Due to adverse publicity over the Lehman Brothers saga, DBS stocks have fallen sharply. More than 2 billion dollars worth of value vaporized in a short week or two.
My system had told me to short DBS 3 weeks ago using CFDs. At that time, I think the price was $14 or $15 plus. However, I set my stop loss price a little low, so I was stopped out too quickly in a day or two. However, after that, it continued to free fall all the way until $10 plus yesterday. That would have been 5 times my initial investment.

Jardine C&C was another stock that appeared on my system. However, I was too busy that few days to short it, so when it fell by a few dollars, I thought it had fallen too low. My system did not give the signal to buy it back, so I could have taken that opportunity to sell it. It fell until $9 plus at a low, so again, my initial investment could have multiplied by a few times.

I was on a good trade for UOB, but I got a little nervous about seeing the numbers change rapidly, and decided to take early profits. It fell a further $2 in the next few days. But anyway, this is my first successful CFD trade.

The best CFDs to short are those that cost more than $5. They need to have market volume to move. So forget about penny stocks when you try to short them.

You are only trading with the brokerages and you do not own any physical stock. Do look out for brokerages that charge obscene amount of money. Some of the cheaper CFDs brokerages include Saxo Traders and CMC Markets.

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