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The spreads are really tight with Core Spreads and they're fixed, a lot of brokers will show their spreads but the spread they show is not indicative of high trading times, they tend to show prices during the quiet times. When the spreads are not fixed they can vary a lot! I've looked at a few...

Can you please explain the draw back of having a dealing desk?

Is this the same for CFD's as well as Spread betting? I would have thought most professional traders would have a lot more than £85K in their accounts. Thanks for the warning.

I live in the UK and have been trading for several years, I spread bet with Core Spreads, their spreads are tight and I have no problem with them. I'm hoping you can advise me as to why all UK traders don't spread bet, why pay tax if you do not have to? Am I missing something? The start of next...

Great advice, will do. I plan to back test my strategy for 100 trades to find out its win/loss ratio first. Then I shall forward test it on a demo account for a few months, to trade in and out of a couple of draw downs...and then throw some money at it. So I reckon I should be live trading by...

Great help...thank you both.

When you're buying and selling currency pairs, what are you actually doing? For example: If I was to sell the CADJPY would I be expecting the CAD to decrease in value, and be expecting the JPY to increase in value? Then if I was to buy the EURCAD would I be expecting the EUR to increase whilst...

Care to explain your reason, what do you mean by 'More professional'. Thanks

These are my thoughts as well, but UK professional traders do...and I would like to know their reasons.

Hi, this is a question to UK traders. Do you trade CFD's or do you Spread Bet, I thought it would always be the best choice to SB but the more I look into it, the more unsure I am. So could you please explain as to why you have chosen one over the other. I also read that when you start trading...