SPDR S&P/ASX 200 (XJO) Fund (STW.AX)
1. Spread out your potential risks or rewards – you can trade an entire market as though it were a single stock or commodity.
2. Find additional trading opportunities – ETFs are designed to give you exposure to diverse markets/sectors within capital markets. This means you can diversify your portfolio without the need for a large amount of capital.
3. Enjoy tight spreads with zero commissions for making a deposit and opening/closing a trade. In addition, gain unlimited access to real-time ETF quotes charts and quotes with the Plus500 platform.
Trading ETFs with leverage allows you to multiply the size of a trade through the use of borrowed capital. As such, you can increase the potential profit or loss to be realised from the trade. Plus500’s available leverage for ETFs CFDs is 1:100.
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ETFs CFDs Trading at Plus500
Trade on the most popular Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Fund and SPDRUSA500 at Plus500 with leverage. Control your profits and losses by setting FREE Stops and Limits on your positions. Analyse our charts to discover trading trends using a variety of indicators set according to your personal preference. Trade on the ETFs market with up to 1:100 leverage. You can start with as little as AU$200 to gain the effect of AU$20,000 capital! Get FREE real-time streaming quotes.Why trade ETFs?
ETF CFDs offer several advantages that have increased their popularity among day traders:1. Spread out your potential risks or rewards – you can trade an entire market as though it were a single stock or commodity.
2. Find additional trading opportunities – ETFs are designed to give you exposure to diverse markets/sectors within capital markets. This means you can diversify your portfolio without the need for a large amount of capital.
3. Enjoy tight spreads with zero commissions for making a deposit and opening/closing a trade. In addition, gain unlimited access to real-time ETF quotes charts and quotes with the Plus500 platform.
How does leverage work in ETF CFDs?
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a financial instrument that tracks (and sometimes amplifies) the market price of the top companies within a specific financial sector, such as aerospace, banking, energy, technology, or commodity, such as oil, natural gas, gold or lithium.Trading ETFs with leverage allows you to multiply the size of a trade through the use of borrowed capital. As such, you can increase the potential profit or loss to be realised from the trade. Plus500’s available leverage for ETFs CFDs is 1:100.
To see a full list of ETFs CFDs offered on the trading platform, click here.
How do CFD ETFs on Gold work?
Gold can be traded through a range of ETFs. Here are some of the most popular ones:- GLD GOLD, SPDR Gold Shares ETF; tracks the daily price movement of gold, one of the world's most precious metals.
- ETFS Gold, ETFS Physical Gold; follows the spot price of physically-held gold bullions and coins in vaults.
- GDX, VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF; offers exposure to gold mining companies, and tracks the daily price movement of their shares.
- GDXJ, VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF; monitors gold mining companies with smaller market capitalisations than those in the GDX.
How do you start day trading on the ETFs CFDs?
Follow these steps to start trading stock CFDs with Plus500:- If you don’t already have a Plus500 account, open a Trading Account Here.
- Complete your account registration and documents verification, then deposit funds.
- To search for a specific ETF, click into the search bar and type the name or symbol.
- Consider placing stop orders in advance: you can define the level of profit you would be happy with and/or the level at which you would like to close out the position should the trend turn against you.
- Open a trade.