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 [...]
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 [...]
IG Group is set to provide clients with stock brokering services as an adjunct to their existing spread betting operator's long term plan in order to diversify its business opportunities. The move by the UK's largest spread betting operator by sales came about as several of its peers have been [...]
Financial spread betting will always invoke two negative emotions in every trader in the FX market; these being are fear and greed. Traders often commit the tremendous mistake of shifting to stop losses or in simple terms, closing a position too early. This is often done in haste by the [...]
The VIX is the stock symbol that is being used in order to refer to the Volatility Index of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market. This is one of the most popular measures that specifically imply the volatility of the instrument S&P500 index options. In most cases, this is also [...]
