Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA.L) is on the move after rumours that the company plans to sell $15Bln worth of assets, possibly including some of its Oil fields in the North Sea. The company has been critised recently for over spending and poor returns to investors compared to others in the sector. Recent quarterly results have […]
Dow Jones Industrial Average (US30) opened up as December retail sales came in above expectations. This brought a halt to the steep drop experienced yesterday and if the DOW finishes up today it will break a 4 session losing streak. also contributing to the rise was JP Morgan (JPM) results which cheered investors and revealed […]
Moss Bros (MOSB.L) has recieved a boost after the company announced it was increasing dividend after full year profits beat forecasts. Like-for-like sales also jumped 12.9% in the five weeks to January 11th and rose 7.3% in the 24 weeks to the same day. Chief Executive Brian Brick said “The improved sales performance and continued […]
British Sky Broadcasting (BSY.L) has recieved a boost after bank UBS upgraded their rating to BUY from Neutral. UBS said: “We think trading at Sky (BSkyB) will remain resilient despite competition from the new BT Sport channel. We do not think the economics for BT Sport stack up and expect Sky to agree a wholesale […]
Mears Group (MER.L) releases favourable trading update stating they expect full year performance to be inline with management expectations and also that they will have strong cash performance. The current order book stands at £3.8 billion and the bid pipeline remains at £3.0 billion. The Group has 90% visibility of consensus revenue forecast for 2014 […]
IG Group (IGG.L) posted strong earnings figures for the first half this morning. the group announced a 17 per cent rise in pre-tax profit of 95.1m pounds. Highlights of the announcement include: Pre-tax profit up 17 per cent Revenue boosted by growth in UK and Europe Dividend in line with prior year (5.75p per share) in […]
Ashmore group (ASHM.L) fell sharply after the company said it recorded a USD3.5 billion net outflow in the second-quarter due to investor uncertainty over emerging markets. Ashmore is the biggest faller on the FTSE250 this morning losing over 51p or 13%. Mark Coombs, chief executive, said “Market performance and, to some extent, investor behaviour during […]
Gold is boosted higher of the back of disappointing NFP numbers as investors return to the safe haven. According to figures the US economy added only 74,000 jobs in December. These were the weakest NFP numbers for 2 years. Despite this unemployment continued to fall. Related Posts:Weekly forecast based on simplified wave analysis of… April 8, […]
Morrisons (MRW.L) continues to recover after last weeks steep drop on the back of news that like-for-like sales are down over christmas. Investors continue to show an interest in the supermarket chain after rumours it plans to sell part of its shop portfolio. Analyst Clive Black at Shore Capital says “We expect Morrison to announce […]
BP (BP.L) is falling after the US courts upheld a decision made by the federal court to approve the multi million pound Seafood Compensation Program. It means BP will be forced to continue paying out to businesses and individuals who lost money in the Gulf of Mexico Oil spill disaster, even though BP claims that […]
Hence, they hire someone else instead in their behalf to do the nitty-gritty of things. However, how do the parties involved communicate? Of course, the brokers would still be getting instructions from the primary investors. Do the brokers call the investors every single time that they will be making decision? If so, then timing would […]
What are their Common Grounds? On the one hand, it is essential to know their similarities so that traders will have a baseline if they are really comparing two (2) products that may serve as alternatives to each other. In this regard, we all know that they are forms or methods of trading that are […]
Nevertheless, there are common strategies that will be able to help traders in various situations. These are specifically about tramline trading, scalping, as well as market trends and pyramiding. If these words have already tickled your mind, you do not have to worry. This is because these will all be explained briefly in the following […]
What is Technical Analysis? Now I am telling what is Technical Analysis (TA)? TA is a method to analyze stocks and make investment decisions accurately based on its passed history. TA works on Volume and Price. Actually TA works 80% on price and 20% volume. TA does not result in absolute predictions about the future. […]
Hard stop This is the most basic stop loss – placing a stop a given distance from your entry price. However, having a stop like this in a liquid market, doesn’t make much sense. Typically, the more liquid the market is, the farther out you place your stop loss, as your currency pair can have […]
Unlike conventional betting, spread betting is much more flexible and hence can be far more profitable for the bidder. A spread betting account must be able to offer the lowest spread and at the same time be able to fill in the orders quickly at a fairly reasonable price to help you get the best […]
An ideal example of a speculative product in today’s market would be what is known as Contracts for Difference (CFDs) where the investor has the benefit of making an agreement on market products movements (such as stocks). To be more specific, the speculation refers to the practice where traders do not have to buy the […]
Spread betting is exempted from paying the capital gains tax compared to the traditional share trading where the trader pays the taxes on the winnings. Spread betting is you pay no taxes on your winnings. Stamp duty is also exempted for this type of trading. Just like dealing with the Investors Gold Index in which […]
The best strategies in spread betting are focused on limiting the risks involved in the venture. Forget about daredevil risk-taking; if you feel you need to cut your losses early on in the game, then do so, otherwise, you might end up losing more than what you bargained for. Here are a few other financial […]
The concept made its name in the 70’s when a city trader Stewart Wheeler created an index to trade on gold. His brain child, Investor Gold Index became the first modern day spread betting firm in the world now better known as IG Index. Is Spread Betting Risky? Like any betting, it can be risky […]
The double top pattern will start by a rise in price, then will show a drop, it will rise in price again around the same level as the first rise, it will then have another drop. This pattern appears like the letter “M”. It is important to note that the initial uptrend of the chart […]
A guide to making money from shares in up or down markets Buy The Naked Trader’s Guide to Spread Betting Spread betting shares can be dangerous: most people lose – some even lose their shirts. But it’s not a world populated by pinstriped men waiting to rob you, steal your savings and do nasty things […]
The amount of taxes they would have to pay at that point would not affect their overall gains. As with any investing or trading spread betting will carry the same type of risks that stock market traders experience. British traders who are new to spread betting can open free accounts with demos where the investors […]
Why CFD CFD trading is something that is really catching on these days. The reason for this is quite simple. It has several advantages over other financial derivatives. The biggest advantage is that there is no need to put up the entire value of the stock to make purchase through CFD. Only marginal amounts (from […]
CFD trading offers a wide access. They can be used to trade an extremely wide range of financial products. This means they offer a way to easily start trading across a large cross-section of the market. For example, if you have an interest in shares, the level of Wall Street, the price of oil, and […]
The most important element in any DMA CFD traders arsenal is their trading platform as this is their connection to the market. May DMA CFD day traders and scalpers assume that their broker has the fastest market connectivity and trading engine behind their platform however unfortunately in reality there are some brokers that do not […]
One of the key factors which make spread betting so enticing to traders is that they are not in fact buying the actual shares or stocks, but you are speculating (betting) on the if you feel the market will rise or fall, which is also termed going long or going short. Other main reasons for […]
However for a variety of beneficial reasons, the fastest growth in spreadbetting in recent years has been within the financial markets.One of the primary reasons for this has been the beneficial tax advantages that come with it because spreadbetting in the UK is officially viewed as gambling and therefore has several tax advantages as a […]
Understanding CFD Trading: Trading Critic, Forex, Stocks – When you trade CFDs, your position is leveraged. In other words, you are controlling a much bigger underlying amount of value. As a consequence, you either have to pay interest to maintain the position or be paid interest as a result of your position. Interests are charged […]
It is true, spread betting allows you to make riches quick if you can get the market direction right; of course the opposite is also a sad reality and spreadtrading can be a quick lane to the poor house if not handled sensibly. For this reason it is important to appreciate that spread betting is […]
