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Ways in Playing The Market With Gold and Silver Today

Even when the global market is generally depressed, there are still some opportunities that many investors can explore in order to earn profits. One of the fields that can be the focus of many investors is the market for metals like gold, silver and platinum. The trading of these metals [...]

Finding Opportunities Amidst Uncertainties

The great challenge for all the investors today who are engaged in spread betting, contracts for difference trading and even FTSE is to find and maximize opportunities where they can earn profits amidst the roller-coaster ride of different markets in these times. For example, there have been so many investors [...]

The Usefulness of the VIX in Spread Betting and CFD Trading

The VIX is the stock symbol that is being used in order to refer to the Volatility Index of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market. This is one of the most popular measures that specifically imply the volatility of the instrument S&P500 index options. In most cases, this is also [...]

The Changes in Spread Betting Through Time

It was in 1974 when spread betting has begun. The primary purpose why this was set up was in order to avoid the strict controls on prices in United Kingdom that time. During that time, the government declares speculation on gold as illegal. Consequently, retail investors got the idea to [...]

The Role of Capital Expenditure to the Economy

David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has been intensely stressing out the thrust of the coalition government for infrastructure spending. PM Cameron is not a vocal supporter of the famous economist Keynes. Nevertheless, the whole idea of this proposition is not a new thing and it can [...]

Regulatory Rules Protect the Interest of Investors in Spread Betting

Spread betting over the last decade has been on a constant rise and the number of investors whom are spread betting is very encouraging, especially given the fact that spread betting has been a victim of unsubstantiated misconceptions and perceptions. Now many providers in spread betting are bound by common [...]

Spread betters should approach their accounts just like those of other investments

Spread betting as a financial investment is characterized by market diversity and in fact is one of the factors that have contributed to its growth in the last decade.  With different attributes spread betting has sometimes been classified as a different neighbourhood of financial investment and whilst there are quite [...]

Best Advice To Selecting Better Bets

The growth and demand of financial spread betting has been remarkably vast and in fact recently one of the leading global foreign exchange brokers announced a new plan which would extend to spread betters worldwide, a fact which unquestionably supports this remarkable demand.  Whilst there are many things the investor [...]

City Index is to offer ‘Market Analysis’ Spread Betting Video

Independent Investor as a leading provider of investment education of private investors in the UK is pleased to pronounce to its clients that City Index, the innovative worldwide Financial Spread Betting and CFDs trading is to supply 'Market Analysis' videos to assist potential investors pin down market volatility that [...]

City Index Awarded Mobile Trading Platforms

Independent Investor is delighted to announce to its customers that the universal leader in Financial Spread Betting, CFDs trading and margined foreign exchange City Index has been granted two awards at the 2011 MoneyAM Online Finance Awards. City Index won Best Online Spread Betting Service and Best Mobile Trading Platform, [...]

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