The Australian contract for difference and exchange-traded fund markets continued in its expansion this year as more and more investors are searching for much greater or at least more predictable returns that can be created by traditional equities. Investors have been seemingly ensnared to these two very distinct products since [...]
Investments in financial markets can garner hefty rewards. However, traders simply cannot always access the capital needed to get substantial returns. Leveraged products provide investors the opportunity to get significant market exposure with a small initial deposit. Popular in the United Kingdom, contract for difference (CFD) and spread betting [...]
What is market timing? The most sought after advice in the book is to purchase and sell high and market timing is an attempt to do the same old thing once more which is to sell when the market is high and buy when it is low. Obviously, it is [...]
Nasdaq is pressing forward with its long-touted intentions to clear some of the foreign exchange instruments in Europe as local regulators are now being finalised with regards to mandatory rules for trading off-exchange derivatives. The United States-Nordic Group has lodge an application in the past weeks with the European regulators [...]
ICAP founder Michael Spencer has sold his spread betting firm City Index for $118 million. The buyer was Bedminster, NJ based GAIN Capital, a U.S. firm that will now be servicing over 230,000 customers with the addition of their newest acquisition. The combined trade volume of GAIN’s transaction will now [...]
Spread betting is an option to conventional investing in which the goal is to profit from movements in the value of financial product. The rewards and the risks are much more higher than traditional trading. Spread betting came a long way over the past two decades, wherein it is [...]
Spread betting companies are now providing exposure to financial markets that are often asked with a very straightforward question, "why should investors utilise them in order to derive exposure instead of investing in the markets directly"? There are several number of answers to this query, which if collated explains why [...]
Following a five-year bull market, investors are apprehensive that a large drop is imminent around the corner. Market swings are basically are among the top things in the mind of people who can't seem to relax following the 2008-2009 stock market crisis. Investors are weary that another event in the [...]
With crude oil prices being traded at two-year lows despite the latest rush in Middle East upheaval, investors might be absolved for wondering what happened to peak oil. The reality is that despite the major sums that have been invested in another optional energy with the supply of oil from [...]
Income drawdown is regarded as the primary option in purchasing an annuity for retirement. It commences upon drawing variable income directly from the pension fund, which remains invested at the option of policy holder. Basically, the member stays in control of the pension fund and this for many is what [...]
