Share prices are displayed in ‘pence’ so if a share is trading at £4.23 it would be shown as ‘423’ with each ‘point’ movement being the equivalent to a ‘penny’ movement. The...
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Trading USA Stocks with Spread Betting
The USA share market is vast with more than 6,000 companies providing retail traders access to major companies and brands from all over the globe. The USA stock markets make up some of the biggest global markets in terms of both...
Betting on Shares
Why spread bet rather than buy shares? Tax-free, profiting from falling markets and leverage are the reasons spread betting is an ever more popular tool. The combined effect of commissions, stamp duty and market spreads usually...
Betting on a Share
For example, you think that the price of BG GROUP [BG.L] will rise. The current price is 935p to sell (bid), and 943p to buy (offered). These are prices quoted to you by the bookmaker and are based on the far future. You are...
Spread Betting the FTSE 100, DOW, S&P 500 Index and Russell 2000
Spread Betting the FTSE 100 It is often assumed that the best-known indices are a fair reflection of the wider stock market, but this is not necessarily the case. In any index you normally have 2 or 3 companies that are very...
Technical Analysis Applied to Indices
Spread Betting the FTSE The FTSE: Stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange. The FTSE UK indices are the benchmark for measuring how companies are performing in the market. The key index for the main market is the FTSE All-Share...
FTSE Spread Bet vs FTSE Tracker
Spread bets on stock indexes are the most active spread bets that are traded. They include all the global indices such as the FTSE 100, German Dax, Japanese Nikkei and the three big US indexes, Dow Jones, S&P 500 and the...
Stock Market Indexes
The role of a stock market index is to measure changes in the value of specific groups of stocks and help measure changes in the entire market. Indexes can provide a quick snapshot to see how a specific group of stocks performs...
Financial Betting – Success Stories
Punter with the Winning Touch – by Bruce Love This is the Hungarian punter who took financial bookies for GBP200,000 by punting on fixed-odds financial bets. Toth Kalman, 28, made most of the cash betting through the...
Martingale and High Risk Bets at Deriv
Even a bet on whether the FTSE 100 index will go up or down on a particular day is rarely 50%. Bookmakers usually quote lopsided odds, because each Footsie session is likely to reflect the tone set by Wall Street the night before...