Online CFD trading with Central Markets provides easy access to all major exchanges across the globe, plus  access to 21 Index-tracking CFDs that follow these exchanges. CFDs are a versatile option for trading and investing  in most market conditions CFDs allow investors to hedge current stock positions or to profit when stocks fall.

In bear market conditions, CFDs can be shorted (sold), enabling you to look for a decline in a certain stocks or indices, and sell that stock or index to realise a profit from its decline in value.

CFDs were traditionally only available to institutional investors, now they are one of the world’s fastest growing ways to trade the financial markets.

A CFD enables you to trade on a financial instrument such as a share or a commodity without having to physically own it. This means CFDs have a large number of benefits over traditional ways of trading such as buying and selling shares through a stockbroker.

Trade with Low Commissions

Central Markets charge a low commission charge on equity instruments, currently. Please check our Rates Schedule for current charges.

No Stamp Duty

Unlike traditional share trading CFDs incur no stamp duty on UK Shares.

Access Global Markets

CFDs allow you to trade on a whole host of global instruments all from one account. Trade on Shares, Indices, Commodities, Sectors and Treasuries 24 hours a day.

Margin Trading

CFDs are a leveraged product which means that you are only required to deposit a fraction of the overall value of the trade.

Typically margins with Central Markets vary between 5% and 10%. Margin means you can magnify the returns on your investment.

However, it is important to remember that losses too will be magnified so margin trading is not necessarily for everyone.

Going Long or Short with CFDs

Markets go down as well as up. With CFDs you can potentially profit from falling markets because you are trading on the price movement of a financial instrument without physically owning it.

This makes it as easy to sell an instrument as it is to buy. This is known as ‘going short’.