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Posts by Simon Brown:

• Solid Gold

  20 Jul 2011 in Blog &Commodities &Currencies &Precious Metals &Spread Betting &Tips
  THE US DOLLAR When speculating on the US dollar, our professional trading clients, have generally been playing from the short side and the signs are that this is not about to change. The US dollar may have had some respite recently from its prolonged slide against some of the other currencies in the majors league, ... Read article

• The 5 trading rules

  03 Dec 2010 in Blog &Getting Started &Spread Betting &Tips &Ways to bet
  Trading the markets is easy. So why do many of us make such a ‘pig’s ear’ of it? Access to the financial markets and related information has never been easier. Gone are the days when we used to have to pull up ‘teletext’ on the TV or wait for the morning paper to see what ... Read article

• Covered option writing

  08 Sep 2010 in Blog &Getting Started &Stocks &Technical Analysis &Tips &Ways to bet
  ‘Covered option writing’ An effective but often misunderstood longer-term Trading Strategy. Strategy definition; ‘long term action plan to achieve a goal’ We all know that to achieve most things in life, we need a plan. And trading is no exception. In our world, our goal is to make money and our action plan needs to ... Read article

• FTSE Fortunes – where do we go from here?

  30 Apr 2010 in Blog &Featured
  Let’s put the spotlight on the FTSE 100. This is the most popular product amongst all spread betters, professional and retail alike. The index of the UK’s 100 highest capitalised (market) listed companies, (representing over 80% of the total capitalisation of all the companies on The London Stock Exchange) has an interesting history, and with ... Read article

• Sterling – eyes down for a full house

  01 Apr 2010 in Blog &Featured
  With the election looming it’s all eyes on sterling. As always at this time of the election cycle much of the attention amongst global FX players is towards sterling. And by ‘attention’ I don’t mean necessarily buying interest, especially with the prospect of a hung parliament. Recent polls suggest that the battling election parties are ... Read article

• Trading the strategy

  03 Mar 2010 in Blog &Featured
  TODAY’s markets pose significant challenges to those seeking trading profits; despite the volatility experienced over the last couple of years. In contrast, markets of 20 years ago held a plethora of trading opportunities, often obtainable from trading just one product or even one stock. So why have things changed so much? Quite simply we have ... Read article

• Arcade Traders – a growing breed of trading professionals

  09 Feb 2010 in Blog &Featured
  Walking through the streets of London EC3 you may notice a growing presence of 30 somethings. Not pinstriped brokers or chino clad merchant bankers frequenting the coffee houses on dress down day, but designer jeaned young men sporting trainers and five o’clock shadows. ‘Builders’ I can here you muttering – no, they are a growing ... Read article

• Financial trading – short-term trend oscillations

  16 Jan 2010 in Blog &Featured
  Swing Trading is rife and sits firmly between long-term trading and day trading. It is probably the style of trading that has grown the most in the last 5 years and current market volatility provides the ideal climate to put your swing strategies into action. Swing trading essentially captures the relatively short-term trend oscillations which ... Read article

• There is no such thing as free money!

  09 Dec 2009 in Blog &Featured
  Simon Brown, managing director of ProSpreads, weighs up the pros and cons of day trading. He discusses finding the right products to trade; and, more importantly, the right style, as well as the roller coaster ride that traders have been on in the past 15 months. ... Read article