Market-leading pricing 

Spread betting is a financial derivative that enables you to trade on the price movements of a wide range of markets. Unlike traditional investing, you don’t take ownership of any assets when spread betting – which means you can go short as well as long, take advantage of leverage and more. 

Traders use spread betting to get a range of different benefits. Some, for example, will utilise spread bets to trade when markets are falling as well as rising. Others use them to diversify their exposure by trading FX, shares, indices and commodities 24 hours a day from a single account. 

The spread is the difference between the buy price and the sell price of a market and is in effect the cost of trading that market. We quote a two way price on all our markets, the bid price at which you can sell and the offer price at which you can buy. The tighter the spread between the two, the quicker the trade can move into profit earning territory. 

StoneX Trading offers both fixed and variable spreads, depending on the market you wish to trade. 

Fixed spreads don't change according to market conditions such as volatility or liquidity. They may either be offered for a defined period of the day, or throughout specific trading hours. Spreads may be wider in less popular (and therefore less liquid) trading hours.  

For example, the UK 100 has a fixed spread of 1 point between 8-4.30pm. Outside of these hours, the spread will widen to other fixed amounts. See Indices for details. 

Variable spreads may fluctuate throughout the day according to different factors such as underlying liquidity or market volatility. With variable spreads, when StoneX Trading lists a spread we will quote you the minimum spread it could be, plus an average spread for a defined historical period of time.

Learn more about the costs of spread betting.