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Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 4 November 2011
As the Greek Prime Minister digs his own political grave, the Eurozone saga continues to overshadow the G20 meeting in France.
As the story continues it becomes more and more interesting with the prospect of the drama intensifying with crucial votes ahead, one of the major ones being Italy.
Berlusconi is hanging onto power by the skin of his teeth, after defection after defection from his coalition, and he faces his own critical vote next Tuesday when he tries to ratify his latest budget proposals.
That will be interesting when it comes to it and all eyes will be on the Italian politicians. This is why the drama has only just begun, with an unwritten script that no single person could ever have dreamt up.
If the vote does go against Berlusconi then there’s no guarantee he’ll step down, judging by the way he’s managed to stay in office up to now.
As the meetings go on at the G20, the market continues to focus on what’s happening in Europe. However, today at least gives us the chance to look at something different, with the US Non Farm Payroll being released at lunchtime today.
It’s an hour earlier than normal this week due to changing clocks and the bottom line figure is expected to come in at around 100k.
This still isn’t enough to put a dent in the US unemployment rate but is job creation nonetheless.
The NFP figure has been almost as volatile as the indices spread betting markets themselves coming in at 0 one month, way below expectations and then way above expectations the next month.
So far this week we have seen a better than expected ADP employment number and yesterday’s initial jobless claims also saw an improvement, so there’s a chance that today’s figure might come out above three figures.
The unemployment rate meanwhile is expected to remain at 9.1%, a thorn in the side of President Obama.
Financial spread betting markets are sanguine this morning from a trading range point of view but in the black as investors have weathered the political unravelling of the past few days remarkably well.
The FTSE 100 is up by 10 or so points at the time of writing, around 5560 and for now that important support area around 5400 remains in tact.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 3 November 2011
The drama continues as now the Greek Prime minister is being pressured to turn his referendum into a yes or no vote on membership of the euro as opposed to just the latest bailout.
These political games are costing the Eurozone dear as once again we see the bond yields rise on Italian 10 year debt.
Financial spread betting investors are really starting to lose faith in the whole EU project and the cracks are beginning to show as Italy’s latest bond auction was not a successful one.
In addition, demand for EFSF bonds has fallen flat on its face, the lukewarm response to the EU summit plans from China and Japan are a worry and the bond yields for the danger zone states carry on higher.
Greece had its latest tranche of bailout funds taken away from it ahead of the referendum, which is expected early next month. This is cutting it fine for the country which will default then if it doesn’t get it.
The timing is becoming a real issue now as the market is becoming more and more reluctant to lend to the likes of Italy and Spain which are swiftly becoming the major issues for the Eurozone.
So it’ll be touch and go as to whether Greece defaults or not and if the worst case scenario does happen then that’s when things will really start to get ugly.
A non-voluntary default will trigger CDSs for which the black hole is impossible to know how deep it goes, particularly if this were to trigger the contagion that everyone fears so much. This could trigger a Lehman situation on a sovereign scale.
Unsurprisingly the FTSE 100 spread betting market is a little lower this morning, wiping out its gains from yesterday as investors closely watch the G20 meeting get underway.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 2 November 2011
After the selling of yesterday, the FTSE is a little higher this morning taking us back to the mid 5400 area.
At the time of writing it is bang on 5450 and this 5400 area is where the index found it so hard to break through to the upside throughout August and September.
The theory goes that past resistance becomes future support and so buyers are being attracted back, tentatively expecting 5400 to hold firm. Having said that, I suspect many will be keeping a close guaranteed stop loss below this level in case more crashing ensues.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 1 November 2011
The FTSE 100 has started the day on the back foot after some weak manufacturing data was released from China.
This hasn’t been complimented by the OECD’s gloomy outlook on growth in the Eurozone after they said they expect the odd little dip back into recession over the next year although an “official” one should be avoided.
This morning we also get the release of the first reading of Q3 GDP from the UK. Whilst we’re not expecting any negative growth, we’re not going to see any fireworks either although the figure might possibly come in better than market consensus.
All in all though it means that the UK economy is flat lining, something the coalition government will be blamed for on government cuts, which are still nowhere near as bad as everyone is hyping them up to be.
The problem of no growth is that the deficit reduction plans are not going to hit their targets and that could make bond markets think again, which up until now have given us the benefit of the doubt.
