Spread Betting the BTP Italian Bond Contract If you’d like to bet on some European bonds, you could look at the long term BTP spread betting contracts available from IG Index. These are Italian-based government bonds which have an interesting history. The BTP bonds were quietly retired in 1999 when most of Europe took on […]

Spread Betting the Euroswiss The Euroswiss is an interest rate contract, in this case the notional lending rate of the Swiss National Bank. The current spread betting quotation is 9994 – 9995, and this can be a little confusing until you realize what it represents. With all interest rate futures contracts, the number quoted is […]

Spread Betting the Schatz If you’re interested in spread betting on bonds, then you should be looking at the Schatz and Buxl, two different bonds from the German futures market. The Buxl is a long-term bond, and the Schatz is a short-term bond. This means that the Schatz is less sensitive to changing interest rates […]

Spread Betting the BUXL Instead of spread betting on stock indices or stock prices, you can become involved in the financial markets by spread betting on the Buxl, sometimes called the Euro-Buxl. Once you know the way to analyze a financial instrument from its chart, you can apply these principles to any financial market. The […]

Eurodollar Spread Betting The Eurodollar is an interest-based financial product, similar to the UK Long Gilts or the US T-Bond, but for a shorter period of time, like Short Sterling. Because of the way that interest-based spread betting works, if you think that the interest rate for the Eurodollar is going up, you would place […]

UK Interest Rates UK interest rates – as defined by the Bank of England’s base rate – are the lowest they have been in history. They have been this low for 28 consecutive months. And, at 0.5 per cent, they cannot be cut further. Some economists had expected rates to start moving up in the […]

Euribor Spread Betting The Euribor represents the interbank lending rate used in the European financial zone, just as the LIBOR is the rate used in the UK for sterling lending. When you spread bet on it, the figures represent one hundred times {one hundred minus the rate in percent}. For example, if the interest rate […]

German Bund Spread Betting How do you go long or short of German government Bunds? Spread betting providers make a market based on Eurex’s Euro-Bund Futures and you can take a position on this. A protracted failure to deal with the eurozone crisis is likely to put downward pressure on all European bond markets, including […]

US T-Bond Spread Betting The current rate offered by IG Index for US T-Bonds is 14,230.9 – 14,234.9. They call this spread trading market “Treasury Bond Decimalised” under the US bond tab. Under the same tab you will see T-Notes for different periods of maturity, and these will generally be worth less the shorter the […]

US 10 Year Note Spread Betting Among the less common financial securities that you will find to spread bet on, you should consider the US 10 year note. Its price generally moves in an inverse relationship to the long-term interest rate. Let’s consider first a long bet on the “US 10 Year T–Note Decimalised”, as […]