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.
300:1 - indices;
200:1 - commodities;
100:1 - crypto;
20:1 - shares.
200:1 - indices;
200:1 - commodities;
20:1 - crypto;
20:1 - shares.
You can view and change your current leverage in your app settings (‘Account’ ‘My accounts’ ‘Trading options’).
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.