A CFD is a tradable instrument that mirrors the movements of the asset (eg. shares - in our case) underlying it. It allows for profits or losses to be realised when the price of the underlying asset moves in relation to the position taken, but the actual underlying asset is never owned.

Essentially, it is a contract between the client and the broker. Trading CFDs has several major advantages, and these have increased the popularity of the instruments over the last several years.

On the platform, our partner EasyEquities, make use of CFD's to enable our investors to take ownership of fractions of shares ( Fractional Share Rights ) and in so doing make their money work hardest for them.

If you'd like to learn more about CFD's take a look at this Investopedia article from where our definition (above) comes : http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/09/trade-a-cfd.asp