Financial Spread Betting Guide
Financial spread betting (also known as financial spread trading) ia a fast growing alternative to traditional share buying and selling. Although it is called betting it is regulated by the FSA and has more in common with stock market trading than with regular gambling.
Learn financial spread betting as:-
…an investment tool
Use financial spread betting to cancel out risks and protect your investments against market falls. Read more about hedging with financial spread betting.
…a way of making a living
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What Options Are There To Profit From House Price Movements?
There are a number of ways of speculating or hedging on house price movements. Spread betting is the most popular way, although there the futures can also be used, but this tends to be used by professionals. There are a number of advantages of spread betting on the housing market; the first is that there is [...]
A Short History of Contracts for Difference – Part 1 – The Birth
Contracts for difference are a relatively new product that enables an investor to bet on the movement of a share. They were first used in a big way in the early 1990s in the Trafalgar House’s takeover of Northern Utilities, when it was used by the takeover team as a way of funding the bid. [...]
How Do Spread Bets Differ From Contracts For Difference?
Spread bets and Contracts For Difference (CFDs) are both bets on a company’s share price without buying the share itself. It’s possible to short shares with both and it’s possible to get exaggerated returns. There are also some tax advantages, for example there is no stamp duty to pay. The markets, sectors and indices are the [...]
Betting On House Prices
Spread bets, futures and contracts for difference can cover a number of different areas, one of the most interesting of these is for house prices. There are two reasons (we can think of) as to why you would do this. The first is to hedge against a bigger position that has been taken, the other is [...]
Are We Really Out Of Recession?
Today's figures from the Office for National Statistics showed growth in Q4. It was widely expected that UK would finally crawl out of recession and most of the economists were preticting growth of 0.4%. The shock was that UK growth was only 0.1%, thus sending FTSE100 plummeting over 1.5% along with the pound tumbling against [...]
Broker Share Tips – Visa, Danone
Below is a list of major companies who have had their ratings changed early this morning (08 January) by brokers that we follow. Click for a list of the brokers we follow. Only upgrades to the top Buy' ratings and downgrades to the bottom Sell' ratings are included. To simplify the jargon, we've grouped all the [...]
UK Markets Bounce Back on Poor GDP
FTSE 100 bounces back, despite plunging in the morning more that 1% on the GDP data from the Office for National Statistics. It was a bumpy but upwards ride on the stock market today and day traders had another great day of volatility. Are there any positives to take from today’s markets performances? The answer is more [...]
The Concept of Futures Trading
Even though the name itself implies about futures trading, in very simple way futures trading is basically the practice of trading that includes buying and selling of a particular commodity with standardized quality at an expiration period and pre-determined market price. Apart from its name factor, when you will have the exposure and experience with [...]
How To Play The Futures Market Through Your Pension
It sounds like a nightmare. Why would anyone want to put their pension on the futures market? Yes you could retire rich, but the chances are higher that you will be headed for the poorhouse. It really does not sound like a good idea. We will have another post later on this week about what your [...]
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Learn how to get started financial spread betting for a living. It's tax free and commission free and for many is becoming an attractive alternative to share dealing.
…just for enjoyment
If you want to learn spread betting for fun there are many companies that will let you trade for as little as 10p a point. We teach you the safe way to take a punt.