1. Competition Rules
Type Shares Starting Cash £100,000
Commission £0.00
Margin
Requirement
100%
Credit Interest 0% Debit Interest 0%
Minimum Price no limit Max Position Size 100%
Day Trades no limit Competition Trades no limit
Short Shares yes Stamp Duty 0%
2. Trade
• Order: Buy (Bullish) and Sell to close position
• Sell short: Bearish case.
• Cover short: If you wish to recover the loss
from sell shorting by buying back.
• Take profit at: Price to stop and close the
position.
• Stop loss at: lowest price you would expect
3. Summary/ Expenditure
• account assets
• available cash £93,569.00
• margin allocation £0.00
• margin utilisation 0.00%
• investments value £6,428.00
• account assets £99,997.00
• cash flow summary
• starting balance £0.00
• income for period £100,000.00
• expenditure for period £6,431.00
• ending balance £93,569.00
• Income / Expenditure Transactions
• date type description income expenditure balance
• 12 Feb 2013 buy 2,000 Barclays shares @ £3.21 with £10 commission ( in this case)
4. Charts
• Live time Charts
• Choose time period range ( ticks -> months)
• Select Different types of indicators
5. MACD
• Relationship between two moving averages of
price.
• Crossovers: Fell below signal line => Bearish
signal. Controversy, bullish.
• Divergence: When both lines cross, end of
current trend.
6. Bollinger Bands
• Two Plotted Standard Deviation Curve away
from a simple moving average.
• Standard deviation: measure of volatility, BB
adjust it to the market conditions.
• Volatile => bands widen.
• Close to upper band=>overbought
