CFD stands for Contracts For Differences. "It is an agreement between 2 parties to settle the difference between the opening and closing prices of the contract multiplied by the number of units of the underlying asset specified in the CFD. CFDs allow customers to participate in the price movement of an underlying product without actually owning the asset, which can be a share, an index, a commodity, etc. Phillip Securities offers the following types of CFDs: 1. Equities CFD (which includes Shares CFD and Shares Direct Market Access DMA CFD) 2. ETF CFD 3. World Indices CFD 4. Commodities CFD and 5. FX CFD I am studying CFD trading now because I want to trade in the US stocks. Compared with Singapore stocks, US stocks have bigger movements. Big movements could be up or down, which means it will be very risky. In the meantime, the markets in Singapore is again up a little bit this morning. It has been going up and down by point something percent in the last few days. That...
" To be successful with news trading, it’s important that you follow a comprehensive economic and financial calendar, so then you will be aware of upcoming events or statistics that could affect the underlying asset you are trading. " - https://infoforinvestors.com/academy/technical-analysis/cfd-trading-strategies/ My portfolio is inching back up again. That's good news. There are no sudden movements like what happened to SGX and Sembcorp industries. So there isn't anything to buy or sell today. Adrian's Journal The rookie trader's notes
640 As of January 2019, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has 640 mainboard listings and 215 catalist listings. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_listed_on_the_Singapore_Exchange
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