{"id":394,"date":"2025-04-14T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/?p=394"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:51:08","slug":"dividends-on-cfds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/faqs\/dividends-on-cfds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dividends on CFDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you trade on stocks or indices with us and there is a dividend payable on the underlying asset, one of the 2 scenarios below may happen:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Any long positions held on the applicable stock and\/or spot index at the ex-div* date will receive a dividend (minus the withholding tax**) in the form of a cash adjustment (deposit, paid into your Trading Account).<\/li>\n<li>Any short positions held on the applicable stock and\/or spot index at the ex-div date will be charged the dividend amount in the form of a cash adjustment (withdrawal, deducted from your Trading Account).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>*<em>ex-div date describes a stock that is trading without the value of the next dividend payment. The ex-dividend date or \u201cex-date\u201d is the day the stock starts trading without the value of its next dividend payment. Typically, the ex-dividend date for a stock is one business day before the record date, meaning that an investor who buys the stock on its ex-dividend date or later will not be eligible to receive the declared dividend. Rather, the dividend payment is made to whoever owned the stock the day before the ex-dividend date.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**<em>Withholding tax is a levy deducted from dividends in most underlying markets. The deduction varies depending on the underlying market, but it\u2019s often reduced to 15%.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you trade on stocks or indices with us and there is a dividend payable on the underlying asset, one of the 2 scenarios below may happen: Any long positions held on the applicable stock and\/or spot index at the ex-div* date will receive a dividend (minus the withholding tax**) in the form of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","category-trading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}