About CFD calculators and CFD risk management
Welcome to CFDcalculator.com where we share with fellow traders the essential Contracts For Difference calculation tools needed to trade this great product and through this we all aim to make more money trading CFDs. Whether you want a site to calculate the CFD financing cost for you, find ATR stop loss values or find a return to cover losses, we hope to have answered these and many more CFD risk related questions.
Each section has an 'Overview' and a 'How to Use' to assist you with understanding the trading fundamentals and how the calculators work. We all aim to make money trading CFDs and take advantage of the CFD leverage and CFD short selling opportunities and experience shows a good mixture of fundamental analysis and / or technical analysis combined with money management is the key to making money with CFDs. The key element being CFD risk management and this comes from calculating what the CFD Stop loss is, the percentage risk calculation on a CFD trade, knowing the CFD leverage you are using and being aware of your true costs using the CFD commission calculator and CFD finance calculator.
CFDs are now traded on securities in London, Australia, US, UK, Hong Kong, Germany, Japan, China and Singapore to mention a few. You can trade CFD derivatives over share, commodity, treasury, sector and index products for low commissions but you still require require safe risk management strategies, stop loss positions and a solid understanding of the CFD commission and CFD finance costs. The cfd calculators were developed to help you in this process and were designed by traders for traders.
One of my early lessons in trading share CFDs was the need for effective money management, in particular how to calculate a CFD position size, know the CFD trading risk, the CFD commission rate, how to manage your CFD leverage, calculate the CFD daily finance charge and track your trading progress. We can all do with help from free calculation tools so feel free to browse through the materials and see if it can help you.
Each section has an 'Overview' and a 'How to Use' to assist you with understanding the trading fundamentals and how the calculators work. We all aim to make money trading CFDs and take advantage of the CFD leverage and CFD short selling opportunities and experience shows a good mixture of fundamental analysis and / or technical analysis combined with money management is the key to making money with CFDs. The key element being CFD risk management and this comes from calculating what the CFD Stop loss is, the percentage risk calculation on a CFD trade, knowing the CFD leverage you are using and being aware of your true costs using the CFD commission calculator and CFD finance calculator.
This Contract for Difference calculator website is a work in progress and we aim to keep adding more free tools over time so keep coming back and we welcome your feedback or ideas on what you require. When we get spare time amongst our own trading and family lives we will expand the offerings so make sure you leave your email address so we can update you of changes as well as other articles and tips we circulate over time. If you have something to offer we would love this as well so let us know your CFD strategies and needs.
All the free CFD calculators are yours to use and for a small software price you can download the CFD software and save the results, modify the spreadsheets as you like, add new CFD calculators and be in full control. Test them out for free on this website and then buy the product with the added features, remembering you receive a 100% money back guarantee and some free bonuses.
Always remember that CFDs are a derivative product and as such can expose you to a high level of risk (sometimes more than the money you are investing) so always read the Product Disclosure Statements of your chosen CFD provider and develop a trading method within your acceptable risk profile.
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