There are several steps that can be taken to minimize the spread you have to pay on a deal. Firstly, recognize that fact that the bookmakers’ margins are not fixed. There are wider spreads on certain types of bets than...

Who is correct? Is it the purveyors of doom who cite rising global economic uncertainty as the reason why the recent stock-market falls are the beginning of a new and serious equity bear market? Or is it the bulls, who say that...

You have talked about short Sterling here in the last week or two. I saw that Bates (a bank I think) in an article in the Sunday Times recently quoted the Gilt curve as the ‘best indicator of future rates’. Estates...

Interest rates are a market like any other. So if you want to trade on the movements of UK interest rates – perhaps to hedge your mortgage payments, for instance – you can bet on the ‘Short Sterling’...

Interest rates are easily traded and are a subject on which many investors have strong views. There are several ways of trading on the future movement of interest rates and it is a fascinating time in the market at the moment...

As far as financial spreadbetting itself goes, it is an excellent way of providing tax free investments without necessarily needing capital. As an example, you can simulate quite closely the returns of a tracker ISA by betting on...

Index tracking funds exploded in popularity in the 1990s when a handful of firms began offering these products, which have been used by professional money managers for decades, to small investors. In the second half of the 1990s...

The investment objective of a tracker fund is to ‘track’ the performance of a specific stock market index or sector as closely as possible. It does this by holding the same equities in the same amount as the index it...

Spread Betting on Property Prices Simon Smith started spread betting on property prices in the summer of 2002 when stock markets were heading south and doom-mongers were suggesting the possibility of heavy house price falls...

Want to know the secrets of how to win at spread betting? Yes, me too! No, OK, I’m going to reveal the secrets right now, just for you. and right from the horse’s mouth. After all, who better to find out how to win...