The Foreign Exchange (FX) market is the largest, most liquid, market in the world. In fact, it’s larger than the stocks and futures markets combined. In addition to trading for profit – also called speculative trading, forex is traded typically to diversify investment portfolios and to hedge against exposures in other assets.

Contracts for Difference, or CFDs, are a simple way to trade many of the global financial instruments, including commodities, indices, equities and government bonds. A CFD is essentially a derivative product that tracks the price movement of an underlying market, for example a stock market index like Dow Jones or a heavily traded commodity like gold. At ADSS, we offer a wide range of financial asset classes that can be traded via a CFD.

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It’s a digital currency that’s created and stored electronically, and is based around a complex and revolutionary new data sharing technology called blockchain. It was created by an unknown person or group in 2009, who went under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. We’ll take a detailed look at what bitcoin is and how bitcoin CFDs can be traded with ADSS.