5 advanced techniques for harnessing the power of financial spread betting.

1. 5 Advanced Financial
Spread Betting Tactics
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2. 1. Hedge Your Mortgage

3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 3) You can also use this
technique to hedge your
savings when interest rates are
falling
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7. 2. Hedge Your Currency
Holdings

8. Protect investments
you have in declining
currencies by using
spread betting to ‘sell’
these currencies
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9. For example, you could
sell the pound sterling,
or buy the Euro, or
both at the same time!
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10. 3. Hedge Your Existing
Share Portfolio

11. 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 prices
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12. You can even use spread
betting to profit on rising
share prices without having
to sell your actual share
holdings
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13. 4. Profit from falling
property prices

14. You can use spread betting
to open up the potential to
profit from falling house
prices in two ways
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15. 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
housing prices
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16. 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 price
fluctuations
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17. 5. Access developing
economies

18. Most spread betting
companies now offer a wide
range of international shares
and exchanges you can trade
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19. Take advantage of this to find
opportunities beyond the
traditional and popular
shares and exchanges
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20. For more information on financial
spread betting, visit:
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