Financial spread betting and CFD provider InterTrader has improved its cash offer for new customers.
As before, new customers get 10% top up on their first deposit, but top up now is up to £5,000. In order to get the full top up a new customer would need to make £50,000 first deposit.

Whether you are a veteran trader or a novice investor, due diligence must be practiced in order to be successful in trading. Below are four “need to know” aspects that traders and investors must be aware to be able to successfully trade.
1. Taxes
A good number of investment analysts agree that all investors must have background knowledge of capital gains tax (CGT), which all investors are primarily liable for when they sell different shares and commodities for a profit and dividend tax. Investors can better protect themselves from capital gains tax …

It is high time that traders should consider hedging portfolios with Contracts for Difference (CFDs). For those who are always racing against actively managing positions and are already proverbial with the structure, CFDs are definitely worth considering.
For many investors, the idea of utilising hedging as a leverage is more than enough to put them off despite the dabbles and risks. With proper consideration of the risks, CFD hedges can surely make holdings a lot safer than traditional means.
Similarly with spread betting, you can hedge and place a bet regardless whether …

Justifying the risk is truly on top of the list of an investor’s priorities. However, those who are more tolerant of accompanying risks, it’s not a wonder that risk taking investors use spread betting and contracts for difference as a standard approach in their trading techniques.
On the outside, there are slight differences between spread bets and CFDs and since both are derivative instruments that mean boundless rewards or detrimental losses. Unlike traditional share trading, investors utilising derivatives will no longer need to pay for additional fees for stamp duty.
CFDs tend …

The vast majority of currency trading volume is circulating in the spot market today. Although very useful for hedgers and several long – term positional traders these are still vaguely unheard of in the retail trading level.
What is a ‘futures’ contract? It is an agreement between two parties specifically between a short position party and the long position party. In a futures contract, everything is exactly specified per unit, method and time frame of delivery . The price of a futures contract is strictly based by the agreed-on price of …

HeffCap is eager to spearhead its new Dividend Focused CFD Fund which will hopefully protect itself and its investors from the dire economic situation following the hit of their Currencies, Metals and Private Equity Funds. Moreover, there are also fund focusing on agriculture, metals and currencies in other companies as well.
Contract for Differences otherwise known as CFDs is a form of a derivative product that draws its share price from an existing underlying index or stock that it is actively monitoring.
Contracts for difference are very similar to trading typical stocks …

In highly volatile markets in which prices move suddenly in an unpredictable manner can be a very intimidating experience even for the most experienced trader. When share prices fall, a lot of traders instinctively pull back their money back and keep in inside their banks.
However, for a trader who have extensive knowledge of spread betting, falling markets and volatility is not an obstacle in profiting from a difficult environment. Even with the most difficult situations, spread betters represent an advantage for opportunity in profits which traditional share trading does …