It is possible to lose more than the money you have on your account in Spread Betting, but we hope to try and mitigate those risks with the automatic stop losses and guaranteed stop losses. Be under no illusion that it is a risky product.

 

Now let’s have a look at the platform itself. If you were to log in to your account, this is the first screen you would see, the Popular Markets page. You can navigate to a market that you wish to trade by either clicking on the drop-down menus along the top, or the quickest way probably is to use the search box. There is Microsoft’s share price.

 

Now, we may wish to place a trade on oil, for example. We can go to the search box or we can go to the Commodities and click on Energy Markets. If we want to monitor oil in our portfolio, we can just add it to our portfolio by clicking on this button here on the right, and by adding a number of your favourite markets to your portfolio, generally on the whole, it’s much quicker and easier to get back to the group of markets that you want to monitor or trade.

>>> Spread betting can be risky but has potential to earn money