Understand the market-maker spread as the price gap between buying and selling offers by market makers, and how it compensates for market-making risks.

Spread trading is a form of speculative trading that leverages the buy/sell spread of a security and your investment amount to determine what the gains or losses of the position will be when it’s ...

In this article, we explore a quantitative approach to spread trading with a slightly different setup than the classic model. Typically, spread trading involves going long on one asset and ...

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Leveraged trading with spread betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) isn’t for everyone. It certainly won’t form the core of a strategy for most MoneyWeek readers. However, for some people, short ...