Financial Spread Betting offers you Spread betting on key interest rate contracts including Gilts, government bond futures and Interest rate futures.
Government bonds are becoming increasingly popular among retail investors as a means to balance their investment strategy between more volatile instruments such as Stocks & Shares and Commodities.
Treasuries offered:
- BUND
- GILT
- US T-BONDS
- BUND FUTURE 6%
- US 10YR NTE
- EURIBOR
- 3-MTH EURO$
- BUND/GILT
- 2YR T-NOTES
- SHORT STERLING
- BOBL
- US 5YR NOTES
Example
You believe that the Bund is going to trade lower over the next few months and would like to bet on this view.
Financial Spread Betting offers you a price on the Bund of 128.47 to sell and 128.49 to buy and so you decide to sell £10 per point at a price of 128.47.
You watch the market for a couple of weeks and the Bund starts to trade higher to a price of 128.90. You have got the market wrong and decide to close out the trade at the quoted price of 128.91.
Buying £10 per point at 128.91 realises a loss of 44 (128.47 – 128.91) x £10 = (£440).