The Spreadbet Magazine Survey results
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MoST iMPoRTANT REquiREMENTS FRoM THE SPREADBET FiRMS
As to what it is that you are looking for in your spreadbet provider, interestingly tightness of spreads marginally pips capital security. Coming on the heels of the MF Global and Worldspreads collapses this certainly took me aback — I would have expected capital security to be a major outlier. Customer service and low margins were also important. A good night’s sleep looks not to be a priority to some with 24 hour trading still quite popular! Perhaps our publication is providing the added value on the research front given that this proved the least important to most of you?!!
Finally, other items gleaned were that you like to hedge your bets with just over 50% having more than one account and many of the suggestions you made involved the analysis of systems and strategies — this is something we intend to investigate later in the year — what really works and who are, quite frankly, charlatans?! Once more, thank you to all the respondents and may we continue to deliver you the magazine you desire. Richard
March 2013
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