Investment Tools

All serious investors need investment tools such as websites, charting software, in order to inform their investment activities. Come and see which of these tools are most used by serious investors, and how they are used.

Title:        Spread Betting  This paper is restricted to members only

Author:    Mike Newman

Description:
An introduction, written in August 2004, to this alternate way of investing....and one that is tax-free !

Title:        Trading Naked Options  This paper is restricted to members only

Author:    Mike Newman

Description:
A very comprehensive and detailed way to make money through options....but there are risks !! Revised in September 2004

Title:        An update to "Spread Betting" and "Trading Naked Options" (300809)  This paper is restricted to members only

Author:    Mike Newman

Description:
An update to the earlier articles on Spread Betting and Trading Naked Options, detailing how his investment strategy has been adjusted in response to changes in market volatility by moving between "straddles" and "wide strangles".

Title:        These Few Precepts

Author:    Jeremy Prescott

Description:
Jeremy Prescott has put together some general investment precepts, I'm sure that if we all obeyed these all of the time we'd be much better investors.

Title:        Controlling Investment Risk

Author:    Jim Shoesmith

Description:
The Aldenham SIGnet Group held a very interesting meeting on Thursday 18 th August 2005. A key focus of the meeting was “How do you control investment risk? The points raised were so fundamentally sound and useful that they deserve a wider audience, hence this article for the website; the aim is to highlight the key points rather than to provide in-depth coverage.