Leeds UK
Market Wizard
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: Tradovate
Broker: Tradovate
Trading: MES, MNQ
Frequency: Several times daily
Duration: Minutes
Posts: 644 since Apr 2015
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Liquidity (of the sort you're asking about) isn't really relevant to retail CFD traders (in the way you're asking about it).
CFD "traders" are not really dealing with brokers: they're "trading" (actually betting) against counterparties who are pretending to be brokers while dealing in their own products (also while making up their own prices, holding your deposited funds, and making up and interpreting most of the transaction-rules as well).
Those counterparties, the CFD "brokers", may offset their own net liabilities in an underlying market (and some of them certainly do), but that's an entirely different matter from what I think you're asking about.
That's not to say that CFD-trading can't be done profitably, of course, but "liquidity" per se is probably relevant only in so far as it might indirectly impact the spreads they charge their customers. There aren't really any currencies changing hands (between the customer and the "broker", anyway) when CFD's are traded - as mentioned above, it's more or less a "PR gag": they're only pretending to be brokers.
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