Introduction
Spreadex has been trading successfully since 2000. The company has its headquarters in state-of-the-art trading rooms in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The business was founded by former City dealer Jonathan Hufford, who decided to set up his own company with the intention of making spread betting more accessible.
Spreadex was listed in the Sunday Times Price Water house Coopers Profit Track 100 – which names the UK’s top 100 most profitable companies – for three years in succession.
SpreadEx is unique in the fact that it offers something totally different to other financial spread betting providers out there – a dual financial and sports betting platform. Launched in 1999, Spreadex has since extended its product offerings to include fixed odds sports betting and casino betting while at the same time being concentrating on its financial spread betting opportunities.
Range of Markets Offered by Spreadex
Spreadex provide access to a large number of international markets for you to spread bet on. Opening a spread betting account with Spreadex will allow you to trade on all of of these international financial markets. Spreadex also support betting on sports events from the same account.
The financial spread betting markets that Spreadex offer include Indices such as the FTSE 100 and Dow, global Shares, more than 50 spot and future FX pairings, ETFs, bonds, interest rates and commodities such as oil and gold.
All of the markets can be accessed from the trading platform offered by Spreadex. All of the major markets are available including; forex, equities, commodities and indices.
The Spreadex Trading Platforms
Spread EX offer several trading platforms to support your financial spread betting. The two primary platforms are the online web based platform and a supporting iPhone App. The web based Spreadex trading platform offers investors a professional, fast and reliable interface through which to carry out their financial spread betting.
Features of the platform include;
- One click dealing,
- Standard or pairs views,
- Customisable watch lists
- Access to adding orders to open
- Editing stops and limits
- Viewing positions
You can set up your trading screen to their own preferences by dragging and dropping pop-out windows such as specific charts, watch lists or favourite markets into convenient positions on your screen. These settings can then be saved so that for future visits all pop-out windows will be restored in the last set position.
Supporting Tools & Services Offered by Spreadex
Along with the standard trading platform, Spreadex offer additional trading tools and education. The items that Spreadex off can be seen in the list below.
- Advanced Charting Package
- Market Analysis
- Economic Calendar
- Video Training Centre
- Economic Indicators
The free and comprehensive additional tools and services offered by Spreadex are very good but maybe not quite as comprehensive as those offered by some other brokers.
Summary : A fair choice of spread betting broker if you wish to deal in AIM shares but don’t take their credit facilities as they have very aggressive lawyers if you end owing them money. If you are into sports bets that is a plus as they also offer sports betting. The more technical trader may want a dedicated platform. Well worth a look.