Tutorials

How Much Should I Stake?

I’ve compiled a list of most of the markets they we are likely to use, and the suggested stakes I think you should adhere to. Let me clarify one or two things about this table, and how you should adjust it depending on your situation.

Managing Your Spread Betting Bank

Any disciplined gambler or trader should always work with a betting bank which they will try to protect at all costs. The funds used for your bank should ideally be "money you can afford to lose", but provided you are splitting your bank properly and only risking a small percentage in each trade, that worst case scenario should never materialise.

Point & Unit Stake Advice

Last week, I posted quite a lengthy article about managing your spread bank, and I thought that this week to follow on from that, we needed to clarify how the points betting system works in spread betting.