Recent content by bfinn

Sorry, I forgot to say in my earlier post that IG are also very good cost-wise for FTSE-100 quarterly bets; similar to Cantor. I'll edit it.

Daily rolling bets For 2 weeks you're probably best off with daily rolling bets, which I haven't spent much time looking at. However I did model IG Index's FTSE100 index daily rolling bets, which are very cheap at the moment (the cost of carry being no more than for a quarter bet), as a result...

Best for index futures I bet only quarterly/monthly futures of the FTSE and emerging market indices/iShares, generally holding for several months. As I am betting over £3 million of underlying I've spent several weeks researching and modelling the costs of 13 different spread bet sites...