Overall the year was another good one; the beauty of spread betting is that bear markets are another opportunity to make money. I made some big cash from shorting the FTSE, especially over the autumn ..

Fed up with the weekly rise in petrol prices? Hey, if you can’t beat ‘em, why not join ‘em. Instead of moaning about the Arabs, Chelsea tractors and Jeremy Clarkson why not thank the..

Spread betting is perhaps the simplest form of derivative trading around and is certainly the most tax-efficient. Spread bets allow you to bet that the price of an underlying asset (a share, commodity..

Spread betting is very popular, as more and more investors are realizing that they can make money with this type of investing even when the market is going down as well as up! Many investors have bec..

Having first dabbled in shares in about 1994 as a way of bettering my C&G savings account, I knew I could do it and would find it interesting (made 24% in year one and 20.4% year two, using only telet..