New to sectors?
Sector bets allow you to take advantage of strength or weakness in a particular industry.
They allow you to pinpoint a sector and target gains without diluting your profits with the performance of the rest of the index. At the same time they also offer some protection against company-specific news that can see individual shares buck the overall trend of their sector.
You can learn more about sectors, including what constitutes a sector and the advantages of spread betting on them by reading our sectors FAQs page.
Wide Range of Sectors
We offer bets on every sector represented on the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 stock indices. The FTSE 250 itself is also classed as a sector for spread betting purposes.
You can spread bet on the following sectors:
- Aerospace and Defence
- Banks
- Beverages
- Chemicals
- Construction and Materials
- Electricity
- Electronic and Electrical Equipment
- Equity Investment Instruments
- Fixed Line Telecoms
- Food and Drug Retailers
- Food Producers
- FTSE Mid 250
- General Retailers
- Health Care Equipment and Services
- Household Goods and Home Construction
- Industrial Engineering
- Industrial Transportation
- Leisure, Entertainment and Hotels
- Life Assurance
- Media
- Mining
- Mobile Telecoms
- Non-life Insurance
- Oil and Gas Producers
- Oil Equipment and Services
- Personal Goods
- Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
- Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Software and Computer Services
- Speciality Finance
- Support Services
- Techmark
- Technology Hardware and Equipment
- Tobacco
- Utilities
To see the individual shares that make up each sector, please see our constituent shares list, below.
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Types of Bets
There are two types of bet available on our sectors: Daily Funded Bets and futures bets. A short-term Daily Funded Bet allows you to profit from immediate movement in a sector, while a futures bet gives you long-term exposure to a particular sector.
Learn more about the different ways you can bet on sectors by visiting the bet details page.
Analyse the sectors
We offer a range of tools to help you keep up-to-date with global industries and markets.
Our insight, news and analysis centre provides news and analysis to inform your next deal.
And our charting package provides real-time information on market movements.
Get Started
Our introduction programme for new clients includes a free guide to spread betting and the financial markets, including shares and sectors.
For the first two weeks of the programme you can also start to spread bet from just 50% of our usual minimum bet size, so you can raise your bet size as you increase your proficiency at spread betting on sectors.
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Spread bets are leveraged products. Spread betting may not be suitable for everyone and can result in losses that exceed your initial deposit, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved.