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Thankfully Spreadex has stopped daily spread bets closing out automatically at the end of the day. Since spread betting began way back when brokers would offer daily spread bets, that expired at the end of the trading day, but in reality most clients would opt to have them roll over each day. This is good […]
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Spreadex, one of the leading spread betting brokers has improved it’s charting package. It’s been a long time coming as the Spreadex trading platform doesn’t go in for lots of flashing lights, dark brooding backgrounds or fancy dials. Instead they focus on clear and concise information displayed in an easy to digest format. The new charts are
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Spreadex, one of the best spread betting brokers in the UK is one of 78 based in (and around) London to make it onto the FT’s list of fastest 1,000 European companies. Spreadex founded in 1998 was ranked 943 out of 1,000 on the FT’s list published on May 17th 2017 with key stats of: Revenue
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CMC Markets, one of the leading forex brokers in the UK, has launched Prime FX to service hedge funds, institutions and professional traders that are too small for the traditional prime brokers. This puts CMC Markets in direct competition with brokers like Saxo Capital markets who have always looked after more high net work private
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Core Spreads, the discount spread betting and MT4 broker has updated their website. The old Core Spreads website was a sort of single page scroll down that was quite trendy at the time and reflected their discount approach to trading. When Core Spreads launched their entire USP was based on offering the tightest spreads with
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Sucden Financial has recent launched OTC FX options to compliment it’s deliverable FX offering. But what are they and how can they be used? Sucden’s OTC FX options are basically a more flexible version of traditional foreign exchange options traded on exchange. The disadvantage of trading FX options on exchange is that you are restricted to
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In a note to clients Saxo Capital Markets one of the more professional CFD brokers has increased the charges for converting one currency to another. One erk about having an account with Saxo is that the account generally automatically does currency conversions to your base currency. So if you make a profit in USD it
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is taking a hard-line approach with spread betting brokers in a bid to stamp out practices considered risky, limiting the vulnerability of traders, particularly those less experienced. For many years, considerable sums of money have been lost by inexperienced traders spread betting across all types of markets, from forex and
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The big spread betting and CFD brokers have taken a bit of a hit today as the FCA has stepped in and put caps on new client incentives and leverage for inexperienced customers. The new rules are in place to protect inexperienced traders, but should not have that much of an effect on institutional or
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Spreadex that lovely spread betting broker with a reputation for good customer service and innovative bonues schemes will give you a little something on your birthday. If you’re a forex trader, footie spread betting punter, a long/short equity hedger or whatever, if you have an account with Spreadex you may well find yourself with a
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