Financial Spread Betting means to put a ‘bet’ on a financial tool increasing or decreasing. Spread betting is becoming progressively more accepted with investors and traders. The process of opening a position is to place a spread bet. The distinction is that opening a spread bet position means that you trade or invest in any [...]
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Destructive Patterns in Trading
June 24, 2009 – 9:17 pm
Before we get into the topic of destructive trading, allow me to explain how psychologists assess whether or not a person has a problem with alcohol consumption. Here are ten questions that a professional might ask in order to assess any kind of substance use disorder, including alcohol abuse: 1) Have you found that your [...]
The Guppy Multiple Moving Average (GMMA)
June 24, 2009 – 8:35 pm
The Guppy Multiple Moving Average (GMMA) is an indicator that tracks the inferred activity of the two major groups in the market. These are investors and traders. Traders are always probing for a change in the trend. In a downtrend they will take a trade in anticipation of a new up trend developing. If it [...]
Trading and Ego
June 24, 2009 – 7:16 pm
It’s a short odds bet that the loudest yell for foremost man / woman will arrive from the ego. Brushing aside sagacity and requests for enclosure alike, the ego will articulate his / her pre-eminence and seize control. Statistics that habitually substantiate that only 10-20% of traders are reliable net winners are music to the ego’s [...]
Trading for a Living
June 24, 2009 – 6:42 pm
Prior to you even think about trading for a living you have to know how much money you need to live on, that is, how much cash do you need to produce every month in order to survive. As a fiscally minded person you already have good home accounts, or are at the very least [...]
How to Take a Loss
June 24, 2009 – 5:01 pm
There are quite a few books written on how to make money in the market. Some of them are even written by people who have made money as traders! What you don’t see often, however, are books or articles written on how to lose money. “Cut your losers and let your winners run” is commonsensical [...]
History of Spread Betting – A Brief History of the Financial Markets
June 24, 2009 – 3:43 pm
In the past hundreds of years, companies and wealthy derived the asset values of other sources only to invest and mange their risks. They exist for everything from sugar, rice and wheat to the price of gold or the level of rainfall. Spread betting and CFD (Contracts for Difference) are intense relatives of the most derivatives. These retail derivatives make international markets accessible to normal investors and can reduce their tax liabilities for spread betting.
The Trading Game Plan
June 24, 2009 – 2:25 pm
There are an unlimited number of methods to design a trading plan. Despite strategy, risk tolerance or trading capital, having a plan is one of the most important components of achieving success in the market. The ability to adapt to ever-changing market conditions is the key to success. It seems logical to assume that a trading plan [...]
Time Based Trading Part 1
June 24, 2009 – 2:17 pm
Many traders find themselves in a recognizable minefield with enormous intraday losses. Out of desperation, they put on double, triple, and quadruple the normal size of efforts and time just looking for a miracle. The one word that injects fear into the heart of every trader is blowout. This is purely because traders speculate on [...]
The Stock Market: A Beginners Guide
June 24, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Over modern times progresses in technology have made the Stock Market far more available to the general public. Regrettably involvement in the Stock Market is not a one-way street. It is commonly acknowledged that losing a chance in Stocks is much easier than gaining one. The chances are that all you hear concerning the Stock [...]
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