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Spread betting empowers traders and investors to take positions on movements of a stock, bond, commodity, or currency without buying or selling actual assets. In a number of ways this form of trading is much like many forms of betting, it can take just a few minutes to get the hang of it, but years to master. Profits are free of CGT and traders can speculate on a market moving up or down in value. The practice is not surprisingly gaining popularity and about 100,000 Britons regularly traded spread bets in 2011, compared with 91,000 in 2010, according to Sydney-based research firm Investment Trends.

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