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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 …

City broker Collins Stewart has issued a positive review of WorldSpreads Group in its outlook on the company’s medium term share price, advising its clients to Buy WorldSpreads off the back of continued revenue growth in its recent half-yearly report.
After WorldSpreads posted strong results for the six months to 30 September, analysts across the City have acknowledged the spread betting broker as being in a strong position for further growth, with both increasing trade volumes and a swell in new accounts fuelling their expansion over the six month period.
With an …

There has been a lot of fuzz on the internet about the new offer from financial spread betting company WorldSpreads. In the latest wave of spread cutting, WorldSpreads managed to undo the competitors by introducing zero spread on 10 popular markets: FTSE100, DAX, CAC, EURO STOXX, GILT, BUND, EUR/USD, AUD/USD, EUR/GBP and USD/JPY.
At IndependentInvestor.co.uk we don’t just report the news but we investigate it and give our readers an unbiased and independent view on the competiveness and practicality of the offers. WorldSpreads are not exception and our research team went …

Leading spread betting platform WorldSpreads has just declared its preliminary results to the end of March 2010 showing a jump in profitability as a direct result of its growing business, as spread betting becomes increasingly popular in the UK and international markets.
Its pre-tax profits rose some 1200% on the same period last year, leaping from EUR 250,000 to EUR 3 million, which the groups itself has said is a result of its growing customer base across UK and worldwide trading markets, in addition to revenue growth from EUR 6.9 million …

Financial spread betting giant WorldSpread has announced it has struck a deal with 188Bet to take its online trading services into other largely untapped markets, including the emerging Asian markets where financial spread betting remains a niche interest.
The partnership agreement will see spread betting hit a truly global stage, with analysts anticipating a strong rise in uptake in the new financial markets.  With the WorldSpread online trading platform on offer to 188Bet’s global client base, the deal has paved the way for Asian investors to take advantage of spread betting …