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# Sebastian M.

[Home](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/) › [About TheTraderWiki](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/about/) › [Sebastian M.](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/authors/sebastian-m/)

My name appears on the guides that show you how CFDs work: what a CFD is, how a trade moves from quote to close, how leverage and margin work, the costs, pips and lots, and the order types. I also write the market guides for forex, indices, commodities, gold, oil, shares and crypto, including when each market is open.

## Pages written

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

## Related pages

- [About TheTraderWiki](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/about/): What the site is, how it is funded, what it does not do, and how to reach it.
- [How we choose the brokers we compare](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/how-we-choose-brokers/): The six criteria a broker group must meet to be compared here, and what we found for each one.

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