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One of the big advantages of eToro is that the platform allows you to trade stocks in both directions. Not only can you take ‘long’ positions in order to profit from rising share prices, but you can also take ‘short’ positions in order to capitalise on falling share prices. If you are interested in shorting […]
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What are some of the strongest currencies in the world? Without resorting to the currency strength meters, we know that many strong currencies belong to the advance economies, such as the USD, GBP, EUR or JPY. These economies are stronger than many developing ones and hence are more ‘desirable’. Whilst the USD is not
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Recently Capital.com added the voice box Newsquawk so that traders can hear what is going on the market. The feature blasts out news and analysis when there are sudden market moves like economic indicator announcements. Through an API integration, Newsquawk feeds will be delivered directly via the Capital.com app and web platforms, so that over
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CFD broker Plus500 does not offer spread betting. It only offers CFDs (contracts for difference). So why does the nation’s financial media get it wrong all the time? There are some fairly significant differences between financial spread betting and CFDs. I’m not going to go into them here, but you can watch our video discussion
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Interactive Brokers has expanded its overnight trading offering to include Contracts for Differences, or CFDs on US stocks and ETFs. Interactive Brokers’ clients can now trade CFDs on US stocks and ETFs around the clock, five days a week. The new service specifically allows them to deal during overnight trading hours, which run between 8:00
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Trading platforms that accept PayPal are now more common than ever. Here’s a list of stock brokers that let you buy stocks with PayPal & accept deposits & withdrawals from PayPal. Compare brokers that accept PayPal payments. If you prefer to trade by making payments and send money online without compromising any of your sensitive
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IG has introduced Limits and Limit orders to its OTC, or over-the-counter options trading, which will be available to both CFD and spread betting clients using IG’s desktop platforms or the firm’s mobile trading apps. A limit can be thought of as the maximum or minimum price you are prepared to accept to achieve the
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Autochartist say they offer unique global market analysis and decision support tools for trading and brokers without hiring a team of analysts and translators. If you’ve had a spread betting account or done any CFD trading over the last few years you will no doubt have had access at some point to either Autochartist or
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Pepperstone has introduced 24-hour CFD trading on US equities and it will make the new service available to clients via the MT5, cTrader, and TradingView platforms. There are no additional trading charges and no minimum ticket charge, with commissions from just $0.02 per share. The new service will allow clients to trade popular US stocks,
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Options trading is now available to UK customers as US broker Charles Schwab rolls out the integration of the TD Ameritrade trading platform thinkorswim (acquired in 2020), which is now powering the new Schwab Trading account. Thinkorswim Before the launch, I had a demo of the thinkorswim platform from Andrew Kahling, the head of international
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