About Us

Spreadbet Magazine. Created by spread betters for spread bettors.

As active traders ourselves, we believe we understand the industry and the issues that are important to active traders. To this end, we look to provide interesting, stimulating and also educating content each and every month, delivered direct to your email with features supplied by a variety of contributors including Robbie Burns who bravely bares his trading diary each and every month and perhaps the UK’s most respected technical analyst - Dominic Picarda - who also supplies an indepth webcast each weekend.

Editor - Richard Jennings, CFA

Richard’s background is from within the traditional fund management environment and he has been an active spread better for over 15 years now, making almost 7 figures from his trading during this period. Qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst, and with a thorough understanding of technical analysis, derivatives and economic issues, he provides the bedrock to both the website blog content and the online magazine.

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Don’t forget to check out our free to enter monthly competition too in which you guess the FTSE 100 end month level and the winner receives £1000 - a useful addition to your trading pot we hope you agree!

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Spreadbet Magazine is proud to introduce our line up of esteemed contributors:

Dominic Picarda

Dominic Picarda is a Chartered Market Technician and has been responsible for the co-ordination of the Investor’s Chronicle’s charting coverage for 4 years. He is also an Associate Editor of the FT and frequently speaks at seminars and other trading events. Dominic holds an MSc in Economic History from the LSE & Political Science.

Robbie Burns

Robbie Burns - The Naked Trader has been a full-time trader since 2001 and has made in excess of a million pounds trading the markets. He’s also written three editions of his book “Naked Trader” and the “Naked Trader Guide to Spreadbetting” and runs day seminars using live markets to explain how he makes money. Robbie hates jargon and loves simplicity. Catch him at www.nakedtrader.co.uk

Zak Mir

Zak Mir is one of the UK’s pioneers in modern charting methods since the early 1990s, joining Shares Magazine as its first Technical Analysis Editor in 2000. Zak founded www.Zaks-TA.com , the first pure TA website in 2001 and which flourishes to this day. In addition, he has written for the Investors Chronicle, appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC as well as being the author of 101 Charts For Trading Success.

Tom Winnifrith

Tom founded the t1ps website in 2000 and over 12 years his average gain per tip was 42.7% on 241 share tips. He now writes for a range of US and UK financial and political websites and all his content can be accessed via www.TomWinnifrith.com - you can get alerts on everything Tom writes by following him on twitter @tomwinnifrith or www.TomWinnifrith.com.

Alpesh Patel

Alpesh Patel is the author of 16 investment books, runs his own FSA regulated asset management firm from London, formerly presented his own show on Bloomberg TV for 3 years and has had over 200 columns published in the Financial Times. He provides free online trading education on www.alpeshpatel.com.

Tom Houggard

Tom Houggard was a broker in the City of London until 2009, racking up close to a thousand TV and radio interviews on the likes of CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, BBC, SKY TV etc. His specialisation now is investor education and he is one of the few commentators who actually puts his money where his mouth is with live trading sessions. Find out more on www.tradertom.com