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“Hi, I’m Dow Jones, Sally’s spread betting accomplice.”

“When Sally was writing Bets and the City, I told her, ‘Your readers need a break from all that financial stuff! So tell them about ME, and all the fun we have hanging out with celebrities in Primrose Hill.’

Fortunately, she took my advice, so even if you’re not really interested in spread betting, the book’s a great read in a Bridget Jones meets Wall Street kind of way.

I'm in Sally's very best books right now. Click here and see the blog post dated April 23rd to find out why!
Bets and the City
By Sally Nicoll

RRP £9.99












Table of Contents

  1. In which my dad teaches me the Golden Rule of gambling
  2. To make £1 million, all I need is a computer and an Internet connection
  3. I am rash, but not stupid
  4. I trade my entire knowledge for one cup of coffee
  5. The meaning of stop-loss leverage And an offer I must refuse
  6. Thirteen advantages of spread betting - but only one company for my account
  7. An inauspicious start - I am accused of a criminal past
  8. I prove my innocence, open my Finspreads account and win something for a rainy day
  9. The Welshman invites me to write about my new life as a novice spread better
  10. Mr. Big's Top Ten Tips And why you should never be kind to your mother
  11. My first trades reveal if I am a chicken or a pig
  12. Random trading for less than the minimum wage
  13. Commonsense spread betting wins me pretty new underwear and two free tanks of petrol
  14. How my next spread bet is prompted by a Japanese fighting dog
  15. In which I almost make £900 - but it all goes horribly wrong
  16. Behind the scenes in the dealing room - so near yet so far from the customer who's £750,000 in profit
  17. Trader's block and a four-legged Dow Jones
  18. Expert advice takes me in a new direction
  19. What happens when I ignore expert advice?
  20. Why I decide to dump my biggest winner
  21. There's a market worth $1.5 trillion a day I'll have some of that!
  22. A series of unfortunate events
  23. Making money from the Government
  24. Is this the darkest hour?
  25. I give up spread betting and make a new friend
  26. The Welshman's final words of encouragement help me back to winning ways
  27. I have nine winning trades. Does it really matter if we don't know what's driving the market?
  28. Do women make better traders than men?
  29. My New Year Trading Plan And tragic news about the Google share price
  30. I do well enough to start dreaming about villas in the South of France - and a yacht
  31. Pride comes before a fall
  32. I am commanded from beyond the grave to continue my trading education
  33. I finally get the hang of spread betting And make nineteen successive winning trades
  34. Pride comes before a fall (Part 11)
  35. Sensible advice from a man who lost $10m - in a single day
  36. My spread betting secret is out!
  37. 40% profit in six months
  38. In which I have my head examined
  39. I find my spread betting methodology tattooed on human flesh
  40. Madness in my methodology?
  41. In which I turn my computer into a cash register
  42. The Four Pillars of Trading Strategy
  43. I attend Traders' University
  44. I break the Traders University rules - and the promise of imminent wealth is dangled before me
  45. In which I stop gambling and begin to trade
  46. Sex, lies and Paul McCartney