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Bets and the City: Sally Nicoll's Spread Betting Diary | 
 enlarge | Author: Sally Nicoll
Publisher: Harriman House Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  99 reviews
Sales Rank: 3330
Media: Paperback
Pages: 219
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1905641060
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9781905641062
ASIN: 1905641060
Publication Date: November 15, 2006
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 A highly readable journey of discovery! August 26, 2008
pumptronics
What Sally manages to capture in this book is the feeling of excitement and despair involved in learning something new.....especially when it involves an uncontrollable tidal flow of profits and losses! Her week-by-week accounts lead to surprising conclusions and are scattered with neatly told social interactions. This is a great book that introduces a lot of technical terms to the novice whilst keeping your interest by showing you a slice of life in North London.
Additionally, Finspreads are still honouring the 50 cashback offer when you buy this book.
 Not so great August 15, 2008
New to markets (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is more of a fictional account of a girl in the city. If you think it will teach you about the markets then walk away now.
An entertaining book, full of useful advice August 11, 2008
Mr. Jeffrey G. Waters (Preston, Lancashire)
Ever dreamed of quitting the rat race and working from home?
The book chart's the author's highs and lows as she tries to do just that! She uses uses spreadbetting, where you bet on whether the price of financial instruments such as stocks, currencies and precious metals will rise or fall.
The book is both an entertaining read and a great introduction to spreadbetting, and will help you avoid many easily-made beginners' mistakes.
Totally absorbing July 15, 2008
Mookie
I couldn't really understand how anybody could hope to write an engaging and entertaining book about spread-trading but so many people had rated it so highly that I decided to order it anyway. I'm glad I did because I've been glued to it for the past three days. I was cooking chili con carne last night and I forgot to add the kidney beans because I was so engrossed!
learned some. laughed a lot. July 11, 2008
Bash (Sunbury-on-Thames, UK)
I'm a punter used to the world of horses, bookies and betting exchanges. I had a loose grasp of traditional investment (i.e. shares, bonds, unit trusts, currency exchange rates ..) but didn't understand derivatives.
Bets and the City is a great book. A light hearted introduction into the world of spread betting through the eyes of one amateur. It's an easy read, funny, not detailed but has enough to explain:
-derivatives like spread betting and binaries,
-how a spread betting company makes it's money (and how it's in their business interest to have lots of punters placing bets on their system and getting it right!),
-the importance of risk management,
-the concept of technical analysis.
I thoroughly recommend it just for its laughs.
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