Daily Index Bets vs Monthly Contracts Rolling Daily Example You have logged into your spread betting account and you have decided that you think stocks in the UK are over-valued. So you put in a sell order on the UK 100. There are various options available to you depending on the length of time the […]

Tips for Spread Betting the Indices Stock Index Futures Contracts came to the UK in 1982, having proved successful in North America. An index value is created by compiling a number of stock prices into one total value, and expressing the value against a base value from a specific date, thus allowing investors to easily […]

Singapore Stock Market Index Spread Betting Not all spread betting companies offer the Singapore Stock Market Index, and when they do you may find it is a variant of the main STI index. That is the case for IG Index, who offer what they call the Singapore Blue Chip which at present is quoted at […]

Spread Betting the ASX 200 The ASX 200, or Australia 200, is a volatile index that can be both profitable and risky to spread bet. The ASX 200 index itself is the major index on the Australian markets. ASX stands for Australian Stock Exchange and includes over 2,050 publicly listed companies with a combined value […]

How to Spread Bet the Russell 2000 Fancy spread betting the Russell 2000? Some people really like the excitement of trading on smaller companies, which are less predictable than the well-known giants. The Russell 2000 consists of 2000 small companies. The fact that there are 2000 companies in the Russell 2000 means that the volatility […]

Spread Betting – Nasdaq 100 The USA index called the NASDAQ 100 (some spread betting providers also refer to it as the US Tech 100) is the nearest thing we have to a worldwide technology stock index. It features all the major US players in this market, many of them world dominating brands such as […]

How to Spread Bet the Brazil Index So you’ve heard of the BRIC countries, and wondered how you could get some of that action spread betting? Perhaps you should consider betting on the Brazil index, which is available with several online spread betting providers. By the way, if you haven’t heard of BRIC, it is […]

Euro Stoxx Spread Betting The Euro Stoxx index, or EU Stocks 50 as it is called by IG Index, is an index that spans many European countries and therefore reflects the economic market in Europe as a whole. In fact the Euro Stoxx 50 reflects the Eurozone as a whole and is based on the […]

Johannesburg Index Spread Betting: South Africa 40 Among the less well known indices that a spread better may consider trading on is the Johannesburg Index, otherwise known as the South Africa 40. It offers fairly attractive spreads for the futures based bet, with IG Index quoting 28,139 – 28,179 for three months away. Given the […]

How to Spread Bet the Mdax Everyone involved in trading has probably heard of the DAX, the major index for the German stock market. DAX is actually an abbreviation for Deutscher Aktienindex, literally “German stock index”. MDAX is simply a bunch of mid-cap issues that rank below the companies in the DAX. The main DAX […]