A further growth has been forecast for spread betting brokers venturing into the mobile era with dedicated trading apps and mobile platforms, suggesting that these emerging technologies could help tap potential market share amongst both existing and new trading clients.
With many leading spread betting providers already moving in to the mobile app market, with a variety of different free trading applications, IndependentInvestor.co.uk believes that the viral growth of these platforms will continue, ultimately flourishing into a central, distinct market for the spread betting brokers, while urging the rest of the …

The rise of financial spread betting is down in no small part to a significant tax advantage and comparatively lower trading costs.
Spread betting has been seen as a major growth sector of the financial services industry, with an unprecedented explosion in popularity over the first part of the 21st century amongst both private and institutional traders.
However, with an inherent tax advantage over other trading mediums, and cost-effective leveraging of returns, some commentators have suggested that spread betting is flourishing on fertile regulatory ground.
Independent Investor suggested that the favourable climate for …

Financial spread betting company WorldSpreads have just launched a £100,000 competition for new and existing clients called ‘Ten-in-a-row’. All you have to do is to place 10 consecutive winning traders to share the pot.
Basic rules of the competition:
1. A trade is deemed to be a winning trade if the profit of the trade is more than 5 points.
2. Trades must be consecutive, meaning that you have to close trade 1 before opening trade 2, trade 2 should be closed before placing trade 3, and so on.
3. All markets offered by …

Spread betting and contracts for difference have a number of advantages that mark them out.  They allow for leverage and there can be some tax advantages.  However one really big advantage that is often prized is that they allow an investor to sell a share short quite easily.  This means that an investor can profit from a belief that a share will go down.
Short selling is a very important part of what keeps a financial market liquid and responsive and it would have to be a truly vindictive and economically …

A former City trader has been found guilty of using insider information in consort with an associate to earn several hundred thousand pounds from spread trading.  The trader, originally from South London, set up a spread betting scheme whereby sensitive information was channeled from the fund at which he worked to a friend, who then bet on the relevant indices to make a substantial trading profit totaling almost £600,000, shared between the two men on a 60/40 basis in favour of the unnamed associate. The co-operation of the accused was …