Recent content by Slim Sladey

Evening all, This thread looked the best for a quick question for those reading... I am setting myself up to get back into spread trading soon and I have been pulling together data on several markets, listed below. Indexes FTSE 100 Nikkei S&P 500 Nasdaq Currencies US$ - GB£ US$ - JP Y US$ -...

FTSE Spikes David Wiz, DownBy The River, UKHero It's interesting that eveyone seems to get spikes - i wonder if these are at the same time/levels across all the different traders people use? UKH - That kind of a spike would have been a BIG hit to me, hence i went for the bounce on the Dow...

Cheers for that DW. I figured 2838 was a glitch, wasn't so sure about 5735, so have left FTSE and gone for a small long on DJIA overnight, looking for around 20-30 point bounce in short term. I'm a beginner though, so no one should take this as advice, probably the opposite As far as your...

Evening all, Just got back in from work to see FTSE fall nearly 100 points, so good to see people have made profit from their shorts :) Im considering a small long for a bounce tomorrow, but my spread betting comp (Capital Spreads) charts have been having some funny spikes in of late on...

Evening guys, thought i would try and contribute to the tracker/SB discussion. It would seem that everyone is in agreement that its prob not the best idea to put all your eggs in one basket. Personally i had £15k of excess cash, of which i put £11k in to doing my house up, thinking this...

Been delayed and just got back in to see all the responses, so thanks to Pat494, Frugi, Macbonzo, Mark Twain, Kriesau, Slapshot and FC for your comments :) . Just to let you know if your interested, since i didnt get in until 9:30 and SB Nikkei closes at 9 i'll be letting it run overnight...

Thoughts please, Afternoon all, I know this isn't exactly a US trade but is related.... kind of. In a nutshell i'm long on the Nikkei which i averaged in on from mid Dec, and am currently up around 960 points on my average position :D ! This is easily the best trade i have made in my short...

DC - Yep - tempted to put a small long on myself before i go sort my grandad's tea out, but with my luck this week prob not good idea :( Having said that watch it get back to 800 while im out :twisted: Good luck to all

Ok, what ever works for you :)

Momtic, Fairly new to this myself, but i think a lot of traders would say if your reward is less than your risk it's not worth getting into the trade just now and might be best to wait and see for a bit. Having said that i dont trade euro dollar myself so not sure if your trade is a good one...

Hope you got that that was meant to be a joke - sounded like you were a wrestling fan :!: Looks like today has been quite odd so far, rather boring Slim

Is that the bottom line... cos DC said so! :lol:

MT Do you mean opportunity to short FTSE and long DJ?

Stop moved to BE and off to work :(

Thanx DC - what's your reasoning?