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Contracts for Difference or Spread Betting?

Most of the main providers of spread betting services are also very active in the cfd trading market and while both spread betting and cfds promise very high returns and profits for a relatively small outlay they are different animals. Cfds were initially used by hedge funds and institutional investors to hedge their exposure to [...]

Contracts for Difference compared with Financial Spread Betting

A CFD (Contract for Difference) is an over the counter agreement between two parties to exchange the difference between the opening and the closing price of that contract at the close of the contract based on the underlying share multiplied by the number of shares specified in the contract. Despite sounding like it is going [...]