CFD trading offers the ability to trade a variety of financial instruments with leverage, meaning you can open larger positions than your account balance would allow in traditional investing. This creates the possibility of larger profits, but also carries the risk of larger losses.
For example, if you trade with a leverage of 20:1, it means you can trade a notional value 20 times greater than the capital in your trading account.
The maximum leverage varies per asset class for retail clients:
20:1 - non-major currency pairs, gold and major indices;
10:1 - commodities other than gold and non-major equity indices;
5:1 - for individual equities and other reference values;
2:1 - for cryptocurrencies.
20:1 - non-major currency pairs, gold and major indices;
10:1 - commodities other than gold and non-major equity indices;
5:1 - shares.
20:1 - major indices and gold;
10:1 - commodities other than gold and non-major equity indices;
5:1 - shares;
2:1 - crypto.
General maximum leverage is 300:1, except for the pairs listed below, where the maximum is 500:1.
- EUR/USD
- USD/JPY
- GBP/USD
- AUD/USD
- GBP/JPY
- USD/CHF
- EUR/CHF
- EUR/JPY
- AUD/JPY
- EUR/GBP
- CHF/JPY
- GBP/CHF
- EUR/AUD
- GBP/AUD
- AUD/CHF
General maximum leverage is 200:1, except for Gold Spot, where the maximum is 500:1.
General maximum leverage is 300:1, except for the indices listed below, where the maximum is 500:1.
- US Tech 100
- US Wall Street 30
- Germany 40
- Hong Kong 50
- US 500
- Japan 225
- UK 100
- Australia 200
General maximum leverage is 20:1, except for the shares listed below, where the maximum is 33:1.
- Tesla Inc
- NVIDIA Corp
- Apple Inc
- Netflix Inc
- Amazon.com Inc
- Meta Platforms Inc
- Oracle
- Alphabet Inc (both A and C)
- Eli Lilly & Co
- Microsoft Corp
- Broadcom Inc
- Palantir Technologies Inc
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc
- JPMorgan Chase & Co
- Exxon Mobil Corp
- Visa Inc
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc (both A and C)
- Johnson & Johnson
- Mastercard Inc
- Abbvie
The maximum leverage is 100:1.
200:1 - indices;
200:1 - commodities;
20:1 - crypto;
20:1 - shares.
Please note that some instruments have a fixed maximum leverage (e.g. 1:20, 1:10, etc.) on our platform and the leverage for them cannot be set higher than that. However, you can always set lower leverage for such instruments.
To view and change your current leverage for each asset class in the app settings:
- Go to Home.
- Tap the Switch button at the top of the screen, next to the account name.
- Select the Live or Demo tab.
- Tap the account you want to change the leverage for.
- Go to Trade options > CFD Leverage.
To set the leverage for a single order:
- Make sure one-tap trading is off.
- Tap the market you want to trade.
- Tap the round settings button under Buy/Sell, to the right of the contract size.
- Choose your leverage on the next screen.
- Tap Buy or Sell, depending on the direction of your trade, to place it.
Please note that setting leverage for a single order is not available on demo accounts.