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The Internet has undoubtedly fostered a revolution in sports betting, shaking up the last Century’s traditional model of high-street and trackside bookmakers and giving punters exceptional choice in what, when and how they indulge their passion for a flutter. Whilst the principles of fixed odds betting with a bookmaker has translated very successfully online to satisfy many bettors’ needs, there has been some innovations in sports betting that have brought intriguing new ways to profit from your predictions. Sports spread betting is one such revolution, but what is it and why might it warrant your attention?
The principle of spread betting originated in the financial and currency markets but has been adapted with phenomenal success to the realm of sports betting. At the core of the idea is the ‘spread’ itself, a range within which the company laying the bet (i.e. the bookmaker) believes a points-based market will settle. This has a lower value (the ‘sell’ value) and an upper value (the ‘buy’ value). Bettors can thus take two positions – forecast that the result of the market (i.e. the result of the specified sporting event or events) will ultimately be higher than the buy value or lower than the sell value. By way of example, say the market is to predict the points a football team will accumulate in the course of a season. The offered spread from the bookmaker is 68 – 70.5. If you stake a £1 on the buy price and the team ends up on 74 points, you’ll make £3.50 (74-70.5=3.5 points times your stake).
The jeopardy is that they end the season on less than 70.5 points since you’re then liable to pay your stake times the number of points under the buy price they finish. Conversely, you might feel the offered spread is over-optimistic and choose to favour a ‘sell’ on this market. In this case, when the season ends, you’ll profit for every point under the example’s sell price of 68, but risk paying out for every point over 68 the team accumulated.
The appeal for many punters with spread betting as opposed to fixed odds betting is that you can make better use of your sporting knowledge. With fixed odds bets you face a simpler win or lose scheme in which you’ll know precisely what you’ll stand to gain or lose at the moment you back an offered bet. With spread betting your gain or loss is wholly dependent on how accurate your forecasting is. That creates a more volatile experience from the increased spread of possible outcomes from taking a position on an offered market, but with it potentially greater engagement for bettors that like to study form, flex their instinct and enjoy the dynamic of ‘playing the markets’.
Sports spread betting is not for everyone – its unpredictability and the greater potential exposure to loss with overly optimistic or pessimistic forecasts means it’s probably not well suited to the faint-hearted or more casual punter – but if you relish a more demanding challenge (with attendant potential for bigger rewards) from your wagering then it’s a fascinating option for your future flutters.
Spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit. It may not be suitable for everyone so please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

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Spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit. It may not be suitable for everyone so please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

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The Spreadex 'spread' is a prediction given by our traders for an aspect of a match or event. This could be the number of goals, corners, booking points or goalscorers' shirt numbers in a football match, runs in a cricket match or length of winning distance in a horse race.
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Spread betting allows traders to bet on the direction of a financial market without actually owning the underlying security. Spread betting is sometimes promoted as a tax-free, commission-free activity that allows investors to speculate in both bull and bear markets, but this remains banned in the U.S. Like stock trades, spread bet risks can be mitigated using stop loss and take profit orders.

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Spread betting is a derivative strategy, in which participants do not own the underlying asset they bet on, such as a stock or commodity. Rather, spread bettors simply speculate on whether the asset's price will rise or fall, using the prices offered to them by a broker.

As in stock market trading, two prices are quoted for spread bets—a price at which you can buy (bid price) and a price at which you can sell (ask price). The difference between the buy and sell price is referred to as the spread. The spread-betting broker profits from this spread, and this allows spread bets to be made without commissions, unlike most securities trades.

Investors align with the bid price if they believe the market will rise and go with the ask if they believe it will fall. Key characteristics of spread betting include the use of leverage, the ability to go both long and short, the wide variety of markets available, and tax benefits.

If spread betting sounds like something you might do in a sports bar, you're not far off. Charles K. McNeil, a mathematics teacher who became a securities analyst—and later a bookmaker—in Chicago during the 1940s has been widely credited with inventing the spread-betting concept. But its origins as an activity for professional financial-industry traders happened roughly 30 years later, on the other side of the Atlantic. A City of London investment banker, Stuart Wheeler, founded a firm named IG Index in 1974, offering spread betting on gold. At the time, the gold market was prohibitively difficult to participate in for many, and spread betting provided an easier way to speculate on it.

Despite its American roots, spread betting is illegal in the United States.

