The most significant trend of recent years has been the growth of mobile trading. And mobile spread betting has continued to grow strongly in the last year, with ever increasing number of mobile deals being transacted compared to...
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From Gambling to Trading: The Evolution of Spread Betting
Financial spread betting is without doubt a City success story. Its rise is an example of what London’s financial district does best. The industry is innovative, competitive and smart…and the marketplace is getting...
The Evolution of Spread Betting and Changing Demographics
Financial spread betting has been around in the UK and in Ireland for about 60 years but has experienced an impressive rise in popularity in the last two decades. In the early years, financial spread betting was limited to...
90% of Spread Betting Trades are Buy Positions
With the ever-increasing growth in the spread trading industry, spread betting brokers are now dealing with different types of people starting from starter investors to highly active traders. For this reason, the offering has to...
Women in Spread Betting: A Growing Trend
Over the past decade, the participation of women in trading has continued to grow, reflecting broader trends in financial inclusion and technological accessibility. Although men still constitute a larger proportion of traders...
Providers and Spreads in Retrospection
It all started when Stuart Wheeler, an entrepreneur and keen gambler founded IG Index in 1974 from his home in Clapham with a 5,000 pounds loan, to enable UK residents to speculate on the price of gold at a time when exchange...
Stuart Wheeler: The Granddaddy of Spread Betting
By any standards, Stuart Wheeler has led an enviable life. He made millions as the pioneer of spread betting in the early Seventies and gave £5m of it to the Tories (although he has now switched royalties to Ukip). Wheeler now...
The Evil Hedge Funds
In the untamed world of hedge funds, rigged deals and manipulated markets help the wealthy thrive while ordinary investors wither. The episode which I’m about to narrate is dated 2004 but is still highly recommended reading...
Hedging, Protecting and Speculating using Spread Bets
These are three examples as to why one may elect to get involved in Financial Spreadbetting: Hedging Financial Spreadbetting is often used to ‘hedge’ an existing financial transaction i.e. to protect a position in the...
Financial Spread Betting as a Hedging Tool
Example of Spread Betting Applied to Hedging Selling GBP/US$ (as a hedge on a foreign currency transaction) You may want to hedge, or lock in, an exchange rate now for an expensive ‘once in a life time’ month long...