Financial Spread Betting
Our Financial Spread Betting Account
Our Financial Spread Betting account provides you with access to our full range of Financial Spread Bets and our Guaranteed Stop Loss service, which assist in the control of risk by guaranteeing the execution price of a Stop Loss order. Guaranteed Stop Loss orders do not limit your profits, simply your losses, therefore providing you peace of mind that if a market moves quickly against you, you cannot lose more than you specified at the opening of the position. However, they are only offered on more liquid markets.
To apply we ask you a series of questions to ensure you meet the regulatory requirements.
New to Financial Spread Betting?
Learn to trade with TD Waterhouse Financial Spread Betting
For an introductory period, you are able to trade with reduced minimum stake sizes, giving you the option to limit your exposure to a level that you are comfortable with. Throughout this period you will have full access to our service, giving you time to build your confidence in Financial Spread Betting and using our online trading platform. The minimum stake size on spread bets is reduced from the standard minimum stake size for this initial period.
This Introductory Low Stake Sizes trading period lasts for four weeks, and is available as soon as your account is funded. Even though you have been given the option of trading with low stake sizes for the full four weeks, there are no restrictions on larger trades meaning that you move up to larger trade sizes as soon as you are comfortable doing so. Once the introductory period of four weeks is over, the facility to trade with Low Stake Sizes will automatically be removed.
The benefits at a glance...
- Leverage - enables you to produce a greater percentage profit or loss from each trade.
- Hedging - gives you options which could allow you to protect your portfolio against share price drops.
- Trade short - you could profit from falling share prices, as well as rising (trade long).
- Financial Spread Betting is currently free of Irish and UK Capital Gains Tax. All spread bets are currently free from stamp duty.*
- Exposure to UK, US, European and other international equities, indices, sectors, commodities and FX.
Online support
If you would like to learn more about Financial Spread Betting, the Learn to Trade section on our secure trading platform explains everything you need to know. Here we explain the mechanics of the product, review worked examples of Spread Bets and explain how to use the tools available to help you manage your risks. We also give information trading styles, and show you how to make the most of everything our trading platform has to offer.