How to spread bet

Spread betting on our user-friendly next generation platform is straightforward when you understand the basics

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When you spread bet, you simply choose whether the price of a product is likely to go up or down and how much you want to stake per point on this movement. If the market moves in your favour you will make a profit, and if it moves against you, you will make a loss. Your profit or loss is the difference between the price you buy at and the price you sell at, multiplied by your stake.

If you bet €5 per point on a company and the price rises 20 points you would make €100 (€5 stake x20 point movements). But if the price falls 20 points, you would lose €100. Click here to see detailed examples of typical long and short spread betting scenarios.

With spread betting, as you don’t actually buy or sell a physical product, but rather spread bet solely on a price movement, you can make profits (or losses) from falling markets just as easily as rising markets. Opening a position by selling a product that you believe will go down in value is known as going short.

Prices of financial instruments are quoted in pairs. The sell price is quoted first and the buy price is quoted second. The spread is the difference between the sell and the buy price.

When opening or closing a spread bet, you buy at the higher price and sell at the lower price.