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BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--The European Union's Commission for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn will make a statement on Greece in five to ten minutes time, the European Commission said Thursday.

I quite enjoy seeing others discuss their trading styles when not sticking strictly to TA etc....I am much the same in that I use a wide variety of information and bring it all together to make an informed decision. I still keep an awareness of TA etc as it is good to know the points at which a...

I would agree with some of the other posts here.....I primarily trade the spx500 but every now and then get a little bored and start trading too many markets and thats when I normally start to lose and have to reign myself in slightly so that I am not focusing on to much fundamental information...

I have found that it is good to be aware of the TA stuff just because so many people follow it....I always think that if you are in tune with the markets then you can make money by almost understanding the 'thinking' of the majority out there and the TA is partially ingrained in this because so...

all back now :-)

True....we can always phone trade anyway. It's the IT consultant part of me that says 'What no failover?'

Well I have always been reasonably happy with them over the years but I think this is the longest outage that I have seen....pretty appalling that there is no backup solution in place from an IT point of view. Any other recommendations for realiability on other platforms - IG maybe?

Anyone else having issues with finspreads tonight? Not been able to get online with them since about 2030??

I am just trialling the StrategyRunner via ODL Markets.....always used a SB platform up until now but am considering my options for switching to DMA. Platform looks quite good so far with some nice features - probably going to try try a few others as well such as the one from PFGBest.

I have had quite a few scares over my few years of spreadbetting but while I have made some losses I think the scares have now taught me to be alot more careful.....I also read somewhere along the line (market wizards??) that if you are worrying about a position when you go to bed then it is a...

I agree with Sunshine of Leith - I think your responses do reflect well on your company. I have always been quite happy with Finspreads over the years but seeing good responses like this always encourage me to consider my account options. Russ.