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@chiefhelmet

With a spreadbet you are betting on the price going up (or down).

To do this you have to have some money in your account to make sure you can pay if you lose the bet.

Taking Avacta's rough current buy price of 115p, should you place a BUY spreadbet of £10 per point increased, then you will make £10 for each point it goes higher than 115p (at sell price), until you decide to close the bet.

However, should the company collapse and you lose everything then you would owe 115 x £10 = £1150 - This is the Notitional value, which determines the Margin required (deposit) in your account to place that bet.

Currently IG require you to have at least 25% of the Notional value for Avacta in your account on bets up to 650.

So, for a £10 bet at 115p the max loss is £1150
25% of £1150 is £287.50
Hence you need to have at least £287.50 in your account to place that bet i.e. cover the Margin.

From 20 Dec, Avacta's Margin is decreasing to 20%, so for the £10 bet above the Margin becomes 20% of £1150 = £230, thus I would only need £230 in my account to now place that same bet.

That then leaves an extra £57.50 margin available to me to place an additional bet (from the same amount of funds in my account).

I'm no expert but I think, with the exception of a few pounds and pence here and there, that's pretty much it!
Hope that helps
:D

I'm certainly not shorting but IT DOES help me - it will increase my leverage (by 5%), hence I can add to my already maxed SB position without needing to add more funds.

Thanks for taking the time to answer peelweight - appreciated.

Thanks alpha, have read that but I'm just not sure why that would be a preferred choice over a SB.

Cannot help I'm afraid peelweight, I know Ig don't seem to - However, I'm curious as to what a call option would offer over a spread bet in this case? Any info would be appreciated as I'm always looking to learn.

Thanks and good luck :D

Page source says the video was uploaded on 12th Nov this year; of course that doesn't necessarily mean it's a new video though.

Door.... Horse... Bolted

I just rang Medusa, they did answer, I told them how the nhs tests hadn’t picked up covid in our household last weekend until much too late and someone had given me their number as they have a home use test. He said is that you again Timster? I know it’s not anything enlightening and I bet they get calls all the time from PIs but thought I’d share all the same.

https://bit.ly/3xiLw3x

First time viewer.
Brilliant.

I didn't even mention you @wyndrum...

Following on from Timster's great little post with reference to Sealioning (which I'd not heard before), I thought I'd add some more terminologies which may help in understanding the 'reasoning' behind some members posts and perhaps what is really motivating them...

Sealioning – Type of trolling or harassment
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Gish gallop - rapid series of dubious arguments
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Brandolini's law – Difficulty refuting bull****
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Chewbacca defense – Nonsensical legal defense strategy
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense

Filibuster – Political stalling tactic
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster

Firehose of falsehood
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

Proof by intimidation – Method of convincing someone by using jargon or claiming it as clear
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_intimidation

Far from a a tag team Kevinl1977 - take a moment to look at my history and you'll see nothing that puzzles your imagination.
I guess you believe the lizard people are in charge.

@Sakura7

Thank you for answering my question - I for one appreciate it.
I'm not sure why there is so much hostility, I think there was a non-thinking 'oh no here's another deramper' kind of response and then everyone piled in! Each to their own I suppose.

I'm no scientist but I well remember the fuss around interferon in the early 80's and found myself to be very disappointed over the years that the 'wonder drug' never really materialised to the extent it was hoped. Perhaps SNG have found a way to administer it that will justify the current excitement. I certainly believe so!

All the best to all

@sakura
Interferon was touted as the new 'wonder drug' in the 80's but that was very much with regards to interferon alpha wasn't it?
What's your thoughts on interferon beta, as used by synairgen?
Do you have any experience of that?

Wyn... some of this may seem contradictry; but isn't that sometimes the case with 'opinions'?!

It may be that you are reading just a little too much into your own statement that, '"...there are very few posts that actually rebutt my assumptions".
Think of the classic 'never argue with an idiot' saying...
When people think you are opposing their point of view, and will continue to do so no matter what the rebutt, they will cease to engage. I'm not sure off the top of my head but I cannot recall a discussion where you have gone, "Oh, OK I was wrong there". Not saying it hasn't happened but more often than not any rebutt is met with a long winded response that frankly people lose interest in as it will enevitably just be drawning things out further with little relevant content.

Finally, you are not filtered by me, as some may suggest, purely because you are obviously intelligent enough to provide some valid thoughts and views. Although I may disagree with some of the things you say [the same happens with my other half] but I've learned to tolerate alternative opinions that sometimes throw up things I've certainly overlooked [and I cannot find the filter option there!].

At this point I'd also like to state that I do have some filters... like bighero and ray.t for example - now they really are ****s

Anyway, all the best.

Wyn... as tyche says:

"I think most posters like hearing different views but when at every chance you get to be constantly negative with long winded views then selling yourself as some kind of guru... is just a bit tedious"

Seems to confirm the suspicion that there was a big buy going on in the background.
Nice.
Onwards...

See what you mean Gr, but somehow the 'Whaker'car park seems to suit many on this BB!

I am aware there may be many aspects of this that I am missing but does this, in essence, mean that the NHS have included Avacta as a potential supplier for our AffiDx SARS-CoV2 Antigen LFT?