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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

What is Spread Betting?

Spread betting is a strategy to profit from the market by predicting the market. As you may know spread is the difference between the bid and offer price. Spread trading is a type of speculation in which the trader bet against a spread betting company that a particular stock will falls below its bid price or will rise above its offer price.

Spread betting does not involve owing the underlying equity, and have resemblance with options and futures trading. The general procedure of spread betting is as follows. Imagine a stock with bid price of $100 and offer price of $102. If you feel the price will be down you can bet for a certain money, say $3, with every decrease in $1 or one point. If the market follows your thoughts and the price is decreased to $95, then you will receive $3x 5=$15. If market goes against you and the price be $105 you will lose $15.

Spread betting is also riskier strategy. Traders can implement stop loss and stop win options with the bookmaker. The main advantages of spread betting includes tax exemption on profits (in UK), freedom to trade wide range of markets, chance to profit in both market direction, no commissions, etc. The main practice of spread betting is in UK, American stocks are also available for spread betting.

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