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Hi Jason thanks for your answer, I appreciate it. So as that is a typical example is there anyway he could claim that 14 of the 18 trades were successful? I suppose he could in the way you describe, make some profit at least but not as much as forcast ie getting in at 640 instead of the...

Hi I am a bit of an amateur share dealer and have somehow slowly made money since I started in 1992. I am always looking for some way to get myself a big leap forward and have seen and avoided many scams over the years. I have been looking at spreadbetting for a while now and opened a Capital...

Sorry I should have said I am in UK so need one that does UK shares but I think that one is for USA shares. Of course I am assuming heat maps are the best way to check recent sector status, but maybe there are other ways to find out this information easily. Heat maps look like a quick simple...

Hi, sorry if this question is a bit basic but I would like to know how I can find out how a sector is doing. I have looked at a few sites and I see there are heat maps but from what I have seen the heat maps seem to only show what is going on that day. Is there a way that I could look at a...

Both in February this year, but wished I had bought them earlier. So despite what I say about the RSI it looks like they wont be doing to well for a while? Where would be a good simple place to see which sectors are going up and which are going down?

Hi not sure if this question is ok to ask on here or in the right place but hopefully it is ok, so here goes, I have two oil stocks that I have had for a while Dragon Oil (DGO) and Premier Oil (PMO) and probably, stupidly, I left them invested recently thinking they are doing well and would...

Apologies I didn't want to be a pain to anyone, just trying to learn. I thought it would be ok to put these questions on here. I thought it could also help others, a bit like when everyone wants to know the answer but only one guy will put his hand up. Thanks for the advice.

Cheers Jack o'Clubs for your answers and your patience with my questions, but you have helped me. Sorry they were so basic. I am reading loads and trying to understand it all but sometimes you hit what seem like silly questions and you can't see where to find the answer. For me that holds me...

Hi Using demo account on Capital Spreads to learn a bit more about spread betting. A few things I'm not sure about, sorry if they are dumb questions. I am dealing on the Indices mainly, mostly rolling FTSE100 but I am trying the others for experience too. They have one that is Wall street...

Well I'm not going mad after all, this was the reply I got from Capital spreads :rolleyes: Does make you worry though, when you use them for real. I'm back to nearly £8000 in credit again. I would worry that they would make little mistakes as well, now, that may not be spotted and end up...

Cheers Split, that's what I was thinking, must be an error, since it seems to make no sense, hope thats what it is and not some crazy deal instruction I managed. I will post what happened back here. Yes I will probabl;y stick to the £100 after that scare.

Yes but when I go to my trade history to see what happened it shows under the column marked price, 677.0, which seems to be the price the deal was dealt but its so far away from the S&P 500 price. I also got an email which says this "Sell 5 of S&P 500 Rolling Daily at 677.0". Even if you...

Ok thanks for all that and understand it better now but I afraid I am lost again. After that crazy bet I put a few bets on only betting £5 a point on rolling FTSE and S&P 500 to rise withs tops set etc. I couldn't watch them so I left them running with the stops and limit prices where I was...

Cheers frugi, appreciate your comments and I am now dijesting the links you gave. That thing with the Nikkei I would never do for real, I was just playing as it was only a demo account, but it has taught me something as I didn't expect the reaction on my trading resources that I got hence all...

Thanks guys for the answers but how do I find out what the margin is on a particular index, ie say I decide to bet on the FTSE100 how will I know what the spread betting companies's margin is? It should be something that is staring you in the face as you make any bet, so that you know what you...