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There are a couple of ways spread betting can be used to hedge exposure. You can hedge pretty much anything as the markets offered by spread betting brokers are so varied. Equity and Stock Hedges though spread betting One of the most common hedges is against profits from equity investments. Traditionally options would have been
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Technical analysis and fundamental analysis are both useful tools in trading and investing. The general consensus is that fundamental analysis is more useful for longer-term investments. Technical analysis is better for short-term trading and speculation. Mainly because it looks at market timing and provides a good visual aid for traders to compare to historic events.
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Saxo Bank, the owner of leading CFD broker Saxo Capital Markets, today received regulatory approval for China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd (Geely Holding Group) and Sampo plc of Finland (Sampo) to buy out (amoung others) Saxo founder Lars Seier Christensen. The deal values Saxo bank at EUR 1.325 billion. If you’ve not used Saxo
I know that’s a massive clickbait headline, but I couldn’t resist highlighting the somewhat sarcastic risk warning on ayondo’s website. Whilst perusing through the client trading loss percentage report on Finance Magnates, I noticed that ayondo wasn’t featured. Which was a little odd, especially as eToro ranks as a broker that has one of the
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London is still the top spot for Forex trading according to City-Am and Reuters latest findings. But why is London such a draw for foreign exchange trading? On an average day in April London executed around £2.7 trillion in FX transactions, whilst our friends across the pond only did about half that ($994bn). In the
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CMC announces an abrupt change of plan as it introduces MT4 and 5 trading solutions. From a tech geek’s point of view it’s a bit like Dylan going electric. CMC Markets has been famously dismissive of MT4 and 5, but all that appears to be changing. Among other things, its recently released financial report for
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I saw a post shared on LinkedIn by CMC Markets founder Peter Cruddas that you can now get market updates on Alexa from CMC. Great I thought, excellent, now when I’m doing something like they do in adverts such as cooking, or sitting at my massive bank of forex trading screens and just casually say
A man’s game no longer: more and more women are getting involved with spread betting and they’re proving to be better at it than the men. From Gordon Gecko to the Wolf of Wallsteet, the trading floor often feels like a man’s world, but that’s not quite as true as it used to be. More
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Thanks for talking to us Josh. First and foremost, why the switch to XTB? To be perfectly honest, I had been at City Index (Gain Capital) for a decade and fancied a change. The industry has grown so much over my tenure that you have to constantly evolve to keep ahead of the competition. I
A divergence where an indicator has failed to confirm a new price high and is starting to roll-over, implying a tired uptrend. Indicators where negative divergences are most effective include the 14-day RSI, MACD, on-balance-volume, relative ratio, as well as breadth studies. Apple (AAPL) has struggled the past two weeks, underperforming the broader market. The chart exhibits a bearish momentum divergence. By that we mean the
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