Single Stocks
You can have access to thousands of shares both on the UK and International exchanges with spread betting. Also the advantages of spread betting on shares are becoming increasingly apparent. Here are a few examples: Trade on leverage: buying shares through a traditional broker requires you to put up the full value, or 100% of the equity deal. Most providers More...
Margins
Spread betting offers considerable advantages over share trading for active and experienced investors. Traditional share trading requires one to purchase shares on a per unit basis. In other words if you were considering More...
Orders Aware Margining and Margin Calls
Many traders use a lot of leverage, and so run the risk of losing more money than they have in their account. If this happens, your account can have a negative balance, often called a “debit balance”. In this More...
A spread betting example
The best way to explain the key components of a spread bet is through a worked example. It’s the 4th Feb and the UK 100 June is trading at 6712. The official contract expiration is 20th June (please see market More...
The Advantages and the Risks
The Advantages of Spread Betting Financial spread betting can be highly lucrative and is an ideal trading style for anyone looking to expand their trading portfolio into a wider range of financial instruments without More...
What is Financial Spread Betting?
Spread betting (sometimes referred to as spread trading) is a way of trading the financial markets without ever having to purchase stocks or shares. Traditional investment in shares involved calling up your stock More...
Technical Analysis: Indicator Tools
Now that we understand some of the critical features of price movements that can be seen in technical analysis (rallies from support levels, declines from resistance levels, uptrends, downtrends, and breakouts), More...
Forms of Analysis: Technical Analysis vs. Fundamental Analysis
Now that we have an understanding of the driving elements of market prices, we must now look at the various ways experienced spread betting traders assess market conditions and make forecasts with respect to More...
Fundamental Analysis: Retail Sales, Manufacturing and Employment Data
In the previous tutorial, we looked at some of the broadest economic data reports and in this section we will center the focus and outline some of the economic reports that are used to get a smaller scale sense More...
Trading Psychology in the Spread Betting Markets
By Richard Cox Successful trading in the financial spread betting markets requires an ability to accurately forecast future price movements, buying assets before they increase in value or selling assets before they More...