Advantage ~ nounA beneficial factor or combination of factors
The advantages of spread betting at ShortsandLongs.com
Financial spread betting has a number of key advantages over traditional trading methods including:
NO Capital Gains Tax* or Stamp Duty – You can benefit from all the price action of ownership, without having to pay stamp duty or CGT* on any profits and the lack of share certificates and registration makes administration a breeze.
Trade in falling as well as rising markets – How many times have you sat there looking at a share price or chart and thought “This is going to crash, and fast”! Well, with ShortsandLongs.com you can take advantage of falling markets as well as rising markets. And given the current market conditions, it makes sense to find means to profit from a downturn.
Offset the risk of your existing portfolio or investments - You may have built up a nice investment portfolio which you would like to protect in the event of a major market downturn. By shorting against your investments in the spread betting market you can protect your ‘Pension Pot’ covering yourself from adverse movements against your portfolio.
Low cost of entry – As you are trading a leveraged product and you don’t actually own the underlying stock, you only need to stump up a fraction of the cost of trading in the physical underlying asset. In addition, minimum stakes are only £1, so you can start small without risking too much of your hard earned. In fact, not only do you not need a massive amount of capital to trade, but with our guaranteed stops you will never lose more than you put in to your account to start with.
Please note that there are disadvantages as well as advantages to financial spread betting. You must be aware that taking out a spread bet means you do not actually own the physical underlying asset, but that you are taking a position based on the movement of that asset. You must also be aware that you can lose more than your initial stake - but that thanks to ShortsandLongs.com's Free Guaranteed Stops you will never lose more than you put into your account to start with.
*Tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in the future.
