Hi,
Am fairly new to spread betting, have search for a concise answer but cannot find one.
(Using finspreads)
I have a few questions for you guys:
1. If I buy for instance 'x company' rolling at 50p per point at say 300-304, and set my stop loss at 280.. how can slippage affect me?
I understand that if a market opens at lower than my stop it will fill me at whatever it is at that point, I.E if it opens at 270, then it will fill me -10 points from my stop and I lose.
Anyway, do both 'rolling' and 'jun, july etc monthly' contracts have exactly the same problem?
Although I understand why slippage occurs, what I don't understand is that if I have money in an rolling contract that lets me buy/sell night long it seems, when does it ever 'slip' ?
I'm also not entirely sure when/if Finspreads charge me interest?
If I buy a 'rolling' contract and leave it overnight for a few days, or a week or so, when does interest get charged, or does it at all? I'm very confused about this.
I also understand that when buying a monthly contract you have a bigger spread to make up for this..
Sorry about the waffle, becuase I don't fully understand I can't communicate it well!
So basically I want to know why/when/how I can avoid slippage, does this vary from stock/share/index/monthly/rolling etc?
Thanks again,
Chris
Am fairly new to spread betting, have search for a concise answer but cannot find one.
(Using finspreads)
I have a few questions for you guys:
1. If I buy for instance 'x company' rolling at 50p per point at say 300-304, and set my stop loss at 280.. how can slippage affect me?
I understand that if a market opens at lower than my stop it will fill me at whatever it is at that point, I.E if it opens at 270, then it will fill me -10 points from my stop and I lose.
Anyway, do both 'rolling' and 'jun, july etc monthly' contracts have exactly the same problem?
Although I understand why slippage occurs, what I don't understand is that if I have money in an rolling contract that lets me buy/sell night long it seems, when does it ever 'slip' ?
I'm also not entirely sure when/if Finspreads charge me interest?
If I buy a 'rolling' contract and leave it overnight for a few days, or a week or so, when does interest get charged, or does it at all? I'm very confused about this.
I also understand that when buying a monthly contract you have a bigger spread to make up for this..
Sorry about the waffle, becuase I don't fully understand I can't communicate it well!
So basically I want to know why/when/how I can avoid slippage, does this vary from stock/share/index/monthly/rolling etc?
Thanks again,
Chris