The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided that Contracts for Difference (CFDs) have to be regulated more thoroughly.
The Financial Services Authority has had Contracts for Difference in it sights for some time.  This is an extension of its crusade to clean up the market in small shares (“small caps”) to small investors.  Many of the people who were selling small caps have started to sell contracts for difference.
This new attention may affect some of the smaller brokers who have recently moved into selling contracts for difference, but they are unlikely …

Angela Merkel spooked the markets when she announced a ban on short selling certain bank securities.  There is a very real danger that this could be extended throughout the market, no matter what regulators say now.
So will this affect spread betting and contracts for difference?
The short answer is no.  The logic of the short selling ban is that it can directly affect share prices.  CFDs and spread bets can not.
Short selling is when a share is sold by a person before it is …

After successfully updating spread betting section and bringing better experience to all our visitors we have decided to update the CFDs section as well.
Now our visitors can enjoy easy to navigations, easy-to-read and understand trading tutorials, have access to latest market news and strategies. Besides that, it is easier than ever to compare CFD brokers as we have added extra sections on what to look for from your CFD account and how to choose the account that will suit your trading needs.
It has …

The British government is deliberately ignoring the budget crisis that is unfolding before it, which is understandable as that is what governments do.  However the market also seems to be ignoring this.  What does this mean for spread betters and people who use contracts for difference?
The recent budget was a political masterpiece, and there are bound to be a few money raising and money saving ideas that are hidden in the fine print.  However to really start reducing a deficit as large as …

Leverage has a bad name at the moment, and deservedly.  Warren Buffet calls it “the only way a smart person can go broke” and is not too kind about the idea of people who aren’t smart using it, either.  Leverage was also the way in which many sound businesses became suddenly poor as the downturn turned sharply against them.
Leverage is like a sharp cooking knife – incredibly effective when you are doing what you want to do but rather dangerous when you are being …