Learn
Short, educational, and deliberately without a price target. Notes are updated as practice changes, not as a signal service.
Index structure
USTEC is capitalisation-weighted. A session in which the largest holdings move together will look like “tech” even when the median constituent is flat. Read breadth, not only the headline price, before calling a day a trend.
Funding
Overnight charges on long index CFDs rise when the interest benchmark used in the formula rises. A strategy that was cheap to hold in a zero-rate year can be a carry cost now. Re-read the card quarterly.
Session craft
The cash equity open is when spreads on single-name CFDs and, often, on USTEC are least representative of the midday quote. If your plan needs the typical spread, it is a midday plan.
Risk
Standard stops trigger an order. They do not invent liquidity. Over a weekend the next price can be far from Friday’s close. That is the case the guaranteed stop was written for.