Spread Trading Strategy: A range of trading strategies on a variety of markets from banking to coffee, from crude oil to trading the FTSE 100
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Financial Trading Blog, 10-Mar-10
A range of trading views, news, spread betting opinions from the analysts on the inside and offers on the financial markets...read Feature
UK Share Trading, 2-Mar-10
The UK share trading update - the Top Ten buys and sells carried out by TD Waterhouse clients over the last 7 days plus commentary from TD Waterhouse CEO on...read Feature
UK Shares Trades, 23-Feb-10
UK Shares Trades: UK Shares News - a look at the Top 10 UK shares that have been bought and sold over the last week plus commentary from CEO of TD...read Feature
Coffee Spread Betting, 22-Feb-10
Coffee Spread Betting: On a global scale, the ICO predicts that world coffee production in crop year 2008/2009 is to rise by around 3% to 127 million 60kg bags. If you are new to spread betting on coffee and other softs then it is always a good idea to...read Feature
Spread Betting on Soft Commodities, 22-Feb-10
Softs prices can rapidly increase on the back of high oil prices due to increased transport and energy costs. Prices are also affected by adverse weather conditions and political policies that force farmers to grow certain types of crop. But if you are spread betting on Softs what about the facts? 10 Facts for Spread Betting on Softs...read Feature
Currency Markets and Greek Debt, 26-Feb-10
Currency Markets and Greek Debt: I should definitely be paid for this. In a recent comment for another publication I suggested that the North European States would ultimately fall into line and agree to...read Feature
Banking, Obama and the Stock Markets, 16-Feb-10
Banking, Obama and the Stock Markets: On the other side of the pond, Barak Obama has been looking to stop, or at least severely limit, the activities of the bank propriety trading desks. This anti-bank rhetoric looks to...read Feature
Trading Gold in 2010, 6-Feb-10
Trading Gold in 2010: The gold market has been more than colourful over the last few years and its price increase has been exceptional. The problem with the gold market in 2010 is that it is beginning to ...read Feature
China and the Forex Markets, 26-Jan-10
China and the Forex Markets : The forex markets continue to swing backwards and forwards. It does appear to me that if you took virtually any position in one of the major forex crosses and...read Feature
Greek Debt and the Currency Markets, 21-Jan-10
Greek Debt and the Currency Markets : With more news of the Greek Debt, as well as the embarrassing news regarding the unreliability of the data Greece has been providing, the Euro has naturally been under pressure. The result so far is...read Feature
Spread Betting on the Housing Market, 16-Oct-08
Spread Betting on the Housing Market: If you are considering trading UK house prices then it is worth noting that if you spread bet on house prices you can gain a simple exposure to fluctuations in ...read Feature
Trading the Housing Market, 20-Apr-09
Trading the Housing Market: Sentiment is now falling and whilst mortgage approvals have been suffering this is not the end (or even beginning) of the story. Viewings and enquiries at Estate Agents have been recording ever lower numbers. The mortgage offer is generally one of the last factors in a house purchase, first comes the hunt...read Feature
FTSE 100 Day Trading, 19-Feb-09
FTSE 100 Day Trading: The FTSE 100 made a series of attempts to trade below the 4000 marker at the end of last year and the start of 2009 but there is a definite support between 4000 and 4030. We will probably need something new to actually break lower. One of the major problems for any rally is that the...read Feature
FTSE 100 Futures, 19-Feb-09
FTSE 100 Futures: Looking at the futures markets, trading is still continuing at quite a rate although some of the positions may be slightly smaller as traders reduce risk. Having said that, looking at the spread betting markets, the volume of trades...read Feature
Bonds vs Interest Rate Investing, 19-Feb-09
Bonds vs Interest Rate Investing: Whilst the banks have been busily writing off all those CDO's, MBS's, Sub Prime lending bonds etc. somebody somewhere has made a great deal of money indeed. Yes, a few billion has been...read Feature
Which Way to Spread Trade in 2009?, 2-Feb-09
Which Way to Spread Trade in 2009: It could be argued that too many people are almost taking it for granted that there is further stock market weakness to come. It is precisely at times like this that the market...read Feature
Short Selling and Spread Betting, 2-Feb-09
Short Selling and Spread Betting: For now it may be better to look at the companies that are reliant on the banks for credit. The heavily indebted companies, particularly those that need refinancing in the next...read Feature
Should We Spread Bet on Banks Shares?, 26-Jan-09
The financial markets initially opened 2009 positively. However, the hesitation and volatility of 2008 soon returned.
