Second only to forex, trading in CFDs that track the share price of major companies is perhaps the most popular form of CFD trading today. Part of the reason for this is that CFDs make stock trading much easier and more accessible to average retail traders than the traditional “real” stocks that are traded on stock exchanges.
With CFDs, stocks can easily be shorted, and high leverage makes it possible to make decent returns from trading them even for people who just have a small amount of capital. Many high leverage forex brokers have therefore jumped on this bandwagon, offering stock CFDs from thousands of companies from across the world.