There are a wide variety of financial instruments available to be traded on the world’s markets. Our in-depth guides will provide you some insights into their unique features and how to use them in your trading portfolio
Currency or foreign exchange trading – often known as forex, or simply FX – is the buying and selling of international currencies with the objective of making a profit.
Buying and selling company shares listed on a stock exchange. They are one of the most popular financial instruments traded.
Index trading is the buying and selling of financial instruments that are linked to stock market indices that track the performance of groups of assets based on certain characteristics such as industry, sector, country or growth rate.
Commodities are the oldest form of financial instruments. Today, trading in commodities like Agriculture, Energy, Metals and the Environment forms the basis of the global trade ecosystem.
Learn about how the cryptocurrency market works and what drives the prices, to different types of instruments and trading strategies.
Margin trading is when you pay only a certain percentage, or margin, of your investment cost, while borrowing the rest of the money you need from your broker.
Contracts for difference (CFD) are a popular way of trading on the price of stocks and indices, commodities and forex without owning the underlying assets. Derivatives are time-limited contracts that ‘derive’ their value from the market performance of an asset.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are baskets of stocks, commodities or other assets that pool investors’ money and track a benchmark to measure their performance. They are among the most popular financial instruments that investors add to their portfolios for exposure and diversification.
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Traders have a wide variety of strategies at their disposal to try to interpret price movements and take advantageous trading positions. Some traders may use a particular approach almost exclusively.
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The ask price is like the reserve price at an auction: it's basically a price that someone has agreed to sell a security for. It differs from the bid price, which is basically the price a buyer is happy to pay for a security. Thus,...
Read moreDuring a day of trading a broker will buy and sell. What they buy and sell, and how much they do it for, comes down to specific orders given to them by investors. An order is called active when it's running either for the duration of...
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