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  • Why it is difficult to make money by day trading

    Why it is difficult to make money by day trading

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    When a trader starts trading for the first time they assume it’s pretty easy to make money just by looking at a price chart. Day trading typically focuses all attention on the big moves and try to trade but without making profits they fail in the trades. Let’s give you a simple example to illustrate…

  • Spread Betting with Malcolm Pryor

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    Malcolm Pryor is an esteemed figure in the world of financial spread betting. He gave up his day job in 2002 to trade full-time, and has subsequently held seminars, created DVDs, performed consultancy work, manages a website, and wrote The Financial Spread Betting Handbook. Reading his tome is often undertaken by people who have just…

  • Day Trading: Risk Averse need not Apply

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    Traders are often lured to into the futures markets with a fascination for day trading. The thought of trading leveraged contracts without overnight risk is appealing to many, but underestimated by most. As a retail broker I have had the pleasure, and the pain, of watching day traders attempt to profit through strategies ranging from…