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Now fully revised and updated, The Beginner's Guide to Financial Spread Betting provides an essential grounding in the basic principles of spread betting. Spread betting was once the domain of institutional investors, city traders and high rollers. Not anymore. You would now be hard-pressed to find any other form of trading that allows such a scale of return and has such wide appeal. The popularity of spread betting has increased massively over the last few years, with thousands of new traders entering the market every month. And, whilst the basic principles of spread betting are simple, there is jargon to overcome and some important lessons to be learnt if the novice trader is going to make the most of the opportunities available. However, these huge opportunities do carry some risk and this book describes how it is vital that traders manage those risks and understand how to minimise them wherever possible. Aimed squarely at beginners, the book is designed to be accessible to readers with perhaps only a basic grasp of investing. It starts with an explanation of what spread betting is, moves in to cover th mechanics of a trader, then explains the bid-offer spread and margin trading. It then discusses the tools available to traders and looks at some of the key spread betting strategies before taking a brief look at trading psychology and some real-life case studies. The appendices and glossary at the back then serve as your quick and handy 'cheat notes' when you start trading. By the time you finish reading this book, you should know how to place a spread bet, the rules of the game and how to trade successfully so that you too can, with a little time and effort, start to make serious money from the markets.
About the Author
Michelle Baltazar is an award-winning finance journalist with more than five years of experience in the media sector. Up until 2003, she was a finance journalist for London-based weekly investment magazine Shares where she wrote a weekly column on derivatives and separately, on fund managers and their investment tactics.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains nothing that isn't already available in a brochure from any spread betting firm. After I had read it I felt that the author's money making strategy for spread betting is to write books on the subject.She got my money but more importantly my time. There is nothing in this book just a couple of stories. It is a cynical effort - don't be fooled.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As well as the comments from other customers, e.g. very little content, short, superficial, I would add that although this is the second edition, there are a number of glaring errors - e.g. the Glossary states that 'Long (is) a position taken in anticipation of a falling market' - which is the complete opposite of the truth! It is totally unacceptable that errors like this have escaped correction in a second edition. Also, the diagrams are very poor and impossible to understand, mainly because screen shots have been printed white-on-black (rather than black-on-white) on relatively poor quality paper, resulting in some lines and information becoming obliterated in the general black morass. Don't waste time or money buying this book.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book very simplistic and I have only been spread betting for 3 weeks.This is for the complete novice spread better BEFORE he or she embarks upon it.It lacks depth and will leave most investors who have dabbled with shares disappointed as its not meaty enough on any topic.
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It is what it is!
This book is called a beginner's guide financial spread betting and that's what it is. It had enough detail for you to gain a general understanding of the process without being too... Read more
Published 8 months ago by MJONES
Clear and concise
A clear and concise introduction to Spread Betting for beginners.
A must have for those considering trading in Financial Spreads
A must have for those considering trading in Financial Spreads
Published 9 months ago by F. Gonzalez-Lacoste
not for beginners either!
There seems to be thread amongst other reviewers excusing the weaknesses of this book in that it's OK for beginners. Well, I'm definitely one and it's NOT! Read more
Published 15 months ago by sopalto4
the Beginner's Guide to Financial Spread Betting
Very useful, easy to read and explained the basics in a clear concise way. I especially liked the sample phone dialogues which demystified the whole 'buy'/'sell' scenario and what... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. C. Field
For beginners ONLY!
This book is a rather good introduction to spread betting, although many of the techniques that are superficially mentioned are now superseded and almost out of date (golden... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2009 by The Book Warm
good to start with
this book was my first purchase regarding spreadbetting and helped me to understand the basics and keywords etc. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2009 by Karl Laeufer
Good BUT not that good!
As the author of the Mr Spread Betting manual & CD, and a "REAL" full-time spread better! I feel its my right to post a review of this book! Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2008 by David Robertson
Excellent introduction for beginners
Its brilliant for beginners but a little bit more depth could have been more useful, the book is not terribly long and slighlty overpriced for what it is, however if you are a... Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2008 by Lesson101
Good Introduction for the total beginner
Good Introduction for the total beginner. I have just read this in less than a day, and am building on that by reading Malcolm Pryor's book. A good combination.
Published on 20 Jun 2008 by Phil L.
Recommended read for those considering trading
You'll be able to finish reading this book within an hour or two. By the end of it you'll come away with either a) this is not for me or b) let's check out other books and... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2007 by The Guru
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