INCORPORATE CFDs INTO YOUR TRADING STRATEGY

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INDEX-TRACKING CFDS: A DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENT TOOL

Looking to maximise profits and gain exposure to the world's largest stock indices with minimum capital commitment and lower risk? Index-tracking CFDs can be a valuable addition to your trading strategy. This diversified investment tool combines leverage, low costs and ease of trading. As markets rise and fall, you gain the flexibility to open up opportunities to profit from market moves. Available from the Cornèrtrader platforms, index-tracking CFDs allow you to trade an entire stock index on real-time prices all at once.

Consider the advantages of trading index-tracking CFDs with Cornèrtrader:

• Index-tracking CFDs track the performance of a stock market index. They can be sold short, opening up the possibility of turning a profit in a falling market.
• Maximum exposure with minimal capital requirements.
• Trade 22 leading stock indices with a single click.
• Very competitive Bid/Ask spreads with no additional commissions.
• Cost efficient market exposure because index-tracking CFDs don’t require the buying and selling of individual shares.

Tiered margin requirements on single stocks and indices CFDs

Take advantage of the tiered margin requirements, which offer you on smaller exposures as low as 1% on some major indices and 5% for some equities. It will increase in accordance to defined bands, as the net exposure on a particular underlying will become bigger in order to maintain protection on riskier positions.

Free yourself from fixed lot sizes

Working on the Cornèrtrader platforms, you can trade any number of indices without being restricted to trading pre-defined fixed lot sizes.

 

TRADE MAJOR CURRENCIES WIT�H FX CFDS

As an extension of your overall FX strategy, you’ll find that FX CFDs can be a cost efficient, simple way to trade major currencies online. Use the Cornèrtrader platforms to trade commission free. Benefit from lower margin requirements – from only 0.5% with a small minimum trade size of 5,000 notional value.

Benefit from trading Forex CFDs with Cornèrtrader:

• All costs are built into the Bid/Ask spread.
• No need to roll CFD positions overnight and no financing charge is applied.
• No exchange commissions.
• Low collateral requirements.
• Avoid restrictions on lot sizes with all the benefits of the price movement of the underlying Futures contract.

 

GAIN EXPOSURE TO A WORLD OF COMMODITIES

Now you can make commodities part of your overall CFD strategy. Add trades in oil, grains, softs, energies, gold and other precious metals. We make it as easy as trading any type of CFD. You gain a way to get direct exposure to the underlying commodity with all the benefits of trading a CFD.

Flexibility built in

Are you seeking to hedge or diversify your portfolio with commodities? But, want to do so without the large collateral requirements and lot sizes associated with Futures trading? Consider the benefits of commodity CFDs:

• Easy and flexible trading with high leverage and low minimum trade sizes.
• No commission or trading fees.
• Automatic cash settlement.
• One click trading to a wide range of global commodities.

Trade without fixed lot sizes

Cornèrtrader allows you to trade without being constrained by pre-defined lot sizes. Consider that the minimum trade size of a US Crude Oil is 25 CFD contracts – that is 25 barrels of oil, whereas the Futures minimum trade size is a 1 lot contract with 500 barrels of underlying asset.

 

TRADE RISING AND FALLING MARKETS WITH STOCK CFDS

Most traders seek ways to trade in both rising and falling markets. Trading single stocks as CFDs can be a good way to do that. And, even small market movements can result in profits because CFDs are traded on margin.

Global markets from our platforms

The Cornèrtrader platforms are your point from which to trade the global stock markets. They are easy-to-use but sophisticated. And, you enjoy low commissions and transparent pricing.

Discover the benefits:

• Trade 8,700 Single Stock CFDs from the world’s leading financial markets.
• Short sell stocks – for the possibility of showing a profit in a falling market and for efficient hedging of current Stock positions.
• Low margin requirements, allowing you to leverage your positions up to 20 times -6000 Single Stock CFDs with just 15% margin or lower.
• Streaming prices give you instant fills and, often, deep liquidity.
• Benefit from market-leading execution, delivered at the right price from a bank you can trust.

Transparent pricing

When you trade Single Stock CFDs on the Cornèrtrader platforms, you enjoy the best possible prices based on actual stock prices.

Benefit from greater liquidity

Improve your ability to execute trades at the volume and price you’re looking for. Cornèrtrader helps with its access to additional, dedicated liquidity to the most traded Single Stock CFDs.

Take advantage of Smart Order Routing

Cornèrtrader’s goal is to get you faster order fills at the price you’re looking for. To find the best price for you, our trading platforms automatically search all the trading venues where your stock trades. That includes secondary trading venues – called Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) in Europe.

Direct Market Access

Cornèrtrader goes further to give you more choice. We provide Direct Market Access ("DMA") on Single Stock CFDs to all exchanges. All your Single Stock CFD orders are sent straight to the market when you trade CFDs on the DMA setup.

Use the DMA setup to:

• Trade inside the market spread.
• Place orders directly into the exchange order book.
• Participate in opening and closing auctions.
• Trade directly off streamed exchange prices (upon subscription).
• Access level 2 order book with full market depth (upon subscription).

DMA is built in

You can trade CFDs on DMA setup right from the Cornèrtrader platforms you use for all your trades. The capability is a configuration available with your account.

 

HEDGE OR TRADE INTEREST RATE MOVES WITH BOND CFDS

With low margin requirements and small minimum trade sizes, Bond CFDs provide traders with a useful way to hedge an existing cash bond portfolio or trade directionally on the evolution of interest rates.

Trade Bond CFDs today

There is a wide spectrum of European Government Bonds available as CFDs. That means you can easily trade the relative evolution of long-term interest rates between Germany, France and Italy. For example, you might long one country’s Bond CFD whilst short another country’s Bond CFD.

Adding to convenience, you’ll find that all trading commissions are included in the spread. And, eligible cash Bonds and Stocks can be used as margin collateral.

Transparent Pricing and Flexible Trade Sizes

Bond CFDs are based on the price of Futures Contract. You can trade without fees or commission – instead, a small mark-up is added to the spread of the Future. The minimum trade size is only 50x the index, compared to 1,000x included in 1 lot of the Future. Moreover, you can increase your trade size by increments of 1 index with the CFD if you wish, instead of 1,000 with the Futures Contract.

 

SPREAD RISK BY TRADING ETFS AS CFDS

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) aim to reflect the performance of global stock indices, bonds, sectors, commodities and other asset types. Trading ETFs can be an effective way to spread your risk. They can also enable you to reach otherwise hard-to-reach markets or geographies in a way that is both cost-effective and flexible.

Trade a wide range of ETFs

With Cornèrtrader, you get access to more than 1,500 individual ETFs/ETCs from the most traded issuers. And, you can trade more than 450 of these as a CFD.

Trading ETFs as CFDs allows you to:

• Trade ETFs on margin.
• Gain the ability to short sell the ETF if you believe the price will fall.

Full price transparency

Just like trading regular stocks with Cornèrtrader, when you trade ETFs as CFDs, you do so on the actual prices from the exchange. (Live prices upon subscription.)