Increasingly popular, Spreadbetting and CFDs have opened up a broad and flexible range of investment tools to the private investor. Both Spread betting and CFDs are Margined products, which effectively means you can take larger positions with a smaller amount of money, and they both allow long and short positions to be taken. These are exciting innovations allow the private investor more opportunities to trade and profit from market movements. It also increases the private investors potential exposure to the market, so risk management and trading practice are core elements our CFD and Spread Betting offering.

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Spread Betting
Spread betting has enjoyed a real boom over the past couple of years, with a variety of different markets available to trade on, including individual shares, indices e.g. FTSE, Dow, currencies and commodities. Spread betting can be an effective way of benefiting from short to medium term moves in the markets and as a way of insuring the portfolio against adverse market moves This course covers different trading approaches while also looking at the vast array of markets available to trade through spread betting. The various types of bets will be covered (e.g. daily, weekly, quarterly,cash, futures etc) and the mechanics of how to actually place the bet. Like all trading, there are techniques and strategies that the professionals use to minimise risk and stack the odds of success in their favour - a large part of the course will focus on the alternative strategies, designed to take the gambling out of spread betting.

CFDS
Contracts For Difference (CFDs) are an alternative way of short term trading various global shares. Why would you as a private investor want to trade CFDs - what are the benefits and drawbacks? CFDs are a way of trading on margin - this can be a very effective way to profit from short term price movements - risk and reward always go hand in hand so various strategies to minimise risk are discussed, as are the different types of orders that can be placed to buy or sell CFDs. Like all trading, there are techniques and strategies that the professionals use to minimise risk and stack the odds of success in their favour - a large part of the course will focus on the alternative strategies that can differentiate between the trader who consistently makes money, and those who end up steadily giving their money back to the market.

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