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spread betting tips - financial spreads tips
 
 
 
 
Financial spread betting is effectively buying or selling a financial product without actually owning it. Therefore, the criteria for buying and selling is the same as if you were buying shares. You are forming an opinion on the relative success of companies and commodities.
How accurate your opinions are will be the main thing that dictates your success in financial spread betting. In order to properly form opinions on individual markets you must know about the company/commodity you are trading on, what the experts think of this commoditiy, general trends in this commodity and the shape of the market to come.
If you consider that you will be competing against the person setting the odds, you will want to know as muh as you can to gain an edge. Once you have selected your company/commodity to trade on you have the following options.
Shorting...
This is when you sell commodities in the spreads in the hope that the price of these commodities will drop over time and then you can buy them back and make a profit.
Hedging Spreads
hedging is where you make a spread bet to protect another bet or investment. For example, if you own shares and think the price may fall you could sell them. The only trouble with this is that you would pay Capital Gains Tax. therefore, you could make a spread bet on these shares dropping and if they did you would effectively break even without paying the tax.
Arbitage Spreads
Arbitage spreads are when you can exploit the odds at different spreadbetting companies with a no risk bet. For example, if one company sets a share spread at 50 pence and antother company set it at 70 pence you could  make a spread bet that exploited the difference.

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