When I first started out working for a large bank in Foreign Exchange (FX) back in 1985 we didn’t have any women dealers, the few women that worked on the dealing floor were in admin and operated telex machines as many FX deals were made and confirmed this way and women could type faster.
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Joshua Raymond of spread betting provider City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/) takes a look at the financial activity shaping the markets on 27th April 2011. The FTSE 100 traded largely flat, swinging between small gains and losses, into the close on Wednesday with traders eyeing the early evening FOMC rate decision and inaugural press conference with [...]
Nowadays you may be hearing a lot about the many benefits that DMA trading can provide someone. DMA or direct market access will let you directly check out how the market is doing. There is what they call a level II display that permits you to see pending orders in real time market which could [...]
It is common that financial spread betting or margined trading is often compared to gambling. This form of trading does involve a lot of study and knowing of various economic indices, the company performance with the stock that is being bet upon, the movements and chart patterns of the stock and even finance policies likely [...]
If you have been looking for information on financial spread betting, it seems interesting yet confusing yet also simple, we are sure that you have read about ‘gearing’. You may find gearing to mean different things within the many financial instruments. In most trading, an easy way to explain what gearing basically is, it would [...]
It is a paradox where some of the people have gone to riches while some have turned to rags due to the financial spread betting. There are many factors that have to be considered before you switch onto this type of financial betting. As this type of betting is highly risky one needs to put [...]
Financial spread betting can be considered a form of gambling on the stock market without having to own stocks and shares themselves; as such among the list of main advantages that it features over trading is the fact that it may be done any time of the day, regardless of if the markets are open [...]
For many, investing in the stock market during 2008 was a year to forget and you hardly need reminding about what a mess the financial global economy is in. Shares continue to drop, sterling is falling, house prices are falling the only things going up are those that you would rather not, such as unemployment [...]
Some crucial aspects associated with financial spread betting have to be completely understood before you begin investing your capital, as this is a high risk sector. We have put together the top five tricks to achieve success and also to help with associated risk exposure.1) The most significant tip we can suggest is you must [...]
Spread Betting Lessons from Successful Traders
I am in the fortunate situation of being in contact with a number of really successful stock market traders who use financial spread betting as their main trading vehicle. We are talking about those that are consistently taking several tens of thousands pounds per week out of the markets [...]