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How Spread Betting Bets are Priced
For active traders and investors who enter and exit trades the more significant cost is likely to...
What is Market-Making?
If you spread bet, then you will be dealing with a market maker. When you trade on the stock...
Shorting Shares
There are ways to short the market through traditional trading, for example using contracts for...
How to Protect your Spread Betting Winnings and Manage your...
I still remember making my first spread bet; nervously watching the value of the UK 100 tick up and...
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...
Margin Calls
So as we have seen in the earlier lesson when you have open trades, your available margin will go...
Trading Futures Quarterly Spread Betting Contracts
TYPES OF SPREAD BETS Futures Styles Daily Rolling Daily FUTURES STYLES This bets usually expire on...
Bet Size Factor and NTR
Peter Temple, author of the Investor’s Toolbox talks about bet size factors and the NTR To...
Margin Trading
Margin trading is a form of trading where you only pay a fraction of the actual cost of the trade...
Spread betting trading capital: How much do I need to start?
For everyone just starting out with spread betting, one of the biggest unknowns is ‘how much...
Use a Demo Account or Trade for Real?
Simulated trading accounts are a MUST if you either haven’t tried spread betting before, or...
