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Foreword Welcome once more to another edition of our magazine — a publication that I am delighted to say continues to grow in popularity with over twenty thousand views of our New Year edition now, and counting! Hopefully, we are doing something right?! Our market and stock calls are becoming known for their prescience as well as our uncompromising way of delivering our views — for a prime example, check out this month’s Conviction Short call on ADVFN — very few other financial publications would say it as it is like we do. Thank you also to those readers who completed our survey into your spread betting habits etc. This has proved a mine of information and will help us in shaping the magazine further to your desires. Remember, all this content is currently entirely free, but in order to keep it free then you must support our advertisers within the publication. We only work with reputable and financially robust spread betting companies, and those that wish to promote the industry for everyone’s benefit as opposed to purely their own. The Cantor’s “stakes back” offer is a cracking offer and ditto with the tight spreads and guaranteed stops offered on all products at Capital Spreads. I repeat, without your support of our advertiser supporters, the model of a free magazine will inevitably have to change. As trailed in the last edition, I have great pleasure in unveiling our two new contributors this month. Firstly, we have a name that many will be familiar with — Alpesh Patel — a respected financial commentator with many years experience in the industry, and who will be writing a monthly column called “Alpesh on Markets” in which he gives us his overview on global markets — a must read. Secondly, we have John Walsh — a name that those readers who followed the City Index Trading Academy episodes will be familiar with. John is a black cabbie who fought off six other competitors to win the competition and a £100,000 prize — no mean feat. John will update us each month with his experiences spread betting since winning the prize and this promises to be an insightful and entertaining journey! And so to this month’s key features — don’t miss the article on “Commodity Cornering”, this was one of the most interesting features we have written and we thoroughly enjoyed researching this piece. You might be surprised at some of the historic episodes... Also, the “Biggest hedge fund in the world you never heard of” piece — make sure you read it to find out who it is! As always we have all your favourites — Robbie, Zak and Dominic Picarda plus a continuation of Tom Winnifrith’s top ideas too. I wish all our readers another month’s profitable trading and look forward to catching up with you at the end of February!
Richard
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