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- What is a CFD?What a contract for difference is, a worked example with numbers, and what the contract doesn’t give you.
- How a trade worksEvery stage of a CFD trade: quote, order, fill, margin, overnight financing, closing and your statement.
- How to start tradingA beginner’s path in seven steps: the product, the costs, a demo, risk rules, a licensed provider, a record.
- Leverage and marginWhat leverage does to your buying power, the margin terms your platform uses and who sets the limits.
- Maximum leverageWhy the leverage a provider advertises isn’t the leverage you get, and what you give up to reach it.
- Costs and feesEvery cost of a CFD trade: spread, commission, overnight financing, weekend charges and account fees.
- Pips and lotsWhat a pip and a lot are, and the formulas for pip value, margin, profit and loss and position size.
- Stop-loss and ordersMarket, limit and stop orders, the stop-loss, the trailing stop, take-profit and partial close.
- ForexCurrency pairs, pips and lots, trading hours, what moves exchange rates, and why swap can be paid to you.
- IndicesWhat an index CFD tracks, cash versus futures prices, dividend adjustments, hours and the gap at the open.
- CommoditiesHow futures set the price, contango and backwardation, roll costs, gold’s margin rate and price swings.
- Gold tradingWhat XAU/USD is, where the gold price comes from, what moves it, contract size, leverage and trading hours.
- Oil tradingWTI and Brent crude oil CFDs, the futures roll, what moves oil, the EU and UK 10:1 cap and natural gas.
- Shares and cryptoShare CFDs: commission, dividends, borrow costs, results gaps. Crypto CFDs: the EU 2:1 cap, weekends and bans.
- Crypto CFDsCrypto CFDs against owning the coin: no wallet, the EU 2:1 cap, the UK ban, weekends, financing and offshore.
- Trading hoursForex sessions, stock exchange hours in UTC, gold, oil and crypto, clock changes, and gaps at the open.