Financial Spread Betting is the most popular option for day traders, speculators, and investors. The Financial Spread Betting has gained a lot of popularity due to the benefits it provides. The paper explores in detail that financial spread betting influences company investment and hence indirectly impacts firm investment. It is also seen that the influence of financial spread betting on firm investment is quite high for high information asymmetrical companies. This form of trading involves buying a specific amount of spot currency with a bid price and then selling it back when the market closes for the same currency at an increased price.
There are various reasons why firms make use of the spread betting technique. A large number of small businesses make their money through sales and profits. They use this form of transaction as an alternative or supplement to their formal job training. The business firms need to deal with different external factors and hence they require to take decisions based on current market situations and the current needs of the firms. When the decision making process is based on current market situation, the decision-making process and the implementation process of firm investments become relatively easier.
The firms that provide training in these types of transactions tend to use the term ‘firm investments’ very loosely. A number of financial spread betting firms tend to take a very simplified view of the whole concept and do not highlight or stress the importance of human capital at all. Some firms do not provide any specific human resource training to their clients. Most of the firms concentrate only on providing general information about the underlying technical and practical issues of the business rather than emphasizing or explaining the significance of human capital.
An important feature of misvaluation-induced losses is that they are based on the inappropriate use of the statistical concepts and assumptions which become important in the process of the firm investments. The most common assumption about these losses is that the investors are completely irrational and cannot make investment decisions. Another common assumption about these losses is that, the losses are caused by the misbehavior of the institutional investors and are therefore outside public control. However, there is one common factor among all institutional investors, all of them behave in similar ways. They always try to invest money in assets whose prices will go up in the future.
Most public firms do not make any effort to understand the profitability of any particular transaction and the assumption that firms will incur losses in the process of making firm investments is an incorrect conclusion. They spend a lot of time on other aspects of the firm investments and devote very little time analyzing the underlying stock market structure. It is important for public firms to realize that their decisions regarding the scope of the venture and the risks involved in making such decisions are governed by two powerful concepts: first, the hypothesis that investors will invest money; and second, the probability of achieving the hypothesis. Investors, in general, do not make educated guesses about the probability of success and the extent of the expected losses. These factors, if ignored, can have adverse effects on the value of the firm and on its ability to generate profits.
A hypothesis is an unsubstantiated belief concerning a given future occurrence. This type of investment decision involves an investor making an unwarranted assumption that investment will be profitable and that he is capable of anticipating the results of that investment. The assumption is usually supported by the research and analysis of the firm but it is often not based on facts. Thus, the investor tends to view the investment as risk-free even when he is actually taking a loss in the process of making investment decisions.
