FINANCIAL SPREAD BETTING
What are the disadvantages?

 

Disadvantages of financial spread betting

How risky is spread betting? The answer is very - and of course this is a huge disadvantage. Trading on the world’s stock markets can be highly unpredictable at the best of times. Negative or ‘strange’ news can have a dramatic affect on commodity or share prices and this can quite easily go against the spread better.

1. The potential for loss is limitless.

2. Huge amounts of money can be lost in a very short space of time.

Financial spread betting is very complex and traders who normally bet in this way are quite prepared to lose large sums as well as win them.

 

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