Spread Betting Explained: Financial Spread Betting
Financial spread betting http://www.spread-betting.com/spreadbetting originates back to 1974, when Stuart Wheeler established IG Index. His idea was to let investors to trade the price of gold without incurring big charges. Initially, financial spread betting was popular amongst institutional investors, city traders and high-rollers, but the trading product has become mainstream with private traders.
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Financial Spread Betting with IG Index
http://www.fintrader.net How to trade financial markets, Vince stanzione explains why its not how many trades you win that counts. To learn how to profit from UP, DOWN or even sideways markets go to www.fintrader.net
Vince Stanzione is one of the world leading traders and has been in the business for over 23 years. His success has been featured in many publications, to read more go to www.fintrader.net
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Spread betting forex – AUD/USD
http://www.worldspreads.com Financial spread betting firm WorldSpreads’ analyst, Alistair McCaig gives his view on spread betting the AUD vs USD.
Spread betting forex can be really effective, especially given very tight spreads, zero spreads on some instruments, high liquidity & low bet minimums.
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Pips and Points in Financial Spread Betting
In spread betting http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/ you trade an amount per point of movement of whatever instrument you are trading – for example a share, commodity or index. A point doesn’t always equal a penny; sometimes its a cent, sometimes a point and sometimes a fraction of a point
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can someone explain football betting to me?
I always hear about the spread and all the other jazz from my guy friends..how does it all work?
A team is favored by a certain amount of points in order to get people to bet on the other team.
The Lions are playing the Colts this week. No one would bet on the Lions. But the spread is 17 points. So if you bet on the Lions, you get an extra 17 points added to their score. If you bet on the Colts, you get 17 points subtracted.
There are other things, but that the basic idea of the spread.
Am I better to use spread betting to enhance my returns on any stock investments I make rather than………?
I am 18 years old and I want to start investing into the stock market by applying value investing techniques, i.e. buy low, sell high at the right price. I am looking into investing into stocks which have high growth potential over timescales of 6 months to 2 years. I also happen to know quite a bit about spread betting as well as my knowledge of the financial markets and value investing, and with my practice spread betting account, I am up 400% in the past 4 weeks.
What I would like to know is if it would be better if I should just use spread betting to hedge my portfolio of value investments, and to enhance my returns on the stocks I invest into as well to grow my portfolio even quicker? What would you advise here? What are you suggestions? Please give a good, reasonable answer to earn best best answer. Thanks for all help as it would be very much appreciated.
Value investing is based on the premise that the market is not efficient. Instead, it is constantly agitated by noise of one form or another. In the short to medium term the prices of shares can over-react up or down and for reasons that have little to do with their fundamental analysis, which makes shares that have fallen under their ‘fair value’ a better prospect for the future as they return back to their correct.
You can definitely take a spread bet to hedge your portfolio but you will need to balance this against a whole basket of shares – or indices as they are sometimes called – so if you hold long positions in individual shares in the FTSE 250 you would take a short position in the FTSE 250 index as a hedge to your share positions. Spread betting is however best suited for speculative activity and is not appropriate for holding long term positions so if I were you I would buy normal share positions and hedge against any market downturns by taking a spread bet.
What is the difference between spread betting and arbitrage?
Looking for a more detailed ‘betting for dummies’ type of answer, please.
Spread betting is not betting on a simple outcome, a win or a loss, but the degree/margin of the result. Thus you are not content to say that team A will beat team B but that it will do so by more than one point and you would win more if the result were more in your favour but lose more if it went the other way. Sometimes then it is an open ended bet at one end because in theory there is no limit to how many points might be scored although there is a limit at the other end, nought.
Arbitrage arises when your bet looks to be on the way to being successful and you sell your position to someone else for a profit rather than see out the result to a finish – example, if prices are going up, buy at 10 and sell at 12 or if going down sell at 12 then buy at 10.
Should I give up and not ever bother with spread betting and CFD’s? Please help me make my mind up? Also……?
I am/was considering using spread betting and, or CFD’s to trade things like stocks, currencies and commodities.
But, I’m doing rather well with just stocks and shares investing. What I would like to know is, for a final decision, is should I even bother with these 2 products at all, or should I give up and not bother with them and concentrate on investing for the long term in the stock market?
Also, which out of just investing in the stock market, or speculating on the stock market are you more likely to be most successful in long-term – I mean are you better to get rich long-term slowly but surely by just investing, or have an emotional ride with trading using spread betting and CFD’s?
80% of people who speculate in futures and options lose money. Only the brokers who execute the trades get rich, because you pay them a commission if you win or lose.
If you want to get rich in the long term, buy quality stocks or no-load mutual funds with low expense fees and hold them for a while. On the other hand if you have a gambling need and you don’t live near Las Vegas or Atlantic City, then go out and buy some spreads. You are about as certain to lose your money as you would in the foregoing gambling capitals.
Spread Betting Market Update 11 05 2010
Spread betting – Watch the latest daily Market Update from IG Index. Financial spread betting with the UKs number one provider (Source: Investment Trends).
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What is Financial Spread Betting?
What is Financial Spread Betting? http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/Spread-trading-faqs.html Financial spread betting is appealing to ever bigger numbers of private retail traders for several reasons, not least of which is the absence of capital gains tax on profits (unlike conventional stock trading, where CGT applies to trading gains in many countries), and the lack of stamp duty on transactions (most interesting in the UK; strictly speaking, the transaction is a bet, rather than an investment – hence the name.). To a spreadbetter it doesn’t matter which way the market is moving, you can make money either way.
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