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Most spreadbet brokers are 1pt on FTSE 100. As FTSE is currently around 7000, this is 1/7000 or 0.014%. How cost-effective do you want! Your exposure is of course not £60k, the index isn't going to go to zero. FTSE moves about 50 pts a day, stops would rarely be more than than, so that's an...

Over what timescale are you expecting the tip to pay off? It's easy to say "buy Microsoft", you'll never be wrong, eventually.

You can either buy an algo (biggest market is https://www.mql5.com/en/market) to use with MT4/5, or you can write one yourself. However, the way you have asked the question, I doubt you'll be able to do that. Do they work? You'd have to ask the vendors for proof. Normally this is done with a...

I assume you are talking short-term. They correlate better if you express FTSE in USD (ie multiply by GBPUSD). Here's the last few days of DJIA (candleS), FTSE (cyan), and FTSE in USD (blue)

TA works fine, but you have to understand that it only works, say 65-70% of the time. When it fails, it can fail spectacularly, but that's what stops are for. TA is very good at giving you high ratio trades (ie we will bounce off the 200MA, so maybe a 1% stop below that, and a potential 5-10%...

Doubt it will last

There are loads and loads of (free) market pundit websites/blogs, who only post on one or two instruments. (usually the DAX, the S&P or DJIA and EURUSD). No redirect, but if you nick my 'DayTrading' and 'FX' lists from my Twitter account @adatherton you can find them.

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CMC allow you (a) to determine your level of finance from 0%-max (ie 99% indices, <=95% shares etc.) and have very small spreads. Downside is their non-UK shares list is limited, compared to IG and their platform isn't as nice (looks like a video game!). Their iPad and IPhone apps are much...

IG Markets CFD spreads (points in trading hours / out of trading hours) FTSE, DAX, CAC 1 / 2 DJIA, 2 / 4 ASX 2 / 3 S&P 0.5 / 1 Nasdaq 100 1 / 2 Major FX 0.06 / 0.25 Italy 8 / 40 HK 12 / 40 Nikkei 12 / 30 Gold 50c US WTI Oil 6c / Brent 10c Are these better than spreadbets. Also everything...

Totally agree, 9pm Friday night when trading closes, it's like "what do I do now?" You can start Australia (and therefore gold, indices etc.) on Sunday night. But weekends are cold turkey. But you can ... 1. Set up your cashflow and strategy for next week. 2. Read research on small cap long...

Surely scalping recycles your capital more.