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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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For more information on financial spread betting, visit:
http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/