Product Description

Spread betting, or now increasingly known as spread trading, is growing at an explosive rate. And why not? It is tax free, and from one account you can access global equities, commodities and currencies as well as profit from rising and falling markets. But never before have both a trader (hedge fund manager no less) and spread betting broker combined forces to provide you with insights into:

- Who makes money spread betting and how
- How to trade commodities and currencies and whether they are easier and more profitable than equities
- Ways to ensure you protect the downside
- How to make 40% consistently annually
- The worst mistakes spread traders make and how you can avoid them

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122091 in Books
• Published on: 2010-12-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

About the Author
Conor Foley is co-founder and Chief Executive of WorldSpreads Group. Prior to establishing WorldSpreads he had 11 years of experience in the financial services sector. Conor has a Masters Degree (M.A.) in Economics from University College, Dublin. He was Chief Dealer with Smurfit Paribas Bank from 1995-1998 (having joined the bank in 1989) with overall responsibility for the risk management of the bank's foreign exchange. He has twice been shortlisted by Ernst & Young for Entrepreneur Of The Year in Ireland.

Alpesh Patel is a trader managing UK and global macro and global equities strategies for his own hedge fund.

His first stock market floatation was in 2006. He is the founder of AlpeshPatelSpreads.com.

Alpesh was Visiting Fellow in Business & Industry, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (2001/2). He has judged numerous business and investment competitions and won stock-picking competitions on Channel 4, Bloomberg and Financial Times. His stock picks appear in Barclays newsletter to clients as the only non-in-house analyst - a role he also performed for Merrill Lynch HSBC. He is involved with several Oxford Business School Committees.

Alpesh started a weekly column in the Financial Times in 1999 and has had over 200 columns on investing published in the paper as well as being a regular markets commentator on CNBC Asia, CNN, BBC. Alpesh also co-hosted a weekly show for three years on Bloomberg TV cross-examining CEOs of listed companies on their earnings quality - pre-Enron!

Alpesh is the author of 10 investment and business books published by Financial Times and McMillan translated into 6 languages. Alpesh has a degree in Philosophy, Politics, Economics from Oxford University and in Law from King's College, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a non-practicing barrister. He is also non-executive Chairman of Aranca, a financial research outsourcing provider (founded by a TiE member).