Contracts for Difference (CFDs) and financial spread betting have continued to experience strong growth, despite the recent down turn in the UK stock market, as both active traders and experienced investors have turned to...

Going hand in hand with the rise of CFDs, has been the increasing popularity of financial spread betting. Spread betting and CFDs are very close cousins but they are slightly different, with the most obvious example being that...

There is a fundamental difference between spread betting and ordinary betting, and this can best be shown by using horse or dog racing as an example. When you decide to bet on a horse or a dog before a race takes place, you...

Stockbrokers are hurting badly from a lack of business as investors lose enthusiasm for shares. Some of that money is being diverted into spread betting, which continues to surge in popularity well beyond the confines of City...

A new report by Professor Chris Brady and Dr Richard Ramyar of Cass Business School predicts that the number of people in the UK with a spread betting account could more than double from its current level of 400,000 to one...

by Mike Estrey The rise of contracts for differences and financial spread betting over the last decade has naturally impacted on the extent of trading in physical shares using a traditional stockbroker. There is no doubt...

Derivatives, securities whose values are derived from other assets, have been used for hundreds of years by companies and the wealthy to invest and manage their risks. Their use is so commonplace that they exist for everything...

In Trading Futures, Thomas K Sneider briefly explains how futures developed. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, this is narrated below with additions and modifications of our own. The origins of modern day futures exchanges date...