Excerpt from: Financial Spread Betting Strategies
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| December 10, 2007 | | Spread bets on various financial markets | One of the more interesting bits of news this week is that stock trading may be more risky that carry trades in forex. When placing spread bets and considering financial spread betting strategy, this can be useful information to have. Bloomberg reports on carry trades and stock trading:
``Carry trades are often viewed as a highly speculative
investment strategy, to be tried only by the most sophisticated
investor,'' the BIS said. However, ``using volatility as the
measure of risk, carry trades appear much less risky than major
equity markets,'' according to the report. | | |
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