Financial Spread Betting

With financial spread betting you can bet on the market to go up all down. Bets are usually defined in terms of a specific unit and you then win or lose based on the number of units that the market moves times your unit stake.

Many people use financial spread betting as an alternative to normal investment as

theres no stamp duty

theres no capital gains tax

no brokers transaction fees

you can easily buy or short shares

instant execution and no market size limitations

you can get credit

you can set up stop losses easily

However while similar to investing, financial spread betting is more volatile, and does not generate dividends, but many feel the tax savings and shorting opportunities more than make up for that especially if you are trading the shares.

There are a huge range of potential financial spread markets such as on

Individual Shares (UK, European, US)

Currencies

Bonds

Indices (FTSE, DOW etc)

Commodities

Spreadbet guide is an extensive UK site covering basic and advanced features of spread betting, binaries and all other types of tax free financial market speculation.

 Bet On Markets

BetonMarkets is a comprehensive FIXED odds financial betting site. It has a minimum deposit of £5 / $5 and minimum bet of £1 / $1 making it very accesssible to all prospective financial speculators

 Capital Spreads

Financial spread betting site with lots of help for beginners including a demo account and and online beginners guide. For those familiar with financial spread betting then they offer a wide range of markets and some very tight spreads