Phil Seaton’s 7 Rules of Successful Financial Spread Betting

Here is part 6 of my rules of successful financial spread betting

6.   Ignore the news & fundamentals

Fundamental analysis is for the most part useless and very few traders can make money using this approach. Even if you could it would take you an inordinate amount of time studying reports, balance sheets, crop reports etc. This is not the way to trade. The same goes for following the news because usually the market has already discounted the news in the price. Many times you will hear very bullish news on a stock and then see it fall over the coming days.

It is also difficult to know what reports/news are actually true, and even if you know what is true how can you be sure that your interpretation of the news is correct? What about timing? Even if you have good reliable knowledge and a true interpretation of the news, how do you know when to act on it?

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