You can think of a spread bet as betting on a number rather than on a side. Someone offers you a range — a spread — and you say the real figure will end up above it or below it. Then the distance does the rest: every step the real number travels your way pays you, and every step it travels the other way costs you. Nothing is fixed at the start, because nobody knows yet how far the number will go.

可以想成 spread bet 賭的是「一個數字」,不是「哪一邊贏」。對方先開出一段區間,也就是 spread。你要說最後的真實數字會落在它上面還是下面。接下來由「距離」決定一切:真實數字往你說的方向每走一步,你就賺一點;往反方向每走一步,你就賠一點。一開始什麼都定不下來,因為沒有人知道那個數字最後會跑多遠。這個「賭數字走多遠」的畫面,體育和金融兩邊是同一個。

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