Spread Betting Introduction

Ethical Spreads was launched in 2007, primarily to provide private investors with an unrivalled financial spread betting offering. Financial spread betting has now become the strategy of choice to trade financial markets in a professional, secure and highly cost-effective manner.

Financial spread betting involves anticipating the direction of a share, a stock market index, currency etc, rather than actually purchasing or selling the actual instrument. The client will stake an amount per point that the instrument will move in a particular direction. If the instrument moves in the predicted direction the client receives their stake multiplied by the amount of the movement. If it goes in the opposite direction, the client loses the amount of the stake multiplied by the movement.

Ethical Spreads offer customers access to a team of highly dedicated trading specialists, backed up by the most advanced financial spread trading technology and outstanding customer service.

As you will see in the benefits section on the bottom left hand side of our homepage, spread betting transactions with Ethical Spreads allow you to benefit from markets falling as well as rising. Your financial transactions with Ethical Spreads carry no fees or commissions, are free of UK income or capital gains tax (subject to change), and allow you to trade international securities without running any currency risk.

In addition to the major financial markets listed above, WorldSpreads offer a range of markets on current topical issues such as economic statistics, house prices, as well as local and general election results.

A few specific examples of how financial spread betting works can be found in this section.

Upon opening an account with Ethical Spreads, you will be invited to attend a one-to-one seminar to discuss your trading requirements and guide you through the mechanisms of financial spread trading.