Spread Betting With Shares Reviews

Spread Betting on shares is essentially like gambling. Instead of gambling whether a horse or dog will win a race you are gambling on whether a share price will go up or down. There are several companies that offer spread betting on shares, most of which is now done on line. Amongst them are (in no particular order, and there are many ...  Read the complete review

So what is spread betting, well I'm doing it right now on a screen behind this review. I will attempt to provide an overview of the principles of spread betting and my experience of it for you. * Financial Spread Betting * Spread betting is a way of trading on a financial market (I trade on three european markets) or a ...  Read the complete review

Any kind of stock-market investment is a bit of a gamble, but only spread-betting is actually classed as gambling for tax-purposes (i.e. no tax) which makes it rather useful, especially for a higher-rate tax-payer. With most investments (e.g. shares) the stake is the total cost of buying the investment so the most you can lose is all of your ...  Read the complete review

Spread betting, or trading, call it what you will, an investment or a gamble, it's not really any better than us sports gamblers, or even poker players. You can lose a lot (as the news has recently lead us to see, a lot can be £3 Billion), by not knowing what your doing, admittedly the banker wasn't spread betting, but was effectively betting on ...  Read the complete review

Spread Betting – How it Works This is how spread betting works. Suppose you want to bet that the share price of Marks & Spencer will rise. Instead of investing, say, £7,000 to buy 1,000 shares at £7 each (paying the broker's commission and stamp duty), you buy a spread bet at £10 a point instead – this means that for every penny the ...  Read the complete review

Spread betting is very simple and the high rewards that can go with it are proving very attractive to anyone interested in investment, particularly as you do not pay any dealing costs on your trades, or any taxes on your profits ! Spread betting gives the investor an opportunity to back their judgement on almost any financial market, over ...  Read the complete review