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• Gambling may seem like the ultimate in discretionary spending but it is resilient to poor economic conditions
• Elaine Moore on the best ways to profit from short-term swings in market sentiment www.ft.com/intraday - -
Content
Traders find new ways to ride the storm
Volatile markets mean new betting options for those with the appetite for risk, writes Matthew Vincent
US elections: Polls test mettle of prediction-trading sites
Huw Richards looks at how traders are betting on big elections
Football starts to feel impact of the slowdown
Huw Williams looks at the effect of Spreadfair’s demise on sports betting
Christmas shopping: Picking the pitch of the festive ringing tills
Predicting the extent of the festive slowdown is an opportunity for betters, says Alice Ross
Market prediction: Getting it right can bring big rewards
Alice Ross on the risks of trying to call the bottom of the bear market
Short selling financial stocks may have been banned, but traders have other ways to profit from falling shares
Spread betters who still want to gain from the decline are having to seek out alternatives, writes Ellen Kelleher
Volatility: You don’t have to pick a direction
Sharlene Goff looks at ways to take advantage of the ‘fear factor’ in the current markets
Commodities: No longer just a one-way bet
Oil, gas and metals remain popular despite weak markets, says Lucy Warwick-Ching
Cricket: Indian winter ahead for England
Disruption and poor form will not stop betting on the series, writes Huw Richards
Binary bets bring intra-day trading to the masses
Volatile markets mean traders have been forced to adapt their habits and trading levels on short-term market swings have reached record levels
