Financial Spread Betting

Financial Spread Betting with Intermarket Trader is a flexible, tax-efficient alternative to traditional share investment.

Financial Spread Betting allows investors to make leveraged bets on the movement of stocks. Spread-betting offers more leverage than in trading the stock market, and also allows users to take a ’short’ or ‘long’ positions and capture a profit from falling prices or rising prices. Unlike when trading the stock market, you do not actually own the shares. Spead betting simply allows you to speculate on the price movement of securities.

You can make a profit by using your own judgment and knowledge to predict whether the price of a contract is going to go up or down, and trading on this movement. Because you don’t actually buy the underlying asset (such as the share) there are a number of valuable benefits to trading in this way:

– Profits are free from capital gains tax in the UK*

– No stamp duty due when opening or closing positions

– Transparent & efficient pricing: the only cost involved in trading is the spread (the difference between the buy and sell price)

– You can short the market and thus bet on falling prices

– Interested in more than just shares? Our wide range of markets includes a variety of commodities, currencies, indices, interest rates and bonds.

*Tax laws may change at any time.

Advantages of Financial Spread Betting versus traditional Stock Investment

– You can profit from falling share prices as well as rising prices.
– You pay no commissions on your trades.
– There is no stamp duty or capital gains tax.
– All trades are executed immediately.
– You can limit the extent of any losses.
– It requires a much smaller outlay (typically 10-15%) to make the same profit as would be derived from investing in shares.
– There is no currency risk when trading in international shares denominated in other currencies.
– In addition to shares, you can trade indices, currencies, and commodities.We offer a large range of international markets including shares (Irish, UK, German and US), Indices (FTSE, ISEQ, NASDAQ, DOW JONES, DAX, CAC, etc.), Commodities (BRENT CRUDE, SOYBEAN, WHEAT, GOLD, SILVER, etc.) Currencies (EUR/USD, GBP/USD, etc) , Interest rates and Bonds

Is Financial Spread betting for you?

It’s important that you feel comfortable with the process and with the risks involved before choosing your first contract.

Right for you if:
– You are a risk tolerant individual
– You have capital available to you and you are prepared to put it at risk in order to make potential gains
– You have an interest in and an understanding of world markets
Wrong for you if:
– You do not feel comfortable taking financial risks
– Your financial security would be affected by

Tight Spreads

– FTSE and DAX from 2 point
– Currencies from 2 points
– Tight spreads on shares & commodities