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Archive for August, 2010


Financial spread betting update for 30th August 2010

This week’s financial spread betting update is now available and can be read by clicking here. There is a raft of economic data coming out this week so we may see some decent moves in the markets. In the US, the latest unemployment figures are due to be released on Friday and that will likely [...]

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Spread betting strategies update for gold and the S&P 500

There’s been a fair amount of activity in the markets since our last post of spread betting strategies for stocks and commodities. Today we’re going to have a look at both gold and the S&P 500 as interesting things have been happening in both markets. In our last post of spread betting strategies we referred [...]

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Trend following systems and Stanley Druckenmiller

Last week legendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller announced his retirement from the investment world and stated that he was going to close down his Duquesne hedge fund. Druckenmiller was part of the team (along with George Soros) that broke the Bank of England in 1992 when they bet that the British Pound would fall [...]

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Financial spread betting update for the 23rd August 2010

This week’s financial spread betting update is now available and can be read by clicking here. This week we continue our focus on spread betting strategies for gold and the S&P 500 as well as looking at other markets of interest. Last week we wrote that both gold and the S&P 500 could be setting [...]

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Spread betting strategies and the 200 day moving average

Today we are going to focus on some spread betting strategies using the 200 day moving average  and we will use the S&P 500 for our example. The first thing to do on any market is to determine the direction of the long term trend for the market that you are looking to trade. Once [...]

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