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Foreword And so there it was, hopefully a very Merry Xmas was had by all and you’re all looking forward to a healthy and prosperous 2013? We certainly are after a cracking first year for Spreadbet Magazine. I’d like to thank everyone involved in the publication - contributors, advertisers and the design team. It’s been a lot of hard work but our readership metrics speak volumes with almost 20,000 regular readers each month now. It looks like we have certainly struck a vein in the industry and that we are filling a gap for intelligent and educated commentary on all matters spread bet and CFD related as opposed to the usual financial information regurgitation that is so prevalent these days. With a line up that’s a veritable “who’s who” in the spread betting world including Robbie Burns, Dom Picarda, Zak Mir and now Tom Winnifrith (welcome on board Tom!), we doubt there is anywhere else that you can find such a line up of esteemed contributors in one spot. We ask all our readers that if you wish to continue to receive this publication for free that you continue to support the magazine and in particular the advertisers within here. Without your support and patronage then the publication will not be able to remain free forever. On to what we have in our New Year “goodie bag” - a bounty of tips and ideas from all our feature writers - Oil stock special, SBM’s own 3 Conviction picks for 2013, Part two of the worst crashes of the last century and a special feature on Japan - a market that topped the global markets return table for 2012 and that was our pick of the markets at the start of the year. We also have a new market data page we hope you find useful. Next month we will be unveiling 2 new contributors - a well known name in the world of financial markets and a new writer that regular readers of the magazine will be familiar with from some of our recent stories... Tune in next month to find out! I wish you all a great trading year in 2013 and thank you once again for your patronage.
Richard
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