Position Trading #5: Leverage

Oct 7, 2011 at 10:32 am in Position Trading by · Leave a Comment »

Leveraged trading means trading on borrowed money. To bet at £1-per-point on a stock index priced at 1000 should require you to deposit £1,000 into your spread betting account, but it doesn’t. The spread betting company might ask you to deposit just 1/5 of the amount (£200)