What is rolling cash price?

On spread bet platforms, you’ll find a huge choice of markets to trade – from commodities and obscure forex pairs, through to the major world indices.

For many of these markets, you’ll also find two different prices on offer: the rolling cash prices (also sometimes called ‘rolling daily’ prices, and called the ‘rolling spot’ for FX markets), alongside the ‘futures’ price.

Unlike the futures price, the rolling cash price is the current cash price. And ‘rolling’ means that this trade will be automatically ‘rolled’ over at the end of the day, into the next day. You’ll be charged each time this kind of trade is ‘rolled’ – which means that if you’re looking to hold a position open for a while, it’ll work out cheaper to trade the futures price (which doesn’t charge for rollovers).

However, for the purposes of most day traders, or those of us who are holding a trade open for just a couple of days, the rolling cash price is the one to go for.

If you’re holding positions for weeks, then it’s well worth considering a move to futures prices.

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