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With a fixed odds bet, you can only lose as much as your stake is. With spread betting, the more that you are inaccurate with your bet, the more that you can lose. You can however, set loss limits, which put a cap on the amount that you can lose.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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What does buy and sell mean for spread bets?<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n

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A spread is set, with an upper and lower limit. When you buy, you are betting that the result or score will be in excess of the upper limit. When you sell, you are banking on it being less than the lower limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Do tight spreads mean less profit? <\/h3>\n <\/div>\n

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The tighter the spread, the quicker you can start making profit. Yet the opposite is also true, with losses having the potential to build up quicker if the spread is tight. Essentially the rewards are better, but the risks are also greater.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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How do you calculate the spread on a bet?<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n

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Spread bets are worked out by taking the total points value and adding it to the total market move, which is the distance between the opening price and the closing price. A bet calculator can make this job a lot easier than calculating it manually.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A spread bet is a type of wager where you make a prediction on what will happen in a sports event. The more correct you are, the bigger the reward, while the more incorrect, the bigger the potential loss. We\u2019re going to fully explain the question of what is a spread bet in this article. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n