The British Love to bet… We always have and most likely always will. We bet on sports. We bet on games. We even bet on television and on superstars. We can’t seem to help ourselves – perhaps it is in our blood. Whatever the reason we can’t get enough, it is evident that we are ...…
You should be able to find several indispensable facts about financial spread betting in the following paragraphs. If there’s at least one fact you didn’t know before, imagine the difference it might make. There was a time when financial spread betting was just a way to “punt” on the financial markets, purely a gambling product ...…
THE persistent refusal of Chancellor Gordon Brown to make any commitment to reform Stamp Duty Reserve Tax on share transactions – at 0.5 per cent the highest in Europe – has played a large part in the remarkable growth in popularity of Contracts for Difference (CFDs) and spread betting. Since, unlike conventional instruments, CFDs and ...…
As a mathematical physicist and an actual arbitrageur (as opposed to armchair arbitrageur), I have a broader view of the arbitrage concept than many people. The original concept of arbitrage, its purest form, is simultaneous long buying and short selling of similar objects with no risk. For example, simultaneously, buy U.S. dollars with Euros, in ...…
Balanced investment strategy is perhaps the most followed and successful investment strategy for portfolio management. Its primary aim is to keep a balance between investment risk and return. A balanced investment strategy combines the merit of aggressive and defensive investing strategies. Aggressive investment strategy involves investing in high return high risk investments with the sole ...…