Recent content by Jaybee from UK

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    Best firms for 1st paper trading account?

    Hi all, usual trainee question, will have a large group of q's later on TA/strategies etc, but for now, just wanted to get the ball rolling with the account. Good luck in your trading one and all, Jaybee.
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    Do you think they'll ban spread betting this/next year in the UK?

    I remember reading something in the news that indicates a tightening of the regulations, and as you can't spreadbet in the States, I get the feeling the same might happen here. What do you chaps think?
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    Question for an American friend

    Fair enough, please assume no previous trading knowledge on my part!! Correct, spread bet.
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    Question for an American friend

    Hi all - first off, this question is REALLY for a friend!! She - like me - is starting off in Trading and has done some preliminary tech analysis on a a stock. The candlesticks indicated a large jump and indeed, up it went across the week. I told her this is best spread traded, with...
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    What criteria to select a training course?

    ...I don't even know the difference between scalping and swing day yet...!! I think the part I'm having most difficulty with now is how to determine what instrument to just PAPER trade - there is a daunting choice of them out there, and I've got to narrow down the search result. I want to...
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    What criteria to select a training course?

    To answer the first question, I would rather go with the "whatever gets me up to speed asap" approach - that may be an existing system, that may be one I need to devise myself. I don't know which - yet. What do I want out of all this? Short term, the ability to make 15% a month on my outlay...
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    What criteria to select a training course?

    Appreciate the nuggets all, I suppose then that if a training course is not the way to go, the question then becomes, how then do I pick an item to paper trade? Again, what criteria should I use? I read somewhere here that Forex is the best start for beginners. There are also a couple of...
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    What criteria to select a training course?

    Hi all, first post here at T2W !! First a bit about me - newbie trader for the most part, dabbled in a couple of trades back in the mid-90's (catastrophically on the second, went down nearly 2k on Eurotunnel in '95) and was tech support for a US datafeed/software supplier in '99, so the words...
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