Spread Betting on Xstrata | Trade Xstrata Xstrata is a mining company first publically listed about ten years ago. It has a diversified range of markets, with copper being one of the major ones. However, it covers other commodities such as nickel, coal, zinc, vanadium, and the platinum group of metals, and produces engineering products […]

Spread Betting on BP Shares To Buy or to Sell? Most spread betters love volatility as fast-moving markets will certainly provide more opportunities than ranging ones, so for many a stock London-based oil major stock like BP PLC which is constantly making it to the news is likely to be popular. Certainly, for those who […]

Spread Bet Rio Tinto To set the scene for trading or spread betting Rio Tinto, here is the chart of price action in recent years, including the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence, and two moving averages, the SMA(60) and SMA (240). First, the longer moving average gives an overall indication of the long term trend. Apart from […]

Spread Bet Lloyds Banking Group Fundamentals There can hardly be a person who has not heard of Lloyds Bank. In its latest incarnation it is a combination of Lloyds TSB (a prior combination of Lloyds and the Trustee Savings Bank) and the Halifax banking group HBOS. As such, it is now the largest ever UK […]

Spread Betting on Tesco: Tesco Rolling Daily If you are concerned about the economy, you would consider taking a punt on a defensive stock like a food retailer such as Tesco (TSCO). Students of the Tesco Rolling Daily spread bet will have found plenty of opportunities to profit during the last year, and it looks […]

Spread Bet Next Shares: Next Rolling Daily Next Plc, the number 2 clothing and household goods seller, has seen some action of late. Next’s store- store-based clothing business, and a high-growth directory/online operation has driven positive Next Brand LFL gross profit trends over the last three years. In fact the company appears to be going […]

Spread Betting on HSBC: HSBC Rolling Daily Trading or spread betting on bank shares such as HSBC can be very lucrative at the moment, as there is uncertainty and that means the possibility of large swings. The chief problem is what the Government may choose to do following the enquiry into competition in the retail […]

Spread Bet on International Airlines Group Having originally been listed on February 11, 1987 at 125p, British Airways was a good example of a company that trades on the news, particularly on bad news, such as strike actions – the company is now known as International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) after the British Airways and […]

Spread Betting BHP Billiton London-listed mining and resource business BHP Billiton is a worldwide natural resources company operating in Australia, Africa and the Americas. Originally founded in 1885, when it was called the Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP), it was as recent as 2001 when Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) merged with Anglo–Dutch […]

Trade FTSE 100 Shares Certainly, the most popular individual shares for spreadbetters belong to the FTSE 100. A good starting point for anyone wanting to use spread betting for profit is the list of FTSE 100 shares. The FTSE 100 is made up of the hundred biggest blue-chip companies in the UK market, and as […]