You click "Buy EUR/USD" and it feels like you're buying a currency. Almost always, you're not.
A futures contract is an exchange-traded agreement: two parties agree on a price for an asset in the future, and the exchange guarantees execution. Everything is visible in a single, unified order book.
A CFD is an agreement with your broker on the price difference between opening and closing a position; you never own the asset itself. CFDs are what most retail Forex traders actually trade.
Why?
Minimum margin on a CFD starts around $10. Margin on a CME futures contract is over $2,000. That's almost a 200x difference.
CFDs are simply the more accessible option. But what you're trading is a derivative of the exchange move.
These are different markets, but not independent ones: they're tightly linked through arbitrage and move together. On the CME, you see the move directly. On Forex, you see it through your broker's lens.
That's why UniqUnits connects Forex with CME data: you analyze the primary source, and trade wherever you're comfortable trading.
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