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Who Trades Spread Betting

The idea of Spread Betting was began way back in 1970’s by an investment banker called Stuart Wheeler. It is form of trading in which you wage on the price movement of share, index, currency, commodity or bond. It is a way of playing the stock markets without really owning the stocks.

Contracts for Difference compared with Financial Spread Betting

A CFD (Contract for Difference) is an over the counter agreement between two parties to exchange the difference between the opening and the closing price of that contract at the close of the contract based on the underlying share multiplied by the number of shares specified in the contract. Despite sounding like it is going [...]

How the Internet Has Revolutionised Share Dealing

Leading economic commentators agree that the financial crisis we are entrenched in could reach an unprecedented scale, with only the smallest chance of a genuine recovery. Nevertheless there is still the opportunities for traders, investors and enthusiastic amateurs to earn a good income by making use of the variety of online share dealing and trading [...]