It is undeniable that stocks and CFDs can highly lucrative – but it is also a fact that they are inherently risky and that stock market trading can be a hazardous business. High rewards usually...

When one of our readers lost 96 per cent of his portfolio in a month after following the advice of a contract for difference broker, Mr Oakey tried to find out what went wrong, and who was to blame...

One issue that Contracts For Difference (CFDs) have been involved with is the lack of transparency when you trade those rather than the shares themselves. Regulators are considering ways in which...