Spread Betting Tips and Trading Diary » City Index http://www.spreadblogging.co.uk Financial spread betting tips, news, guides and strategies. I also keep posting my latest potential and actual trades. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:10:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Where to sell the GBP/USD? http://www.spreadblogging.co.uk/2009/08/26/where-to-sell-the-gbpusd/ http://www.spreadblogging.co.uk/2009/08/26/where-to-sell-the-gbpusd/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:46:57 +0000 spread bettor http://www.spreadblogging.co.uk/?p=344 Hi all,

If you think the trend has changed and the USD is going to be stronger or even if you think the opposite, you want to find the best spread out there.

for daily most of the companies offer 3 points spread but for September or December there is a difference. Again IG Index are not competitive and offer 12 points spread. City Index and Paddy Power trader offer better – only 8 points spread.

You may think that it is not a big difference but you will be surprised how much the spread is eating your profits. So shop around!

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I’ve took 4 shares, 2 from the FTSE 100, 1 from FTSE 250 and one from USA and compared 5 platforms. Very interesting results:

Share

IG Index

CMC Market

Paddypower

City Index

Victor Chandler

RBS Spread

0.149

0.14

0.3

0.15

0.1

BP Spread

1.2

1.01

0.8

2.3

1.3

Citi Group spread

3

1

3

4

6

Petroface spread

4.3

2.97

2.2

3.9

1.4

My advice, always compare the spread. There is huge difference between platforms.

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