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Price movements on Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum are driven primarily by news and prevailing sentiment, i.e. the fear and greed of retail speculators. These sometimes dramatic shifts can lead to massive intraday price swings, making Cryptocurrency CFDs an exciting product for aggressive and experienced day traders.
The IC Markets Cryptocurrency CFD product allows traders to go long or short without actually holding the Cryptocurrency. This means traders can get exposure to the price of the Cryptocurrency without worrying about the security risks associated with storing it and the counterparty risk from the exchange. This is similar to trading Energy Futures such as oil rather than owning physical oil to speculate on its price.
Cryptocurrency CFDs
Facts
- Leverage up to 1:2
- Trade the market 7 days a week
- Long or short
- No commissions
- REAL live support!
Bitcoin CFD
The first and largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin paved the ways for hundreds of similar currencies and boasts a market cap of over $100 billion.
Ethereum CFD
The world's second-largest cryptocurrency, it is labelled by many as 'the next Bitcoin'. Ethereum has received international recognition and support from giant organisations such as Microsoft, JP Morgan, and Intel.
Dash CFD
Dash's focus is on instant transactions and owner privacy. Dash has an infrastructure that enables much faster transactions than other cryptocurrencies and therefore displays higher liquidity than many of its counterparts.
Litecoin CFD
Designed by a former Google engineer to improve upon Bitcoin's technology, Litecoin offers quicker processing times and a larger number of tokens. It is also the first cryptocurrency to implement SegWit, a method of speeding up transaction times without compromising the underlying blockchain technology.
Bitcoin Cash CFD
Bitcoin Cash resulted from a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. It increased block size from 1 megabyte to 8 megabytes without incorporating SegWit.
Ripple CFD
Ripple is both a transaction network and crypto token which was created in 2012 as the go-to cryptocurrency for banks and global money transfers, and has recently experienced a period of growth.
EOS CFD
EOS is a decentralized operating system based on blockchain technology. It is designed to support of decentralized applications on a commercial-scale by giving all the required core functionalities.
Polkadot CFD
Polkadot is a platform that allows diverse blockchains to transfer messages, including value, in a trust-free fashion; sharing their unique features while pooling their security. In brief, Polkadot is a scalable, heterogeneous, multi-chain technology.
Stellar CFD
Stellar, or Stellar Lumens, is an open source, decentralized protocol for digital currency to fiat money low-cost transfers which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies.
Chainlink CFD
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network and cryptocurrency that provides data to blockchains. It is one of the main sources of data used to feed information to applications in decentralized finance.
Dogecoin CFD
Dogecoin was founded by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, as a payment system. This coin began as a 'meme coin' and is now seen as a popular option for traders.
Tezos CFD
Tezos is a decentralized and Proof of Stake blockchain network that can perform peer-to-peer transactions and assists as a platform to arrange smart contracts.
Uniswap CFD
Uniswap is used to exchange cryptocurrencies. It enables automated transactions between cryptocurrency tokens on the Ethereum blockchain through smart contracts.
Cardano CFD
Cardano is a public blockchain platform that enables peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency, Ada. It is open-source and decentralized, with consensus achieved using proof of stake.
Binance Coin CFD
Binance Coin was initially formed as a utility token for reduced trading fees, but its uses have extended to payments for transaction fees (on the Binance Chain), travel bookings, entertainment, online services and financial services.
Avalanche CFD
Avalanche is a decentralized, open-source proof of stake blockchain platform. It uses smart contracts to support various blockchain-based projects with high transaction processing speed.
Polygon Matic CFD
Ethereum blockchain is used in the Polygon platform, which can connect and evolve Ethereum-compatible projects and blockchains. It uses a modified proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.
Moonbeam CFD
An Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot founded by Derek Yoo. It can simplify the process of building and/or deploying Solidity projects in a Substrate-based environment.
Kusama CFD
Kusama utilizes two types of blockchains, the relay chain and parachains in the Polkadot ecosystem. It serves like a sandbox that help testing and developing new features in early projects.
How does Crypto CFD
trading work?
Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that derives its value from supply and demand factors unique to this asset class.
Bitcoin is available in a finite supply and therefore increases in price as demand increases.
Demand stems from speculative sources and more practical sources, for example, Internet purchases paid for in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin also has a tendency to react to market sentiment in more traditional markets such as equities and foreign exchange, increasing during periods of negative sentiment.
Virtual currency CFD’s are complex, extremely risky and usually highly speculative instruments. When trading such products there is a high risk of losing all your initial capital. You should consider whether you understand how virtual currency CFD’s work and whether you can bear the loss of the entire invested amount. The values of virtual currencies are subject to extreme price volatility and may result in significant loss over a short period of time. Prior to trading these instruments you should fully understand the true extent of the exposure to the risk of loss and take into consideration your level of experience.
Bitcoin CFD Trading Example
Buying: BTCUSD
The gross loss on your trade is calculated as follows:
Opening Price
Closing Price
Gross Loss on Trade
Opening the Position
The price of Bitcoin CFD against the US Dollar is 3900.25/3910.25 and you decide to buy 2 contracts at 3910.25.
Closing the Position
One month later Bitcoin CFD has decreased to 3620.00 / 3630.00 and you decide to get out of the losing trade by selling your 2 contracts at 3620.00 each.
The gross profit on your trade is calculated as follows:
Opening Price
Closing Price
Gross Profit on Trade
Opening the Position
The price of Bitcoin CFD against the US Dollar is 3900.25/3910.25 and you decide to buy 2 contracts at 3910.25.
Closing the Position
One month later Bitcoin CFD has increased to 4200.50/4210.50 and you decide to take your profit by selling your 2 contracts at 4200.50 each.
Spreads
Cryptocurrency CFD
*Our average spreads are based on data from the last 3 months. Despite our best efforts to provide competitive trading conditions, spreads may be affected by external factors such as news announcements and/or other unexpected events.
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