25th August 2009
To start to understand about leverage or gearing in forex and contracts for difference is really a function of how much equity you have in your account in relation to the position sizes you are trading.
So for instance when your leverage is set 100 to ...
25th August 2009
There are many differences and benefits that spread betting has over share trading. The biggest differences are that when spread betting, you pay no stamp duty, no commission, and no capital gains tax....
With financial spread betting you can make a pr...
16th July 2009
When the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.72 seconds in New York on the last day in May, erasing the previous world record of 9.74 seconds set last year by his compatriot Asafa Powell, it was not only Powell and the other men cherishin...
10th June 2009
We know that brokers under jurisdiction in the UK and regulated by the FSA automatically subscribe to up to a £50K government guarantee for your funds.
In the USA we have the FDIC but this is more like an insurer - the FSA is more analogous to the S...
03rd June 2009
In these rocky times I hear a lot of investors and spread betters flaunting that they are in cash without realising that they are in fact incurring a loss by staying non-invested.
To illustrate this point let's put it in round numbers...
Let's assum...
