CFDs & Stock Trading

CFDs trading solutions from Saxo Bank offer investors additional portfolio flexibility, with opportunities for both hedging and short selling.

Trade CFDs online with Saxo Bank 

Investors are increasingly looking to Contracts for Difference (CFDs) as a more flexible method of trading stocks online. Saxo Bank's CFDs offerings provide access to more than 6,000 CFDs across 20 worldwide exchanges, enabling traders to build a more diverse product portfolio.

The trading of CFDs is carried out on live prices through Saxo Bank’s suite of online trading platforms, therefore avoiding many of those delays commonly associated with normal stocks; such as waiting for fills from the stock exchange.  This approach enables total transparency, as CFDs are traded on clean exchange prices.

Flexible online trading with CFDs

With Saxo Bank, clients gain access to online trading of CFDs for all major US, European and Asia/Pacific Stocks, as well as Index-tracking CFDs that follow major global indices. CFDs represent a versatile method for trading in both bull and bear markets.  This allows hedging of current Stock investments and creates the potential for profit in a falling market. CFDs can be ‘shorted' or ‘sold short’, allowing traders to sell a particular Stock or stock market index which they believe is set to drop.  CFDs therefore create the potential for the realisation of profit in both rising and falling markets; provided the market moves in the anticipated direction.

For more information, please visit our CFD rates and conditions page.

Benefits of trading CFDs with Saxo Bank:

  • CFDs can be short sold, opening up the possibility of showing a profit even in a falling market.  CFDs also allow efficient hedging of current Stock positions
  • Online CFD trading allows for investments to be leveraged up to 20 times. This is also known as trading on margin or margin trading
  • Pricing of CFDs is streamed directly to the client’s desktop, providing instant fills and often deeper liquidity
  • Clients can gain instant exposure to global stock markets using Index Tracking CFDs; all with a single click. Index-tracking CFDs, or Index trackers, are linked to the performance of a stock market index and can be traded both long and short

Margin Trading carries a high level of risk to your capital with the possibility of losing more than your initial investment and may not be suitable for all investors.  Ensure you fully understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary.

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