A Short Example of Shorting Shares with Spread Bets

If you come from a traditional "investment" background, you will find one of the novel features of financial spread betting to be the fact that you can go short by selling shares (or indices, or commodities, or currencies) that you don't own just as easily as you can go long by buying them. If you thought that a particular share price would fall, and if were operating in a regular stockbroker