Spread Betting
Spread betting is only available from
a limited number of specialised firms, through credit
or direct-debit accounts. It takes its origins from
the complex world of financial derivatives, but over
the last couple of decades has been adapted for use
with sports betting.
Whilst it is rapidly gaining popularity as a highly
exciting form of gambling, spread betting is a pastime
that still remains alien to most casual punters. But
it doesn’t need to be. Spread betting can be played
with very low stakes and in such a way that your potential
losses can be minimised to a level you feel comfortable
with, while there is virtually no ceiling on the amount
of money you can make.
As armchair sports fans, statistical freaks and opinionated
egomaniacs will tell you, there’s nothing quite
like being right. And with spread betting, the more
right you are, the more money you will make. With spread
betting, you may not just want a team to lose, you may
want them to get absolutely thrashed. What better way
to take some comfort from yet another collapse from
the England cricket batting order, than to know that
the worse they do, the more readies you’ll have
in your pocket?
There are 3 principle forms of spread betting, which
will first be introduced over the coming pages, before
we go on to look at their application with football
and some of the more popular British sports, as well
as the financial markets:
Total numbers
Supremacy
Performance index
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