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Plus500 - CFD trading firm enjoys double-digit upgrade

February 2024

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.

When commentators discuss a spike in market volatility it’s usually considered a bad thing because most investors hold “long” positions, buying shares they hope will go up and volatility is code for falling prices. But the past decade and a half has seen a growing band of retail investors take out short positions - selling an asset they don’t already own in the expectation of buying it back at a lower price - in all manner of financial assets and often borrowing most of their grub stake albeit at the risk of being woken in the night to provide more collateral if their position goes wrong. So when markets experience those stomach churning lurches downwards, those shorters can make bumper profits. Market volatility also typically increases ...

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