Recent content by trader1302

This is pretty awesome. Thank you! I'm just looking into it myself. Today I happen to find out via google finance news, an hour before NYSE opened that Cobalt International Energy PLC (CIE) had made a substantial oil discovery. I bought in the morning and have a look what happened: CIE: Summary...

So I had a flirt with spread betting with IGIndex and thought I'd share some of the knowledge gained. I wanted to write out a thorough-going explanation of how this con works but it was taking ages so here is a summary... You win by betting a sum of money per point movement of an index. The...