First CFD Transaction in Romania

An important event in the history of Romanian stock market. On Monday the Sibiu Stock Exchange carried out the first CFD transaction with SIF Banat-Crişana (SIF1) shares, in an overall value of 4.950 lei for the first time in the history of the home capital market. The SIF Banat-Crişana equities quoted at 0.99 lei / title, 2.94% below Friday's Forex quotes on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Every contract for difference includes 1,000 shares, and for the transaction conducted Monday the buyer submitted a margin of 990 lei, 20% of the total value of the securities traded there.

Thecontracts for difference help the traders to take advantage of the indices in the price of shares, without effectively buy or sell the respective securities, i.e. if an investor bought a contract for difference for a single share, he did not buy the respective number of equities on the spot market, but has the possibility to gain from the difference between the bid and ask price. CFD's are similar to the futures contracts, with the difference that they have no due-date.