Trading is available from Sunday approximately 5pm to Friday 5pm (New York time). If you decide to leave trades open over the weekend: You cannot close existing positions or open new positions when markets are closed (but you can place or modify Limit, Stop Loss, Take Profit and Trailing Stop orders).

When can you trade CFD?

What does CFD mean? CFD means Contract for Difference, which is an agreement between two parties to exchange the difference in a market's price from when the contract is opened to when it is closed. You can use them to trade more than 4500 global markets, without taking ownership of any physical assets.

When did CFD trading start?

CFDs were originally developed in the early 1990s in London as a type of equity swap that was traded on margin. The invention of the CFD is widely credited to Brian Keelan and Jon Wood, both of UBS Warburg, on their Trafalgar House deal in the early 1990s.