Recent content by elc

Ah right, you have to pay for it. I was under the impression that a truly guaranteed stop would be £0 funds on your account. That would be the typically logical practice no? I can accept that I was screwed over because I didn't fully understand the rules created by those I'm essentially...

Yea, but many people are acting like smartarses, but not making much sense, in that they're just briefly touching on and stating the obvious. It's not enlightening, just childish, patronising and insulting. Also some of these people are contradicting each other. For people acting like they...

If I put a stop-loss at 5968, then they wouldn't have altered my bet prematurely, and would have had to allow it to remain at £9 per point until I had nothing left?

Spread-betting is gambling... Unless you Spread-Bet on information you're not supposed to make financial gain from? If I had a stop-loss on, I would have certainly lost money. And before a typical smartarse answer of "you lost a heap more with no stop-loss", that's irrelevant to the point...

It was enough to open the bet. I didn't put a stop-loss because was pretty sure it would follow the wall street suite and drop near the end of the day. I didn't expect a huge increase, but I wasn't going to pull out on a loss for nothing, when(as I said) I expected it to drop back down. £42...

Thanks for the feedback. I am currently now in another situation... I went in a Sell at 5938 on the FTSE 100 DFB, at £9 per point. At that point my equity was around £258. Around £4:30pm the FTSE shot up to around a peak of 5962. I received an email around that time telling me about my...

Hi, I recently started SB with IG, mainly on FTSE 100 DFB and I'm finding it a real pain. I am new to SB, but I never realised they don't use the real market values but there own... and it's often way off. For example, right now, their FTSE 100 chart is 4 points off from the real value. The...