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September 3rd, 2010

Financial Spread Betting Is Not For You

Posted in Uncategorized by Trade Online

I am going to write about all the reasons why you shouldn’t do financial spread betting. Yes my aim is to try and dissuade you from ever considering it again. You won’t have read another article like this one.

I bet you are wondering why I am being so negative about financial spread betting. Well I want to see if you are really up for it. All you have read up to know is likely to be positives with one or two negatives to make for a ‘balanced’ article. If you still like the sound of it after reading this then perhaps it is for you after all.

Where will get best impact? Money. I don’t mean to be hard but you probably won’t be profitable in the year that you begin. Yes there are a number that survive but a lot don’t. That means unless you are willing to stick it out for more than a year, you are likely to lose money with this venture. Will you be able to handle it? Do you think that you will be able to get your risk management right and still have enough capital left after a year?

Congratulations, the first year of financial spread betting is over and you are still in the game. You should be proud of yourself as few traders make it. Before you start celebrating note that it doesn’t get much easier from here. Only a small percentage of traders make the real money (and the brokers of course).

What if you make it to be one of the few traders that make money? That would be super but in order for that to happen you need to start working. Do you think there are many people who make money in financial spread betting working less than an 8 hour day? Maybe there are. If you are lucky enough to find somebody try to learn their secret.

I am glad you have made it this far. I can see that you have commitment. You will have to put that to the test for the next thing you have to do. You now need to work your way through all the financial spread betting companies that want you as a customer. It sounds easier than it is.