Although I am a big fan of betting in individual stocks and
stock indices, there are wide ranges of potential instruments one can bet on.
MARKETS The various available instruments fall into the following categories.
Commodities
Currencies
Indices
Stocks
COMMODITIES
Quite a lot of customers are entering the commodities market so there has
also been an increase in the amount of companies offering commodity related
bets. The main categories of commodity that you can bet on are
CURRENCIES
The currency market has also picked up the past few years and the most common
are
USD/JPY
GBP/USD
EUR/USD
EUR/GBP
INDICES
Typically
are FTSE 100, Dow Jones Industrial, Nikkei, CAC40, and DAX
STOCKS
Most firms do all the FTSE 100 constituents. Some do the
FTSE 350 as well but not all use the smaller stocks. Some companies determine
this by essence of minimum market capitalization e.g. £100m
