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 [...]
Fixed Odds financial betting offers a range of ways to back different markets, which I see as a financial toolbox, you just need to select the right tool for what the particular market you wish to back is doing.
Fixed Odds betting has some big advantages over financial Spread Betting especially for those starting with [...]
Many of you have heard the old stock market saying “sell in May and go away”. In this report I will delve further into this seasonal pattern and look at ways that you can profit from seasonality studies. We will use the US S&P 500 as our benchmark index not the UK FTSE100 which has [...]
Short selling is one of the favorite day trading strategies employed by many day traders. Many companies hate short sellers as they believe that short sellers were responsible in the fall of their stock prices. Nothing can be far from the truth. Short selling is just like anyother market mechanism that provides liquidity and better [...]
The advantage of spread betting, as opposed to buying shares, is that it offers one of the simplest ways to bet on markets moving downwards, as they have in recent months. Moreover, bets are free of stamp duty, while any gains are not subject to capital gains tax (CGT).
Most regular readers will be fully aware [...]