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Gain exposure to a large number of markets, long or short, with leverage, tax-free. ActivTrades offers industry-beating execution and service for spread betting on tens of thousands of underlying markets.
What is Spread Betting?
Spread betting is a financial derivative that allows anyone to take positions on financial markets without being required to actually purchase the underlying assets. In this way, you can take advantage of rising and falling markets simply by being on the right side of the bet.
Spread betting also has some other advantages over similar derivative products in that spread betting profits are tax-free in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Spread betting was originally invented to allow access to markets that were fragmented and illiquid. Today spread betting allows investors of any size to access the market of their choice easily and affordably.
*The pricing is for indicative purposes only. Please go to individual instrument specifications to see the trading conditions.
What is Margin?
Spread betting services are offered on margin, meaning that you can leverage your capital to command a position that’s larger than your investment. This can multiply your gains when a trade goes in your favour, but can also multiply your losses when a trade goes against you. Leverage should always be used sparingly and as part of a sound risk management strategy.
What is the Spread?
When you take a position on an underlying market, you will see a price for buying that market (you believe it will go up), and a different price for selling it (you believe it will go down). The difference between these two prices is the spread. At ActivTrades, the size of our client base allows us to offer some of the narrowest spreads in the industry.