Welcome to the Spread Trading Academy!

Spread trading is also known as spread betting.

What is financial Spread Trading (Spread Betting)?

Spread betting is the flexible and tax-efficient way to various instruments such as shares, stocks, forex, index, comodities, etc. in the financial markets.

You can go long or short of our huge range of markets to profit from rising or falling prices. You simply 'buy' if you think that the price is set to rise, or 'sell' if you think it will drop.

The degree to which you are correct dictates how much you win or lose. In simple terms: the more a price moves in your favour, the more money you make; the more the price moves against you, the more money you lose. And with Controlled Risk betting you can cap potential losses without putting a ceiling on your profit.

Advantages of spread trade (spread bet)?

Spread betting is versatile, quick and easy. You can trade a number of different financial products on one account and our deal sizes are flexible so you can bet in amounts which feel comfortable to you.

All your profits are absolutely free from UK capital gains tax.* And there is no commission to pay when you open or close your bet. The only charge is our dealing spread.