Market Guides
Product by product guides to trading currencies, indices, commodities, shares and fixed income.
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What Is Cryptocurrency CFD Trading?
Cryptocurrency CFD trading explained: how it differs from buying coins, why volatility changes everything about position sizing, weekend liquidity, the crypto-specific risks that override macro, and how crypto CFDs work...
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What Is Fixed Income? A Guide to Bonds and Yields
Fixed income explained: what a bond is, why price and yield move inversely, what duration means, how government and corporate bonds differ, and why bond markets set the reference rate...
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Oil Trading Guide: WTI, Brent and Key Price Drivers
Oil trading guide: the difference between WTI and Brent, the weekly and monthly data that moves crude, how OPEC+ and the dollar fit in, why the forward curve matters for...
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Gold Trading Guide: What Moves Gold Prices?
Gold trading guide: what actually moves XAUUSD — real yields, the dollar, central bank buying — and what only looks like it does, how gold CFDs are sized and priced,...
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What Is Commodity Trading? Markets, Products and Price Drivers
Commodity trading explained: the main commodity groups, why most commodity prices come from futures and what the forward curve means for a held position, what moves prices, when each market...
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What Is Index Trading? A Guide to Global Stock Indices
Index trading explained: how stock indices are built and weighted, why the weighting method decides what you are exposed to, what moves them, when index CFDs trade, and where the...
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What Is Stock CFD Trading and How Does It Work?
Stock CFD trading explained: how share CFDs differ from owning shares, how dividends and corporate actions are handled, what moves share prices, why earnings gaps are the defining risk, and...
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Global Market Trading Hours: Currencies, Stocks and Commodities
Global market trading hours in UTC for currencies, indices, commodities, shares and crypto, the daily breaks that matter, why the hours shift twice a year, and what the weekend close...
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Major, Minor and Exotic Currency Pairs Explained
Major, minor and exotic currency pairs explained: what puts a pair in each group, how the group predicts spread and liquidity, and why the classification matters more than the pair...
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What Is Currency Trading? A Guide to the Foreign Exchange Market
Learn what currency trading is and how the foreign exchange market works. Explore the interbank network, base and quote mechanics, and macro price drivers. Currency trading, commonly known as foreign...