Start by reading our Beginner’s Guide below to learn more about spread betting – the benefits, the rewards and the risks! You can go through this course from start to finish or you can navigate to the areas of this course that you are interested in.
Introduction to the Spread Betting Guide
- Why trade UK shares?
- Basic Essentials: Ultimate Guide to Stock Market Prices
- What is Spread Betting?
- The History of Spread Trading
- Is Spread Trading for you?
- Comparing Spread Betting to Shares Trading
What Else Makes it so Popular? Advantages
Spread Trading Markets: What Can I Bet on?
- Shares
- Stock Indices
- Forex
- Commodities
- Binary Bets
- Sectors and UK House Prices
- Differential Markets
- Bonds
- Interest Rates
- Options
Spread Betting Workings: Theory
- The Basic Elements of a Trade
- What does the “Spread” Actually Mean?
- Leverage – A Spread Betting Context
- Spread Trading Basics: Make a Spread Trade
- Margin Trading
- Market versus Spread Price and Contract Expiry Dates
- Type of Contract to Trade: Rolling Daily Bet vs Futures Bet
Spread Betting Explained: The Actual Process
Points to Watch Out For: Spread Trading Tips
What Should I Look for in a Spread Betting Broker?
- Choosing Your Time-Frames For Trading
- Choosing Your Account Size and the Markets You are Going to Trade
- How Much Money Do You Need?
Strategy Development: Have a Trading Plan
- What to look for when Entering a Trade
- Spread Trading Research and Strategies
- Fundamental Analysis and Spread Bettors
- Using Technical Analysis to Spread Bet
- Buying on Lows: Buy Low, Sell High
- Selling on Highs: Sell High, Buy Low
- Buying into Strength: Momentum Trading
- Selling on Weakness: Trading Reversals
- Buying on Support and Selling on Resistance
- Trend Trading: Trend Following
- Pairs Trading
- Arbitrage
- Portfolio Diversification
- Takeover Bids
- Following Directors
- Trading Corporate Updates and Trading Statements
- Dividend Stripping
- Hedging with Spread Betting
- Trading Data Announcements
- Sovereign Debt
Basic Charting and Trading Entry Ideas
- Stop Loss Orders
- Guaranteed Stop Loss Orders
- Using Stops to Open Trades or Go Short
- Using Limit Orders to Open Trades or Close Trades at a Profit
- Setting Stops and Limits
- Contingent Orders
- Using Stop Loss Orders to Protect Positions
- Order Level Calculation
- Maximum Risk Per Trade and Trade Size
How to use Your Spread Betting Losses to Make you a Better Trader
Short-Term Trading or Longer Term Trading?
Spread Betting Mistakes to Avoid
Spread Trading Tips for Beginners
Confessions of a Virgin Spread Bettor
Seven Habits of Successful Traders
Qualities of Successful Professional Gamblers!
Appendix
Learn to trade well, and the money may eventually follow. Day trading successfully is not beyond private investors willing and able to commit the time, sweat, and brainpower to develop superior skills. Our spread betting course is comprehensive, providing you with everything you need to know and have to better your chances of trading profitably.