At the same time as the GDP figure, we get UK manufacturing PMI which is expected to just about remain above the 50.0 mark indicating expansion. Then later on it’s the US’s turn to paint their picture for manufacturing.
Later this evening Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will give a press conference and this will be closely watched to see just how far he’ll go in lowering his growth forecasts and increasing unemployment predictions.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 31 October 2011
The FTSE spread trading market seems to have given up the ghost on trying to record its second best monthly gain on record as the euphoria from last week’s EU summit rubs off.
European leaders and officials have been going cap in hand to Asia hoping that they will write us a blank cheque and we’ll give them a big IOU in return. However, for some reason, the likes of China and Japan seem reluctant to show their support.
Hmm, I wonder why when you see the damage that the crisis has done to confidence so far, causing the threat of a double dip recession in Europe to become more real than ever. On top of this of course, investors in Greek debt have had their investments chopped in half.
Without any details of how the EFSF will be leveraged to one trillion euros, investors have been left having to wave their fingers in the air as to how a crucial part of the plan will be achieved.
Details should be forthcoming at the end of this week at the G20 meeting on Thursday and Friday, yet another photograph opportunity, but as we’ve seen all too often before these summits are usually thin in this area.
Selling in metals has led to selling pressure on mining stocks today which saw big gains last week.
They are very much on the back foot today and it’s the defensives that are making ground.
As October comes to an end it will be remembered once more for it volatility, but this time for the tremendous gains in the indices spread betting markets.
With November and the end of 2011 around the corner, bulls who have missed out on much of this bounce so far will be asking whether it’s worth buying at these levels. This will be the case even if November and December are historically very bullish months for stock markets.
The rally has taken the daily chart back to the 200 day moving average which is where we’ve seen this halt in the buying.
If we are indeed in a bear market then often we see bounces take us to test this level before giving up and heading back down again.
Considering the speed with which we’ve seen the indices get back to these levels it’s hard to think that we could test the lows around 4800 again this year. However, markets tend to fall quicker than they rise so it can’t be ruled out.
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Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 28 October 2011
There’s been something of a buying frenzy on the indices spread betting markets in recent days.
It hasn’t been solely down to optimism in the run up to the EU summit and the continuation of that following Wednesday’s negotiations, but corporate earnings have been relatively strong on the whole.
This morning the UK 100 index is adding to the gains of recent days and is well on track to record its second best monthly gain ever.
A remarkable feat when you consider that at the beginning of October there was a feeling that we might see yet another typical mass sell off as we have so often in the past.
The first few days started very nervously as the UK 100 fell 3.5%, so if we hadn’t seen that then we’d probably be saying we’re on the verge of recoding the best monthly gain in the index’s history.
This morning the index is happily drifting higher trading at 5744 as the appetite for risk remains insatiable.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 27 October 2011
So has the European sovereign debt crisis been averted? That question will be asked again in two or three year’s time when Spain and Italy have to roll over their debts.
Vast sums of money have been lent to them to the tune of nearly €1 trillion to Italy and half that for Spain. Throw into the mix the already bailed out PIIGS and any other possible future bailouts and the leverage of the existing EFSF to €1 trillion looks a little in significant.
The announcements yesterday were nothing more than that with the only thing that was agreed being the recapitalisation of Europe’s banks to the tune of just over €100 billion. At least our own banks come away from this with a bill of clean health as they won’t need to partake.
Spread betting investors are still seeing lots of loose ends that need tying up and, even once they are, there’s still no guarantee that this will have resolved the crisis altogether.
If the heavily indebted European nations are still uncompetitive and struggling to grow in a couple of year’s time, even sooner perhaps, then they will be engulfed by their debts and we’ll be back to square one again. This time however it will probably be either Spain or Italy that will be the defaulting nations.
Growth is going to be the key to helping us get out of this mess. As we should have learnt by now, growth is not sustainable or even viable by simply borrowing more.
Growth starts with confidence so at least yesterday’s talk might create some clear blue water so we now know where we all stand, even if the finer details still need to emerge.
But that confidence seems a long way from coming to the UK’s shores.
If you were to open the papers today, all you would see is negative headline after negative headline. Claims that the European deal is a fudge and not enough, job losses across all sectors and falling output in our factories.
