Independent Investor as a leading provider of investment education of private investors in the UK is pleased to pronounce to its clients that City Index, the innovative worldwide Financial Spread Betting and CFDs trading is to supply 'Market Analysis' videos to assist potential investors pin down market volatility that [...]
Independent Investor is delighted to announce to its customers that the universal leader in Financial Spread Betting, CFDs trading and margined foreign exchange City Index has been granted two awards at the 2011 MoneyAM Online Finance Awards. City Index won Best Online Spread Betting Service and Best Mobile Trading Platform, [...]
London Capital Group Holdings, the financial services and online spread betting company, is pleased to announce that it has entered an agreement with TD Waterhouse to provide a white label financial spread trading platform. The trading platform, which will operate as TD Financial Spread Trading, is now live. TD Waterhouse [...]
Glasgow-based CFD broker Direct Sharedeal has gone into administration, leaving a number of traders and investors out of pocket and sparking a fierce row between the company and the independent financial advisers responsible for the majority of their client referrals. Recently-collapsed Glasgow-based CFD broker Direct Sharedeal has today been caught [...]
Traders look more closely at opportunities in the differentials markets, which are becoming an increasingly widespread addition to the traditional markets offered by spread betting brokers. Differentials offer spread bettors the chance to trade on the different between two markets, such as the FTSE100/DAX 30, and enable traders to profit [...]
We urge traders to maintain vigilant for over-leveraging, in order to guard against the dangers of highly leveraged exposure to volatile, fluctuating markets which can be fatal to even experienced investors. With low margin requirements an industry standard, CFD investing brings the constant allure of aggressively inflated returns, which can [...]
With ongoing uncertainty in the commodities markets and a turbulent global economy climate of recovery, markets have been increasingly volatile, providing CFD traders and other margined investors with the opportunities of generating significant returns, but also posing the substantial risks of leverage as markets turn against a position. As highly [...]
We urge CFD traders contemplating long-term positions to remember to factor in the costs of financing significant leverage portions when calculating whether or not a trade viably profitable. CFD positions, which are traded on margin and therefore composed of significant leverage portions, attract financing costs overnight, charged at a [...]
A further growth has been forecast for spread betting brokers venturing into the mobile era with dedicated trading apps and mobile platforms, suggesting that these emerging technologies could help tap potential market share amongst both existing and new trading clients. With many leading spread betting providers already moving in to [...]
We urge traders to be wary of guaranteed stop losses, and to use guaranteed stops sparingly in their day-to-day trading. Guaranteed stop losses, which automatically settle open positions upon reaching a certain pre-defined price limit, are designed to help prevent runaway losses and protect trading capital, and have proven to [...]
