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Spread betting strategies for trading the news

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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Spread Betting Strategies | Bearish Patterns

Today we are looking at bearish price patterns and spread betting strategies. We will base this primarily on the S&P 500 as that is the primary stock index that we focus on. The reason we do this is that the S&P 500 is the real stock market and the other indexes tend to take their cues from the S&P 500.

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Spread Betting Strategies For Gold

In our last post of spread betting strategies for Gold, posted Friday morning, we wrote that Gold was in a trading range between $1200 and $1175. Later on that day Gold actually pierced $1200 resistance intra day but was unable to stay above that level and proceeded lower.

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Financial Spread Betting Weekly Update

This week’s LS Trader financial spread betting update is now available and can be read by clicking here.

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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Spread betting strategies

Today we are continuing our focus on gold and the S&P 500 and looking at spread betting strategies that can be applied to these markets.

In our last post 2 days ago on gold we wrote that the market was continuing to reject the lows and that if the market was going to move lower in the short term that the breach of support at $1185 should have had more follow through to the downside than it did. We noted that the lower shadows on the candle patterns seen on Monday and Tuesday were indicative of the lows being rejected due to buyers coming in and that the piercing pattern on Tuesday was pointing to higher prices.

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LS Trader spread trading weekly update

This week’s LS Trader financial spread trading update is now available and can be read by clicking here.

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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Spread trading strategies for the S&P 500

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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Spread trading strategies for stocks and commodities

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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Spread betting stocks – Change of long term trend for stock indexes

Spread betting stocks and stock indexes update following Friday’s close ahead of the long holiday weekend in the US for Independence Day.

We wrote on Thursday that the next couple of days were of potentially major significance for the stock markets and in particular the S&P 500, which earlier this week finally broke through long term support.

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Spread betting stocks – Stock market update

Following on from yesterday’s post on spread betting stocks, we have an update on the stock markets. In yesterday’s post we wrote that yesterday would be a very important day for the stock markets and it was, but today and tomorrow are now possibly even more important.

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