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Managing correlated positions and portfolio limits
Several small positions can behave like one large trade. Portfolio limits should capture shared drivers rather than count how many symbols are open.
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CFDs Trading Guide
Understand CFDs, interpret quotes and measure the effects of leverage, costs and execution. Follow ten stages from contract basics to strategy testing, portfolio hedging and a disciplined trading process.
Start with What a CFD gives you and what it does not, then follow the next lesson links. Explore 40 lessons with worked examples, exercises and further reading.
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Trading Plans and Discipline
Build risk limits, review execution and decide when to reduce exposure or stop trading.
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A CFD trade journal that improves decisions
A journal should explain a decision well enough that you can review it without remembering how you felt. Record the process and the outcome separately.
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Loss limits trading pauses and recovery
A trading pause is a planned response to risk or deteriorating execution. It should not depend on waiting until emotions or account losses become unmanageable.
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Building your CFD trading and risk plan
A complete plan connects market reasoning with contract mechanics, execution and review. It should also explain when no CFD trade is justified.
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