Now that much of the European issue is out of the way, at least for the next year or so, we the indices spread betting can markets focus on other things. That means back to the same old sluggish UK economy story, protests and yes, ‘let’s blame it on the government cuts’.
GDP numbers from the US will be closely watched today with a jump expected from 1.30% last quarter to 2.40% so at least there’s a bit of good news across the pond. We also get the weekly jobless claims and some pending home sales data which might lead to a little movement in US indices later.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 26 October 2011
This morning, the UK 100 is continuing to hold above the 5500 level despite the weakness seen on the US markets last night.
We are seeing a certain amount of selling from our spread betting clients but the jury still seems to be out ahead of the outcome of today’s summit. The big question for today is whether the summit will provide the catalyst for the next major move to the downside.
So as we await the outcome of the meeting, we can also check up on corporate earnings which remain in rather good shape on the whole.
From an economic data point of view it's another day that is dominated with US releases as we get durable goods and new home sales around lunch time London time.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 25 October 2011
We had expected to see the FTSE have a bit of profit taking this morning and, whilst the index did open slightly lower, it has been quick to bounce back to where it left off last night.
Oil majors are assisting the buyers following better than expected earnings from BG and BP and for once it would seem that investors are focusing on decent corporate news.
But of course the market isn’t really as the overriding issue remains how much of a write down private investors will accept on their Greek debts.
The losses incurred amount to billions and the resultant recapitalisation of banks required is going to make the recent bout of austerity measures announced across Europe look like a bit of a picnic in the park.
Lending will likely get frostier and frostier as investors ask “if I’m going to lend to Greece and lose over half my investment then why should I lend to Spain or Italy?”
As the battles and discussions go on behind the scenes, markets remain optimistic that the plans will be enough to prevent contagion and an EU catastrophe.
The FTSE’s two and a half month high has been attracting spread betting account holders to sell into the index as they remain doubtful of a distinct and lasting resolution.
Rather surprisingly some German consumer confidence data released today came in better than expected which is encouraging for Europe’s biggest economy.
This indicates that the European sovereign debt crisis doesn’t seem to be affecting them so much and certainly their buoyant labour market isn’t depressing German consumers like rising unemployment in the UK is.
Later on today we see US consumer confidence which could prove a bit of a market mover. Confidence is expected to rise a little but remains at low levels as the outlook for business conditions continues to struggle.
Spread Trading Stock Market Review, 24 October 2011
The markets remain hopeful that Wednesday will bring the answers to all our prayers as investors give the European politicians the benefit of the doubt.
Headlines over the coming days will be filled with little other than the discussions and for now the FTSE is content hovering around the 5500 level.
We were calling the index to open up higher around 5540 but by the time we came to commence trading some 30 points had been knocked off our call.
In the near term, the index spread trading market is struggling to get above and beyond the highs it formed exactly a week ago. Fears of a mini double top formation on the hourly chart are encouraging some of our spread betting account holders to short the index.
PMI surveys from Germany and the EU will be keenly watched today, in particular the German ones which are expected to show manufacturing and services have just dipped below the 50.0 level which suggests contraction.
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Index market news: The last day of the year is either very, very, boring or wildly variable and we would probably only need the FTSE to climb to around 5450-60 to start some...read article: Indices Spread Bets December 2009.
Indices Spread Trading December 2009, updated 18-Dec-09
Index market news: This morning sees the FTSE opening around where it closed last night. In fact it is maybe just in the black and some 30 points above the lows that...read article: Indices Spread Trading December 2009.
Indices Spread Betting December 2009, updated 04-Dec-09
Index market news: Yesterday saw our clients selling in the mid to high 5300's on the quite reasonable basis that the market had failed up there a few times already so...read article: Indices Spread Betting December 2009.
Indices Spread Trading November 2009, updated 20-Nov-09
Index market news: The Nikkei has lost some 3.5% this week and other Asian indices have been weak. The German Dax has still failed to mark new 2009 highs lagging both...read article: Indices Spread Trading November 2009.
Indices Spread Betting November 2009, updated 06-Nov-09
Index market news: This morning we are calling the FTSE at 5145 in pre-market action about 20 up on yesterday's close. As mentioned earlier the...read article: Indices Spread Betting November 2009.
Indices Spread Trading October 2009, updated 23-Oct-09
Index market news: The FTSE 100 is being called at 5250 up 40 points - where we closed the evening session yesterday. The bulls will be eyeing the...read article: Indices Spread Trading October 2009.