With the continued problems there has been more...read Feature
The Financial Markets in 2009, 19-Jan-09
The recent mini-rally cannot disguise the record-breaking 2008 financial market falls. The FTSE 100 plunged 31.3% to record the worst performance since its inception in 1984, ultimately closing 2008 at 4434.2. A year before the FTSE 100 closed at 6457. Unsurprisingly the battered banking sector has...read Feature
UK Banking and Business Lending in 2009, 19-Jan-09
With another 12 months of a probably contracting economy, I would look with a pretty jaundiced eye at a small business that required money to survive right at the beginning of the down turn. I might ask...read Feature
A Courageous Market Decision, 17-Jan-09
The huge injections of liquidity will keep the edifice lurching on a bit longer. Nevertheless the more we try to prop it up, the bigger will be the eventual fall. It will be many, many months before growth starts to...read Feature
European Banks in 2009, 17-Jan-09
Spain's economy in the last 15 years has been built on property and the activity over the last year has taken its toll. Many of the developments now stand half built and many of those will have to be...read Feature
OPEC and the Control of Crude Oil Prices, 21-Nov-08
OPEC and the Control of Crude Oil Prices: OPEC recently inspired such a rally when it announced a production cut. However that rally was both muted and short lived. Whilst many fear the cartel, the world has seen past evidence of poor attempts by OPEC to...read Feature
Barack Obama and the Credit Crunch, 20-Nov-08
Barack Obama and the Credit Crunch: It is a moot point as to how long the current banking crisis will take to build itself up to the level where financial institutions feel strong enough to begin large scale lending again. With major manufacturers in the US...read Feature
The Negative Financial Markets, 31-Oct-08
The Negative Financial Markets: The markets are at their lows as investors shun trading equities and bank liquidity stubbornly refuses to move Libor back into more reasonable territory. 3 month Libor is still high whilst base rates are falling. That shows that...read Feature
Liquid Financial Markets, 19-Oct-08
Liquid Financial Markets: Irish banks which were virtually the first recipients of State support are now pretty much at their lowest levels. They are even under the prices that triggered the intervention in the first place. With no shorting of financial shares...read Feature
Spread Betting on Gold Falling, 17-Oct-08
Spread Betting on Gold Falling: if the financial structure of the major banks can be secured the value of precious metals might come in for some serious shorting pressure. It is not difficult to...read Feature
Is it Finally Time to Invest?, 17-Oct-08
Is it Finally Time to Invest? The wild swings in share markets over the past month have not been conducive to sensible decision taking. It is all very well for the Sage of Omaha to be entering the market but not many people can afford his time scale. Nearly all hedge funds...read Feature
Spread Bets on Retail Sector Shares, 16-Oct-08
Spread Bets on Retail Sector Shares: Long term share based Investors and short term spread betting investors will be looking to focus on those whose underlying costs are below the norm and the biggest differential must be on the ownership of the...read Feature
Is it Time to Buy into the Banking Sector?, 3-Oct-08
Is it Time to Buy into the Banking Sector?: If I was sitting at my desk and was asked which bank in the world would I buy into, with any spare $5bn I happened to have lying around, I think that...read Feature
Will Commodities Prices Collapse?, 3-Oct-08
Will Commodities Prices Collapse? Commodity markets are falling again but for how long? Is this just a correction? There is clearly some profit taking from traders and anyone who spread bet on commodities. Naturally many companies that benefit from...read Feature
Oil and Mining Sector Broker Recommendations, 23-Jul-08
Oil and Mining Sector...But why? Far East growth may simply still outstrip any downturn in the West. That and the Supply / Demand equation often fails to work quickly with commodities. Supply is very difficult to increase and demand is almost impossible to decrease...read Feature
Far East Banking Lesson - Teachings from Japan, 23-Jul-08
If the large private financial institutions have helped cause many of the credit crunch problems through excessive risk taking should they be bailed out? If they were largely the sole beneficiary of the risks should they be bailed out by the tax payer? In a black and white world...read Feature
Which Central Bank is Correct?, 23-Jul-08
But which of these three policies will work and which will be taught in schools? Personally I believe that, within reason, all three will probably end up with pretty much the same result as the influences on all the Western nations are...read Feature
Shorting Banks and the Credit Crunch, 19-Sep-08
Shorting Banks and the Credit Crunch: The Lloyds shotgun wedding with reluctant bride HBOS shows once again that the short sellers, via Spread Betting, CFDs etc, were correct and that the protestations of solidity from the board, the FSA and the Bank of England were...read Feature
