One of the big draws of spread betting is easy access to global share markets. Most firms will offer you the chance to invest your hard earned cash in major UK/US and eurozone shares allowing you to profit from international...
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Binary Bets (‘Yes’ or ‘No’)
Please note that post-ESMA, Binary Bets are only available to professional clients in Europe. Another one of the newer forms of trade that we can make is a ‘binary bet’ (mainly available from Deriv). Binary betting...
Quick and Easy Trading with Daily Rolling Spread Bets
Daily Trades A quick word on DAILY FUTURES or simply known as Daily trades. These are trades that are designed to have a small spread, however, they only have a shelf life of 1 day of trading. So for instance if you traded the...
What can you Trade? What can you Spread Bet on?
What Markets can I Spread Bet on? The world of trading and spread betting can be quite daunting with lots of markets to choose from. A good starting point is to answer the key question of “what markets can I spread bet on?”...
Guaranteed Stop Loss Orders
Guaranteed Stop Loss Financial spread trading can be a risky business. If markets move sharply the wrong way, losses can quickly burst right through a trader’s pain threshold. Thankfully, financial spread trading offers an...
Risk Exposure, Money Management and Stops
Leverage: A Double-Edged Sword Now that we know the trading basics, we need to address the key issue of Risk Exposure. Simply what Risk Exposure is, i.e. what is the amount of your margin/deposit that you are prepared to...
Making a Spread Trade
Making a Trade We already know what the Sell and Buy markers are, the High and Low, is the current DAILY high and low of that trade. Therefore, you can quickly see from the quote that you receive how close that is to that day’s...
Contract Periods: Quarterly and Rolling Spread Bets
Contract Periods: Quarterly and Rolling Spread Bets Quarterly: On all spread trades that you make you will notice that there are periods that are known as contract periods. These are designated months where the contract will...
So what is Financial Spread Betting?
Financial spread betting is a highly geared bet on the future price of a product (can be anything) either going up or down. Simple really. The real money making power lies in the leverage. With spread betting, because you...
The Myths of Spread Betting
Module 2 Welcome to your second module of the Trader Training program. In this your second module. you will learn why many of the myths and stories banded around not only by normal everyday people, but also by the press to some...