Betting on Gold Investors have been left with few safe havens for their cash since the height of the credit-fuelled economic crisis, prompting many to seek out the one traditional store of wealth that has outlasted all previous crises: gold. The severity of this crisis and longevity of the recovery convinced many investors to look […]

Spread Betting Livestock | Trading Live Cattle, Lean Hogs, and Feeder Cattle You may be wondering what it means to spread trade on “livestock”. If you have not studied the futures markets, then you may be unfamiliar with how these financial securities are structured. Using spread trading allows you far easier control over your risk […]

Spread Betting Carbon Emissions There can be few people who have not heard about trading of carbon emissions. Some people even know how large their personal carbon footprint is, but this requires a certain amount of work. The idea of trading carbon emissions has been contentious in some quarters, and others said it would not […]

Spread Betting on Cotton Cotton is known as a soft commodity, a term applies to most things that are grown and sold on the futures market. The other general categories are metals, which include precious metals such as gold and industrial metals such as copper, and energy, embracing oil, gas, etc. Soft commodities are more […]

Spread Betting on Heating Oil When looking at spread betting on heating oil futures, you have to understand the market that is behind the numbers. The future contracts are deliverable on every month of the year, and are used to hedge prices for people who need heating oil to run their businesses. Heating oil is […]

Spread Betting on Gas Oil The Gas Oil spread bet is more properly known as the London Gas Oil or LGO bet. It has been an active market in the past, as with all energy contracts, and will no doubt continue to provide opportunities for those who can stay ahead of the news and make […]

Spread Betting Oats As an example of the flexibility of spread betting, consider that you are able to bet on oats futures. Futures have long been known as one of the fortune makers in the financial world, as well as one which must be treated with respect to avoid going broke. They are simple to […]

Robusta and Arabica Coffee Coffee, one of the most popular stimulant beverages worldwide firstly originated in Ethiopia and Yemen and robusta Coffee is especially getting increasingly popular with speculators. Robusta Coffee, incidentally, is a type of Coffee bean that has around twice the amount of caffeine compared with arabica, accounts for a third of the […]

Spread Betting on Orange Juice (NY) Oranges are nearly entirely usable fruits and very little of an oranges is wasted – after the juice has been extracted from an orange (which accounts for about 50% of the fruit), you are left with peel, pulp and seeds. The pulp is used as feed for cattle while […]

How to Spread Bet Light Crude: It’s Balls to the Wall with WTI and Brent Crude If you’re looking for excitement, then trading on crude oil may be just the ticket. Light crude is one of the two main standards for oil, all other crude oil being priced in relation to one or other of […]