Gold price values from http://www.priceofgold.org.uk have indicated that the price of gold has entered into a prolonged and steep rally.

On Thursday 22nd September 2011, the world stock markets saw the largest fall in value for over 2 years. Continued trouble in the Eurozone has forced unprecedented cautiousness from investors resulting in a major slow down in trade. With Italy looking to be the next to feel the contagion, stock price drops may lead us into a second ‘double-dip’ recession that many financial analysts predicted from the outset.

With stocks plummeting over 6% across the globe, there is little celebration to be had. That is, of course, if you’re not lucky enough to own gold. While the initial panic caused an unexpected fall in the price of gold, an expected lag in investment will soon see the gold price rally to an almost $2,000/ounce level. Gold prices will likely be at an all time high, and record gold prices mean one thing – economic turmoil.

Good luck and God bless!

One thing that isn’t known about financial spread betting is that there are huge bonuses to be had for new depositors. But before I give you the ultimate resource for spread betting bonuses I’d just like to clarify a couple of things:

1. What is Financial Spread Betting?

Trading on the stock market can be tricky – almost always you have to deal with a broker who manages the trade and transaction fees can be quite high. An alternative to actual is to spread bet. Spread betting does not involve the purchase or sale of stocks, shares or commodities, but instead you bet on the price that the market is currently trading at. This is essentially the same as trading, except you don’t have to make any physical transactions.

2. You can lose a lot with Financial Spread Betting

And I mean a lot. Most spread betting platforms are highly responsible and will tell you this on multiple occasions – but just in case they don’t: you can lose more than your initial deposit when spread betting. When spread betting, any bet can turn very sour and if the price falls or rallys to a point that your bankroll has been exhausted, you will be liable to repaying any debt that goes beyond your bankroll (in your spread betting account). This means that you can end up owing a huge amount of money if you forget to close a trade and the market collapses. Always ensure that you put on a stop loss order when spread betting – this will automatically close the trade when a certain price is reached. Hugely advisable.

Spread Betting Bonus Offers

Did you know you can receive as much as £1,000 back on your initial deposit? Even at low stakes you can expect to either see a small deposit bonus or ‘cashback’ on any of your losses in a certain time period. Spread betting can be really fun when played responsibly, and not only that but you can give yourself a real chance of turning a profit by using spread betting offers or bonuses. Two sites that I have found have summed up the bonuses incredibly well. The sites look identical (apart from the colours) and I think they both have the same spread betting bonuses and offers available but you never know, I’ll let you know them both anyway:

Spread bet with either spread betting offers or bonuses. Your financial spread betting career deserves it!

I’m heavily involved in the stock markets and I’m always looking out for the latest bit of financial news to stimulate a great investment. I mentioned a month ago that the price of gold would keep rising and I wasn’t wrong. The price of gold has been hitting the roof (and then smashing straight through it) time and time again this year and since then I have been inundated with messages about predicting the stock markets.

I’m no stock market expert, I enjoy buying and selling shares on a fairly regular basis but I can’t say I’ve been too great at it. So instead of trying to bullsh*t you guys, I thought I’d let you read a great little resource that will tell you all you need to know about buying and selling shares. SellingShares.org.uk is a great place to go for beginners and it certainly helped me. Come back in a few weeks and I’ll be sure to update you with some sound advice about share dealing!

After listening to the output from Dolby’s new surround sound technology for PCs, it is clear from first impressions that the audio quality is definitely superior to any previous Dolby products. The new tech was demonstrated at CES 2010 where I got a close up look and more importantly a listen to the system. While this system is far better than the sound quality from Dolby’s previous products, the DJ controllers and DJ equipment at udmdj.co.uk has definitely got some better sound gear in store.

From the press release I have aggregated the best aspects of Dolby’s new technology:

- Graphic Equalizer: using top quality digital filtering a user is able to customise their audio to fit their chosen specification.
- Surround Decoder: takes original stereo sound and converts it into 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound
- Volume Maximizer: very little noise surrounding the audio signal no matter how loud the volume is turned up.
- Volume Leveler: volume consistency throughout all audio applications depending on the user’s choice of volume level.
- Audio Regulator: eliminates any distortion that may be caused by over-driven speakers and amplifiers.
- Surround Virtualizer: awesome virtual surround sound experience output from the PC’s built in speakers or attached headphones.
- Dolby Digital Output: allows users to play audio content on their PC from the speakers in their home theatre system thanks to real-time S/PDIF or HDMI™ content encoding.
- Intelligent Equalizer: adjusts audio automatically to become consistent with the user’s preset
- Audio Optimizer: optimises the frequency response of the PC’s speakers to match the intent of the audio creator.
- Dialogue Enhancer: improves intelligibility of dialogue across all types of content.

2011 is the year for gold, and that’s not a good thing. People tend to demand gold when their economy is in trouble. Why have all your money tied up in a potentially unstable currency like the Euro when you can invest in gold that holds its value globally? This is the essential driver behind demand for gold and therefore the price of gold.

Since the financial crisis of 07/08, gold has become a highly sort after commodity. Economies were crashing and currency values were fluctuating heavily. Things had began to settle down towards the end of 2010; but it all kicked off again when Greece looked like it was going to default. Many economists have expected a complete Eurozone collapse with countries returning to their pre-Euro currencies; this has left many people concerned about storing fiat money as the value may plummet at any time. Understandably they have invested in something far more secure – gold. Of course gold prices cannot continue to increase in this way and their value will most likely fall once the Euro crisis has been avoided or realised. However, it certainly isn’t a bad time to consider selling your scrap gold for cash.