Commodities Perhaps the easiest way for small traders to acquire exposure to metals and commodities such as crops is via spreadbets. Spread betting brokers quote prices for a wide range of the more common precious and industrial metals such as gold, silver, uranium, palladium as well as agricultural commodities such as corn, coffee, cocoa, coffee, […]

Interest Rates Believe it or not you can even open spread trades on Interest Rates. In fact the there are more and more products entering the market every year. It makes my mind boggle as to what they will add next. It’s all very good news for us, as it supplies us with an added […]

Spread Betting Shares | Shares Betting One of the big draws of spread betting is easy access to global share markets. Most firms will offer you the chance to invest your hard earned cash in major UK/US and eurozone shares allowing you to profit from international market changes. The shares that you can now trade […]

Binary Bets (‘Yes’ or ‘No’) Another one of the newer forms of trade that we can make is a ‘binary bet’ (mainly available from Binary.com). Binary betting represents another viable way of speculating on the financial markets that is a simple alternative to financial spread betting and in contrast to spread betting with binaries your […]

Daily and Rolling Trades Daily Trades A quick word on DAILY FUTURES or simply known as Daily trades. These are trades that are designed to have a small spread, however, they only have a shelf life of 1 day of trading. So for instance if you traded the Daily FTSE Index – this is a […]

Module 2 pt 2: What can you Spread Bet on? What Markets can I Spread Bet on? The world of trading and spread betting can be quite daunting with lots of markets to choose from. A good starting point is to answer the key question of “what markets can I spread bet on?” Spread betting […]

Guaranteed Stop Loss Financial spread trading can be a risky business. If markets move sharply the wrong way, losses can quickly burst right through a trader’s pain threshold. Thankfully, financial spread trading offers an opportunity for traders to control risk. These are guaranteed stops and regular stop-loss orders The Guaranteed Stop Loss (GSL) works just […]

Risk Exposure, Money Management and Stops Now that we know the trading basics, we need to address the key issue of Risk Exposure. Simply what Risk Exposure is, i.e. what is the amount of your margin/deposit that you are prepared to risk. The spread betting providers give you various tools that allow you to limit […]

Making a Trade We already know what the Sell and Buy markers are, the High and Low, is the current DAILY high and low of that trade. Therefore, you can quickly see from the quote that you receive how close that is to that day’s lowest or highest price point. Simple really. If you for […]

Contract Periods: Quarterly and Rolling Spread Bets Quarterly: On all spread trades that you make you will notice that there are periods that are known as contract periods. These are designated months where the contract will automatically close, and run for 3 month periods and close on the 3rd Friday of the month given in […]