UK Jul/Aug 2011

Welcome to YourTradingEdge Magazine United Kingdom (YTE UK) edition.

YTE UK is a bi-monthly magazine for traders and active investors in spread betting, CFDs, stocks, options, futures, forex and commodities. Each issue contains timeless educational information on trading strategies and techniques for beginner, intermediate and advanced traders. YTE UK is not a tipster magazine: it is, rather, the only magazine you will need to educate yourself about trading the financial markets for profit, wealth and financial freedom.
YourTradingEdge has been the definitive magazine for traders and active investors in Australia since 1997 and now YTE UK is here, covering European, US and global markets. YTE UK takes account of both technical and fundamental analysis and is your one-stop-shop for trading education.
The Jul/Aug 2011 issue of YTE UK includes discussion of contracts for difference versus futures so you can assess which will best suit your trading style, we make an in-depth examination of spread betting and introduce a fellow trader through a fascinating interview with private fundamental trader Richard Crow. Steve Griffiths provides an insight into position sizing and how it can be used to increase profits.
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Until next issue. Happy reading and profitable trading.

Chelsea Reid
Editor in Chief – YTE UK

Feature Articles

Position Sizing The professionals’ way to increased profits: Steve Griffiths provides an insight. To approach trading successfully, you must have a system that creates large profits and keeps the inevitable losses small. This is commonsense – to make money over...Read More >>

Spread Betting David Jones, on how traders can harness the power of leverage.Financial spread betting – an overviewFinancial spread betting dates back almost 40 years. It has evolved from a niche tool targeting those who worked...Read More >>

Mark Minervini Meet one of Wall Street’s most remarkable success stories – YTE’s Ben Power speaks with market wizard, Mark Minervini. A former musician, Minervini began trading stocks in 1983 and faced a number of years of losses. But...Read More >>

Uranium: Where to next? The matriarch of technical analysis, Dawn Bolton-Smith, drills down into the history of this volatile market. Boom and bustUranium has been a boom and bust story for Australian investors. Investors made both big gains and huge...Read More >>

Articles

The Rub - Jul/Aug 2011 UK Clem Chambers: A golden era of volatility for traders. Sometimes the future is clear and yet for some strange reason events don’t happen with the speed you expect. Prediction can be like the engraving on a rear-view mirror: “Objects...Read More >> Trading Tax Q&A - Jul/Aug 2011 UK Resident tax expert Lee Hadnum answers readers’ most pressing trading tax questions. Q: I have been spread betting for a number of years. If I wish to trade in larger amounts/take larger positions, should I change my tax...Read More >>

Commodities Corner - Jul/Aug 2011 UK Market expert Ben Mountifield explores commodities markets: Silver’s wild ride – volatility presents opportunity. Wild rideSilver investors have been on a wild ride in recent weeks. Between 28 March and 28 April 2011, silver rose by more...Read More >> Spread Betting Corner Jul/Aug 2011 UK Why consider using spread betting to trade the financial markets? Angus Campbell explores the opportunities for traders. Isn’t financial spread betting gambling?This is a question I am asked regularly by people who come to our seminars and...Read More >>

Currency Corner - Jul/Aug 2011 UK Michael Boutros and David Rodríguez provide analysis of the currency market: US Dollar likely to set important bottom. The USD’s rally in May came largely at the expense of equities. Equities underwent steep declines as a rebalancing...Read More >> Market Snapshot - Jul/Aug 2011 UK Sandy Jadeja explores upcoming trading opportunities. Traders aim to profit from three basic market environments: a trend, a consolidation or a trend reversal.As simple as this sounds, many people who attempt to trade the markets will find themselves...Read More >>

Trading Life - Hemal Pandya FX trader Hemal Pandya shares his trading life.Becoming a forex trader was never my intention when I started to think seriously about my career. My childhood ambition was to join the police service. Reluctantly, I decided to...Read More >> Traders Story - Richard Crow Richard Crow classifies himself as an 'investor/trader' using primarily fundamental analysis to trade the FTSE100 mid cap, small cap, micro cap, and AIM.Richard admits that trading has caused him plenty of headaches and sleepless nights on the road...Read More >>

Predictions I believe the past is teacher of the future. Studying chart patterns and past cycles helps you navigate current markets, particularly in gold and silver, which once again made parabolic runs similar to those of 1980. It could be said...Read More >> Letters to toni - Jul/Aug 2011 Q: I follow the markets every day. In addition to trading stocks, I’d like to start trading the indices. Should I open a futures account, or just trade the ETFs? A: This is a tricky question to answer. Both...Read More >>

Options Corner - Jul/Aug 2011 Our resident options experts, James Cordier and Michael Gross, answer readers’ questions. Q: Commodities have shown some volatile price movements over the past several months. Can you suggest any strategies for selling options in these conditions?...Read More >> A Kick Where You Need it the Most Louise Bedford gets your moving in the right direction.We can cheat on our dreams, just a little each day, and no one will notice. An extra coffee with a friend, another sitcom from the comfort of the couch,...Read More >>

Software Review - Tradestation Three traders at different levels of experience test TradeStation.Trader OneTradeStation is, without doubt, the most comprehensive piece of software I’ve ever had the pleasure of reviewing for YourTradingEdge Magazine. This is a multi-faceted, award-winning trading platform with a...Read More >> Book Review - Jul/Aug 2011 101 Ways to Pick Stock Market WinnersClem Chambers (203 pages, Beautiful Books Limited, ISBN 9781907616273)As its title suggests, this book is aimed at those with a specific interest in the stock market, and in particular those interested in...Read More >>