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TRADE INDICES WITH THE BEST ONLINE TRADING PLATFORM

Welcome to the world of indices trading with XSTrades. Participate in indices price movements both during a rise and a fall with XSTrades, where you can trade CFDs on the world's leading stock indices with the best global broker. XSTrades offers comprehensive trading terms, accurate quotes from multiple suppliers, and versatile analytics for indices trading. Understanding index behavior requires attention to corporate news of included companies and industry-wide events.

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CONTRACT SPECIFICATIONS

XSTrades offers access to a wide range of Stock indices, including Dow Jones Industrial Average (US30), NASDAQ or US Tech (US100), Standard & Poor's or S&P 500 (US500), Financial Times Stock Exchange or FTSE 100 Index (UK100), Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (AUS200), Germany Stock Market Index / Deutscher Aktien Index / DAX Index (DE40), France Stock Market Index / Cotation Assistée en Continu / CAC40 (F40), Spain Market Index / Iberia Index / IBEX (ES35), The EURO STOXX 50 (EU50), & Japan Nikkei 225 (JP225).

Plan your trades with confidence and optimize your indices trading experience by utilizing our detailed contract specifications. Explore our comprehensive contract specifications and gain a deeper understanding of our exceptional trading conditions including contract size, leverage, spreads, commissions, swaps, and more for different account types.

Note: The total round turn commission (per 1 lot) is charged fully at position opening.

TRADING CONDITIONS

Normal Trading Hours

Normal trading hours refer to the regular trading sessions available for trading. The below shows the normal trading hours for stock indices available for trading with XSTrades.
Seasonal and market factors may affect the below trading hours, so it is important to follow the latest updates on the Trading Hours page to stay up to date with the latest seasonal changes to trading hours. All timings are in server time (GMT+3).

AUS200 : Monday - Friday: 02:50 – 24:00
(Daily Break: 09:30 - 10:10) DE40 : Monday - Friday: 02:15 - 23:00 UK100 : Monday - Friday: 01:00 – 24:00 F40 : Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 23:00 EU50 : Monday - Friday: 01:00 – 24:00 ES35 : Monday - Friday: 10:00 - 21:00 JP225 : MMonday - Friday: 01:00 - 23:59 US30, US100, & US500 : Monday - Friday: 01:00 - 24:00
(Daily Breaks: 23:15 - 23:30 & 00:00:01 – 00:59:59) US2000 : Monday - Friday: 01:00 – 24:00
(Daily Break: 00:00:01 – 00:59:59)

Dividend Adjustments

Dividends are paid by companies to shareholders as a means to distribute profits. After a share pays dividends, the price typically falls by the same amount.
Indices reflect the weighted average share price of a group of underlying shares. When one or more companies whose shares are part of an index pay dividends, the index price will also decrease by the weighted average value of the dividend(s).
Therefore, when trading CFD indices, dividend adjustments are applied to open indices positions when dividends are paid in the underlying market. It is important to follow the latest updates on Trading Notices pages to stay up to date with the upcoming Dividends adjustments.

Spreads

XSTrades offers floating spreads on all indices for all account types. Hence the spreads in the contract specifications table are the average spread based on the previous trading day. For live spreads, please refer to the trading platform. Please note that spreads may widen when the markets experience lower liquidity, including rollover time.

Chart Prices

XSTrades offers a variety of trading accounts to suit each trader’s needs and preferences. We offer accounts with raw pricing on which additional commissions are charged. Other account types have no commission but instead have mark-ups incorporated in the prices. By default, the chart in the MetaTrader trading platforms will display the raw pricing, while the market watch will display the pricing of the account type that the client is trading on.

Swaps

Swap long is used for keeping buy positions open overnight, and Swap short is used for keeping sell positions open overnight. Swaps occur at 00:00 Server Time each day, excluding the weekend, until the position is closed. Triple swaps are charged on Wednesdays to cover financing costs incurred over the weekend.

Stop Level

Stop level is the minimum distance (difference in pips) between the current market price and the pending order price. The stop level values in the contract specifications table are subject to change and may not be available for traders using certain high-frequency trading strategies or Expert Advisors.

Dynamic Leverage

The leverage values in the contract specifications table are the maximum leverage for each instrument. For eligible countries, MT5 EQ accounts use equity-based dynamic leverage and MT4 LT accounts use lot-based dynamic leverage. Some instruments are traded with fixed leverage.

Equity-Based Dynamic Leverage (MT5 EQ) Lot-Based Dynamic Leverage (MT4 LT)

Higher Margin Requirements

Higher margin requirements apply to new positions opened from 15 minutes before major economic news until 5 minutes after, 1 hour before the market closes on Friday, 1 hour after the market opens on Monday, and before early market closures on holidays.

View the HMR schedule