Financial spread betting firm IG Group reportedly made extensions in its trading hours on more than twenty plus primary U.S. stocks in order to further assist traders and investors in making most of possible good trading opportunities during the last weeks of the earnings season. Moreover, IG clients just recently [...]
The Forex market is considered the only marketplace that is in fact connected on a global scale. This just shows that a marked difference from stock markets are primarily used in a much more traditional form of investments. Because such turn of events in the marked areas, the market will [...]
An independent study by the Australian CFD market has identified IG as the primary choice for CFD traders, with an estimated 38 % employing IG as their main service provider. This placed IG 20 % ahead of its closest competing company and for the fifth successive year in a row was able [...]
As confidence slowly gets back into the Aussie market, investors are now contemplating their next move. Analysts point out that diversifying more asset classes including ETFs over offshore indices, and investing with borrowed funds using CFDs can prove to be a wise approach. The ETFs sector is anticipating a 15 % [...]
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 [...]
Talibi’s books “The Black Swan” and “Fooled by Randomness” argue, reasonably convincingly, that extreme events are under priced in the current market due to a lack of experience and the over reliance on mathematical models in trading. To take advantage of this they advocate a “dumbbell strategy” which basically is [...]
Jim Rogers is one of the world’s most successful investors. He was the ideas man behind George Soros the trader. When he talks, it is a really good idea to listen. Jim Rogers was one of the first people to shout about commodities at the turn of the millennium. As [...]
The Zurich Axioms is a classic. In fact it’s the first investment book I ever read from cover to cover. It’s also got a very easy to read style. I was fourteen when I read it. This isn’t as odd as it sounds as Max Gunther claims to have been [...]
With spread bets and most futures contracts the only way you’ll see dividends is when they are reflected in the share price. Before a dividend is due to be paid the share price rises and after the dividend has been paid the share price falls. This is not the case [...]
