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Analysis of the IG Index – ‘better sell oil’ advert
Here is the first in an occasional series where I’ll look at a financial advertisement and explain my opinion on what the advert is trying to achieve and how it is trying to do this. This very green advert appeared in City A.M. recently. It is not a new advert; it is part of an existing series. The slogan is “If you’re thinking [...]
City A.M. London’s free business and finance newspaper
If you want a useful source of free financial news, opinion and analysis each day then make sure you look out for City A.M. It is one of a growing number of free papers which is available in London. Others include The Metro, thelondonpaper and The London Lite. City A.M. is more specialist as it focuses on financial news. You can find it [...]
Top Trader 2009 Competition
RBS marketindex is launching a competition to find the best CFD trader. You trade using a demo account and each week there will be prizes for whoever increases their account by the most. Registration is open from the 29th June and the competition starts on July 6th. Prizes are £5000 cash, a Dell laptop and an iPhone 3GS 16GB. As this is a [...]
Trader, investor, gambler – which one are you?
If you have any sort of involvement in shares, commodities, currency, or derivatives of these, then you will probably fit into one or more of the ‘investor’, ‘gambler’ or ‘trader’ categories. What is the difference between them and where do you fit into these categorisations? Investor An investor is someone who buys something in [...]
FTSE 100 CFD Trading: 2nd June 2009
The day started well with me spotting several trends and managing my risk well. By 2pm I was up 22 points. Things went wrong after this when the market got more choppy. My biggest loss was in the afternoon around the time that the US housing data was released. The index started moving fast and I tried to profit from the surge upwards. I was too [...]
Aims of this trading blog
The aim of this blog is to allow me to track my thoughts and ideas relating to trading CFDs on the UK FTSE100 index and possibly other UK shares. I might also be trading other global indicies and Forex. Topics may include: Details of actual trades. Statistics and data analysis. Lessons that I've learnt. Risk management. Reviews of [...]
