{"id":188,"date":"2020-10-21T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/td365.com\/?post_type=markets&#038;p=188"},"modified":"2023-05-23T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:33:48","slug":"stock-trading","status":"publish","type":"markets","link":"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/markets\/stock-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row spacer-50\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row markets-landing\">\n\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-10 col-lg-8 col-xxl-6 offset-md-1 offset-lg-2 offset-xxl-3 padding-v-10 text-center fade-left\">\n\t\t<h1><strong>Stock Trading<\/strong> at TD365.com\n<\/h1>\n\t\t<h4>Trade global stocks with TD365.com and start reducing your trading costs today.\nOur spreads on US stocks are as low as 2 cents on either side of the market price.\n<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"spacer-10 spacer-md-30\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/traders-gb.td365.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cta-blue\">Open Account<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/demo.tradedirect365.com\/finlogin\/OneClickDemo.aspx?aid=1034\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cta-dark-blue\">Try Demo Account<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"row border-block\">\n    <div class=\"col-12\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/themes\/trade-direct-365\/images\/markets\/edge-top.png\" width=\"100%\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row align-items-center dark-block\" style=\"overflow: visible;\">\n\t<div class=\"col-12 text-center fade-left\">\n            <\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-10 offset-md-1 padding-v-30 text-center table-wrap fade-right delay-04\">\n\t\t\n<table id=\"tablepress-3\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-3 tablepress-responsive tablepress-responsive-phone\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Stock<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Min. (fixed) Spread<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Margin<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Amazon.com<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">+ 2c on market buy and sell price<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Apple Computers Inc<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">+ 2c on market buy and sell price<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Facebook Inc<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">+ 2c on market buy and sell price<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Unilever (UK Market)<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">0.1%<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-3 from cache -->    <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"row border-block\">\n    <div class=\"col-12\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/themes\/trade-direct-365\/images\/markets\/edge-bot.png\" width=\"100%\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row align-items-center padding-xl-v-50 backgroundless-text\" style=\"overflow:hidden\">\n    <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-xl-4 offset-xl-1 offset-xxl-2\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"parallax-img\" src=\"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TD365-Trade-Direct-365-Stock-Trading-683x1024.png\" width=\"100%\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-xxl-4 offset-xl-1 padding-v-30 fade-right\">\n                <h2>What is <strong>Stock Spread Trading?<\/strong>\n<\/h2>\n        <hr>\n                <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stock spread trading allows you to trade long (to benefit if the price goes up) or short (to benefit if the price goes down) on a wide range of stocks listed on global markets including UK, US, and Europe.\u00a0 You also don\u2019t need to buy the underlying stock.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row border-block\" id=\"mt4\">\n    <div class=\"col-12\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/themes\/trade-direct-365\/images\/index\/border-top.png\" width=\"100%\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row align-items-center padding-v-50 dark-block\">\n    <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-xl-4 offset-xl-1\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"parallax-img\" src=\"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TD365-Trade-Direct-365-What-is-Stock-Trading-683x1024.png\" width=\"100%\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-xxl-4 offset-xl-1 padding-v-30 fade-right\">\n        <h2><strong>How do you Spread Trade Stocks<\/strong> with TD365.com?\n<\/h2>\n        <hr>\n        <h4><\/h4>\n        <p class=\"p1\">If you want to speculate that the price of a stock will rise, you can place a BUY trade order on the TD365.com platform.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you are correct and the price of that stock goes up, you should make a profit on that trade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If the price of the stock went down, however, then you would make a loss.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us go through an example trading the US Stock Amazon:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon.com has a current price of USD 3,078. You believe that the price of this stock will increase so you would place a BUY trade on Amazon at USD 3,078.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The margin on Amazon stocks is 20% which equals USD 615.6 (20% x USD 3,078)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, you only need USD 615.60 in your account to meet the margin requirement to trade the Amazon stock.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us say the Price of Amazon went up and you closed your position at USD 3185.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buy Price USD 3,078<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sell Price USD 3,185<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profit USD 107<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capital Required (Margin) USD 615.6<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Return on capital 69%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also spread trade stocks if you think a stock price will fall in value.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You simply open a SELL trade to open your position.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the value of the stock falls below your entry price, then you will make a profit (all else being equal).<\/span><\/p>\n            <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-12 spacer-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"footer-connection\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade global stocks with TD365.com and start reducing your trading costs today.<\/p>\n<p>We offer incredibly tight fixed spreads across our entire stock selection.<\/p>\n<p>With stock spread trading, you only need to provide a small margin (mostly 5% of the stock value) and you can speculate on the price either going up or going down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stock Trading - TD365.com UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/td365.com\/en-gb\/markets\/stock-trading\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stock Trading - TD365.com UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trade global stocks with TD365.com and start reducing your trading costs today. 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