The products that GKPro offer on this website, are aimed at professional and institutional clients ONLY. We offer leverage products and the fast moving nature of markets means that you can lose funds rapidly. GKPro is not able to give advice to prospective clients about the appropriateness of our products. Prospective clients are recommended to seek specialist tax and financial advice before investing in any of our products.
A Contract for Difference, or CFD is an accessible and popular form of derivative trading. CFDs are free from stamp duty, and allows traders to go long or short on various financial markets. These include: Forex , indices and commodities.
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You can trade on margin with CFD trading, and speculate on the price falling or rising (going long or short). This means that you speculate on the difference in price of a financial market (when the contract opens and closes). The profit/loss result is dependant on whether you are correct in your speculation.
With CFD trading, you buy or sell a number of units of a financial instrument - depending on which direction you believe the price will move. For each point the price of the instrument moves in your favour. For every point the price moves against you, you will make a loss, and visa versa.
You can use a CFD to gain exposure to a much larger position than you can with a standard trade. This is possible through leverage, with leverage you are able to agree to exchange the difference in price of a larger asset without committing to the full cost of the position.
It’s important to remember that when trading CFDs with GKPro, your losses may exceed deposits, and it is recommended that you employ high level of risk management when trading with leveraged products.
CFDs are tax efficient in the UK and they can be used to hedge an existing portfolio. GKPro offers CFD trading on a range of global markets, including currency pairs, commodities and indices.
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With CFD Trading, you’re able to open a position that will increase in value as the underlying market decreases in price. This is called ‘selling’ or ‘going short’.
The same goes for ‘buying’ or ‘going long’ except in reverse.
Trading with CFDs allows you to short sell, which means you can make a profit from falling market prices.
Investors can use this to offset losses made in their portfolios.
If you hold £10,000 of Apple shares and you believe they’re about to sell-off, you can try to protect your share portfolio by short-selling £10,000 of Apple CFDs.
If the Apple share prices fall by 10%, the lost value of your share portfolio would be offset by a gain in your short sell CFD trade. This means you able to protect yourself without liquidating your stock holdings. Which could incur costs and a possible tax liability.
CFD trading is best suited to investors that want to try and create a better return for their money. However, it comes with considerate risks to your capital, and is therefore not suitable for everyone. It’s advised to try CFD trading on a demo account, where you trade with virtual money.
All trading involves risk
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CFDs and FX are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Professional clients can lose more than they deposit. All trading involves risk. Please consider whether you can afford to take high risk of losing your money. See our full Risk Warning and Terms of Business for further details.
CFDs and FX are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Professional clients can lose more than they deposit. All trading involves risk. Please consider whether you can afford to take high risk of losing your money. See our full Risk Warning and Terms of Business for further details.
