Contracts for difference
A bilateral bet on a price move with your broker, leveraged, financed daily, and losing money for the substantial majority o…
No. 023Financial spread betting
A CFD in different legal clothing: a tax-free bet on a price move for UK residents, which is both its main attraction and a …
No. 027Foreign exchange
The largest market on earth by turnover, running continuously from Sunday evening to Friday night, and overwhelmingly used f…
No. 029Futures contracts
A standardised, exchange-cleared agreement to trade something at a set price on a set date — the oldest financial derivative…
No. 044Options
The right, but not the obligation, to trade at a set price — which makes the payoff asymmetric and the pricing genuinely dif…
No. 053Residential property
The asset most British households hold most of their wealth in, bought with borrowed money, sold over months, and priced by …