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Introduction This article refers to financial spread betting. This means that we are talking about stock, index, future, forex, treasury, commodity and market sector spread bets. If you are looking for information about sporting spread bets then unfortunately this article will be of no use to you. Depending on your geographical location and the legal jurisdiction you fall under, spread betting may or may not be available to you. For example, gambling laws in the US may prohibit spread betting as it is classified in the same bracket as visiting a casino. Spread betting has evolved in, and is dominated by, specialist UK firms. The concept was first introduced over 30 years ago when a bookmaker devised a way of betting on futures...

The CFD market has expanded rapidly over the last few years and a number of innovative new products have resulted from the strong following that CFDs now have. One of those developments is CFD SIPPs. For those of you not familiar with SIPPs, they are Self Invested Personal Pension Plans which basically represent your pension fund, but instead of handing the management of those funds over to a pension fund company, you are able to manage it yourself. The range of investments available to you is very broad, including commercial property and of course stocks and shares. Recently the legislation has changed and you can now use CFDs as a means of trading equities within your SIPP. Now before I go any further, I hasten to add that I am not a...

This article is aimed at those who fancy a go at spreadbetting, but haven't a clue what to do. The hope is that by the end you'll know enough to get started with a tiny bit of confidence. It goes on a bit, but compare it to books on the subject and you'll realise it's admirably brief. Trading requires deep pockets, right? Nope. I'm pretty sure that out of the 20 odd thousand T2W members not every one of them has £500,000 - £1,000,000 to invest - in fact I'd take a long right now on the probability that thousands and thousands would consider £1000 quite a big lump to invest, especially as so many of us are struggling to learn how to survive, let alone win. So let's assume you have a few hundred, or a couple of thousand, to invest...