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New to Trading CFDs?
Learn first. Then trade with confidence.

Build a solid foundation with Sharenet education, practical tutorials, simulated accounts and guided onboarding before you risk real capital.

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new to trading?

If you are brand new to trading, it is often wise to first invest in your education. Use this time to familiarise yourself with basic concepts and get a good grasp of how the markets operate. Building a good foundation of knowledge will always benefit you in the long run.

Sharenet College offers a comprehensive 27-module self-study stock exchange course that starts with basic concepts, guides you through intermediate topics and even covers more advanced modules including CFD trading, options and warrants trading, forex trading and futures trading.

By the end of the course you should feel informed, comfortable and confident. Throughout your learning period a simulated account is made available so that you can put into practice what you are learning.

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Your first steps checklist

  • Read through beginner modules on market structure, order types and basic risk management.
  • Practise using a simulated or demo account before committing real funds.
  • Keep a simple trading journal to record what you learn and how you apply it.
  • Focus on understanding risk first: position sizing, stop losses and leverage.

Education and information are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial advice.

Stay Informed

Through our relationship with Sharenet, SharenetCFDs is able to offer rich data, daily summaries and in-depth commentary so that you always know what is happening in the markets.

The Sharenet Daily

Subscribe for free and receive a concise daily market wrap-up sent straight to your email. Get key moves, sector performance and top stories on the JSE and beyond.

  • Daily market overview
  • Top gainers and losers
  • Economic and company news highlights

MarketViews Newsletter

MarketViews is a complimentary monthly publication with commissioned articles on trading, investing, technical analysis and company analysis.

  • In-depth trading and investing articles
  • Technical and fundamental perspectives
  • Longer-term market themes and ideas

New to CFDs?

Like any financial product, it is wise to familiarise yourself with the instrument you are going to trade. At SharenetCFDs we devote time and energy to ensuring that our clients are comfortable with trading CFDs, understand the risks and know how to use leverage responsibly.

Benefits of CFDs

  • Low commissions on equity CFDs (only 0.2%).
  • No securities TAX or STRATE fees.
  • No rollover charges as CFDs do not expire.
  • Gearing from as low as 5% margin requirement.
  • Interest paid on total account value.
  • Participation in corporate actions, e.g. dividends and rights issues.
  • Trade on margin and use your capital more effectively.
  • Go long or short to potentially profit in rising and falling markets.

CFD Tutorial Module

Learn more about CFDs – our free tutorial will teach you to:

  • Understand the nature of CFDs.
  • Appreciate their advantages versus physical share trading.
  • Know how to go long and short on equity and index CFD trades.
  • Recognise both the opportunities and dangers represented by leverage.
  • Calculate the costs attached to CFD trading.
  • Understand a few basic CFD trading strategies.
  • Be familiar with different CFD order types and their applications.
  • Use stop loss orders to help limit CFD trading losses.

Your details will be used to send you the CFD Trading Tutorial and related educational information. CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Make sure you fully understand the risks before trading.

Seminars & Workshops

Sharenet hosts investing and trading courses across South Africa. The aim is to help clients trade with confidence and ensure that money management and risk management rules are being applied correctly and effectively.

Attendees also discover how to trade and invest according to tried and tested strategies that can deliver superior returns over time. Sessions include practical examples, Q&A and platform walkthroughs.

To enquire about upcoming seminars or courses, please contact the SharenetCFDs team.

Trade Sense & Onboarding

We know that trading on a new platform requires some getting used to, which is why we developed our complimentary Trade Sense service for every new account.

  • A six-week programme with 5 educational modules emailed to you.
  • Guidance through the essentials of our CFD trading service and platform.
  • Reduced contract sizes during the learning phase, with lower practical minimums.
  • Gradual increase towards standard sizes and minimum commission over 6 weeks.

It is just another way that we are committed to helping clients trade smartly and confidently.