Stock Trading

Trade stocks online with Tradestone Markets

Trading Stocks online with Tradestone Markets is simple and convenient with up to 13000 equities from 24 of the world’s major stock exchanges accessible through Tradestone Markets’ trading platforms. Investors can trade Stocks online from the North American markets to exchanges in Europe, Asia and Australia directly from a single account, with Direct Market Access ensuring the client gets the best possible price.

Tradestone Markets gives you the ability to manage your long term Domestic and International equity portfolio from within just one account. You can trade the World’s stocks at the click of a button, and no longer need to sign new account opening forms for each currency, or deal with different settlement and custody agreements.  Tradestone Markets brings the World to your screen.

Using Stock positions as collateral

Tradestone Markets allows individuals to reuse up to 70 % of their Stock investments as collateral for margin-based trading. For example, if a trader has Stocks with a market value of CAD 100,000, up to CAD 70,000 may be re-used as a collateral for trading Forex or CFDs. The re-use of collateral depends on the risk rating of the Stock.

Benefits of professional online Stock trading with Tradestone Markets:

  • Create a varied, multi-product portfolio on one online trading account – add Stocks to Forex, CFDs, FX Options and other derivatives
  • Trade over 13000 Stocks from 24 major exchanges, including the world’s most important markets
  • Trade on live prices from many exchanges on request (delayed prices often available)
  • Benefit from Tradestone Market’s policy of allowing up to 70 % of the collateral invested in certain stocks to be used for margin trading activities (Forex trading and CFD trading)
  • Hedge currency exposure of stock investments by trading FX from the same account
  • Advanced charting and technical analysis tools support traders and investors covering all markets.

Settlement

Stocks are settled in “street form” (ie registered in a nominee a/c name) and held with a leading Global Custody provider.  Tradestone clients are not charged any depository or custody fees unless the account is inactive.  One trade per quarter in any instrument is classed as an active account.   Otherwise  a small charge of 0.5/100 of 1% of the average quarterly value is charged per quarter.

Leverage

Physical Equities are not eligible for Margin. The Client has to pay the whole purchase proceeds for a given asset from their account balance. A customer can sell a holding, however if the client wants to short an equity the only way of doing this is through Contracts for difference (CFDs).

Being able to differentiate the two asset types is very important in the platform. In set up we suggest customers have a different workspace for physical equities and CFDs. There is a visual key in the top righthand corner of the Trade board Box.  In the example below we have two Bombardier Trade Board Boxes,  The CFD  has a purple “CFD” icon and the a physical equity has a green “EQ” icon. While the trading characteristics are almost identical, you cannot short a physical equity, and your balance available for margin trading will be reduced by the full purchase price of the asset. The leverage effect of buying the Bombardier CFD will have significantly lower impact on Margin available to trade.

difference between CFD and Equity

Have you tried CFD trading?

For short-term and intraday stock traders, Tradestone Markets would also like to highlight Contracts for Difference or CFD trading. CFDs are derivatives that offer a number of important benefits to intraday investors including trading on live prices, margin trading to leverage investments and easy short selling.

Your equity portfolio can harness the power of CFDs. You can choose to trade long/short against your portfolio using Index or stock cfds,  hedge currency exposure or trade the commodities that reflect global economic risk.