Evolved Software Studios release a free CFD share calculator

CFD Calculator is a popular desktop tool for Contract-For-Difference (CFD) traders and stockbrokers. It allows instant calculations of both Long (buy now, sell later) and Short (sell now, promise to buy later) CFDs.

This CFD Calculator has been around for a while now and I thought the stockbroker community - particularly those who need to calculate quick on the fly commissions on trades - may appreciate this tool.

The calculator also allows additional adjustments for a fixed price minimum commission and a variable commission calculation on each trade.

Commission is applied to both the opening and closing trades. If you don’t want to calculate with commission, don’t use any value for the Basis Points drop-down list or Minimum Commission (as shown above).

To learn more about CFD Calculator, or to download it, please visit our website.

What a day! Super-car driving and Super-phone integration.

It’s been a busy day today. Today, I was at the iT Showcase Live event at Mercedes-Benz World, Brooklands. It was fairly quiet for an exhibition, although the exhibitors didn’t give much away, Mercedes did - running rides of their AMG performance vehicles all day long. I managed to get a free pass and a spine-tingling face-breaking trip in a lovely new supercharged 500bhp CLS 63 AMG. When I finally got home, news was breaking that Apple had licensed the Activesync technology from Microsoft for use in their iPhone. This means a great deal for the IT industry, and I shall explain later. First however, the car.. Read more

Income Shifting: A response from Gerald Howarth MP

Early Day Motion (EDM) 714 is gathering support amongst members of parliament across the entire political spectrum and I am pleased to report that today my local MP has signed too. A total of 159 members of parliament have now signed this motion; Conservative: 85, Labour 19, Liberal Democrats: 49, Plaid Cymru: 1, SNP: 4 and SD&LP: 1.

 

As promised in my letter to Gerald Howarth MP, here is his response in full:

From: HOWARTH, Gerald [mailto:geraldhowarth@parliament.uk]
Sent: 27 February 2008 10:56
To: Mike Wilson
Cc: READY, Caroline
Subject: RE: Early Day Motion 714, “Income Shifting”

Dear Mr Wilson

Thanks for your email on this important matter.  I have not yet signed the EDM but plan to do so today as I have researched the issue after it was recently raised with me by another constituent.

We are determined to make it easier to do business in the UK and to ensure that local and central government recognises that small businesses are the engine room of our economy.  Government should encourage more people to aspire to be their own bosses and should support them in that aspiration.

David Cameron has said many times that a Conservative Government would recognise marriage in the tax system as families matter more than anything else within our society.  By way of contrast, Labour’s income shifting proposals will place a penalty on the recognition of marriage in the tax system.  On that basis alone, I am happy to sign EDM 714.

The proposals are entirely consistent with Gordon Brown’s hostility to small businesses, coming as it does on top of the 80% increase in capital gains tax which a number of businessmen have told me has been the last straw for them.  His stewardship of the economy, for so long commended by commentators, has now been exposed for what it is – a reckless disregard for prudence.  We have consistently warned that since he departed from the original Tory spending plans he was putting economic prosperity at risk, but that did not suit the commentators’ books at the time.

Thanks for making your views known to me and I urge your fellow businessmen to protest to their own MP.  Those who are my constituents can also write to me as the more letters / emails I receive on the subject the better placed I am to protest to the Government.

Best wishes

Gerald Howarth MP

Member of Parliament for Aldershot & Shadow Defence Minister

House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA

Tel:  020 7219 5650    Fax:  020 7219 1198

www.geraldhowarth.com

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