Financial-Spread-Betting.com Free Spread Betting and Technical Analysis Courses for Traders and Investors

LONDON, ENGLAND, February 24, 2011 (Press-News.org) The publishers of Financial-Spread-Betting.com are delighted to announce the launch of a new spread betting and technical analysis course for traders and investors.

Spread Betting Course

The Financial-Spread-Betting.com spread betting course is aimed at giving traders and investors a thorough grounding in the art of financial spread betting - we do not make any assumptions and clearly explain everything we believe you need to know to develop your understanding of this investment methodology.

The stage-by-stage guide is designed to make your life easier and includes sections where the advantages and disadvantages are clearly discussed, comparisons with traditional form of share dealing, how to open an account, who with, along with a Glossary of Terms and how to place trades and manage positions.

"Our experience is that the financial world of futures and options trading is daunting to many newcomers, and for those people wanting to make sensible use of financial spread betting, there is no obvious single location to get help and training. This web site and the guide should go a long way to remedying this."

Find out about:

- What is spread betting and how does it work?
- What financial markets can I bet on?
- Strategy orders
- How are spread betting prices calculated?
- Simple strategies for spread betters
- Common trading mistakes and how to avoid them
- Become a better trader
- Education and events
- Compare spread betting companies

Technical Analysis Course

This comprehensive technical analysis course, whether from a purely short-term timing perspective or for longer-term analysis, and is designed to get students quickly up to speed and to a level where they can apply technical analysis correctly and confidently in the stock markets they cover.

The course gives particular attention to the following topics

Technical analysis
- Why it works and its limitations

Chart types
- Line, bar, candlestick and semi-log
- Using them in different markets and market conditions

Support and resistance levels
- Identifying levels
- Assessing their strength
- Expected price movement on the break of levels

Trend lines
- Drawing lines correctly
- Recognising trend line breaks and 'false breaks'

Chart patterns
- The major continuation and reversal patterns
- How to recognise them and how to project subsequent price moves

Volume
- Understanding its significance and using volume data with price

Moving averages
- The different types of moving average lines
- Which periods to use
- Moving average based trading techniques

Dow Theory
- Appreciating the contribution of Charles Dow

New developments in technical analysis
- What new analysis is catching on?

The guide describes technical strategies that are uniquely effective in the stock market equity and index markets with a focus on charts and indicators, and spread betting trading strategies. The guide introduces the idea of using technical analysis to help find and time trades because not all of us are professional traders.

About Financial Spread Betting: Whether you are aiming to protect your existing investment portfolio, hedge a recent stock holding transaction or simply looking for exciting and new speculative trading opportunities within the global financial markets, spread betting now offers investors and traders a huge range of exciting and innovative trading products.

About Us: Originally launched in 2003, Financial-Spread-Betting.com is an online magazine aimed at private traders and experienced investors with an interest in financial spread trading. We provide unbiased financial education and information on this innovative trading product and the website includes spread trading educational guides as well as news, interviews and features about the financial spread betting industry.

Website: http://www.financial-spread-betting.com