http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org My Financial Spread Betting UK Journey Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:36:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just wanted to know I am taking a little break from the spread betting. I don't know if it because my spread betting strategies weren't working, how the markets were performing or whether I am just not that good at it but I lost money overall, about £250 from ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/uncategorized/taking-a-break New trades set up this week from the spread betting strategies are…   Buy QinetiQ @ 165 (Total risk £19.95)   Buy VT Group @ 561.2 (£19.43)   Buy Smith DS @ 122 (£19.95)   Buy DSG Int @ 39.6 (risk £19.52)   Buy Halfords @ 422.2 (£19.6)   Buy Stobbart @ 126.7 (£20.1)   Buy Salamander @ 286 (£17.75)   Buy Burberry @ 597 (£17.25)   Buy ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/spread-betting-online-broker-trades After 2 weeks of decline I had a positive week. Not as positive as expected. The week ended at £1,884.11, so an increase of £26.49. I’m going to start tracking the performance against FTSE All-Share. The way things are going I would be better off buying an index tracker!   So to ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/financial-spread-betting-uk/spread-betting-online-review Not many on the list this week. I set up the following with my online trading broker on 29/11/09.   Buy Meggitt 258.8 (£19.92 total risk) Buy Dairy Crest 411.8 (£21.8) Buy Tate & Lyle 461.2 (£21.45) Buy Smith DS 124.8 (£19.35) Buy Home Retail 312.3 (£19.88) Buy Aegis 112.2 (£20.1) Buy Pearson 856 (£22.75)   I have amended the ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/spread-betting-strategies-spread-bet-set-ups I like the gold story and would like to test my spread betting strategies on gold. So far I have been testing stocks but I’m sure they will apply equally well (or poorly!) to commodities. From now on when I do my analysis I will include gold. http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/financial-spread-betting-uk/spread-betting-strategies-spread-betting-gold Another poor week for my spread betting strategies. The account is down from £1,917.21 to £1,857.62. I’m starting to wonder whether this is just part of the game or whether I need to adjust the spread betting strategies that I’m using.   Let’s start off with a positive – well sort of ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/spread-betting-strategies-bad-week-again As mentioned in my previous post I want to trade out of Filtrona. The reason for that is their moving average has turned down significantly.   Now I had a problem trying to do this when I logged onto my online trading broker because as I do this at the weekend, the ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/spread-betting-strategies-trades This post is a bit late this week due to the fact that I have been busy not because last week was such a bad week for my spread betting strategies!   The week actually started very nicely, my account moved up to £2151.95 but ended at £1917.21. I knew that my ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/spread-betting-strategies-bad-week I haven’t set as many trades up this week, 10 in fact. There were 3 other trades I’d have liked to set up but given my maximum risk of £20, even with a stake of 50p I’d be risking too much.   The market is obviously still in an upward trend making ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/financial-spread-trading Another strange and volatile week where surprisingly, it finished on a positive. My account balance stood at £2014.61 at the beginning but then took some large hits and fell to a low of £1901.27 by Wednesday. Following the UK market making another recent high, the account rallied strongly and closed ... http://www.spreadbettingstrategies.org/spread-betting-strategies/spread-betting-strategies-week-ending-13112009