Barclays Stockbrokers is launching a financial spread-betting service for retail investors as well as a professional trader platform that of...

Barclays Stockbrokers is launching a financial spread-betting service for retail investors as well as a professional trader platform that offers day traders and investors tools such as streaming charts to help analyse the market. The data service will be offered free to investors who trade an average of more than 75 times a quarter. Spread betting is becoming an increasingly popular way to trade the financial markets in the UK as profits are tax free.