Trading in the stock market can be very rewarding if approached with discipline. With the increasing popularity of CFDs, more and more traders prefer trading shares through CFDs over traditional shares, considering such significant advantages as leverage and the ability to go long and/or short.

You can potentially profit in both rising and falling markets. Basically, traders in share CFDs are interested in speculating and capturing movements in price by taking short or long positions to profit on the asset’s price going down or up, respectively. If they go long, traders could be rewarded with dividend payments or incur dividend charges if they go short.