Today we are going to discuss spread betting strategies that can be used ahead of a major news item. Later today the second quarter US GDP numbers come out and we get asked frequently about which spread betting strategies we use ahead of such major news announcements.
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During the past week we saw weakness in the stock markets followed by renewed strength in to Friday’s close. The S&P 500 closed right on a key level and the coming week promises to be an interesting one.
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Read More...Today we have another post of spread trading strategies for the coming week, with our focus again on the S&P 500 and Gold. Gold seems to be the ever-popular market and the S&P 500 is the real stock market, so is as good a place as any for our attention.
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Read More...Recently we have been discussing various spread trading strategies for stocks and commodities and the 2 markets that we have been focusing on are gold and the S&P 500.
Let’s begin today with gold. In our last post on gold we wrote that we were looking for a move back up above short term resistance at $1215. We had written that there had been a bull harami pattern on the weekly charts and that this pointed to higher prices in the short term and a test of $1215 resistance early in the week. We got that test yesterday and the market moved up to $1218.8 (August contract) at one stage in the day but was unable to close above $1215.
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Last week was a relatively light volume week for the stock markets as expected due to the holiday in the US. This week will likely see a return by traders to their trading desks and should lead to a considerable increase in volume. The week ahead is likely to give us a better idea of short term action for the stock markets than we got from last week in spite of the impressive rally.
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Read More...Continuing our series of posts on spread trading strategies, today’s post is on strategies for the week ahead with the focus on the S&P 500 and also gold as these are 2 markets that have been important of late.
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Read More...Continuing our series of posts on spread trading strategies and stocks, today we focus again on the S&P 500, which has continued to rally higher from support at 1003.1, making a counter trend move.
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Read More...There are many spread trading strategies that can be used for spread trading stocks and commodities such as the S&P 500 and gold and we have been looking at both of these markets in a fair amount of depth over the past few weeks on this blog.
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Read More...This week’s LS Trader financial spread betting update is now available and can be read by clicking here.
This Monday may be a relatively quiet trading day as the markets are closed in the US for the Independence Day holiday so we can expect another light volume trading day. One of the advantages of UK spread betting is that we can still place trades on days like today, albeit that there may not be much in the way of activity.
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