Metals Trading
Unlock the Full Potential of Metal Trading with the Best Global Multi-Asset Broker.
TRADE METALS WITH THE BEST ONLINE TRADING PLATFORM
Welcome to the world of metals trading with XSTrades. Discover the vast possibilities of trading metals with XSTrades, where you can trade CFDs on gold, silver, platinum, palladium, steel, and other metals with an award-winning broker. XSTrades offers a seamless platform for exploring spot metals trading, allowing you to capitalize on new trading opportunities.
CONTRACT SPECIFICATIONS
XSTrades offers access to a wide range of metals, including Gold, Silver, Platinum, & Palladium. Plan your trades with confidence and optimize your metal 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.
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 metal pairs 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+2).
XAU, XAG, XPD & XPT Pairs : Monday 01:05 – Friday 23:55
(Daily Break: 00:00 – 00:59)
Spreads
XSTrades offers a floating spread on all metal products 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