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.
You can view and change your current leverage in your app settings (‘Account’ > ‘My accounts’ > ‘Trading options’).
The maximum leverage varies per asset class:
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 the commodities listed below, where the maximum is 500:1.
- Gold Spot
- US Crude Oil
- Brent Crude Oil
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.