Let's use a practical example to illustrate the pros and cons of this derivative market and the mechanics of placing a bet. First, we'll take an example in the stock market, and then we'll look at an equivalent spread bet.

For our stock market trade, let's assume a purchase of 1,000 shares of Vodafone (LSE: VOD ) at £193.00. The price goes up to £195.00 and the position is closed, capturing a gross profit of £2,000 and having made £2 per share on 1,000 shares. Note here several important points. Without the use of margin, this transaction would have required a large capital outlay of £193k. Also, normally commissions would be charged to enter and exit the stock market trade. Finally, the profit may be subject to capital gains tax and stamp duty.

Now, let's look at a comparable spread bet. Making a spread bet on Vodafone, we'll assume with the bid-offer spread you can buy the bet at £193.00. In making this spread bet, the next step is to decide what amount to commit per "point," the variable that reflects the price move. The value of a point can vary.

In this case, we will assume that one point equals a one pence change, up or down, in the Vodaphone share price. We'll now assume a buy or "up bet" is taken on Vodaphone at a value of £10 per point. The share price of Vodaphone rises from £193.00 to £195.00, as in the stock market example. In this case, the bet captured 200 points, meaning a profit of 200 x £10, or £2,000.

While the gross profit of £2,000 is the same in the two examples, the spread bet differs in that there are usually no commissions incurred to open or close the bet and no stamp duty or capital gains tax due. In the U.K. and some other European countries, the profit from spread betting is free from tax.

However, while spread bettors do not pay commissions, they may suffer from the bid-offer spread, which may be substantially wider than the spread in other markets. Keep in mind also that the bettor has to overcome the spread just to break even on a trade. Generally, the more popular the security traded, the tighter the spread, lowering the entry cost .

In addition to the absence of commissions and taxes, the other major benefit of spread betting is that the required capital outlay is dramatically lower. In the stock market trade, a deposit of as much as £193,000 may have been required to enter the trade. In spread betting, the required deposit amount varies, but for the purpose of this example, we will assume a required 5% deposit. This would have meant that a much smaller £9,650 deposit was required to take on the same amount of market exposure as in the stock market trade.

The use of leverage works both ways, of course, and herein lies the danger of spread betting. As the market moves in your favor, higher returns will be realized; on the other hand, as the market moves against you, you will incur greater losses. While you can quickly make a large amount of money on a relatively small deposit, you can lose it just as fast.

If the price of Vodaphone fell in the above example, the bettor may eventually have been asked to increase the deposit or even have had the position closed out automatically. In such a situation, stock market traders have the advantage of being able to wait out a down move in the market, if they still believe the price is eventually heading higher.

Despite the risk that comes with the use of high leverage, spread betting offers effective tools to limit losses .

Risk can also be mitigated by the use of arbitrage, betting two ways simultaneously.

Arbitrage opportunities arise when the prices of identical financial instruments vary in different markets or among different companies. As a result, the financial instrument can be bought low and sold high simultaneously. An arbitrage transaction takes advantage of these market inefficiencies to gain risk-free returns.

Due to widespread access to information and increased communication, opportunities for arbitrage in spread betting and other financial instruments have been limited. However, spread betting arbitrage can still occur when two companies take separate stances on the market while setting their own spreads.

At the expense of the market maker, an arbitrageur bets on spreads from two different companies. When the top end of a spread offered by one company is below the bottom end of another’s spread, the arbitrageur profits from the gap between the two. Simply put, the trader buys low from one company and sells high in another. Whether the market increases or decreases does not dictate the amount of return.

Many different types of arbitrage exist, allowing for the exploitation of differences in interest rates, currencies, bonds, and stocks, among other securities. While arbitrage is typically associated with risk-less profit, there are in fact risks associated with the practice, including execution , counterparty, and liquidity risks. Failure to complete transactions smoothly can lead to significant losses for the arbitrageur. Likewise, counterparty and liquidity risks can come from the markets or a company’s failure to fulfill a transaction.

Continually developing in sophistication with the advent of electronic markets, spread betting has successfully lowered the barriers to entry and created a vast and varied alternative marketplace.

Arbitrage, in particular, lets investors exploit the difference in prices between two markets, specifically when two companies offer different spreads on identical assets.

The temptation and perils of being overleveraged continue to be a major pitfall in spread betting. However, the low capital outlay necessary, risk management tools available, and tax benefits make spread betting a compelling opportunity for speculators.

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