Spread Betting Features
With financial spread betting you can gain leveraged exposure to price movements without having to make a physical purchase. Instead you place a margin deposit amount to cover your potential downside. You are effectively making a bet per point movement in the underlying instrument.
Go long or short
You can open a selling position to take advantage of falling markets.
Clear profit/loss calculations
Spread betting uses a highly transparent ‘per point’ profit/loss system applied to forex, indices and commodities. One mechanism covers all market types. You place your trade in the underlying instrument currency and your profit/loss is automatically converted to your account currency.
Margin trading
Place a small fraction of the contract value to open your position, increasing the leverage of your investment capital. See our full risk warning.
Tax treatment
Under UK law, profits from spread betting are exempt from stamp duty.*
InterTrader Direct also gives you:
- No management fees to pay, just a small dealing charge per trade.
- Direct access to the market on MetaTrader 4. More
How does spread betting work?
The quickest way to see how spread betting works is to run through some Spread Betting Examples.
*Tax status depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may change in the future. If in doubt please seek professional advice.
