Financial Spread Betting This offers an alternative to dealing in the traditional way in stock markets, fixed income markets, currency markets and commodity markets. What financial spread betting does is predict the price of a stated instrument or product at a specified time in the future. There are a huge number of types of financial spread bets and the time period can vary from "day" bets (which cover a certain period in our day, normally the market hours of a particular instrument) to muc...