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METALS

Precious metals and valuable industrial commodities

Why trade metals?

  • Speculation, hedging, and portfolio diversification
  • Trade long or short, against a choice of counter currencies including US Dollar, Australian Dollar, Sterling, and Euro
  • Highly liquid markets influenced by a wide range of factors offer interesting alternatives to forex

 
Market insights

Precious and industrial metals have experienced some extreme price movements in recent years, which has increased investor interest in them.

Prices of gold and to a lesser extent silver are influenced by political events and market sentiment as well as by supply and demand due to precious metals’ characteristics of being so-called safe havens. In addition, gold has traditionally been a treated as an investment and a store of value, and used as an alternative to currency in monetary exchange. Even today investors turn to gold, and more recently also to silver, in times of uncertainty in the expectation that its price will withstand economic downturns or crises more effectively than other asset classes.

As a longer term investment, buying and holding precious metals in physical form has seen a surge of popularity with individual investors in recent years. For shorter trading horizons, trading through derivatives and exchange traded contracts offers a simple and less capital-intensive way to take a position on the price movements of metals.


Contract details

Contract Margin Trading hours Max
position
size		 Contract value
(per min tick
movement)		 Underlying
futures exchange		 Contract expiry
XAU/USD 1% 24 hours* 10,000 $0.10 Bank rates NA
XAU/GBP 1% 24 hours* 10,000 £0.10 Bank rates NA
XAU/AUD 1% 24 hours* 10,000 AUD $0.10 Bank rates NA
XAU/CHF 1% 24 hours* 10,000 CHF 0.10 Bank rates NA
XAU/EUR 1% 24 hours* 10,000 €0.10 Bank rates NA
XAG/USD 1% 24 hours* 250,000 $0.50 Bank rates NA
Copper 1% 18:00-17:15
(New York)*		 250,000 $1.25 CMX 4th Wed - monthly
Palladium 1% 18:00-17:15
(New York)*		 3,000 $0.50 NYM - New York 4th Wed - Prior Month Mar, June, Sept, Dec
Platinum 1% 18:00-17:15
(New York)*		 2,000 $1 NYM - New York 4th Wed - Prior Month Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct

*Opens 6pm (New York) on Sunday, closes 5pm (New York) on Friday

Please be aware that from 5pm to 6pm (New York), Gold and Silver will only be tradeable subject to liquidity.


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