Recent content by OlympicBlue

Thanks TraderGirl for all your advice :). Happy trading!

Thanks again for some great feedback. :thumbsup: I like the idea that you can stagger your trades and close them separately and that also you can place trades while in ‘chart viewing mode’. This all sounds good to me, so will now make contact with IG to open an account. Do you recall any...

TraderGirl Great information and advice as usual, many thanks once again. :thumbsup: As you say, being a demo you cannot expect too much – but if I was in their marketing director - I would get this sorted out – as first impressions count. Anyway, great to hear that IG virtually tracks the...

TraderGirl, Thanks for all your comments and reply about CMC and IG. It is interesting what you say about CMC and the quicker IG fills (see below) and I take your point totally about having a ‘disaster stop’ in place. For what it is worth, I ‘traded’ using Capital Spread ‘demo’ account on...

Julian, Thanks for pointing this out. I will be trialling some SB demo accounts shortly and won’t be parting with any money to do this. Similarly, I intend to trial an independent and designated platform to run along side, but unlike the SB account, after a month this would be chargeable...

Tradergirl, Thanks so much for your reply. Just before your reply I had been reading other threads on here about spread betting firms – having ‘pencilled in’ IG, CMC and Capital Spreads to demo. However, as no doubt your aware, there is quite a lot of criticism about of all these firms and...

Vergis, Thanks for your reply.

If you could expand on this and offer any advice or preference I would be grateful as this is the direction I will probably go.

Vergis, Thanks for your reply. Take your point about powerful market movement and relation to news and the pricing in of stock. Regarding impact of the Nasdaq – at the moment I am not familiar with ‘swing charting analysis’, or Gann although have read about this. Is this complicated...

Tim, Thanks so much for the guidance. Since my original post, I have looked at various threads on this site - so I fully understand and appreciate your comments. I will look forward to reading the threads you have provided with interest. Letting me have a direct link is great and helps a lot...

Vergis, Thanks for responding to my queries, I take your point about newscasters and Yahoo headlines for example, but what I was really referring to was news feed from the likes of Reuters or Bloomberg etc. which can undoubtedly effect share movement. For example just recently, if you took...

Thanks for your response. RSI and MACD are mentioned a lot – I will take your view on board. Ignore news altogether –I am surprised by this – why would you ignore the news - I would have thought this crucial? What are your reasons for advising against day trading? Your comments about your...

Julian thanks for responding. When you say you would never pay for a signal service – I assume you mean a service supplied on a platform supplied by a spread betting firm? If so, I was only ever going to take advantage of the services offered by CMC/IG etc which I assumed were free anyway...

Hi, Thanks for your comments. This is just what Julian has said. Also looking back at some information I took off the Investors Chronicle site recently, there is an article on there about a woman who has turned her diary she kept when starting up – into a book. The article (in the Investors...