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...


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


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


3) You can also use this technique to hedge your

savings when interest rates are falling


2. Hedge Your Currency Holdings

Protect investments you have in declining

currencies by using spread

betting to ‘sell’ these currencies


For example, you could sell the

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

time!


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


4. Profit from fallingproperty prices

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

two ways


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


Take advantage of this to find opportunities

beyond the traditional and popular shares and

exchanges


For more information on financial spread betting, visit:

http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/

5 advanced spread betting tactics

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