Spread Trading the Banking Sector, 19-Sep-08
Spread Trading the Banking Sector: Unfortunately if a bank lends you money it, not unreasonably, wants to make a profit on the deal. If they can only get hold of funds at 6% then they...read Feature
Spread Betting Markets Overview, 16-Oct-09
Spread Betting Markets Overview: Foreign exchange markets are often extremely volatile as a result of the fact that they are heavily influenced by economic and political pressures, especially relating to specific...read Feature
Financial Spread Bets, 16-Oct-09
Financial Spread Bets: Financial Spread Betting is a rapidly growing area of investment that does not require the parties involved to exchange, or even own, the assets they are speculating on. It is generally easiest to think of as...read Feature
High Crude Oil Prices, 18-Jul-08
Trying to stop the open market trading a product that you yourself do not control is just so pointless as to be laughable. When the boot was on the other foot and oil was down at $12 at least OPEC did not threaten to withhold supply and crude oil continued to be freely traded. For the nasty, ruinous speculators who are interested, the crude oil spread betting market is now trading at around £140 per barrel with FinancialSpreads.com
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UK Share Trading Index 2010 - Week 5, 2-Feb-10
Customers have been seeking a bargain in BP as the London-based oil giant accounted for 17% of the top ten buys. It climbed eight places to become...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2010 - Week 4, 26-Jan-10
Mining sector buys also remain a popular strategy this week, with Rio Tinto climbing to sixth place in the buys table. The mining industry's...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2010 - Week 3, 19-Jan-10
Unsurprisingly Cadbury entered this week's top ten - becoming the second highest sell - after finally agreeing to a takeover deal with...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2010 - Week 2, 12-Jan-10
Investors appear to have been blown away by the Government's proposal to open nine offshore green-energy sites as wind power firm Sea Energy made its first...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 51, 15-Dec-09
Crude Oil giant and customer favourite Xstrata reached fourth and eighth place in this week's sells and buys tables, respectively after announcing plans to...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 50, 8-Dec-09
Banks still dominate the tables accounting for 60% and 68% of the most popular buys and sells respectively. Mining sector stocks have...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 49, 1-Dec-09
The mining sector, accounted for more than a quarter (26%) of the top ten buys and sells. Gulf Keystone Petroleum was the most popular mining stock, reaching fourth place in both the buys and sells tables after it reported...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 48, 24-Nov-09
Lloyds Banking Group remains the most popular sell as shareholders mull the banks upcoming £13.5bn rights issue in a desperate bid to escape the Government's £260bn Asset Protection Scheme. The banking giant accounted for a...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 47, 17-Nov-09
Trades of Vodafone and BT shares accounted for 12% of our top ten buys and sells, with BT in particular reaching seventh place in the top ten sells this week. A hike in BT's share price seems to have...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 46, 10-Nov-09
Buys remained 12% ahead of sells this week as the property and energy & mining sectors proved to be popular choices for TD Waterhouse customers. Oil and gas producer Afren made a rare...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 45, 3-Nov-09
There is no escaping the banks with the long awaited restructuring of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group finally announced, to contrasting reactions. Shares in RBS closed 2.72p lower at...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 44, 27-Oct-09
Old favourite Kazakhmys re-entered the buys at ninth place (and 10th in the sells) after a one week absence. The international mining and metals company has seen some volatility in its share price over the past few weeks, which could explain why the company sits in both buys and sells tables. Kazakhmys nursed a loss on...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index 2009 - Week 43, 20-Oct-09
This week's top ten trades suggest our customers have been looking to refresh their investment portfolios with new stocks entering the tables from other sectors also. Oil and gas company Nostra Terra is a new entrant in this week's tables with a buy to sell ratio of nearly 2 to 1. The company was...read Feature
Spread Trading Strategy, 10-Mar-10
Spread Trading Strategy: A range of trading strategies on a variety of markets from banking to coffee, from crude oil to trading the FTSE 100...read Feature
UK Share Trading Index, 8-Mar-10
UK Share Trading Index: Index of UK shares trading articles with the weekly UK share Top Ten Buys and Sells from TD Waterhouse...read Feature
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