Open AccessThe use of Contracts for difference (‘CFD’) Spread Bets and Binary Options (‘forbin’) to Trade Foreign Exchange (‘forex’) Commodities and Stocks and Shares in Volatile Financial Markets
Author(s) -
Paul Barnes
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
hsoa journal of forensic, legal and investigative sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-733X
DOI - 10.24966/flis-733x/100055
Subject(s) - foreign exchange market , foreign exchange , financial economics , economics , financial market , monetary economics , binary option , binary number , business , econometrics , finance , valuation of options , mathematics , arithmetic , asian option
This paper examines the popularity of forex and derivatives - contracts for difference (‘CFD’) spread bets and binary options - at a time when the markets are turbulent and speculating by trading is popular. The paper provides theoretical calculations of the probability of success of trading in this way together with empirical evidence.