Indices Spread Betting October 2009, updated 09-Oct-09
Index market news: The FTSE 100 is looking to open at around 5145 still within striking distance of the 5200 resistance which is where we have been for much of the last...read article: Indices Spread Betting October 2009.
Indices Spread Trading September 2009, updated 25-Sep-09
Index market news: The FTSE 100 is sitting on the back of a few declines and on the daily chart we are nearing the 20 day moving average which is hovering around the 5000 level, so a test of...read article: Indices Spread Trading September 2009.
Indices Spread Betting September 2009, updated 11-Sep-09
Index market news: Everything is looking quite solid first thing this morning, with the FTSE exactly where it was when I was writing yesterdays comment (5020), having weathered an attempt to...read article: Indices Spread Betting September 2009.
Indices Spread Betting August 2009, updated 28-Aug-09
Index market news: Spread betting clients continue to sell anything near the top. That was initially very profitable for them in yesterday's session. Dealers will be watching for a break out and anything above 4925 in the FTSE or...read article: Indices Spread Betting August 2009.
Indices Spread Trading August 2009, updated 14-Aug-09
Index market news: Comments yesterday were written with Crude Oil, Gold, Indices and Sterling etc all probing the lows and the musings were over the possibility of support levels being broken. All a waste of time in hindsight as the markets promptly...read article: Indices Spread Trading August 2009.
Indices Spread Trading July 2009, updated 31-Jul-09
Index market news: Spread betting clients will be happy to see the lower start to the FTSE Index as they remain firmly in the bear camp and after such a good run higher to the...read article: Indices Spread Trading July 2009.
Indices Spread Betting July 2009, updated 17-Jul-09
Index market news: Now that the S+P 500 has rallied to beyond the high of its right hand shoulder, the pattern is meant to have been negated. The underlying question though is can we maintain this momentum? For all the...read article: Indices Spread Betting July 2009.
Indices Spread Bets June 2009, updated 03-Jul-09
Index market news: This morning sees our Financial Spreads clients very heavily long of all the indices and the initial move is very nice for them with a return to the...read article: Indices Spread Bets June 2009.
Indices Spread Trading June 2009, updated 19-Jun-09
Index market news: Even the Dow and S+P seem to be moribund with no appetite to sell the S+P 500 below 900 or the Dow Jones below 8400. Whilst there was a late rally...read article: Indices Spread Trading June 2009.
Indices Spread Betting June 2009, updated 05-Jun-09
Index market news: Big rallies and falls in Gold, Oil, Indices and Currencies have kept everyone on their toes, in fact the only major market that has really done nothing very much is the one most of our clients are interested in...the FTSE 100 Index. The current range...read article: Indices Spread Betting June 2009.
Indices Spread Trading May 2009, updated 22-May-09
Index market news: From a technical point of view the FTSE has formed a perfect 'double top' around the 4500 mark which sometimes indicates that we will continue lower. However the bulls may not have...read article: Indices Spread Trading May 2009.
Indices Spread Betting May 2009, updated 08-May-09
Index market news: So the FTSE is a little perky this morning and we're back around the 4450 mark. The test for the market now is whether it has the momentum to keep going and breach the 4500 level and close above it recording a new 2009 high. The recent rally has...read article: Indices Spread Betting May 2009.
Indices Spread Trading April 2009, updated 24-Apr-09
Index market news: Anyone spread betting would seldom have had such a favourable market situation and many have been taken good advantage of the constrained ranges to make money on...read article: Indices Spread Trading April 2009.
Indices Spread Betting April 2009, updated 10-Apr-09
Index market news: Relief that the supports all held yesterday has given a boost to traders this morning and buyers are continuing to fill up on stock. Early calls in the FTSE 100 were for a move...read article: Indices Spread Betting April 2009.
Indices Spread Trading March 2009, updated 27-Mar-09
Index market news: The FTSE 100 is still constrained by the 4000 level, even though we had an attempt on it late on Monday. 4000 and 4050 also has quite a bit of legacy volume resistance and failed...read article: Indices Spread Trading March 2009.
Indices Spread Betting March 2009, updated 13-Mar-09
Index market news: The DAX 30 was briefly trading underneath the FTSE 100 towards the end of...read article: Indices Spread Betting March 2009.
