Welcome to section six of your Financial Spread Betting course. And today you’ll see the importance of having the right mindset, and having a set strategy. It’s crucial that you use a strategy you’re sure of...
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How Spread Bets Compare to Contracts for Difference
We’re nearly half-way through the spread betting course. And up to know you should have all the basics of spread betting covered. But why should you spread bet in the first place? How does spread betting compare to...
Rolling Cash Settlements and Hedging your Positions
Welcome to the next section of your spread betting course. And in today’s message you’ll see how rolling cash can benefit you. Importantly, you’ll also learn how you can use rolling cash to hedge your positions...
How to Find the Best Trades?
A good trade is one that has the highest likelihood of turning a profit with the least amount of risk. This online spread betting guide to finding high probability low risk trades should help. What tools should we use to sniff...
How Spread Betting Bets are Priced
For active traders and investors who enter and exit trades the more significant cost is likely to be the bid-offer spread, which you incur every time you make a trade. The spreads a spread betting company will quote you...
What is Market-Making?
If you spread bet, then you will be dealing with a market maker. When you trade on the stock exchange, your broker will quote you the price that the exchange is offering, but when you trade with a spread betting provider, and in...
Shorting Shares
There are ways to short the market through traditional trading, for example using contracts for difference (CFD) – but investors will usually rack up commission costs by doing so. And if they make a profit on a CFD, trader...
How to Protect your Spread Betting Winnings and Manage your Losses
I still remember making my first spread bet; nervously watching the value of the UK 100 tick up and down as I calculated my winnings and losses with each minute movement. For beginners, and even experienced traders, it can be a...
A Step-by-Step Guide to making Successful Spread Betting Deals
Welcome to the next part of your Financial Spread Betting course. Before you can start trading, you need to set up a spread betting account. But which one to choose? Well, read on. You’ll also see how to make use of a stop...
Margin Calls
So as we have seen in the earlier lesson when you have open trades, your available margin will go up or down constantly depending on whether the market is moving in the direction of your trades or not. This means that as your...
