Trading

Should your equity fall below the maintenance margin amount, Plus500 will make a Margin Call and close any/all open positions. It is your responsibility to monitor your open position(s) at all times and ensure that you have sufficient funds on your account or take a decision to close any or all of your open position(s).

Trading at Plus500 is conducted by opening positions on financial instruments. Each instrument has a defined “Unit Amount”, which is the minimum size of trade or number of contracts/shares etc. to open a position. This information is located in the Details link for each instrument, along with other features, such as margin requirements, leverage, trading hours, etc.

Price interest point (pip) measures the smallest unit of change in a financial instrument’s price. Typically, it refers to the last decimal or digit of the instrument price.

A Trailing Stop Order is designed to protect profits by enabling a position to remain open as long as the price is moving in the right direction, but closing the trade as soon as the price changes direction by a specified number of pips.
Trailing Stop Order for Buy positions is used to protect profit as the instrument's price rises and limit losses when its price falls. Trailing Stop Orders for Sell positions is used to protect profit when the instrument's price falls and limit losses when its price rises. This feature is free of charge, but it is not guaranteed that your position will close at the exact price level you specify.

You can use 4 types of “Stop Orders”:

There are a number of risks involved in trading CFDs. These risks may lead to unfavourable financial outcomes for you. Monitoring of all risks associated with your trading is your responsibility.
You should not use our services unless you fully understand the financial products, and the benefits and risks associated with them. Some of the risks associated with using our CFD trading facilities include:

We offer charts that feature a wide range of indicators and drawing tools that can assist you in analysing trends and help you anticipate potential market movements. You can customise your chart view by choosing: (1) chart type, (2) price type and; (3) time intervals. Use any combination of views, indicators and tools to follow instruments’ movements over time and adapt your trading strategy accordingly.

It is only possible to close a position (trade) during the relevant instrument’s trading hours. In addition, occasionally instruments are temporarily unavailable for trading when market events restrict price feeds, for example but not limited to: extreme volatility, illiquidity, underlying market suspensions, etc.

Any trading method which is prohibited under the terms of the User Agreement such as scalping, automated data entry system and hedging, or which falls under the definition of market abuse such as insider trading, as well as any prohibited activity such as an abuse of our bonus system, is not allowed on our trading platform. In such circumstances, we reserve the right to void all of your trades and/ or close your account. For more information, please read our User Agreement available on our website.

Customers cannot lose more than the funds they have on their account. The “Margin Call” feature exists in order to prevent your account from having a negative balance. For more information please read “What is a Margin Call?”