149290 Resource 133517 120646 120646 1164039589662 1164039589662 Controlled Advantages to Spread Betting: Going Short Shorting a financial market or instrument is a spread betting advantage When it comes to placing spread bets, there are many advantages. One of them, though, is the ability to "go short." When shorting a financial market or instrument in spread betting, it means that you wager that it will lose value, rather then gain value. You could short the Japanese Nikkei Index, for example, or place spread bets that euro would lose value. When you own shares in a company, you can't profit when it loses value. However, when you place spread bets you do not own what you are spread betting on. Therefore, if you believe that it will lose value, and you spread bet accordingly, you profit as the subject declines. 9 application/xml false advantages spread betting financial instrument financial market going short place spread bets placing spread bets spread bets spread betting Going Short When Placing Spread Bets Advantages to spread betting http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit false true false false true 133517 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web