Comments on: What investment vehicle out of spread betting or options trading are you more likely to win at? http://freeinvestment2u.info/what-investment-vehicle-out-of-spread-betting-or-options-trading-are-you-more-likely-to-win-at/122/ Investment information for everyone Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: guidfarr http://freeinvestment2u.info/what-investment-vehicle-out-of-spread-betting-or-options-trading-are-you-more-likely-to-win-at/122/comment-page-1/#comment-215 guidfarr Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:40:48 +0000 http://freeinvestment2u.info/what-investment-vehicle-out-of-spread-betting-or-options-trading-are-you-more-likely-to-win-at/122/#comment-215 Spread betting is definitely easier to understand - you just choose the direction up or down and voila... Options are cheap but they tend to expire worthless. Options are more complex instruments and are best left to experienced traders - the only reason they are popular in the USA is that options provide gearing and they they don't have CFDs there. If you are in the UK or Ireland I would definitely go for spread betting. As for which one you are more likely to win or make you a millionaire (!) that depends wholly on your trading skills - you can be successful in spread betting, futures, options, normal stock market dealing...IF you are able to predict the correct market direction. I can tell you that last year (2008) was a very painful year to trade (unless you happened to short banking stocks)... Spread betting is definitely easier to understand – you just choose the direction up or down and voila… Options are cheap but they tend to expire worthless. Options are more complex instruments and are best left to experienced traders – the only reason they are popular in the USA is that options provide gearing and they they don’t have CFDs there. If you are in the UK or Ireland I would definitely go for spread betting.

As for which one you are more likely to win or make you a millionaire (!) that depends wholly on your trading skills – you can be successful in spread betting, futures, options, normal stock market dealing…IF you are able to predict the correct market direction. I can tell you that last year (2008) was a very painful year to trade (unless you happened to short banking stocks)…

]]> By: agent4927 http://freeinvestment2u.info/what-investment-vehicle-out-of-spread-betting-or-options-trading-are-you-more-likely-to-win-at/122/comment-page-1/#comment-214 agent4927 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:14:32 +0000 http://freeinvestment2u.info/what-investment-vehicle-out-of-spread-betting-or-options-trading-are-you-more-likely-to-win-at/122/#comment-214 The answer is probably neither but I think it's easier to make (and lose) money from spread betting, plus the returns are tax free too. The answer is probably neither but I think it’s easier to make (and lose) money from spread betting, plus the returns are tax free too.

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