5 advanced spread betting tactics

5 Advanced Financial Spread Betting Tactics

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1. Hedge Your Mortgage

Most spread betting providers allow you to trade on interest rates.

You can use this to your advantage in

two ways...

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1) If the interest rate is going up, you can use spread betting to ‘buy’

the interest rate effectively opening up

the possibility of making a profit

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2) If the interest rate is going down, you can use spread betting to ‘sell’ the interest rate, again

opening up the possibility of making a

profit

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3) You can also use this technique to hedge your

savings when interest rates are falling

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2. Hedge Your Currency Holdings

Protect investments you have in declining

currencies by using spread

betting to ‘sell’ these currencies

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For example, you could sell the

pound sterling, or buy the Euro, or both at the same

time!

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3. Hedge Your ExistingShare Portfolio

In turbulent times, lots of shares take a hit.

Instead of relinquishing your long term share holdings. Use spread

betting to hedge these shares to offset falling

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You can even use spread betting to profit on rising share prices without having to sell

your actual share holdings

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4. Profit from fallingproperty prices

You can use spread betting to open up the potential to profit from falling house prices in

two ways

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1) At least one spread betting company allows you to trade directly on a housing prices index so you can sell or buy this index to benefit from fluctuations in

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2) Spread bet either on individual house

building companies or on the sector. This provides a more

indirect way to try an profit from property

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5. Access developing economies

Most spread betting companies now offer a

wide range of international shares

and exchanges you can trade

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Take advantage of this to find opportunities

beyond the traditional and popular shares and

exchanges

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