Recent content by hallto

Trailing stops are already out there for spread betting platforms. Global Trader (www.gt247.com) offer such functionality and CityIndex just sent round new t+c's which talk of trailing stops also, when I called them nobody knew about it, but I guess they are in development...

Assuming that you have all products at your finger tips and that price is everything to you (ie trading platform speed/functionality, customer service, getting the correct price on screen is secondary) and that you trade equities, then you need to look at 3 things. 1) how long is my average...

i don't think that any of the firms, city especially, would think stop-fishing is a good idea, even if they had the ability/systems to do it. the point is that us spread betters are trading what i would call a double-derivative. First, the price of the future contract is a derivative of the...

I have been doing the rounds of seminars with the SB firms and I would say that they all (well, most) have unique advantages. Two firms seem to perform better than the rest in this area, Deal4free and Global Trader. I have been told that Deal4free who are being renamed CMC are quite price...

Good point trader_dante. If you take that view further, you move to the thinking that there is a positive corelation between the chances of profiting on a trade and either the length of time that the position is held or the volatility of the underlying. The higher either of these factors, the...

just tried out their demo. very fast, but not convinced about the look and feel.....