Posted by IndependentInvestor on June 2, 2010 under Latest CFD Brokers, Spread Betting News | 
Once again CapitalSpreads prove that they are the cheapest and most competitive spread betting broker by cutting spread on Wall Street Rolling Daily from 3 points to 2 points.
A few months ago CityIndex cut the spread on Wall Street to 1 point and was just a matter of time till other companies came out and cut the spreads and it is no surprise for anyone that it was Capital Spreads who followed the suit.
Following recent trading platform improvements and reductions in spreads Capital Spreads just prove that they are ready to keep their position as the cheapest and innovative spread betting company. For more information on the spreads visit Capital Spread review.
It is just a matter of time until others follow suit and what can be better for spread betters?
Posted by IndependentInvestor on February 10, 2010 under Latest CFD Brokers |
The leading spread bet and CFD provider IG Markets has launched some chart recognition software, and it begs the question – is this going to bring more people into charting?
Charting is controversial. Essentially it is a belief that the near future can be predicted by the near past. More specifically it is a claim that what’s going to happen in the near future has very little relationship to the fundamental underlying performance or the way in which that wider market works – so the gold price is the same as retail shares is the same as US Dollars.
The idea is that there are certain patterns of behaviour in the share price and the investing community will react very similarly depending on the recent information about the share price. This can be shown in certain patterns that commonly occur on a share price’s chart. One of the most famous of these is a “head and shoulders” where you have a peak in the share price preceded and followed by smaller peaks. If you see this pattern of three peaks then you should sell, or go short. So they say.
However strange this sounds – and it has been compared more than once to astrology – some investors swear by it.
The idea of chart recognition going into computers is not new. After all these are simply graphical examples of mathematical patterns, although as you would expect there is considerable disagreement over what constitutes the graphical patterns.
Charting software may now make it easier to spot the patterns. While this may be an issue with timing, however this could also make a lot of these movements into self-fulfilling prophecies. For example, if a couple of thousand investors see the warning light flash red on their computer, they may dump the shares no matter what. So whatever you think of charting (as you may be able to tell I’m quite sceptical) it may be worth following just because a lot of other people are doing the same thing.
Posted by IndependentInvestor on February 8, 2010 under Latest CFD Brokers |
According to What Investment the online betting powerhouse, Betfair, through its spread betting exchange Tradefair, is moving into Contracts for Difference. This is a sign of convergence that may see other gambling companies moving into this area. Funnily enough we think it will take a bit of time before this has an impact on prices.
Here’s why. The average Tradefair punter may not be the average CFD investor. They are usually people who have been upsold from Betfair’s sport betting site. While they are certainly more savvy and intelligent on average than the typical sports better, after all they’ve migrated on to the internet to get the most keenly priced deals and they are comfortable with a betting exchange rather than a high street bookmaker, they do not have the profile of a typical CFD investor, which is either a sophisticated retail investor who wants to get more speculative gains or a financial worker who prefers to gamble with his or her talents rather than on sports results.
The CFD investors that come through Tradefair will be upsold through the betting exchanges. They will be sports betters who are looking for other ways to gamble. The bets are likely to be far more weighed on big domestic share indices and to have far less demand for foreign investments, individual shares or other types of investments such as commodities and currencies. However they are just, if not more, likely to be looking for ways to leverage returns and go short. It will be sports betting on the stock market.
There is unlikely to be much price pressure at least outside betting on the FTSE, and even less likely to be an expansion of services that will be offered. This is why it is important to use our CFD price comparison table, as this is the real customer’s revenge.
Posted by IndependentInvestor on July 7, 2009 under CFD Trading News, Latest CFD Brokers |
With modern times of cell phone and mobile broadband communication, it is not strange to find hidden in home traders who do their CFD Trading from the comfort of their homes. Today being CFD trader you need computer set up to multi-screen investing servers, number of casual or serious home-based CFD traders has also grown to a great deal and this is due to internet and popularity of some commodity trades.
Now, here we will discuss about CFD market, and how can you find great CFD broker online when you decide to jump on wagon and become CFD Trader. Majority of the CFD Brokers now offer ability to trade online, and CFD trade over phone, or else CFD trade from mobile phone.
With growth of a virtual CFD Trader, now we have seen explosion of CFD brokerages online on Internet in predictable economic flexible demand & supply. We are seeing individuals turning to the commodity trading as viable source of second or third income, brokerages & financial firms all across the world have also responded by extending the services to modern technology world. Prior to you select which firm & which broker to select, there are some things that you have to do.
First step is finding black list of the online CFD brokers & those who have bad reputation. There are some collectives that will collect list of names of an individuals & companies (that includes all aliases & permutations) and place them on compiled list for everybody to refer at. If that is not at all enough, then you should as well check out your local finance & governing body as well as run the list of potential brokerages & companies that you would like to join with them – and you will not know what you may find. Deal with well-established companies, which have very strong regulation.
Never be swept-off your feet by long list of the credentials in case you don’t know what they exactly mean or else where they come from in first place. Be wary of the customer testimonials, which are written on website itself, since these will doctor or else fabricated.
Use Company, which has good references, and good costumer testimonials and will get best, results from your trade.