Even when the global market is generally depressed, there are still some opportunities that many investors can explore in order to earn profits. One of the fields that can be the focus of many investors is the market for metals like gold, silver and platinum. The trading of these metals can be in many forms like bullion investment, metal trading as well as spread betting or futures trading and share or equity trading.
Bullion Investing in a Depressed Economy
One of the most effective ways in playing in realm of gold, silver …

Online futures resource site FTAcademy.com is helping a generation of new futures traders learn the fundamentals of trading the markets successfully, focusing on delivering high quality tips, strategies and materials for traders of all levels of experience.
Futures trading is highly-leveraged by nature, and as a result presents opportunities for both extensive profits and losses over a short period of time.  As a result, FTAcademy.com is striving to help deliver a more rounded trading education, to help cut down on the losses caused by inexperience and improve the chances of turning …

Buying or not buying a house can be one of the biggest financial decisions that someone could ever make, and it’s probably the first big non-career decision that most people do make (unless they are putting off starting a pension).  Either you can stay out of the market, and risk watching house prices going up and pricing you out, or you could jump in and find that you own an asset with a declining value, a loan worth more than the house and a …

It sounds like a nightmare.  Why would anyone want to put their pension on the futures market?  Yes you could retire rich, but the chances are higher that you will be headed for the poorhouse.  It really does not sound like a good idea.
We will have another post later on this week about what your investment lifetime looks like and how you should deal with futures, contracts for difference and spread bets as part of that, by the way you can’t put spread bets …

Even though the name itself implies about futures trading, in very simple way futures trading is basically the practice of trading that includes buying and selling of a particular commodity with standardized quality at an expiration period and pre-determined market price. Apart from its name factor, when you will have the exposure and experience with direct securities like bonds and stocks, it will be an easy learning for you.
Always remember that the futures contracts are traded on a different platform than these direct securities, …