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Foreword Hello and welcome once more to this 6th edition (time isn’t half flying!) of Spreadbet Magazine. It is amazing to think we are already half way through the year... and so far it’s shaping up to be a pretty difficult year for spreadbettors and the industry in general. What with the Worldspreads scandal, the moribund AIM market in which a lot of our readers have investments and a generally difficult economic environment, we would have hoped to have had a more buoyant backdrop to launch! We are, however, made of sterner stuff here at Spreadbet Magazine and on we plough; hopefully adding value to our readers and providing them with some practical guidance and useful trading ideas. As ever, I invite readers to email me at editor@financial-spread-betting.com with their comments on the magazine criticisms, suggestions and general feedback all welcome! The lifeblood of the magazine is your continued patronage of course. This month, following various readers’ feedback, we have introduced a number of more ‘light-hearted’ features. There will be a regular travel section - but with a twist, this being Spreadbet Magazine! Not your usual bland golfing holiday suggestions, as you will see, with this month’s intro article. We will also include a number of ‘lifestyle’ articles including new technology trends etc. I hope you enjoy these new inclusions and that they provide a welcome diversion from the stresses of spreadbetting and CFD trading! Our line-up of features this month includes a cracking article on the Oil Exploration sector — a part of the market that is always a favourite of punters but that has been testing, to say the least, to be involved in during recent months with many shares down 50-70% from their early year highs. It is at times like these that it is worth recalling the famous saying,”you make most of your money in a bear market, you just don’t realise it at the time” As with most successful business transactions, the value is added in the buying - buy cheaply enough and fundamentals will ultimately re-assert.
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I hope you enjoy our mid-term update too - it is important that aside from the wider educational element of our offering that we are also actually generating decent trading ideas. If readers have any particular feature they would like to see in future months, again, feel free to email us. And so I sign off and wish you an enjoyable (and hopefully sunny and warm!) July and, that markets prove a little more forgiving in the near term. Good luck trading. Richard
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