Brent Crude Spread Betting Trading the Oil Price httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YazEdClCgV8 Trading the Oil Price by InterTrader Crude Oil is the raw material that when refined is used to produce diesel, gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel and many other petrochemicals. But oil is not only an importance source of energy, it is also the most actively traded […]

Copper Spread Betting Copper is often mentioned as an economic barometer of the economy and is considered the benchmark commodity for global economic activity. When you are copper spread betting, you need to be clear on what constitutes a unit or point for your bet. The price is commonly quoted with 5 digits, numerically 10,000 […]

Palladium Spread Betting Palladium is used in the auto industry, and has lots of applications in the electronics sector. Palladium is also a precious metal, which you can find in the commodities menu of your spread betting company. It is not traded as much as other precious metals, such as gold, but has a reasonable […]

Platinum Spread Betting Platinum is one of the precious metals that you are able to spread bet on, and the number that you are quoted is the price in US dollars for one ounce of the metal. The current quote for a platinum spread from IG Index is 1525.9 – 1527.9, and this is for […]

Natural Gas Spread Betting Natural gas measured in million British thermal units (MMBtu) has been in a downtrend lately with excess supply outstripping demand due to mainly the emergence of shale gas and the global recession which has pushed prices down. This is because the main users of Natural Gas are industrial factories and power […]

Cocoa Spread Betting The summer of 2010 saw cocoa prices go sharply up much to the resentment of bears. Analysts said there wasn’t anything fundamental driving the move; it was simply hedge fund manipulation. Backing that up, cocoa price fell back from a 33-year high at over $3,400 a metric ton down to about $2,600 […]

How to Spread Bet Corn As one of the staples for modern life, you might be interested in spread betting corn. Corn is grown all over the world, but the US is one of the major production countries, with the majority of corn being grown in the “corn belt” of the Midwest. Despite what you […]

Soybeans Spread Betting When you come to the spread trading soy products, you may well have a choice. The main constituent is the soybean contract, but you can also trade on soybean oil and soybean meal, which are also contracts on the futures market and offered by many spread betting companies. The current price for […]

Sugar Spread Betting If your spread betting company is anything like IG Index, then you may find that you have a choice in sugar spread betting. They quote two sets of prices, for NY Sugar No. 11 and London Sugar No.5. These are very different prices and markets, but the interconnectedness of world trade means […]

Wheat Trading: Reaping the Rewards of Bad Weather Another market attracting spread betting traders in droves is wheat. The soft commodity has hit the headlines due to the fact that shortages caused by bad weather in all the main producing regions could result in the price of the average loaf of bread rocketing. Prices of […]