How did you start in Spread Betting

bought time of first goal in a balckburn match in 1994 -it ended 0-0!!

Started in 1979 when I was 17. Made some money so my parents decided to open an account as well. They lost money and it was all very embarassing, and it was some years until I returned to the fray.

Im tolking about Spread betting like Tradefair.

Anyone can post his experience in that market?

Thanks anyway!

hi les, i am no expert so I am in no position to offer advice
my personal experience began when the recession stirred my interest in the financial markets i started researching, reading books on trading and opened a demo account. I doubled my money (mainly from gold).

note to bf forum nags! Above not a boast i am aware that it was very easy since march as everything has gone up up up and it was monopoly money

I am ready to make my first real deposit when the opportunity arises, i am in no rush to invest and will do so only when i find an opportunity with big upside and little downside

how much would you be prepared to lose? i want to invest £2000 and am prepared to lose whole amount.

imo an opportunity is not worth investing unless i can potentially make three times more than i can lose

does anyone have any trading ideas they would like to share?

hi les, i am no expert so I am in no position to offer advice
my personal experience began when the recession stirred my interest in the financial markets i started researching, reading books on trading and opened a demo account. I doubled my money (mainly from gold).

note to bf forum nags! Above not a boast i am aware that it was very easy since march as everything has gone up up up and it was monopoly money

I am ready to make my first real deposit when the opportunity arises, i am in no rush to invest and will do so only when i find an opportunity with big upside and little downside

how much would you be prepared to lose? i want to invest £2000 and am prepared to lose whole amount.

imo an opportunity is not worth investing unless i can potentially make three times more than i can lose

does anyone have any trading ideas they would like to share?

hi les, i am no expert so I am in no position to offer advice
my personal experience began when the recession stirred my interest in the financial markets i started researching, reading books on trading and opened a demo account. I doubled my money (mainly from gold).

note to bf forum nags! Above not a boast i am aware that it was very easy since march as everything has gone up up up and it was monopoly money

I am ready to make my first real deposit when the opportunity arises, i am in no rush to invest and will do so only when i find an opportunity with big upside and little downside

how much would you be prepared to lose? i want to invest £2000 and am prepared to lose whole amount.

imo an opportunity is not worth investing unless i can potentially make three times more than i can lose

does anyone have any trading ideas they would like to share?

hi les, i am no expert so I am in no position to offer advice
my personal experience began when the recession stirred my interest in the financial markets i started researching, reading books on trading and opened a demo account. I doubled my money (mainly from gold).

note to bf forum nags! Above not a boast i am aware that it was very easy since march as everything has gone up up up and it was monopoly money

I am ready to make my first real deposit when the opportunity arises, i am in no rush to invest and will do so only when i find an opportunity with big upside and little downside

how much would you be prepared to lose? i want to invest £2000 and am prepared to lose whole amount.

imo an opportunity is not worth investing unless i can potentially make three times more than i can lose

does anyone have any trading ideas they would like to share?

hi les, i am no expert so I am in no position to offer advice
my personal experience began when the recession stirred my interest in the financial markets i started researching, reading books on trading and opened a demo account. I doubled my money (mainly from gold).

note to bf forum nags! Above not a boast i am aware that it was very easy since march as everything has gone up up up and it was monopoly money

I am ready to make my first real deposit when the opportunity arises, i am in no rush to invest and will do so only when i find an opportunity with big upside and little downside

how much would you be prepared to lose? i want to invest £2000 and am prepared to lose whole amount.

imo an opportunity is not worth investing unless i can potentially make three times more than i can lose

does anyone have any trading ideas they would like to share?

hi les, i am no expert so I am in no position to offer advice
my personal experience began when the recession stirred my interest in the financial markets i started researching, reading books on trading and opened a demo account. I doubled my money (mainly from gold).

note to bf forum nags! Above not a boast i am aware that it was very easy since march as everything has gone up up up and it was monopoly money

I am ready to make my first real deposit when the opportunity arises, i am in no rush to invest and will do so only when i find an opportunity with big upside and little downside

how much would you be prepared to lose? i want to invest £2000 and am prepared to lose whole amount.

imo an opportunity is not worth investing unless i can potentially make three times more than i can lose

does anyone have any trading ideas they would like to share?

oops

sure your not boasting rich?

lol snooze

'it was monopoly money and everything went up up up'

i want to invest real money this time but see no opportunites as big as gold(was) or FTSE(was).

Do you spread bet? do you have anything constructive to say? or are you a new forum nag offering no input to fellow gamblers/traders

1988 - had a disaster with a mate on the FTSE100 while I was in Florida and he was meant to be looking after our bet.

We worked in the City as well but still got it wrong!!

Noawadays the spreads seem so spot on there is little opportunity to play....

Interested in the economy, years of background reading trying to get a mental image of what's going on in the economy and how it's going to unfold, then looking for ways to play it.

For instance it was insanely obvious that once the economy started going tits up, the yen was going to soar as the carry trade unwound and sterling was going to collapse as everyone realised all the strength in the currency was based entirely on a strong economy which was based entirely on debt.

Whatever you decided to bet on, I believe you should have a strong, researched, fundamental reason why your bet is a good one - and not to rely on charts, graphs and luck.

But people have differently ways of doing it. Main thing is - get reading! Good luck!

Always had a interest in the markets and sold my shares in BofIreland at 15.10 as I could see the collapse coming bought at [6.60], went looking into shorting and I shorted Abbey a Irish building company, my account soon filled up I thought I was a genius.

I saw tensions were arising between turks and the kurds on BBC world news and went long oil, made thousands, all this was happening while I was backpacking around Thailand, SEA. I was long Nifty 50 and Oil and I was cleaning up, my mates were going mental, Id walk into the room just made 3k.this was happening while I was out on the lash, this was too easy,it was wild an crazy but then it started to go all wrong! Why

I held onto loosing positions, was using too much leverage, taking positions while half wasted! and was buying an selling newspaper tips, I was reckless, it was alot fun but I wouldnt and dont trade like that anymore.

I must of read over 20 books in the last 18 months and Iam after finding my market key,my holy grail,it works for me, money is pretty easy to make now, I just have to wait for the good trades.

Reading books about traders who use technical analysis helped alot, I found a couple of books were quite destructive, some very poor pieces of advice given out and was very damaging.

I did it myself and I had to do it the hard way,no one showed me,only the markets did, to suceed u will most prob will have to do same,feel the pain see the pain its a mountain to climb but u must be obessive and have huge drive to suceed, if u want it bad enough u will get it