CFD Trading

Advantages of Trading CFDs

If you’re looking to benefit from short term price movements, CFDs offer a flexible way to trade stocks online - go long or short, trade on margin, with multiple order types.

• Go long or short: whether you believe that a share price will rise or fall, trading CFDs makes it possible to profit from an up or down movement.
• Trade on margin: take a position in a share or index and only deposit a fraction of the contract value. This means you can command much larger positions than you could with share trading.
• Trade Equity,Index, and Commodity CFDs: take a position on the performance of an individual company, commodity or an index as a whole.
• Hedge your portfolio: CFD trading is an effective way of hedging your long-term share portfolio against variable market conditions. If you feel that shares you hold are likely to fall in price in the short term, it may be cheaper to open a short CFD position rather than sell the physical shares in order to buy them back later.
• Trade intra-day with CFDs: CFDs are ideal for intra-day trading. With CFDs you can magnify the advantage of smaller market swings.

Test CFD trading out for free first with our 20-day trial of live trading on a simulated account! If you decide to go ahead, opening a CFD account is quick and simple.