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I've posted before that going long the US indices via spreadbetting (I'm in the UK) has been my most profitable trading tactic. Its certainly not hard. A nice feature of the indices' price action is their regular pull-backs. The deeper the pull-back, the better the buy. As for Feb 2018, yes...

You didn't find anything to trade? Surely this might either very restrictive set-up rules, or you had some compunction to avoid pulling the trigger. There's nothing wrong with stipulating a watertight set-up before you go in - it just means fewer trades per year. Personal choice. But maybe you...

My most consistent and most rewarding trades have been long spreadbets on the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq100 (I'm in the UK) for the years after the GFC. I will not be running shorts on the US indices, no matter how bad they look.

In the UK spreadbetting sector, the EUR/USD spread is currently about 0.6 (mid-afternoon London time), with no commission charges.

Forex is perhaps the "purest" market to trade using TA. Not much news causes big overnight reversals of a forex pair chart. The thing to bear in mind is what the big banks are doing. They move the prices, and they are not speculating on the pairs themselves, they are buying and selling the...

What private retail traders can gain from news releases and the media is very limited. We can't get more detailed information than the big banks and we can't analyse it better and we can't get it sooner. The basis of TA is that the big players make the buy/sell decisions and then we track what...

I thought financial spreadbetting is only offered in the UK, because it is a tax avoidance financial mechanism to avoid UK taxation. In the UK, spreadbetting on financial instruments is regulated by the financial industry regulating body, the FCA. In other countries, spreadbetting is defined as...

You can't be absolutely sure. Firstly, if this could be proven it would have been. Secondly, the ability to prove it would make faith unnecessary - a religion that does not demand faith is not a religion, its just a set of known and undisputed facts.

Be aware that financial spreadbetting profits in the UK are exempt from all taxation, they are not counted as either capital gains nor income, regardless of size.

Do you see the 1-hour time-frame as a higher time-frame, in which chart patterns work well? Its not a time-frame I have tried - what do you find works best?

I don't know that its ever been proven that patterns work better at higher time-frames. But the research and backtesting published has all been done at higher time-frames. But this isn't really the whole of the point - it isn't a question of working better or worse. I am pretty sure patterns in...

Life is not a struggle for wisdom. Therefore there are no losers who fail, there is no failure. You live until you die. The aim is to live one more day. And we try to make it happy and constructive, at least for ourselves, sometimes for others too. What is pointless or wasted about this?

I am pretty sure the Universe was not created by an intelligent entity / entities.

Its very hard if you're not a member of an organised religion to justify joining one. And if you are a member, its very hard to justify leaving it and joining another. Joining Christianity seems easy and calls for little personal sacrifice. You have to avoid doing immoral things like killing...

Its a short time period for a lot of shares but if you can get hold of The Zulu Principle by Jim Slater you'll find it full of good ideas for stock selection.

Mark, anyone who suggests I'm a sucker goes on Ignore.

All I know is when I had chicken pox, flu, shingles and covid-19 I was very ill and they felt very much not like each other. So are you seriously saying that when I thought I had chickenpox in the UK in 1960 or 61, it was all part of a US government hoax? And when I didn't get tuberculosis, I...

The things I have had a vaccination against I never got - tuberculosis, mumps, measles, malaria, tetanus, dengue fever. The things I have not been vaccinated against I have had - chicken pox, flu, shingles, covid-19.

What instrument are you referring to? Who does the broker forward your identity to?

Have you then submitted your evidence to the UK FCA? And it would be helpful to post here to let us know the outcome. Or at least post here the names of the firms you've identified and how they are scamming people. People need to be aware.