Issues covered here include trade planning, record keeping, performance reviews, more on risk management, psychology and continual development. Spread betting is great fun, and almost anyone can enjoy the odd bet now and again. But if you want to make money from spread betting, then it must be taken seriously and a disciplined and tactical approach is required. This book is the essential guide to get to the top of the mountain.
Keen to try your hand at financial spread betting? Perhaps you’re already investing in shares and looking for other strategies to maximise your profits. Or maybe you’ve just heard the buzz and want to find out what all the fuss is about. Financial spread betting is an exciting tool for investors - a way to make money in up or down markets, without ever having to own a share. Best of all? It is tax and commission free. Perfect for smart, savvy investors like yourself! Financial Spread Betting For Dummies is your one-stop introduction to the world of spread betting. Packed with advice and examples, this guide tells you: How to get started Where you can spread bet Strategies for successful betting How to evaluate risks (of which there are many!) What mistakes to avoid
Following the success of his first book, "The Financial Spread Betting Handbook," Pryor now provides the spread bettor (and other traders) with a detailed understanding of seven charting tools.
This is the first book on developing and back-testing systems trading strategies to be used whilst spread betting. The book details the cycle of choosing instruments, designing strategies, back-testing and the real-time trading of those systems and includes many real-life examples. This book details an end-to-end approach covering all of the aspects required to implement and maintain a trading system. The focus of the text is the independent trader, providing them with the information they need to use readily available tools to develop and trade a professional system. The book starts by arguing the case for the use of trading systems and spread betting and moves on to look at the details of selecting instruments, choosing the most appropriate spread betting firm and the right trading software and platform. Ford looks at money & account management and black box systems then describes in detail the processes involved in the development of a strategy, including back-testing and optimisation. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to develop a systematic approach to their trading and take their spread betting to another level.
Malcolm Pryor, who has already written a bestseller onfinancial spread betting has now written a brand new bookfor investors. Winning spread betting strategies has apunchy and economical text, presenting much of its teachingthrough carefully chosen examples of charts. The focus is onpractical trading techniques which are relevant to ......
If you were to make a list of financial topics that have grabbed the interest of the wider public over recent years then spread betting and foreign exchange trading would surely be near the top. These have both been around for decades, but developments in technology and financial markets in the past five to ten years have made them extremely hot topics right now. This book starts by covering the basics of spread betting and explains why it has become such a popular method for trading a whole host of markets. Next the forex markets are explained - cutting through the jargon to help you understand how they work, what makes currency prices move second by second, 24 hours a day, and how you can trade forex using spread betting. Finally, some trading strategies are examined - approaches that you can put into practise straightaway using spread betting, and at a level of risk that suits your own particular circumstances. If you are looking to trade forex then this book provides an expert introduction - helping you to succeed by avoiding the most common pitfalls of this highly volatile but fascinating market.
Predicting a big score in the match on Saturday? Buy total goals. Convinced a multimillion pound signing will prove a huge flop? Sell his performance. Fancy a local team to surprise everyone with a strong run in the League? Buy their championship points. Today more than 100,000 people in the UK are turning their football knowledge into profit through spread betting, the fastest growing phenomenon in gambling worldwide. Unlike traditional fixed odds betting, the spreads allow punters to bet against teams as well as for them, to place and close bets during the match and even to make money on a game before a ball has been kicked. Spread Betting - A Football Fan's Guide strips out the off-putting financial jargon and explains the system in clear English. Using vivid examples from top-class football, it takes you from the basics to the sophisticated techniques used by the professional gamblers. Drawing on exclusive interviews with the bookmakers and players, it also opens the door for the first time on what has become a multimillion pound industry.
The world of betting is changing dramatically - say hello to Binary Betting. In recent years betting on sporting events and the trading of financial markets have been moving closer to each other, and binary bets are the result of this convergence. Binary bets combine the attractions of sports betting with the flexibility of the financial markets. Binary bets allow punters to: - Bet on hundreds of different sporting and financial markets - Close out bets before the event takes place - Profit from spectacular price moves - Bet in unusual and unexpected ways - experienced traders will love this This is the first book on binary betting and explains in simple language what binary bets are, how to trade them profitably and how to reduce risk. Within the book there are many real-life examples of binary betting trades and minute-by-minute analysis of binary price behaviour. In addition the book includes inside tips from an experienced trader who uses binary bets in his trading day in and day out - discover the bet that pays out even when you get it totally wrong! Find out what makes binary betting the fastest growing area of betting and why traders are switching to the new exciting world of binary bets.
With the right broker, and just a few hundred dollars or pounds, anyone can become a leveraged trader. The products and tools needed are accessible to all: FX, a margin account, CFDs, spread-bets and futures. But this level playing field comes with great risks. Trading with leverage is inherently dangerous. With leverage, losses and costs – the two great killers for traders – are magnified. This does not mean leverage must be avoided altogether, but it does mean that it needs to be used safely. In Leveraged Trading, Robert Carver shows you how to do exactly that, by using a trading system. A trading system can be employed to tackle those twin dangers of serious losses and high costs. The trading systems introduced in this book are simple and carefully designed to use the correct amount of leverage and trade at a suitable frequency. Robert shows how to trade a simple Starter System on its own, on a single instrument and with a single rule for opening positions. He then moves on to show how the Starter System can be adapted, as you gain experience and confidence. The system can be diversified into multiple instruments and new trading rules can be added. For those who wish to go further still, advice on making more complex improvements is included: how to develop your own trading systems, and how to combine a system with your own human judgement, using an approach Robert calls Semi-Automatic Trading. For those trading with leverage, looking for a way to take a controlled approach and manage risk, a properly designed trading system is the answer. Pick up Leveraged Trading and learn how.
This book is a simple, practical guide to how you can use some of the newer investment products like spread betting, binary betting, contracts for difference, covered warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as older ones like futures and options, to help your investing. In different ways, each of these products allows you either to: - boost the returns you get in exchange for taking on greater risk; - hedge your bets in exchange for slightly lower returns; - use much less capital to achieve the same market exposure; or - move money into and out of a range of markets and sectors efficiently. The author believes they are tools that all investors need to know about and be able to use when the occasion demands it. They should help you successfully confront any lengthy period of trendless or volatile markets. While the past three years has seen a generally strong upward trend in stock markets, this is not bound to continue. Periodic volatility is the natural order of things. Interestingly enough - despite what appears to have been a bull market - recent years have also seen increased use by private investors of many of the tools described in this book. Proof, if needed, that they work, and can be applied, in all market conditions.
