Trading Tools, Techniques and Technologies
Some people know their spread betting platform inside out. They know what every button does, but they still lose money because they don’t have a good trading strategy. They know how to use the trading...
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The Google Finance “Portfolio” Stop-Out List
My idea of a Stop-Out List that shows me my last selling price of each stock (so that I never buy back more expensively) has served me well, and my implementation of it as a Google Docs spreadsheet...
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More about the Google Finance Portfolio
You already know that I ditched my Google Docs spreadsheet implementation of my Stop-Out List in favour of one based on the Google Finance “Portfolio Feature”. The more I use the new implementation,...
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A Long Term Investment is a Short Term Trade Gone Good!
Have you heard the phrase: “A long-term investment is a short-term trade gone wrong!”? It refers to many people’s natural tendency to hold on to an initially poorly performing trade in the hope that it...
View ArticleTrade Exits: What’s Your Way Out?
If you’ve ever watched the popular UK TV show ‘Dragons Den’, or one of its international equivalents, you will know that the dragons — just like venture capitalists — don’t invest unless they have a...
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The Life of a Trade
In a previous article titled Trade Exits: What’s Your Way Out? I suggested that many retail investors and spread bettors think only about their entries — i.e. which instruments to bet on, and when —...
View ArticleRolling Daily Bets and Panic Selling
Robbie Burns, aka The Naked Trader offers some words of wisdom this month… There are many advantages to spreadbetting, but one of the best ones must remain bagging a quick profit with hardly any costs...
View ArticleSuccessfully Shorting Stocks
In this feature we cover Evil Knievil’s – perhaps the UK’s most prominent bear raider – piece on what to look for when shorting stocks, and the pitfalls that you should look to avoid when trading...
View ArticleRobbie Burns’ Top 10 Tips
for surviving the markets The editor of this magazine emails me to give me a deadline for this month’s issue but adds whether I could write something a bit different this time. Obviously I began to...
View ArticleRobbie Burns’ aka The Naked Trader – September Diary
So, the best law in trading worked in August. Yes you guessed it – Sod’s law. Last August was horrible so this one was bound to be good, right? This month I’d like to talk about averaging up. Okay with...
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