Financial Spread Betting
Range of Markets
TD Waterhouse Financial Spread Betting offers customers a wide range of markets.
Take a position in major UK, Irish, US and other European equities, indices, FX and commodities.
Markets available on the Financial Spread Betting Standard Account:
Indices
These can be useful if you do not have a view about specific shares but feel that the market as a whole will move in a certain direction. Indices we cover include: UK 100, Wall Street, US SP 500, US Tech 100, Hong Kong 40, Japan 225, Germany 30, France 40 amongst others.
Equities
You can use individual equity bets to back an individual share, whether you think it is going up or down. TD Waterhouse Financial Spread Betting gives you the flexibility to back major companies from the UK, US, European and other international markets.
Currencies
Currency betting allows you to speculate on the world's major currencies. TD Waterhouse Financial Spread Betting gives you the benefit of the price performance of any major nominated currency without the need for actual Foreign Exchange (FX) conversion.
Commodities
TD Waterhouse Financial Spread Betting speculate on the gold, silver and copper. Our competitive two way prices will allow you to take long or short spreadbet positions in these metals.
UK Sector
These types of spreadbets are advantageous if you wish to back a whole sector rather than staking everything on one share. They are an interesting way of backing areas of the stock market that you may have a view on.
Metals
You can speculate on the price movements of gold, silver and copper. Our competitive two way prices will allow you to take long or short spreadbet positions in these metals.
Bonds
Bonds are an interesting way to access Government securities across several countries including UK, US and Japan.
Interest Rates
Our interest rate spreadbets allow you to speculate on the rising or falling of interest rates in UK, US, Eurozone and Australia.
Options
You can trade a variety of options on major world indices, such as UK 100, Wall Street and Germany 30. Options are also available on a range of other financial instruments such as volatility, bonds and gold. Before trading spreadbet options please ensure you fully understand the risks and dynamics of our options product.
You can find details of these charges for particular Markets within the relevant Market Information tab, which is located on the Trading Platform next to each Market or by calling our Customer Services.
TD Waterhouse Financial Spread Betting opening hours
All times stated relate to GMT.
We are open for trading from Sunday evening 2000 GMT during winter months / 2200 BST during summer months, through to 2115 Friday evening London time.
Please note that certain markets are also open on most public holidays. On such days, the opening hours of these markets may be restricted compared to normal trading hours. Please check with the Customers Services Team on 1 800 646 581. If you are using a mobile phone to contact us please could you ensure your mobile is Internationally enabled and contact our Customer Services Team on +44 203 194 1648.