Is spread betting similar to futures trading?
I want to know in your opinion in what ways you think that spread betting is similar to futures trading, and which one would be best recommended for someone who lives in the UK to trade stock market indices, commodities and shares?
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about 1 year ago
I’m not sure what you don’t understand about futures trading, you don’t say. You can ask anything about futures here.
But we don’t have spread betting in the US, so not many people are going to be familiar with it. It is highly leveraged, like futures, and leverage is a killer.
Ask about spread betting on the UK site:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylt=AomMLS999GwMAGXrTmp9mGnpy6IX;_ylv=3
about 1 year ago
Spread betting and futures are similar but with spread bets you can deal in smaller sizes. Futures and options are mainly traded in the USA while spread betting is more popular in the UK and Ireland (in fact, in the land of the free, Uncle Sam makes it illegal to trade spread bets for a USA resident)