1) Where can I Spread Bet on the Aquarius Platinum Market?

The following table shows were you can spread bet on shares like Aquarius Platinum.

For more details on trading stocks and shares markets see Shares Spread Betting.

Spread Betting - UK and European Shares:


FTSE 100 Shares
FTSE 250 Shares
DAX 30 Shares
CAC 40 Shares
Irish Shares
Other European Shares

Spread betting markets on European Shares may also be available through other companies. Notes.

2)Where can I find Live Spread Betting Prices for the Aquarius Platinum Market?

For UK Shares spread bets please see the above tables. Where a company offers the relevant market they will also provide clients with live prices on that market.

3) Where can I find Live Charts / Candlestick Charts for the Aquarius Platinum Market?

Spread betting companies often offer a variety of free data to their clients (accounts are subject to status, terms and conditions).

The most popular UK Shares data, apart from live prices, tends to be the candlestick charts. The time period of the charts can usually be varied. You can often alter the candlestick charts to show market movements in the order of 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10minutes, 1 hour, 1 day or 1 week periods.

With a number of the charts you can also update the settings to help your technical analysis. For example you can add Bollinger Bands and 20, 50 and 100 point Moving Averages and UK Shares candlestick charts are currently available with:


Trading Charts?

Spread betting charts may also be available from other companies. Notes.

Sample FTSE 100 Shares Chart from Financial Spreads:

4) How do you Spread Bet on the Aquarius Platinum Market to Go Up?

Aquarius Platinum Trading Example

If you are going to spread bet on UK shares such as Aquarius Platinum then, looking at a spread trading company website such as Paddypowertrader, at the time of writing you would see a spread trading price of 400.0p - 401.4p.

As a result, you can bet on Aquarius Platinum shares to increase higher than 401.4p or to decrease lower than 400.0p.

When spread betting, you bet on every unit the market moves up or down; specifically, for the Aquarius Platinum market a unit is 1p of the share's price movement.

As an example, you could choose to trade £10 for every penny that the Aquarius Platinum share price increases or decreases.

Spread Betting on the Market to Rise

If you bought Aquarius Platinum at 401.4p and the shares rose then the spread might become 409.4p - 410.8p. In that case, you might decide to take your profits by closing your spread trade at 409.4p.

Your P&L = (settlement value of the market - opening value of the market) x stake per penny
Your P&L = (409.4p - 401.4p) x £10 per penny stake
Your P&L = 8.0p x £10 per penny
Your P&L = £80.00 profit

Of course, if the market had moved down to, as an example, 391.4p - 392.8p, you might want to close your spread bet to prevent further losses. If that happened, you would sell the market at 391.4p.

You would close your bet with the same £10 per penny stake:

Your P&L = (settlement value of the market - opening value of the market) x stake per penny
Your P&L = (391.4p - 401.4p) x £10 per penny stake
Your P&L = -10.0p x £10 per penny
Your P&L = -£100.00 loss

5) How do you Spread Bet on the Aquarius Platinum Market to Go Down?

One of the many advantages of using a spread bet is that investors can sell the markets.

When we started this example, the price was 400.0p - 401.4p.

If you were to sell Aquarius Platinum at 400.0p and the shares went down then the market might be re-priced at 391.0p - 392.4p. Therefore, you might decide to close your spread bet at 392.4p.

Your P&L = (opening value of the market - settlement value of the market) x stake per penny
Your P&L = (400.0p - 392.4p) x £10 per penny stake
Your P&L = 7.6p x £10 per penny
Your P&L = £76.00 profit

On the other hand, if the market had increased to, as an example, 408.1p - 409.5p, you might want to close your spread bet to restrict your losses. If this were the case, you would buy back at 409.5p.

So, with the same £10 per penny stake:

Your P&L = (opening value of the market - settlement value of the market) x stake per penny
Your P&L = (400.0p - 409.5p) x £10 per penny stake
Your P&L = -9.5p x £10 per penny
Your P&L = -£95.00 loss

Aquarius Platinum Rolling Daily spread betting market correct as of 08-Feb-11.

Note, this share is also available to speculate on with Capital Spreads.

6) Where can I find more on Spread Betting on Shares?

For more details on trading equities markets see Shares Spread Betting.

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Aquarius Platinum Spread Betting - edited by D. Jones, 10 April 2013.

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