Another post uh ? You even added my quote in your insulting post. See below. You made shit up about me ever claiming CFDs and shares are priced the same way and you are now trying to crawl out of it with lame ass excuses, short term memory loss, and more made up Voly's crap.
In short, you are just behaving like the Voly we know.
We still like you, but you better get a shower after logging out of ET.
"Volly :
you contradict yourself: You claim the whole time that CFDs are priced in the exact same way than cash equity (which they are definitely not, else where would be no need for CFDs), then you say that the tax implications are a "bonanza for brokers who make much more money on those than on equities". Which way around would you like to have it?
So, please explain to us how that CFD DMA works for a CFD with underlying that cannot easily be shorted because of short sell restrictions, low availability of borrow inventory of the underlying, and borrow rates in general when shorting the equity. You are telling us that all those costs are nicely taken up by your broker as a service to LuisHK? Jeez, why are we even discussing this?
Fact is:
* CFD commission is different from the underlying cash equity commission for the same notional exposure
* spreads are most of the time different
= > and the above because the economics are very different between a CFD and cash equity: Different leverage rates (some extends leverage and of course charges for it), different borrow rates, different commission, different spread, different tax implications. Of course are therefore CFDs and the underlying cash not equally priced. If you claim such then you are talking utter nonsense. Not one single index CFD, for example is identically priced as the underlying index. And most equity CFDs are not priced the same as their underlying stocks, either, because most markets apply short sell restrictions among the many other issues I listed above.
Please note that I never said nor say that CFDs are inferior or superior to trading the underlying cash equity, I am saying they are not equally priced. Simple as that.
Luis quote in Voly's post :
That's what I posted first :
"I suspect most funds do the same calculation I do. They try to anticipate their holding period, commissions and interests and trade dma CFDs rather than underlying stocks if it's cheaper or other untaxed dérivatives.
UK and french transaction tax is a Bonanza for the brokers btw, who make much more money on those than on equities (if their customers trade large lots at least or have enough cash available not to buy on margin"
I'm a fan neither of stamp tax nor cfds
IB offers DMA, I don't think many big traders or firms go through otc marked up share cfds to avoid the transaction taxes.
You can compare below the financing charges on CFDs with IB and margin rates, quite close, the problem is you have to pay from the 1st usd. The more margin you use, and the shorter you hold your positions, the least it impacts. It seems a very good solution for day traders in UK
https://www.interactivebrokers.com.hk/en/index.php?f=interest&p=schedule2
https://www.interactivebrokers.com.hk/en/index.php?f=interest&p=schedule2
I don't like the CFDs commission because there is a max commission (every 100k euros or so on shares plus rebates, hence when trading big lots (moc usually ) I sometimes pay several times more in commissions with CFDs than with shares). I would trade much more european stocks with lower commissions. Also the fact one has to trade CFDs or stocks depending on the european market and attached transaction tax makes it harder to reach a higher volume tier (IB calculates separately european stock and CFDs trades), which again increases commissions.
IB actually advertises cheaper commission with CFDs than with shares, which is true on small lots.
As of how their dma works, the price is the same as the underlying :
http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/article/1912
As of UK stamp tax, it's 0.5%, not 0.2, which make CFDs an even better alternative to stocks for short term trades"