Financial Spread Betting has something to offer various categories of people, including:

Newcomers to the stock market
Long-term investors
Short-term investors and speculators

However,  financial spread betting is not for everyone as financial spread betting is a leveraged product.  With any trading product that is said to be ‘leveraged’ the profit and loss potential becomes magnified. Leveraged, or ‘margin’ products,  usually require the investor to outlay only a small percentage of the total cost of the underlying asset. The magnification of potential returns on investment is a key reason for the increasing popularity of financial spread betting. Potential losses are also magnified in the same fashion.

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