CFD Gold

Contract for Difference in prices for commodities or assets is a derivative financial instrument that allows trading assets and commodities without delivery or buy of commodities and assets. Contracts for difference are used for company stocks, stock indexes, commodities and raw materials.

Trading CFD instruments is similar to trading currency pairs on Forex markets- you also profit from speculative trading i.e. earn on price changes of assets and commodities. The difference of trading CFDs form trading actual assets and commodities is that there is no actual delivery or buy of commodities or assets.

CFD Gold As an Interesting Trading Instrument

One of the most interesting financial instruments from the investment and speculative point of view is trading Gold CFD. Recently we have witnessed a breakneck rally on the precious metal market. The uncertainty caused by euro zone debt, as well as the necessity to solve the question of the United States debt caused a situation where global investors were buying gold as a safe haven.

Gold has been gaining in price for about 10 years. On average, during the last five years, annual growth rate for gold has been 21,9%. Sharp rise of gold price has been caused by fears that the crisis may spread over Italy and Spain. Additionally, American Congress has been reluctant to raise the United States debt-ceiling which may have resulted in country default.

CFD Gold: Gold Instruments Trading

During instability of financial markets, gold is ideal for diversification of any client portfolio. It is worthy to mention that IFC Markets’ clients as opposed to clients of other companies have a unique opportunity to trade a whole group of financial instruments with conditional title “Gold Instruments.” This group includes instruments where base asset gold is quoted in units of silver, oil, and S&P 500 index. "Gold Instrument" quotations show the quantity of ounces of silver, oil contracts or contract for index that are necessary to exchange for an ounce of gold. The result of trading in quoted assets is transferred into the balance currency.

IFC Markets is a leading innovative financial company, offering private and corporate investors wide set of trading and analytical tools. The company provides its clients with Forex and CFD trading through its own-generated trading platform NetTradeX, which is available on PC, iOS, Android and Mobile. The company also offers MT4 platform available on PC, Mac OS, iOS, Android, Mobile and Smartphone. For comparison of the platforms, you can observe the advantages of both.