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A financial spread betting demo account lets you practise spread betting with virtual funds. Our demo account simulates our live account, so you can try out trading strategies without any risk to your own money.
Spread betting is a tax-efficient** way of speculating on the price movement of thousands of global financial markets, including indices, forex, commodities, cryptocurrencies, shares and treasuries.
You don't buy or sell the underlying asset you wish to trade when placing a spread bet. Instead, you take a position based on whether or not you think the price of an instrument will rise or fall. Profits and losses are generated based on whether or not the market moves in your chosen direction. Learn more >
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With spread betting, you can diversify your portfolio through leveraged trading on a wide variety of indices, forex pairs, commodities, shares, cryptocurrencies and treasuries.
Trade on over 300 FX pairs, including the majors like EUR/USD, minors like EUR/GBP and emerging or exotic currency pairs such as USD/NOK.
Our indices give you the opportunity to trade on a basket of shares that represent a country’s economy. Spread bet on index instruments like the UK 100, US 30 and Germany 30.
You can also trade on stocks with over 8,000 share instruments from around the globe, as well as our exclusive range of share baskets, a wide range of commodities, plus the most popular cryptocurrencies and treasuries.
Trade on over 300 forex pairs, such as EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, GBP/USD and many other minor and exotic pairs and our range of forex indices. More >
Choose from global indices to speculate on a group of top shares in a country. Trade on the UK 100, US 30, Germany 30, US SPX 500, Australia 200 and others. More >
We offer spread betting on 15 popular cryptocurrency instruments. Take a position on bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, litecoin and ripple, or spread your risk with our range of crypto indices. More >
Trade on over 80 cash and forward commodity instruments, including energy commodities like Brent and West Texas Crude Oil and Natural Gas, and metals like Gold, Platinum, Copper and Silver, plus our range of commodity indices.
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Spread bet on over 8,000 shares from 22 countries, including Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google, Netflix, Lloyds, Rio Tinto, BP, Tesco and Amazon, plus our exclusive range of topical share baskets. More >
Choose from over 40 treasury instruments, including UK Gilt, Euro Bund, Euribor, US T-Bond and US T-Note 10 YR. More >
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