Indices Spread Trading February 2009, updated 27-Feb-09
Index market news: Weakness throughout the late afternoon and evening sessions weighed heavily on the markets yesterday after a bright start and the FTSE 100 is now back in...read article: Indices Spread Trading February 2009.
Indices Spread Betting February 2009, updated 13-Feb-09
Index market news: The Dow had the most impressive try for freedom breaking through the support mentioned yesterday at 7850 to get as low as 7695, down over 200, before...read article: Indices Spread Betting February 2009.
Indices Spread Bets January 2009, updated 31-Jan-09
Index market news: The market is unlikely to be exactly exciting this morning as there are virtually no corporate announcements and the treasury data releases confined to money supply numbers. It will be no surprise if...read article: Indices Spread Bets January 2009.
Indices Spread Trading January 2009, updated 16-Jan-09
Index market news: Another day another decline and 4000 is looming. Yesterday we recorded the longest losing streak since 2004 as the news flow descends into...read article: Indices Spread Trading January 2009.
Indices Spread Betting January 2009, updated 02-Jan-09
Index market news: Today traders are pushing the markets up in the usual first day rally and the FTSE is grinding its way up. The view of the charts is that...read article: Indices Spread Betting January 2009.
Indices Spread Trading December 2008, updated 19-Dec-08
Index market news: The value in world terms of the FTSE indices has taken a real battering over the last few months. We might think that the FTSE 100 has rallied 18% from...read article: Indices Spread Trading December 2008.
Indices Spread Betting December 2008, updated 05-Dec-08
Index market news: Markets continue to jump around all over the place but the total effect seems to be very little. After the close at 16.30 yesterday the FTSE futures market initially traded almost...read article: Indices Spread Betting December 2008.
Indices Spread Trading November 2008, updated 21-Nov-08
Index market news: The S+P 500 is now almost exactly 50% from the highs of October '07. For those of you who think that investment mangers are actually any good at all at their jobs it is instructive to point out that this high was reached many months after...read article: Indices Spread Trading November 2008.
Indices Spread Betting November 2008, updated 07-Nov-08
Index market news: The FTSE 100 is being called some 30 points to the good at around 4300 having traded as low as 4150 last night. It is probably inadvisable to...read article: Indices Spread Betting November 2008.
Indices Spread Trading October 2008, updated 26-Oct-08
Index market news: The bottom has well and truly been snipped out of the markets this morning and we are looking at a near 200 point fall in the FTSE on the open. The FTSE 100 is now back at the support levels mentioned yesterday...read article: Indices Spread Trading October 2008.
Indices Spread Betting October 2008, updated 10-Oct-08
Index market news: Today looks to be starting off as a complete bloodbath. The FTSE 100 is being called an astonishing 300 points lower on the open which will mean a massive 7% off yesterday?s close. The news that...read article: Indices Spread Betting October 2008.
Indices Spread Trading September 2008, updated 26-Sep-08
Index market news: The FTSE is looking to open at around 5135 and investors will be hoping that there is no follow through to attack the 5050 support. In reality we are likely to see low volumes causing volatile moves as liquidity on the Futures exchange...read article: Indices Spread Trading September 2008.
Indices Spread Betting September 2008, updated 12-Sep-08
Index market news: This morning the Miners are leading the way. They are all up around 4% to 5% and the sector remains an incredibly important supporting factor for the FTSE 100. Miners have fallen some...read article: Indices Spread Betting September 2008.
Indices Spread Trade August 2008, updated 29-Aug-08
Index market news: If the FTSE maintains these levels to close the week above 5600 then that could be seen as a good indication that higher prices are to come. However, this week's move has been on the back of low volume so investors remain...read article: Indices Spread Trade August 2008.
Indices Spread Betting August 2008, updated 15-Aug-08
Index market news: Trading ranges over the last month have been exceptional in the US spread betting markets with 250 points a day being quite normal for the Dow. The trend since mid July has...read article: Indices Spread Betting August 2008.
Indices Spread Trading July 2008, updated 01-Aug-08
Index market news: The FTSE is opening 50 points lower after the late action in the US (again) and our...read article: Indices Spread Trading July 2008.
Indices Spread Betting July 2008, updated 18-Jul-08
Index market news: The FTSE is looking to open around 50 points to the good this morning some 140 points off the lows at Midday yesterday but this still only leaves us at around the closing price of Tuesday and well below...read article: Indices Spread Betting July 2008.
