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May 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
A short coverage of CFD trading markets and how it all began. How Contracts For Difference managed to become so popular and now available in the most of the countries for retail traders and investors?
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As most would guess, CFD trading started in the City of London in the early 1990's as a type of margined equity swaps. At first, they were only available to institutional traders and investors such as hedge funds.
Leverage and no UK stamp duty made it happen.
Late 1990's and Contracts For Difference were finally introduced to the retail traders, first in the UK and in early 2000's to all retail traders around the world.
Once again the leverage played a vital role in growing popularity.
#Leverage #CFD
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Conclusion: Nowadays, CFDs are very common and one can trade an immense number of financial markets, but most common markets are forex, indices, shares, and commodities. Many brokers will also offer crypto and bonds.
#Crypto #Bonds #Commodities
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