Recent content by SamIP

Hi all, I can see a couple of historical articles on this, but didn't really come to a conclusion beyond 'all web based platforms should be safari compatible.' All of the spread betting platforms I've used are technically compatible with mac/safari, but they are not particularly user friendly...

I agree, although the departure is definitely more evidence of a change in sentiment at RBS. Instead of the priority being around increasing profitability, it looks like RBS is strongly on course to a quick(er) and discounted privatisation. I've been staying away from RBS with a barge pole...

I trade mainly the US stock market (spread betting) but I'm from the UK and would definitely be interested. Edit: read through some more of the thread, can see that a client based instant messenger is being used instead. Anyone still going ahead with a members room on this forum?

I'm sure this has been said already, and the conversation seems to have moved on somewhat but this article really didn't tell us anything about how to make money from spread betting. I was hoping for some insights into price action or something along those lines etc. ;) Didn't really need to...

Crazy is probably a bit of an overstatement. I never bothered to practice for 6+ months like some people suggest here. I dove straight into the deep end after doing my research, getting to know the basics and formulating an idea of a strategy etc. To be fair, I had very limited success...

So with the Jobs Report on Friday coming out on target, it looks like a lot of the scare for QE tapering in june is over (until some other voting/non-voting member says something else ;) ). So in light on this, what are your predictions for June over the major indices? Will the DOW/FTSE get...

Thanks for the response, I'll give what you have said some thought. A lot of my trading is speculative so naturally I'm exposed to quite a lot of risk. I do use a bit of technical analysis for entry but probably do need to ramp it up a bit more. Do you have any recommendations for some...

Not sure I agree with the point about only shorting under certain EMAs. Technical analysis is useful for getting the best entry/exits as long as the underlying environment isn't changing. If the jobs report had come out worse than expected (which was fairly likely) or too much better it could...

Well today was pretty white knuckle for me... It could have very easily gone either way. The second I got the jobs statistics I lowered my stops but still took pretty substantial losses. Very surprised the report hit the consensus targets, I was in the group that thought it would follow the ADP...

I read an article earlier today which pretty much summed up how I feel about the Dow. “In the past few weeks, good news is bad, and bad news is bad, as we started to see talk of the tapering come through,”. IMO, at this point I can't see us breaching the all time high in the short term without a...