Trading Derivatives on Stocks offers traders the opportunity to trade company shares without owning the underlying asset. Derivatives have given traders the opportunity to access the market in a more cost-efficient and time-efficient way.
Stock trading is the process of buying and selling company shares listed on a stock exchange. The aim is to potentially benefit from price fluctuations.
Each share has a price usually determined by the supply and demand of the company’s shares in the market based on its current or predicted future performance. Their price can be influenced by a number of factors such as company news, earnings and wider market events.
Traders can take long or short positions and take advantage of rising as well as falling stock prices.
With HFM, you can trade Derivatives on stocks of some of the world’s largest and well-known companies such as Apple, Amazon and Facebook, with HFM acting as your broker between you and stock exchanges from around the world including the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange.
Derivatives have provided traders with the opportunity to access the market in a more economical and faster way, as they do not take ownership of the underlying asset and trading with leverage means that larger trades can be opened with less capital.
Our spreads are low for all our account types. Low spreads, low costs, competitive commissions and accounts with no minimum deposit allow our traders to trade our hundreds of instruments for less.
HFM offers one of the fastest execution speeds in the industry, with our best execution policy ensuring that every trade is executed as quickly as possible and at the best possible price.
The popularity of the stock market and the number of participants in the field make it a highly liquid market, a factor that can present a lot of opportunities but also a higher risk.
HFM traders can trade stocks with low commission, low spreads and the best fund security in the industry in order to take advantage of a wide range of stocks from the biggest companies around the world.
Stocks are just one part of the hundreds of products that can be traded with HFM in all the most popular asset classes, meaning that traders can diversify their portfolio and in turn minimize their risk.
HFM traders can access the stock markets 24/5 whenever the market is open, and place trades that suit their individual trading and risk profile.
The CFD Stock market is speculative, meaning that traders can go long or short and speculate on both rising and falling share prices. As traders do not take ownership of the underlying asset they are not required to own the stock.
Learn how to trade stocks with HFM. There are many reasons the stock market is so popular; there is a huge number of stocks to choose from, it is a huge market that works 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, and being able to trade online has made the market accessible to more people than ever before.
Trade popular Stocks as derivatives without owning the underlying asset, with 24/5 trading, low margin requirements, and the ability to trade on both rising and falling prices.
The HFM Education Centre is filled with educational resources to help you learn the basic concepts and strategies you will need to get started trading so you can make a dynamic entry into the market.
Before you trade you need to follow a few steps. Open a live trading account and start stocks trading in less than 2 minutes:
Register with HFM by completing a simple online form and providing your profile information.
Fund your trading account using any one of our fast, simple and secure methods.
That’s it! You can access all asset classes and start Stocks trading.
The below table sets out the Trading Hours that Stocks are available to be traded on the HFM platforms. Although Stocks, like the rest of the forex market, are tradable 24/5, the best time to trade Stocks is generally considered to be within the initial hours of the market’s opening. This is attributed to the fact that the stock price typically reflects all major market news for the day during the early morning trading hours.
Earnings reports, new product launches, target failures, or demise of a key figure can all result in fluctuations in both demand and stock prices.
News, anticipated or unforeseen, has the potential to influence a company's stock price - i.e. interest rate changes, financial outlook, inflation, industry news.
During clear market conditions investors are more easily able to determine future performance. For example, during clear trends, changes in investor sentiment and risk appetite.
10am ET (3pm GMT) is often the best time for making trading decisions, as markets stabilize after market open noise, hence by then traders should know whether the opening trend will hold or reverse itself.
End-of-day trading generally reinforces the established market trends. This pattern is largely attributed to the predominant participation of institutional investors during this trading period.
A popular financial theory suggests that Monday is considered to be the best day to buy stocks. Friday has been seen as the best day to sell stocks, possibly because of taking-profit practise or as market participants aim to get a better price than they might fetch on Monday.
Stocks can be traded on all our platforms! Trade CFD Stocks on our MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms, and the HFM Platform on the HFM App. These popular and powerful platforms ensure that every trader can trade in their preferred style, in their favourite location and on the device of their choice.
You can start Stocks trading with HFM in less than 2 minutes! Open a live trading account by completing a simple online form and providing your profile information, fund your trading account using any one of our fast, simple and secure methods, and access any of our many asset classes to get started!
HFM offers account types with no minimum deposit. We also offer a maximum leverage of 1:25 on our Stocks as well as low spreads, negative balance protection and ultra-fast execution. Please check our Trading Accounts Page for more information.
Although Stocks, like the rest of the forex market, are tradable 24/5, the best time to trade Stocks is generally considered to be within the initial hours of the market’s opening. This is attributed to the fact that the stock price typically reflects all major market news for the day during the early morning trading hours.
CFD Stocks are available on our MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms and the HFM Platform on the HFM App, allowing traders the flexibility to trade in their preferred style, in their favourite location and on the device of their choice.
