CFDs are financial derivatives. Traders can easily trade various asset classes (including foreign exchange, stocks, commodities, and stock indices) price changes will produce long and short positions.

JPN225 CFD is also called Nikkei 225, or Nikkei for short. It is Japan’s main stock market index and includes 225 leading Japanese companies. The index has existed since 1950, and well-known companies include Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Nomura, Sony and Fujitsu.

Whether you want to buy Japanese stocks without actually choosing a single company, or want to short the entire Japanese stock market, the JPN225 index is the easiest way. This is an easy way to enter the Japanese market because you do not need to open a stock brokerage account in Japan.

In the 1980s, the Nikkei index was the best performing stock market in the world. Then, starting in 1989, it experienced one of the worst bear markets in history, falling from 38,000 to below 8,000. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, it has been in a strong bull market with an increase of more than 300%, but it has not yet returned to its all-time high of 38,915.

At XM, you only need a trading account to trade CFDs on the JPN225 index and other products around the world. In addition, XM also provides customers with the MT4 platform, which is recognized as the most advanced trading platform in the world. Registration is very easy, and you can start trading in just a few minutes.

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