Product Description

Spread betting was once the domain of institutional investors, city traders and high rollers. Not any more. You would now be hard-pressed to find any other form of trading that allows such a scale of return.

The aim of this book is to give you a basic understanding of how spread betting works, so that, with a little time and effort, you can find out how to turn a pauper's budget into a king's ransom.

However, an issue that should always be at the forefront of a novice spread better's mind is managing risk. As such, the secondary aim of this book is to explain the risks involved, and how to reduce them.

The book is accessible to investors with a basic grasp of investing and yet also interesting enough for the more experienced trader. The book starts with the basic 'what/when/why/where/who' and then progresses to the 'how' in detail.

The road to successful spread betting starts with education. By the time you finish reading this book, you should know how to place a spread bet, the rules of the game and how to trade successfully. The appendices and glossary at the back serve as your quick and handy cheat notes when you start trading.

As the saying goes: "Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11384 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 140 pages

Synopsis
The book is aimed at people who are new to spread betting. They may have heard about it or read about it but have not done any trades themselves and are keen to find out how to do so, from getting information to calling around for the best deals. It is for people who are familiar with the stock market either through investment in equity funds or through owning shares themselves. In other words, they are novice spread betters but not novice investors. The aim is to write a book that is accessible to investors with a basic grasp of investing and yet interesting enough for the more experienced trader. This will be achieved by the book's format - starting from basic what/when/why/where/who in the first five chapters and progresses to 'how' in detail.

About the Author
Michelle Baltazar is an award-winning finance journalist with more than five years of experience in the media sector. Up until 2003, she was a finance journalist for London-based weekly investment magazine Shares where she wrote a weekly column on derivatives and separately, on fund managers and their investment tactics.

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction for beginners
Its brilliant for beginners but a little bit more depth could have been more useful, the book is not terribly long and slighlty overpriced for what it is, however if you are a total beginner then the book does do what it says.

Good Introduction for the total beginner
Good Introduction for the total beginner. I have just read this in less than a day, and am building on that by reading Malcolm Pryor's book. A good combination.

Timewaster
This book contains nothing that isn't already available in a brochure from any spread betting firm. After I had read it I felt that the author's money making strategy for spread betting is to write books on the subject.She got my money but more importantly my time. There is nothing in this book just a couple of stories. It is a cynical effort - don't be fooled.