Whois & Analysis for activtrades.com

Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds (or money-line) betting or parimutuel betting.

A spread is a range of outcomes and the bet is whether the outcome will be above or below the spread.

Spread betting has been a major growth market in the UK in recent years, with the number of gamblers heading towards one million.

Financial spread betting (see below) can carry a high level of risk if there is no "stop".

In the UK, spread betting is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority rather than the Gambling Commission.

ActivTrades is a UK-based online broker providing trading in Forex, Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and Spread Betting.

It provides services to retail and institutional traders via the electronic trading platforms MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.

The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a global decentralized market for the trading of currencies.

This includes all aspects of buying, selling and exchanging currencies at current or determined prices.

In terms of volume of trading, it is by far the largest market in the world, followed by the Credit market.

The main participants in this market are the larger international banks.

Financial centres around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of multiple types of buyers and sellers around the clock, with the exception of weekends.

The foreign exchange market does not determine the relative values of different currencies, but sets the current market price of the value of one currency as demanded against another.

In finance, a contract for difference (CFD) is a contract between two parties, typically described as "buyer" and "seller", stipulating that the seller will pay to the buyer the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at contract time (if the difference is negative, then the buyer pays instead to the seller).

In effect CFDs are financial derivatives that allow traders to take advantage of prices moving up (long positions) or prices moving down (short positions) on underlying financial instruments and are often used to speculate on those markets.

A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities, commodities, and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect supply and demand.

Securities include stocks and bonds, and commodities include precious metals or agricultural products.