Spread betting examples
Spread betting is a derivative product that allows traders to speculate on the price movements of thousands of financial instruments, including shares, currency pairs and indices. This article explains how you can go long or short on the financial markets, depending on whether you expect prices to rise or fall through spread betting on shares and the UK 100. For each scenario, we calculate the potential profit or loss for the trade.
Please note that, when spread betting equities, an additional spread is built in to the spread bet price displayed on the platform and is applicable upon execution of any order.