Each day more investors choose Contracts for Difference (CFDs) as an alternative method of online stock trading. Central Markets provides access to over 7000 CFDs across 27 global exchanges, making online CFD trading an excellent solution for traders and investors to build a more diverse portfolio.

Central Markets offers online CFD trading on live prices without the delays that traders sometimes experience investing traditionally in the stock market. CFDs are traded on true exchange prices, ensuring that online CFD trading is totally transparent, and waiting for the stock exchange to fill orders never happens.

CFDs are an increasingly popular way to trade on a wide range of instruments such as Shares, Indices, Commodities, Currencies and Treasuries. In fact, CFDs are one of the world’s fastest growing trading products.

A CFD is a contract between you (the client) and the CFD provider. The difference between where you enter the trade and exit the trade is the Contract for Difference (CFD). CFDs mirror the price of an underlying instrument.

Quite simply, CFDs allow you to enjoy the benefits of trading an instrument without having to physically own it.

Originally created as a hedging tool for large institutions to cover their equity exposure, CFDs have exploded in popularity with individual investors, particularly in Europe and Australia. Since CFDs offer significant benefits in comparison to other trading products, specifically physical share trading. For starters, CFDs are leveraged.

The advantage of a smaller outlay, as well as the opportunity to gain from rising and falling markets translate into an exciting new trading product, which is widely considered a smarter alternative to physical share trading.