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Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 71% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 71% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
Trading Lunch Bites archive
Get a taste of Lunch Bites
You can watch some of our past webinars here. Select a topic below to get a taste of what's to come.
What are spread bets and CFDs?
We look at the use of leveraged trading instruments known as spread bets and contracts for difference (CFDs), and what their purpose is for investors.
Using price action over indicators
Learn the importance of price action and why it is the number one indicator for many professional traders.
Leverage
This interactive session looks at leverage and its uses, including position sizing and how many trades to place.
Using longer timeframes
Learn the importance of using longer-term charts to inform your near-term trading.
Price charts
This interactive session looks at price charts, and discusses the basics of technical analysis and why it has become so common, including a look at support and resistance.
The most important levels to trade
Utilising historical charts, trend recognition, momentum and price based indicators, this webinar will highlight why some price levels are more important than others and will leave traders with a better idea of where orders, stop losses and take profits could be placed.
Candlesticks
This session will look at how candlesticks give traders an easy way to understand the volatility of a market and how they can aid the use of support and resistance levels.
Using the Fibonacci
Learn best practise for drawing Fibonacci retracements on your charts; the importance of the Fibonacci tool as support and resistance and using levels to create trades within a trend following strategy.
Risk management part one
Traders may devise the most complicated trading strategies, but if they do not master risk management then they will end up losing money no matter how clever their process. We look at this vital part of trading and explain why it is so essential.
Risk management part two
Learn about the concept of ensuring a correct balance of risk versus reward, and how to develop a mindset that ensures traders run their winning trades and cut their losing ones.
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