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    Spread betting and rights issues

    Thanks for the reply Malaguti, Your right I should have sold everything at the same time. I've never spread betted through a rights issue before so was trying to read up about it to see if there were any benefits in keeping the rights issue. The share symbol is CINE (Cineworld cinemas), they...
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    Spread betting and rights issues

    Hi, I'm trying to make sense of a recent Cineworld rights issue in regard to a long position I took with IG Index in August 2013 at the 400p level. The right issue went ex-date in 31/01/2014 and immediately the price dropped to 363p from 400p which is where I went long back in Aug 2013...
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    Zero sum game ?

    Thanks for that. Was an interesting read. Do you think that the points made about about increased 'Passive' buy and hold investing, reducing the profits available for skilled traders, are still relevant today? He suggests that increased 'Passive' investing is due to traders becoming aware...
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    Trading at work...best way to not get noticed?

    Most large companies monitor how much their staff access the internet and have policies indicating how much usage is deemed acceptable. You could find that your IT department is monitoring your usage over a period of time and could then present this at a later disciplinary hearing. Probably...
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    Sticky Introduce Yourself

    Hello all, Thought I'd better write my first post seeing as I've been a member for around 9 months now and have been only reading the threads and not adding to them. I think Trade 2 win only had around 90 thousand members 9 months ago compared to the 130 thousand it has now. Has trading...
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