CFD (Contract for Difference)

A leveraged trading product whose advertising is tightly regulated across most markets.

In Depth

A contract for difference, or CFD, is a financial product that lets a trader speculate on price movements without owning the underlying asset, usually with leverage.

From a marketing standpoint, CFDs carry some of the strictest advertising rules in finance. Regulators like ESMA cap leverage for retail clients and mandate risk warnings, which shapes what a compliant ad can say. Marketing a CFD product means designing around those constraints from the start.

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