A contract for differences (CFD) is a financial instrument traders use to speculate on prices without owning the underlying asset. When entering into a CFD, an investor and broker agree to exchange ...

The example below will show you. Suppose you opened a £10,000 CFD buy position on Company XYZ shares when they were selling for £50 per share. That amount got you 200 contracts or CFDs. After 15 days, ...

CFD trading costs and charges Get spreads from 1 point on the FTSE 100 and Germany 40 and US Crude spreads from just 2.8 points. Find out more about how to manage your risk, what you’ll pay for your ...

For a standard CFD, you would be liable to pay that rate on the whole consideration of £150,000, even though you have stumped up £15,000 as a down-payment. As we know from the standard CFD example, ...