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[17 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | ]

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 …

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[2 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | ]

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 …

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[26 Jan 2010 | Comments Off | ]

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 …

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[10 Jan 2010 | Comments Off | ]

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, …

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