CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Spread betting is perhaps the most straightforward as well as being one of the cheapest ways to speculate on financial markets. You can bet on loads of different things such as the share price of individual companies, movements on commodities like oil and gold, currencies, bonds and global stock indices like the FTSE, German Dax, Japanese Nikkei and US Dow Jones Industrial Average. In addition, unlike some forms of financial speculation, you can make money spread betting from the price of an asset going down as well as up. Of course, nobody takes up spread betting to lose money. And while spread betting is relatively straightforward to understand, it still takes time and application to work out how and why the underlying markets fluctuate. After all, spread betting ...