Primary Recommendation

London Capital - Financial spread betting firm enjoying explosive growth

February 2009

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

One of the problems with the stockmarket at present is that widespread pessimism is driving many stock prices down and in many cases there are companies in distress. But despite that trend, humans generally tend to feel positive and naturally take long positions where they bet on the market or the company going up.One company that seems to be doing rather well from all this is London Capital, a financial spread betting firm. It often enables investors to have leveraged bets on the movements of stocks - â€˜going longâ€™ on stocks that are expected to increase in value and â€˜going shortâ€™ when they decrease in value. The company occasionally takes principle positions (where it takes the risk onto its own book) but given the premis ...

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