The UK general election on Thursday 12 December may lead to uncertainty in the markets. As a result, spread betting, CFD and forex brokers may be required temporarily to increase some of their margin requirements around the election date. What does this mean? Uncertainty around the election result, and its [...]
In its latest submission to the ongoing Australian Senate inquiry, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) came into a final decision that bitcoin and similar other cryptocurrencies are not financial products. ASIC, which maintains Australian organisations, financial markets and services, and finance sector professionals have made a conclusion that [...]
The Australian contract for difference and exchange-traded fund markets continued in its expansion this year as more and more investors are searching for much greater or at least more predictable returns that can be created by traditional equities. Investors have been seemingly ensnared to these two very distinct products since [...]
What is market timing? The most sought after advice in the book is to purchase and sell high and market timing is an attempt to do the same old thing once more which is to sell when the market is high and buy when it is low. Obviously, it is [...]
Spread betting is an option to conventional investing in which the goal is to profit from movements in the value of financial product. The rewards and the risks are much more higher than traditional trading. Spread betting came a long way over the past two decades, wherein it is seen [...]
Spread betting companies are now providing exposure to financial markets that are often asked with a very straightforward question, "why should investors utilise them in order to derive exposure instead of investing in the markets directly"? There are several number of answers to this query, which if collated explains why [...]
Last week, The Russian President was successful in calming the markets by reaching out to the Ukrainian Prime Minister by seeking to make agreements to resolve the present situation with the former's counterpart with the goal to prevent further conflict between the two nations. The market was able to take [...]
The global regulators published details of its preparations to fix foreign-exchange benchmarks in response to assertions that traders are in conspiracy to manipulate rates in the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) suggested making changes to how the most popular rates from WM/Reuters are being calculated by [...]
A near 10 % drop in international oil prices since the last month has taught a sore lesson to many hedge funds and other speculators in energy futures; that they can actually ignore physical markets for only a short period of time. Hedge funds piled into what appeared to be a [...]
Points for consideration Capital flows estimates money moving in and out of a currency Changing rates will result in money flow between currencies Traders adhere to rates to maximise yields There are several fundamental factors to mull over when trading Forex pairs. While many traders may quickly dismiss fundamentals under [...]