"where you can get cheaper leverage and trading costs than...

"where you can get cheaper leverage and trading costs than CFDs"

This is patently wrong.
All things being equal, execution costs (commissions, spreds, whatever) with CFD's have to be greater because of the introduction of an extra redundant level of costs, namely the costs of running the CFD platform :

* their office costs
* systems costs
* employee salaries
* employee BMW's
* employee houses
* employee childrens private school educations
* employee childrens orthodontic procedures
* employee wives expensive birthday presents
* employee mistresses even more expensive birthday presents
* ......