First of all, thanks to everyone who turned out to hear my talk at Tradefair on Monday night. I hope I was more interesting than Middlesborough v Newcastle. And even though I made it VERY clear that I do not ‘tip’ trades, there was a bit of scribbling going on when I mentioned I was long on Vodafone and short on the FTSE Index… a couple of winners that will keep Down Jones in dog food for the rest of the month, as it’s turned out.

Second of all, welcome to New Readers who noticed my name being taken in vain in today’s Daily Telegraph feature on Spread Betting.

Third of all, I am now road-testing the Tradefair platform to see if I feel able to recommend it to you. First impressions favourable…. watch this cyberspace.

Fourth of all, If I DO end up recommending the platform, I will also insist that Tradefair offers my readers a better Bonus than the one that’s now come to an end… basically, I’m hoping to persuade them to give you a £100 signing-on gift…. but I’m still working on it.

If you might be interested, either email me at sally@sallynicoll.com with Tradefair in the subject line, or bookmark my blog and the homepage of my website.

At last, the truth can be told.

I have ended my long-running association with Finspreads because they moved offices, and are no longer situated alongside Hotel Chocolat.

A decision that has made other spread betting providers sit up and take note.

As a result, I have enjoyed several excellent lunches in the past few weeks, as - one by one - they try to persuade me to write about them….

Naturally, all I am interested in is the quality of the desserts.

Whoops!

What I meant to say is that the nature of the spread betting offers they would like me to present to my readers is my sole concern

Anyway, I am still negotiating said offers. (And will be happy to discuss further at the Wolsley, any time.)

Meanwhile, the Clever People at Tradefair (as in Betfair) called to say: “Sally, we have offices near the Westfield Centre and we know you like shopping. Come and visit us.”

So I did.

And the result is that I now own an extremely orange jacket that I never meant to buy. And that I have agreed to do one of my v rare personal appearances for them. It’s happening next Monday, near Bank tube.

Details here (you need to cut and paste because I am rubbish at HTML)

http://www.tradefair.com/spreads/seminars/?CID=3283546&PLA=77784235116606149

You’ll see it says you need to be an account customer to hear my words of (alleged) wisdom. Take no notice. If you fancy coming along, just email me: sally@sallynicoll.com and we’ll bundle you in through the back door or something.