Financial spread betting can be exciting and rewarding, but only if you have taken all of the necessary precautions and have fully researched and be accustomed to how it operates. One of the most important requirements is to understand you need to have a very good money management system in place. This can protect your [...]
I have been using spread betting as a trading medium with quite a good degree of success. For your information spreadbetting is a way of trading the stock market on margin in the United Kingdom.
What is my Secret of Success?
The key to margin trading is to use wide stops. When you are [...]
Unlike the popular belief of many, spread betting started out back in the early 1900’s. The term ‘bucket shop’ was different back then, it was a roomful of clerks (bookmakers) hurrying around placing bets with stock symbols and prices all over the walls of blackboards and chalks. Today, the term ‘bucket shop’ has evolved with [...]
If you are a trader and want to make capital gains on short or long positions you should consider financial spread betting. If following trends as well as the industry movements then spread betting permits you to make use of your strategies on your positions.Spread betting is quite similar to trading futures as you are [...]
Making a spread bet online in the UK has never been easier, thanks to Worldspreads.com. As the UK’s premier financial spread trading company, we are aware that there are many potential investors who may find the world of spread trading unfamiliar and, therefore, confusing. To enable all our clients to make a spread bet by [...]
Many investors have heard of financial spread betting which is extremely popular in countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia. Another method of the trading also is gaining popularity is binary betting also called binary options. While both offer a similar experience, they are also very different. One holds quite some risk whereas another [...]
Tax Free Trading!
Financial Spread Betting may have just become an even more attractive option as an alternative trading strategy following the UK Governments decision earlier this year to raise capital gains tax for higher rate tax payers
Capital gains tax for the higher earners was raised from 18% to 28% in the ‘emergency’ budget [...]
For any motivated investor, the stock market has continually proved to be the most beneficial investment selection and it has delivered the ideal returns above alternative assets including bullion, commodities, bonds and perhaps real estate. The stock market provides quite a few strategies for individuals to generate significant income. The investor is a class who [...]
Financial spread betting is easier to understand than many believe. This simple ten point guide offers you the tools to enter the financial spread betting market with more understanding. It can be applied to currency trading too.
1. Practice makes perfect
If you are a novice then the world of financial spread betting is full of dangers. [...]
TRADING RULES
Here are some rules of trading that if followed should help you make money or as a minimum should stop you losing too much too quickly.
1. ALWAYS USE A STOP LOSS.
A “stop loss” trade is one that is made in order to set a limit to the loss made [...]