Metals trading
Trade metals across FX-quoted spot and futures-based products
Diversify your portfolio and hedge against inflation with gold, silver, and other metals. Trade gold via FX-quoted spot contracts, metals futures or non-expiring CFDs that reference underlying future markets – whatever suits your trading style.
Discover more ways to trade metals, access leverage to increase market exposure
Benefit from deep liquidity and tight pricing in our spot metals markets like XAU/USD
Access metal futures and CFDs across gold, silver, copper, and platinum
Discover our market-leading spot metals
Spreads will vary based on market conditions, including volatility, available liquidity, and other factors. Typical spreads may not be available for Managed Accounts and accounts referred by an Introducing Broker.
Metals explained
What is Gold (XAU) and Silver (XAG) spot trading?
Gold has historically been a safe haven asset in times of market uncertainty. Learn the benefits of gold and silver with our in-depth guide.
How to trade Gold and other metals with CFDs
Want to know how to trade metals using CFDs? This section breaks down every aspect of your first trade.
Deep dive on metals markets
Explore what moves metals prices and learn how to enter the markets.
Diversify your instrument
Trade metals as spot contracts against major currencies (such as XAU/USD), through metal futures to gain exposure to longer‑term price expectations, or via non-expiring CFDs that reference underlying futures markets for flexible access to metal markets.
These products are designed to provide continuous exposure using futures market pricing rather than spot pricing.
Fractional contracts
Access fractional contract sizes as small as 0.1 for greater flexibility and control.
Go long or short
When you trade metals via CFDs with us, you can profit from both rising and falling markets.
Take advantage of leverage
You only need to put up a fraction of the metal price to open a position. However, leverage can significantly increase both potential profits and losses
Cash Rebates on Metals (Spot, CFDs)
Earn cash rebates based on your monthly trade volume. The higher your trading volume, the greater the rewards - with a peak of $27 rebate per million.
Level | Volume | Rebate | Earn up to |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | $4m -$16m | $4 | $68 |
2 | $17m - $39m | $7 | $28 |
3 | $40m - $99m | $11 | $1100 |
4 | $100m - $199m | $16 | $3200 |
5 | $200m - $399m | $21 | $8380 |
6 | $400m+ | $27 | $10.8K+ |
Trade metals your way
Benefit from low margins across an extensive range of metal CFDs like gold, silver, copper, platinum and more.
Metals Futures CFD
Market Name | Margin Rate |
|---|---|
Gold Monthly CFD | 7.5% |
Silver Monthly CFD | 12% |
Copper Monthly CFD | 9% |
Platinum Monthly CFD | 12% |
Palladium Monthly CFD | 14% |
Metals Cash CFD (Non-Expiring)*
Market Name | Margin Rate |
|---|---|
Gold Cash CFD | 7.5% |
Silver Cash CFD | 12% |
Copper Cash CFD | 9% |
Platinum Cash CFD | 12% |
Palladium Cash CFD | 14% |
*Non-expiring CFDs reference underlying futures markets and include daily adjustments. Margin requirements differ from FX-quoted spot metals.
FX-quoted spot metals
Market Name | Margin Rate |
|---|---|
XAU/USD | 22% |
XAG/USD | 22% |
XAU/EUR | 23% |
XAU/JPY | 23% |
XAU/AUD | 23% |
XAU/CHF | 23% |
XAU/GBP | 23% |
Check the margin requirements page for the latest rates.
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Metals Trading FAQs
If you have more questions visit the Metals Trading FAQ section or start a chat with our support team.
Why trade gold and silver with FOREX.com?
A lot can happen in 20 years. But throughout that time we’ve remained steadfast, providing traders around the world with the stability and opportunities they need to make their mark on the financial markets.
Reliable, consistent trade execution
Peace of mind that your trades are executed swiftly, with a 100%* execution rate of less than a second.
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We have over 20 years of experience in providing innovative products and helping traders around the world achieve their goals.
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*
Refers to trade executions for GAIN Capital – FOREX.com Canada. Please note that multiple factors may impact execution speed, including but not limited; market conditions, platform type, network connectivity, trading strategies, and account type. FOREX.com’s execution statistics represent GAIN Capital – FOREX.com Canada Ltd. orders executed on FOREX.com's platforms during market hours between May 31, 2026, 5:00 pm ET, and June 30, 2026, 5:00 pm ET and excludes trades/orders entered on the MetaTrader platform.
Market volatility, volume, and system availability may delay trade executions. Price can change quickly in fast market conditions, resulting in an execution price different from the price available at the time order is submitted. Price improvement is not guaranteed and will not occur in all situations.
Excludes trades that received non-standard order processing and orders that failed to trigger.
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