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A Tax-free* way to take advantage of rising or falling markets, created specifically for UK clients.
Spread betting is a tax-free financial derivative. It enables traders to speculate on the price movement of a financial market, including FX, commodities and indices. Traders can speculate without owning the underlying asset. Spread betting is exclusive to UK traders, allowing them to predict whether the market price in question will rise or fall. The degree in which you are right or wrong will determine the trader’s profit or loss.
More information can be found on our Market Information Sheets
Spread betting allows you to trade on margin, which means the trader only needs to risk a small amount of their capital as your initial deposit for each trade. Trading on margin is an important tool, allowing the trader to take on larger positions. Larger positions will magnify both the trader’s profits and losses, and so must be used with due care. Some traders use a ‘stop-loss’ tool, which limits orders in order to manage the risk.
*UK tax benefits on Spread bets is not applicable to Corporate Clients and UK Tax laws are subject to change without notice, please seek independent financial advice.
Spread betting on the financial markets is a tax free* and simplified way to trade on currencies, equities, indices and commodities.
Spread betting with GKPro means you can also spread bet on the award winning MT4 trading platform.
All profits made in spread betting are exempt from UK Capital Gains Tax*. As spread betting is a derivatives product, it’s also exempt from UK stamp duty.
GKProlets you to manage equities in your spread betting account, in order to Spread Bet equities please subscribe to the
products in the MyGKPro.
*UK tax benefits on Spread bets is not applicable to Corporate Clients and UK Tax laws are subject to change without notice, please seek independent financial advice.
We will use the Euro versus the US Dollar, EURUSD, as an example of how to trade FX on a Spread Betting Account.
First determine the standard lot size for EURUSDSB. If you do not know what the standard lot size is you can look it up on our Market Information Sheets.
In FX a pip is a unit used to measure a movement in price.
It is the smallest price change that an exchange rate can make e.g. one pip of EURUSD is 0.0001.
The ‘spread’ in spread betting represents the difference between ask price and bid price. If the markets move the way you bet, your profit will rise.
Similarly if the markets move the opposite way you bet, you will incur losses.
With GKPro you can trade from as little as £0.10 per pip on our spread betting accounts. To trade £0.10 per pip enter £0.10 per pip as your lot size. This is 0.10 x
the standard lot size of £1 per pip, which is £0.10, or 10 pence per pip.
£0.10 per pip x 5 pip = £0.50, or 50 Pence
If you bought EURUSD with a trade volume of 0.10, you would have made £0.10 for every pip the price of EURUSD went up.
If you bought EURUSD at 1.1000 and the price moved up 5 pips to 1.1005, you would have made a profit of 50 pence because £0.10 per pip x 5 pips = £0.50, or 50 pence.
£0.10 per pip x 5 pip = £0.50, or 50 Pence
If you sold EURUSD with a trade volume of 0.10, you would have made £0.10 for every pip the price of EURUSD went down.
If you sold EURUSD at 1.1000 and the price moved down 5 pips to 1.0995, you would have made a profit of 50 pence because £0.10 per pip x 5 pips = £0.50, or 50 pence.
Alternatively, if the prices in the examples moved in the opposite directions, you would have lost the amounts stated. On spread betting account your profit will always be in GBP.
| Market |
|---|
| Price |
| Standard lot size |
| Min. Trade size |
| Deal |
| Price |
| Market Movement if you close your position ( 1.0984 – 1.0986 olsun market) |
| Gross tax-free* Profit |
| Alternatively |
 EUR /USD  |
|---|
 |
| £1 per pip |
| 10 pence per pip as 0.10 lot size |
| Sell £10 a point at 1.1000 |
 |
| Sell Price 1.1000 - Buy Price 1.0986 = 0.0014 £14 per point |
| £14 * 10 = £140 |
| If the price moves in opposite direction that profit will be your gross loss |
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CFDs and FX are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Professional clients can lose more than they deposit. All trading involves risk. Please consider whether you can afford to take high risk of losing your money. See our full Risk Warning and Terms of Business for further details.
CFDs and FX are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Professional clients can lose more than they deposit. All trading involves risk. Please consider whether you can afford to take high risk of losing your money. See our full Risk Warning and Terms of Business for further details.
