This book examines the practical strategies of successful FX and CFD traders. It tells the stories of their profits, explains the secrets to their success and reveals what it is actually like to trade these instruments in a practical sense.

How do you prepare for a trading competition when you know a $100,000 prize is at stake? How do you temper your emotions of greed and fear when you know there are others out there trying to win the money before you do?

The follow-up to Real Traders, Real Lives, Real Money, this book explains how a landscape gardener turned full-time trader transformed $32 000 into $110 000 in nine weeks trading contracts for difference (CFDs).

Diaz examines the techniques and strategies of the top traders vying for the first CFD trading competition title in Australia. She also explores the psychological and emotional issues that affect all traders.

Other top Australian traders' secrets for making profitable returns from CFD trading are also shared, including their trading strategies and tactics, trading routines and psychology, tips, mistakes and lessons learnt.