CFD Trading

A contract for difference (CFD) empowers the retail and the organizational financial specialists to conjecture on the basic market prices of a wide range of financial resources. As the trader never claims the basic resource, the CFDs are treated as a derivative products and these depend on leverage to enable the trader to speculate on the price development, without the requiring to put up the total value of the security being traded.

CFDs permits exchanging on currencies (forex), stock market indices, shares, commodities, interest rates and bonds.
The CFD is basically an agreement to trade the difference between the opening price and closing price of the security, which is being exchanged. The difference multiplied by the size of the position constitutes the profit/loss.

CFDs versus Spread betting: What’s the difference?

Like spread betting, the CFDs traders can possibly benefit whatever course the market takes, because it is possible to open short and long positions on a contract. It is additionally free from Stamp Duty within the United Kingdom, even though Capital Gains Tax is due on any benefits*. The advantage of this is that the CFD exchanging can be utilized to fence a share portfolio, permitting the trader balanced losses against their charge liabilities.
The trades are dealt with somewhat in an unexpected way, in spite of the fact that for the trader the involvement is nearly indistinguishable. In spread betting, the contract measure is decided by the sum of money that the trader is ready to stake per point. The CFD exchanging includes buying or selling contracts that speak to a certain amount per point within the market.
There are no commissions for spread betting or for most CFDs. In any case, for CFDs there are usually commissions for trading on certain equities.

Current CFD equity commissions at ETX:

CFD UK Equities – 0.08% (8bps)
CFD US Equities – 1.5 cents per share
CFD Euro Equities: 0.1% of the Notional Value (exposure on the trade)

Benefits of the CFDs

No stamp duty
Long or short – trade in both directions
Ability to hedge share portfolio
Tight spreads beginning at 1pt on indices and from 0.6 pips on forex pairs
Trade on the internet and via our mobile application