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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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Plus500 - CFD trading firm a serious rival to IG

October 2016

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • PLUS
  • Price:
  • 738p
Long-term subscribers may recall that exactly ten years ago we recommended IG Group, 934p, the UK’s largest provider of financial derivatives such as spread betting, binary betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) and the shares have since stormed ahead from 222p to a high of 967p. IGs original mission was to help clients by-pass the then Labour Government’s strict exchange controls to place bets on the price of gold. However, the popularity of financial derivatives really took off in the new Millennium thanks to the ability to “leverage” a bet, rolling 24-hour financial news coverage and the emergence of fast broadband and mobile devices like smartphones, which combined with investments in technology, have mad ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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