Trading

This guide explains how you can see the biggest short positions and if you should copy hedge fund short positions. You can find out what professional investors are short-selling using our UK Share Short Position Statistics sortable and searchable table. Or you can use one of these other excellent resources. FCA: The FCA website has a notification […]

Richard BerryRichard is the founder of the Good Money Guide (formerly Good Broker Guide), one of the original investment comparison sites established in 2015. With a career spanning two decades as a broker, he brings extensive expertise and knowledge to the financial landscape. Having worked as a broker at Investors Intelligence and a multi-asset derivatives

A user asked: I’m Looking for a platform with low leverage 1:3 low charges and low spread. 100k to trade. The answer is yes – CMC Markets Spectre offers an option to set your own leverage levels. You obviously can’t increase them, but you can reduce them all the way up to 100%. The advantage

Prediction markets are one of the hottest areas of the financial markets right now. In the US, platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi are attracting record numbers of users. But can you trade prediction markets in the UK? Let’s take a look at the landscape. What are prediction markets? Prediction markets allow traders to bet on

Linkedin has increasingly become a social network suseptible for sophisticated financial scams, with fake “AI trading” adverts now being promoted to users across the site.  A recent promoted post from an account called Dogo Space Lim highlights the issue clearly. The advert features a fabricated quote attributed to Elon Musk, claiming that an “AI Trader”

To trade the dollar index, you need a forex broker like City Index, Forex.com or Pepperstone or a futures broker like Interactive Brokers or an investment account like Hargreaves Lansdown to buy an ETF that tracks it. What is the US Dollar Index? The US dollar index is an index based on the performance of

A reader asks: In November, I started trading for the first time via an offshore CFD broker after seeing an advert. I deposited $250 initially and ultimately was persuaded to partwith various amounts until i had deposited $10,000. I done very well and on Monday had a balance of 170,000 but then lost it all

The main difference between CFDs (Contracts for Difference) and futures is how they are structured as either on -exchange contracts or OTC. They both essentially do the same things, but in different ways. In this guide, I’ll go through whether futures or CFDs are best for different types of trading. What are CFDs & Futures