Recent content by Mike & Anna

  1. M

    Wanting to automate spread betting

    Hi all, Sorry about not staying current for a while. Yes we are trying to run this on a low budget and don't have the capital to buy and sell hence our predisposition to tax free spread betting. Mike
  2. M

    Wanting to automate spread betting

    Yes we are spread betting.
  3. M

    Wanting to automate spread betting

    Neither of us has experienced anything like that with them (don't want to tempt fate here so I'll add "touchwood that is" :whistling) and I can quite see how that would be a major flaw. Actually, compared to the other platform, they seem much more consistent and execution times seem quite...
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    Wanting to automate spread betting

    Thanks. The results are from actually trading. I agree they were higher when only paper trading and we concluded that the reason was because when actually 'trading' (playing probabilities/gambling), we we've been too inclined to sit and stare at the graphs and 'meddle', usually to our...
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    Wanting to automate spread betting

    Hi, Firstly, sorry if this is a bit long. We are Mike & Anna; a couple who, starting as complete novices, have experimentally spread betted FTSE and DAX for about 3 years now. During our experimentation we have consistently used 2 platforms; Finspreads and Capital Spreads. The incentive was...
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