Today sees the UKs largest spread betting company, IG Index, launch their new IG Index Insights platform.
And it is impressive. It does give extra insight into the markets that spread bettors would find useful.
One thing that annoys me though is the Reuters news feed. Why, do so many spread betting companies insist on delivering this newsfeed?
This news is all available off the Reuters website and on the hundreds of sites that syndicate Reuters news.
The problem with market moving news is that by the time it reaches us off Reuters the markets have already jolted and us retail investors only require the news feed to allow us to conduct an autopsy into our just-failed trades.
These two feeds met me when I logged on this afternoon and inspired today’s thought:
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