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How will this swiss regulation affect brokers? I used to have an account with dukascopy.com. I know they are swiss.

I know the bank of england like to suprise the market. I remember January they hiked and shocked almost everyone.

hey guys, I have been interested in carry trades for a long time now and been looking at ways to trade them with less risk, as traded them naked is too risky for my risk appetite. I looked at the charts for NZD/JPY and TRY/JPY. Historically they have been very closely correlated, even in the...

Lots of companies do, I would not call them specialist. IGMarkets, GNITouch, Citywire, H-L are a few. I have only traded CFDs on demo, so unfortunately I cannot recommend a good broker, perhaps some of the others can.

You can go short on shares and indicies with CFDs and spread bets. If you are short you will usually earn interest on positions held over night too.

Cool, I used to live in Rochdale.

I would like to come to a meetup :-) I am in halifax

Basis : Front month ICE Brent crude Oil This is the near term future. You can trade it as though it was spot, but the price will move with the future, so the contango premium will be in the price. However, The near future usually equals spot a few days after the the previous month expires, so...

it cant be spot oil i dont think.. that would involve the storage of barrels of oil. Maybe its the future?

thanks for the reply I found xpress trade offer it :)

Hi there, I was wondering.. Does anyone know a futures broker that offers natural gas futures with the expiry June 2008. I have look at many, but I haven't found one that will go this far out. Thanks :-)

Thanks Jack

Hi there, Just found this forum, glad I did! I have been looking into spread betting for a while but there is one thing I can't see it work out. If you take out say a long 3 month Spread Bet on the FTSE, would you incur daily interest charges on this or not? thanks :D