Excerpt from: Understanding Spread Betting
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| May 03, 2007 | | Placing spread bets can be profitable | There are several advantages to financial spread betting. Placing spread bets comes with these advantages:
- Fewer taxes (including no capital gains tax)
- Leverage
- Ability to short financial instruments
- Flexibility
- Access to liquid markets (especially the forex market)
- Ability to hedge with other spread bets
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