Hi everyone,

It’s gone by much quicker than I thought but believe it or not SpreadTrader.ie is one year old today!  When I started the site I didn’t know how long it would last, how often I would post or what shape those posts would take, but so far so good, the first milestone of 1 year on the go has been reached. It’s been an interesting year for me, combining the day job with my trading, research and writing blog posts certainly has been tough at times but definitely an enjoyable and worthwhile experience, from my perspective at least. The incentive of continuing to post new and (hopefully!) interesting topics has forced me to read-up and research new stocks, trading techniques, websites and books and so much more which can only be a good thing as I try to improve my own trading performance. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog posts as much as I have enjoyed writing them.

Some Stats From SpreadTrader’s First Year On The Web

For those interested I picked out a few stats from my first year on the web, courtesy of Google Analytics:

• The most popular blog post over the last year was A Look At Bollinger Bands. Other popular posts included The 10 Golden Rules of Spread Trading, the Ryanair Chart of the Week post and Natural Gas - How Low Can It Go.
• Visitors spend an average of 4 minutes on the site.
• As you’d expect Ireland accounts for the vast majority of all visitors with 54% followed by the US (13%), the UK (9%) and Australia (7%).
• All in all SpreadTrader has had visitors from 99 different countries!
• Most visitors either come from Google (40%) or directly (34%) or from Askaboutmoney.com which accounts for an impressive 7% of all visitors. Thanks to those who have given SpreadTrader.ie a mention on Askaboutmoney, much appreciated.

So what for the next 12 months?

Well initially I plan on continuing on with more of the same, posting as often as I can about everything from stocks, commodities and currencies I’m following, current news that’s impacting the markets and different approaches to trading and technical analysis. Based on feedback from several regular readers I am planning to move towards shorter, more regular posts which will hopefully be easier/quicker for me to write therefore allowing me to post more often. I also have some plans to give an overhaul to some of the static sections of the website to provide some additional information and resources.

As always if there is anything in particular you’d like to see covered on the site or as part of a blog post just drop me an email at info@spreadtrader.ie or use the Comments box below. Also for those not aware you can subscribe to the RSS feed of new posts by clicking on the Subscribe tab on the red box on the right (a few people have mentioned they didn’t know it was there, I should probably make it a bit more prominent at some stage). Right I’m off to get some birthday cake!

Until next time,
Happy Trading!
SpreadTrader.ie : -)