The main differences between CFD trading and Forex trading is that CFD trading involves different types of contracts covering a diverse set of markets, such as indices, energy, and metals, whereas Forex offers pure currency trading. Representing over 60% of Australian CFD & FX providers by market share, Australian Retail OTC Derivative Association is determined to raise benchmarks within the industry. Our 16 Best Practice Standards, authorised by the ACCC, include the mandatory full segregation of client money and greater capital adequacy standards, which we believe, along Australian retail FX and CFD brokerages are among the highest quality in the world, and are led by extremely experienced senior executives who have created a ‘halo effect’ within the entire industry globally in that most retail FX firms look to Australia as a bastion of success and good business ethic, and rightly so.