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Futures CFDs derive pricing from underlying futures contracts, while bullion CFDs derive their pricing from the underlying spot market. For a complete overview of all the precious metals available to trade and what time zone they are active in, check out the product schedule.
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Through CFD trading, Axi provides clients with a range of precious metals to trade and invest in. The most popular precious metals are our Bullion Spot CFDs: gold, silver, and platinum, against the US dollar (Symbols XAU/USD – XAG/USD – XPT/USD).
Bullion Spot CFDs are also accessible against other quote currencies, such as the Australian dollar, Swiss franc, Euro and British pound.
Precious metals are also available in the form of commodity futures CFDs. With these instruments, traders and investors can access gold and silver futures CFDs, as well as Copper.
Risk is inherent in all investments, but, as you would expect, some investment methods exhibit less risk than others. Common risks associated with trading precious metals, and other financial markets, are market risk, investment risk and trading risk.
The risk of trading precious metals, in terms of trading risk, is largely concentrated on execution risk, gap risk and slippage risk (the expected price of a trade and the price at which the trade is executed).
Trading hours for Axi clients in the precious metals market kick off at 01:00 Monday (server time) and close at midnight Friday (24:00—server time). This includes gold, silver and platinum products. There is a market break that occurs between 24:00 and 01:00 (server time) each morning.
Precious metals market hours for gold and silver commodity futures CFDs open at 18:01 Sunday and close at 16:59 Friday – a trading break occurs between 16:59 and 18:01 (New York).
To access more information, refer to our product schedule.
Due to their perceived reliability, precious metals are often viewed as an effective way to balance or diversify an investment portfolio against risk or volatility, or to hedge against inflation and act as a safe haven.
To trade precious metals online with Axi, as well as the base metal copper, the minimum trade size is 0.01 of a standard lot.
