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City Index Offering Free Webinar to Learn Spread Betting

Some interesting spread betting webinars and seminars are being offered for free by City Index, which was deemed the Best Mobile Trading Platform by Money AM Online Finance Awards in 2010 and 2011

Mitigating the risks of spread betting

Spread betting can be one of the most lucrative of speculative activities but … more

Difference Between Spread Betting and Share Trading

Difference between Spread Betting and Share Trading

Leverage

Although spread betting companies tend to attract experienced brokers from the city who have plenty experience analysing markets, there’s a distinct difference between “spread betting” and regular share trading.  In this article, I’ll go over some of the most obvious differences between the two … more

How to Open a Spread Betting Account

Tips for Opening a New Spread Betting Account

Opening a spread betting account is relatively pain free and easy.  Before you can begin spread betting on financial markets, you will first need to open a spread betting account at a spread betting platform such as Capital Spreads.

When you go to your … more

Differences Between Forex Trading and Spread Betting

Comparing Forex Trading versus Spread Betting

Spread betting and forex trading have equally become extremely popular over the past decade, enabling traders to make money speculating on financial markets and currency movements in highly leveraged positions and high risks and rewards.

But, considering both Forex trading and spread betting require similar … more

iPhone Spread Betting

Best UK Spread Betting iPhone Apps

A number of the top spread betting platforms have released iPhone apps for their spread betting account holders. iPhone Spread Betting Apps are a great technological revelation that allow you to check the market prices 24/7 and open or close your accounts when you’re away from … more

Spread Betting on Fundamentals

Spread Betting on Fundamentals

Unlike technical analysis which was discussed in the previous post, trading on fundamentals is when you make money from researching how an externality such as economic publication, commodity price or government policy will affect the movement on the market in one way or another.

Trading on fundamentals … more

Choosing a Spread Betting Platform

Choosing a Spread Betting Platform

The first spread betting company, IG Index, was set up in 1974 by Stuart Wheel and was closely followed by the City Index.  However since 2,000 a ton more spread betting brokers and platforms entered the market offering spread betting services on major stocks, bonds and … more

Spread Betting Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis & Spread Betting

There are two basic strategies that traders adopt for spread betting, technical analysis and trading on fundamentals.  Depending on your particular knowledge of an industry and how you plan on making money in spread betting, you may wish to use one particular strategy or another.  In … more

S&P500 and DowJones Spread Betting

Dow Jones and S&P 500 Spread Betting

About the S&P 500

The S&P 500 is the second most followed index of large-cap American stocks after the Dow Jones.  The stock index is owned and maintained by Standard & Poor’s, a division of McGraw-Hill.   The S&P 500 is financial indices started in 1957 … more

History of Spread Betting

History of Spread Betting

Spread betting nowadays is extremely popular and is growing by 20-30% each year in the UK according to leading spread betting company Tradefair.  In fact, there are now over 20 spread betting companies operating in the UK alone, with the average spread bettor in the £50k+ earning … more

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