Learn to trade with spread betting

The investment world has changed. To make money in this environment, you have to be a trader. That's why I spread bet, and why I'm here to help you with trading ideas and methods. Let me explain.

The investment world has changed. To make money in this environment, you have to be a trader. That's why I spread bet, and why I'm here to help you with trading ideas and methods. Let me explain.

In the years before the 2008/09 crash, investors could put their money into just about anything, and it would go up. Wobbles in the economy were met by central bankers cutting interest rates. 'Buy and hold' was the investing approach of the day.

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.