CFD Tutorial – The Basics Updated for 2018

  • By Carole Ann Furman

  • January 14, 2018
  • 1:08 pm BST

Learn CFDs CFD Tutorial to lay the foundation

CFD Tutorials for tradersLearnCFDs.com have put together a CFD Tutorial (updated for 2018) giving you the basic building blocks to understand this rapidly growing financial product.

  1. Understanding CFD leverage
  2. CFDs and dividends – what happens?
  3. Getting your head around CFD financing
  4. CFD order tricks to watch out for
  5. CFD Trading versus Options Trading
  6. Beware the CFD Risks
  7. A look at the history of CFDs

The goal of this CFD Tutorial is…

  • To outline the basics of trading CFDs;
  • To show the difference between stock trading and CFD trading;
  • To give CFD examples so you can clearly understand how the profit and loss is calculated on a CFD trade;
  • To illustrate the main advantages of CFD leverage and the dangers of CFD leverage;
  • To show you how to work out CFD financing rates; and
  • To highlight the various CFD order types you can place with your CFD broker

It is important to keep in mind that a CFD tutorial will never be very extensive and the reason is very simple. Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are exactly like trading shares except you need a small amount of money up front.

There are a couple of other subtle differences, and that is what this CFD tutorial is about.

So once a CFD tutorial has covered the basics of the product (which doesn’t take much) the next step is teaching trading techniques like technical analysis or Gann or Swing trading.

Some stock market educational companies dress their CFD tutorial courses up into a 1-2 day course, but it’s only 2 hours of CFD education and 6 hours of stock market techniques.

We are confident that once you have gone through the CFD tutorial material provided here, you will understand how Contracts for Difference (CFDs) work and know how you can use them to enhance your personal trading.

You may find that you need to come back a couple of times to read through all the material, so make sure you bookmark this page. You can also save it to Evernote or save the link via social bookmarking.

Be patient when learning CFDs and you will find you enjoy it that much more. Better still, start learning about CFDs or start this CFD tutorial with a friend and keep each other motivated.

Here are the links to each page again

  1. Understanding CFD leverage
  2. CFDs and dividends – what happens?
  3. Getting your head around CFD financing
  4. CFD order tricks to watch out for
  5. CFD Trading versus Options Trading
  6. Beware the CFD Risks
  7. A look at the history of CFDs