Spread Betting Spread betting is currently one of the fastest growing areas of gambling.
Lets take an example.
For a typical football match Sporting Index may put up a spread on the total corners of 11 - 12. This means that the Sporting Index think that 11 or 12 corners will be awarded during the match. If you think that more than 12 corners will be awarded then you can buy at 12 for say 20 a corner. If you thought that less than 11 corners would be awarded then you could sell at 11 for 20 a corner. Now if there were 16 corners you would lose 100 but if there were 10 corners you would win 20.