survival Tips for a Stormy Market Note that I wrote this article in late 2008 when the market turmoil was in full swing. We are experiencing and will continue expecting major volatility over the coming years. And volatility can lead to savage drawdowns with stocks dropping more than 30%. For this reason recognising the effect […]

From the Frontline: the Tragic Tales of some Spread Betters The stories which follow are real stories from spread betters who have lost their way and should serve as lessons for those of you who think that trading is easy. So we have DA (our first character) who was famous turning the lights out on […]