Hi everyone, today I’m going to cover what I believe to be 10 of the most important rules to follow when you spread trade (I’m calling them my “10 Golden Rules of Spread Trading” because it sounds good!). I know there are loads of similar articles, etc out there containing similar lists of rules but [...]
23 March 2010
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 [...]
17 March 2010
Hi everyone, I haven’t done a “Chart of the Week” post for some time now so decided I’d take a look at one this week. And seeing as it’s Paddy’s Day I thought who better to pick for a “Chart of the Week” post other than another Irish Paddy, leading bookmaker Paddy Power. Paddy’s a True Irish [...]
22 February 2010
Hi everyone, Since it’s launch amid much fanfare by Steve Jobs and co a couple of weeks ago the Apple iPad has received plenty of media coverage. Hailed as the latest game-changer from the company who brought us the iPod and then the iPhone prior to the launch, the coverage post-launch has ranged from positive to [...]
15 February 2010
Hi Everyone, Work travel has set me back a bit in getting the final part of the Review of 2009 up on the blog but at last here it is. As a friend of mine said to me the other day, if I don’t get the final part up soon it will be time for the [...]
18 January 2010
Hi Everyone, Following on from Part 1 of our review of the 2009 trading year lets kick straight on with Part 2 which covers May to August. May – Change at the top for the Indo, US Bank Stress Test Results Announced, Intel Fined €1 billion May saw the retirement of Sir Anthony O’Reilly as CEO of Independent [...]
10 January 2010
Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a nice Christmas and wish you all the best in your trading for 2010. As we start into a new trading year I thought I’d start 2010 with a post taking a look back at they year that was and look at what for me were [...]
24 December 2009
Hi everyone, As the markets wind down for the Christmas break I thought I’d take a quick look at how the DOW to see how it has been getting on over the last few weeks. If we take a look at the chart below it’s clear that it has settled into a very narrow trading range [...]
26 November 2009
Hi everyone, For this weeks Chart of the Week I thought I’d take a look at one of the world’s best known companies, the company whose search engine most of use at least once a day, Google. Since its beginning as a Stanford research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 Google has gone [...]
04 November 2009
Hi everyone, Hope trading has been going well for you all over the last month or so. Haven’t had a chance to do a new post for a while as I’ve been very busy travelling for most of the last 6 weeks, mostly work but some holiday time thrown in aswell so not all bad! So [...]
08 September 2009
Hi everyone, Instead of looking at stocks this time round a bit of change of tack and a look at Natural Gas instead. This is the first time I’ve covered Nat Gas but have found the recent price action very interesting so thought I’d share a few thoughts on it and take a look at whether [...]
