Saxo Academy SaxoTraderGO Trading CFDs on Live Prices Please note, these notes are transcripts of the videos on Saxo Academy and are designed to accompany the SaxoTraderGO video series.
Trading CFDs on Live Prices In this tutorial I m going to show you how to trade a CFD in the SaxoTraderGO Go platform. I am interested in short selling 100 FTSE CFDs as I think the price of FTSE is going to fall today. So maybe I have been looking at the chart and I want to get in at the current price and hope to gain from a fall to 7,000 and if it hits 7,000 I want to close the position to take profit.i will also add a stop loss to limit my losses if the price does not fall but rises by 3%.
If you have a Watchlist with the UK100 (FTSE) CFD in it, click the Bid, Ask or Last Traded button on the CFD to open the Trade Ticket. Alternatively, the Instrument Finder at the top of the platform makes it easy to find and select any instrument by just entering a few letters of the instrument s name or symbol. I will be trading the FTSE100 index as a CFD so if I just enter FTS you can already see it and select it from the list. The FTSE100 CFD is now selected in my Overview Panel, and I can add it to my Watchlist from here if I want to, or I can just trade it by clicking the Trade button. The FTSE100 CFD is selected in the Trade Ticket and the trade types available are available from the Trade Selector. In this example we are going to place a direct trade on live prices so I will select Trade from the Trade Selector. If we wanted to place an order to trade when the market hit a specific level, we would select an order type from the Trade Selector instead. First, we will select the amount to trade. (Please see next page).
I am going to Short Sell 100 FTSE100 CFDs... One of the strengths of a CFD is that I can short-sell to take advantage of downwards market movements as easily as buying to go long. CFDs are traded on Margin; for large indices like FTSE100 I only need to cover a small percentage of the value of the trade so you can trade for much more than the cash you have available. I don t need to calculate that or know what margin is required for the CFD I am trading; I can just check the margin for this trade. What this shows is the change in my available margin if I buy or sell this instrument and if I have sufficient margin to cover the trade, in which case the impact bar would be red. But this trade is well below my available margin so no problems here. (please see next page)
The Bid and Ask buttons are where I will be making the trade. I always sell at the Bid price and Buy at the Ask price and the buttons show me the current prices for FTSE100. The first thing to note about the buttons is they are green. They will only be green if you are subscribed to live prices for the instrument and Saxo Bank is a Market Maker for the instrument. A green price means that I can be sure that when I click to trade, the price displayed is the price I will get. Now I am going to add the related Take Profit and Stop Loss orders I talked about by first clicking the Add Take Profit / Stop Loss link. -First I will select Take Profit to add a Take Profit Limit Order. -I want to place my order at a fixed price level so I will enter a Limit Price of 7000. -And I will select Stop to add a stop loss to protect my position. -I want to place my order at 3% above the entry so I will enter 3% in the Stop Price field. (Please see next page)
Note that I can add related orders at a fixed price, or a percentage distance away from the entry price. Click Apply to apply the related orders to the trade when I place it. So now let s go ahead and make our trade. First I click the button that enables trading. This is a safety mechanism to make sure I don t trade accidentally. It arms the buttons for up to 10 seconds before they are disabled again. If you are an aggressive trader, you can disable this safety mechanism under Platform Settings. I will now click the Sell button on the Bid to place the trade. The Trade Confirmation appears to confirm the Trade was accepted and it confirms the account, amount and price of the trade.i will acknowledge that. And now I can see my new FTSE100 position in the Position list. (Please see next page)
As you can see we are Short 100, we opened it at this price and this this the current price in the Close Column. Based on the amount, the open and the current price, here is the current P/L on my position in real-time, and here is the P/L converted back to my account currency. I can see my stop order in the Stop columns and can adjust my stop. I can close the position at any time by clicking the Close button - the Close position dialog will guide me through closing the position.
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