Learning from Your Mistakes Guest contribution by Steve Ward who gives his insight into trading psychology; in particular how to avoid repeating behaviours that are not useful in trading such as chasing losses, impatience, and taking profits too early. Scrooge-like weather forecaster who spends the night in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where he is to do a […]

How I lost £35000 Spread Betting Guest contribution by Michael Platt as he embarks on his spread betting journey to become a millionaire! What? You lost £35000 spread betting? You must be a moron. Hmmm… well I can’t really disagree with you there. However I’m sure there are plenty of others out there who have […]

Revenge Trading: Trying to Recover Losses Back Guest contribution by Alex Docharty who gives his insight into the psychological barriers involved with spread betting -: For me, the main reason I lost when I started out spread betting was that I wasn’t able to deal correctly with my losses. If you’ve found yourself losing time […]

Fundamental Analysis vs Technical Analysis Trading by Guest Writer. Some traders insist on using fundamental analysis (company valuation method) to base their decision-making while others rely on technical analysis (share price movement method). Fundamental analysis is about analysing facts like corporate news, relating to a given asset class while technical analysts are more interested in […]

Is Day Trading for You? by Guest Writer. I see many investors who view day trading as the holy grail and the key to getting rich quick with minimal effort and who overestimate their own ability and knowledge and dream of being able to retire at which point they can then become day traders full-time. […]

Entry Points, ‘OCO’ and ‘If Done’ Orders Rakesh, a financial educator and full-time trader looks at entry points and more complex orders. Rakesh, a financial educator and full-time trader says that spread bettors often fall into the trap of spending almost all of their analysis time picking the perfect entry price point, with only an […]

The Profitable Spread Better Advice from the Pros A profitable stock market trader is normally the one that concentrates far more on managing losses rather than consistently looking for winners. Fabrizio Memon, sales and marketing director of Delta Index, says the first thing their tuturials do is show investors how much of their portfolio they […]

Beware Itchy Fingers Guest contribution by Alex Docharty who gives his insight into the psychological barriers involved with spread betting -: There are two types of trade: 1) The sensible, carefully planned one where you’ve entered at a pre-determined level. 2) The impulsive one where you’ve entered because you can’t stand being out of the […]

Spread Betting: Realistic Expectations If you want to be successful at spread betting, you must have realistic expectations. The question is how much return is realistic? The hype that clogs the Internet would have you believe that doubling your money is the goal, the only decision being whether you want to do that in one […]

Spread Betting: Diversification We hear a lot about diversification in a portfolio, and sometimes it is misunderstood. Diversification is really just an aspect of asset allocation, which is how much of our funds we put in each of many directions. Spread betting, because of the leverage it allows, is an ideal financial vehicle for diversifying […]