An Introduction to Spread Betting: Key Insights from Lesson 1 Spread betting can be an exciting but highly risky venture, as emphasized in Lesson 1 of the “Spread Betting Trading Course.” The lesson serves as a...
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Spread Co Interview
Interview with the Head of Marketing at Spread Co: Ian O’Sullivan Introduction FSB: Tell us a little about Spread Co and its founders. Ian, Spread Co: Spread Co was founded by the former CFO of CMC markets who wanted to...
Comparing Spread Betting to Forex Trading
Example: Forex Trade Transaction Foreign Exchange (Forex) trading is simply the exchanging of one currency for another – Each Forex trade can theoretically be viewed as a ‘spread ‘ trade where to buy one...
Rolling Share Bets
In the past most spread bets were based on a quarterly basis and quarterly contracts, but that is no longer the case these days as most traders opt for the rolling contracts especially when they’re only looking to be in the...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Financial Spread Betting
What I Like and Hate About Spread Betting
Differences between Spread Betting and Share Trading
Good Differences – Spread Betting Versus Trading Leverage Spreadbets are leveraged, meaning that trading accounts’ buying power is amplified to permit the trader to take more positions or deal in larger position sizes...
SpreadBetting – How it Works – Part 2
Spreadbetting is most easily explained through an example – the concept is the same whatever the market. Imagine that in early August you believed the FTSE 100 index’s value of around 6230 was too high and that share...
Going Long: ‘Buy Low and Sell High’
by Alex Cruickshank Most investors are aware that to be successful at the stock market you should buy low and sell high. What less people know is that you don’t essentially have to do it in that order. Buying low and...
What is Spread Betting?
Spread Betting can be bewildering to anyone coming across it for the first time, with terms such a ‘pips’, ‘margin’, ‘spread’ and so on being bandied around. But the concept is actually very...
Sell in May and Go Away!
by Vince Stanzione For most traders it still seems wrong to make money from markets going down and in fact most spread betting customers still tend to want to bet to go up. Traditionally we are now moving in to slower months...