Indices Financial Spread Bet July 2008, updated 04-Jul-08
Indices market news: The danger of jumping in now of course is that it could well be a little too early. The temptation must be great considering the market the FTSE has fallen some 900 points (14%) in the last 6 weeks, the old adage...read article: Indices Financial Spread Bet July 2008.
Indices Financial Spread Trading June 2008, updated 20-Jun-08
Indices market news: Precious little reason to get involved on the buy side these days has left the FTSE 500 points off from the highs of last month. But with the foreign legions of mining and oil still propping us up to a certain extent there have been moments of light. Unfortunately for...read article: Indices Financial Spread Trading June 2008.
Indices Financial Spread Betting June 2008, updated 06-Jun-08
Indices market news: With a new scent of confidence around even a poor number may be taken in the markets stride. In the meantime we do not expect much activity in the morning session after the opening levels are secured. The call on the FTSE 100 is for a rally to around 6025, 30 points higher than the close yesterday. The support at 5950 remains...read article: Indices Financial Spread Betting June 2008.
Indices Spread Bet May 2008, updated 23-May-08
Indices market news: The FTSE 100 is struggling to maintain current levels as more sellers coming into the game over the past few days. The squeeze up to 6390 of last week now seems a distant memory but of course dealers are generally hopeful of...read article: Indices Spread Bet May 2008.
Indices Trading May 2008, updated 09-May-08
Indices market news: Indices are a tad weaker after the US indulged in one of its late night sell offs with the Dow Jones dropping 200 points from its highs and the S&P giving up on the 1400 level for now. The FTSE is called to come in 30 points lower at around...read article: Indices Trading May 2008.
Indices Trading April 2008, updated 25-Apr-08
Indices market news: The trading range of the FTSE almost exactly matched the previous days efforts with the ultimate result also almost identical. The markets continue to wrestle with the 5970 to 6100 range and my comment about many traders waiting for one or the other to be defeated still remains in place. Yesterdays action was an absolute boon to FinancialSpreads.com clients who as mentioned in yesterdays comment have been heavy sellers at anything above...read article: Indices Trading April 2008.
Indices Spread Bets April 2008, updated 11-Apr-08
Indices markets: Despite slightly negative taint to todays report, the FTSE 100 this morning has opened much better than expected causing a Gap higher on the open. Yesterdays reversal from the lows at around 3pm yesterday was so sharp and took many Financial Spreads clients by surprise that it could be a signal that...read article: Indices Spread Bets April 2008.
Indices March Spread Trading, updated 28-Mar-08
Indices markets: The FTSE 100 is likely to open almost unchanged at around the 5710 level having looked weaker overnight in the US late trading session but deciding, on reflection, to hold onto the gains of yesterday. As mentioned in yesterdays comment there is a small sense of confidence brewing with our Capital Spreads clients, not huge, but enough to be noticeable on our books. The next...read article: Indices March Spread Trading.
Real-time Indices Prices and Charts, updated 15-Feb-08
Indices pricing information: The FTSE rather disappointed yesterday after a very late sell off took us from 30 or so up on the day into negative territory. Today we are looking to come in just slightly to the downside at around the 5875 level. There is hope that...read article: Real-time Indices Prices and Charts.
UK Indices Spread Trading, updated 01-Feb-08
UK Indices Spread Trading: The FTSE 100 Spread is called 30 up this morning at 5910-5911 which is just below a bit of a resistance level at 5920. For all of the bad news around it is wise to remember that...read article: UK Indices Spread Trading.
Indices January Spread Betting, updated 18-Jan-08
Last night, with the Dow closing over 300 points lower, the call was for the FTSE to open this morning at around 5820 (another 80 points off Thursday's close). Cue this morning and Far East dealers have obviously decided...read article: Indices January Spread Betting.
Indices Trading Online, updated 21-Dec-07
Find out where you can Trade Indices Online for free plus your Indices trading questions answered, tips on getting free Indices charts, real time prices and...read article: Indices Trading Online.
Indices Futures Trading, updated 07-Dec-07
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Indices Broker, updated 23-Nov-07
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Indices Platform, updated 09-Nov-07
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Indices Software, updated 26-Oct-07
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Indices Prices, updated 04-Feb-08
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