Spread Trading Guide to Speculating on the USD/JPY Market

Where to Spread Bet on USD/JPY You can trade on spread betting markets such as USD/JPY with spread betting companies like: CapitalSpreads CityIndex GFT To see which companies offer 24 hour trading, new account offers, stop losses and trading charts see Spread Betting Companies. How to Spread Bet on USD/JPY If you [...]

Financial Spread Betting Guide to Trading the Irish Stock Market Index

Where to Spread Bet on the Irish Stock Market Index You can trade on spread betting markets such as the Irish Stock Market Index with spread betting companies like: IGIndex CMC Markets GFT To see which companies offer 24 hour trading, new account offers, stop losses and trading charts see Spread Betting Companies. [...]

Forex Spread Betting: Dollar Could Still Rally Following Recent Weakness

A drop in 10 year US treasury yields on speculation about the size of QE saw the US dollar fall back yesterday, eradicating some of the gains of the past couple of days, despite the problems emanating from the periphery in the Eurozone in Portugal and Greece, and to a lesser extent Ireland. However the [...]

FX Spread Betting: Yen Rallies Versus a Basket of Currencies Following Negative Data

In the Markets Today: Weak Japanese output data and worse than expected German retail sales have put a cloud over proceedings in the financial spread betting markets this morning. Ironically, the poor Japanese data has only served to increase demand in the yen as investors seek out safe havens. This strength is reflected across the [...]

FX Spread Betting: Is the Pound Set to Fall?

In the Markets Today: Overall, it’s been a positive morning with most dollar FX pairs rebounding after yesterday’s losses. European stock markets such as the FTSE 100 have also started the day in the black after last night’s late rally in US markets. The EUR/USD is up 0.45% and the AUD/USD is +0.35%. The biggest [...]

Forex Spread Betting: QE Speculation sees Dollar Continue to Rally

The forex spread betting markets saw the US Dollar continue its recent push higher over the last 24 hours. This was driven by a number of factors, not least uncertainty about the level of stimulus that may be undertaken next week by the Federal Reserve in light of some improvement in the latest batch of [...]

FX Spread Betting: Dollar Rallies on Speculation that QE will be Smaller than First Thought

In the Markets Today: This morning, the FX spread betting markets are reacting to speculation that the US Federal reserve won’t be buying bonds as aggressively as previously thought within its quantitative easing plan. This has caused the US dollar rally to gain momentum, especially when measured against the Australian dollar. The Australian dollar is [...]

Forex Spread Betting: Pound Rallies Following Better than Expected GDP Data

The forex spread betting markets saw the pound receive a significant boost as it posted its biggest one day gain against a basket of currencies in 3 months, following yesterday’s surprise rise in UK Q3 GDP to 0.8%. Sentiment was also helped by a ratings upgrade from Standard and Poors to a ‘stable’ outlook bringing [...]

FX Spread Betting: Will GDP Data See a Pound Reversal?

In The Markets Today: This morning the strongest currency in the FX markets is the British pound, especially against the Japanese yen. The trend channel on the 1 hour chart is still in force. The USD/JPY is up 0.5% as the dollar gains and yen weakens, something that hasn’t happened for more than a couple [...]

Spread Betting: Dow Jones Rallies as Gold Struggles

With last week’s price action closing both positive and higher this now suggests an ABCD formation in the making. This could take the indices much higher than current levels. At the same time Gold prices fell at the key resistance level taking the metal lower with a break of a Parabolic curve after a +19.74% [...]