Prospero lets you trade popular commodity CFDs with leverage, including those for oil, copper, platinum, wheat, cotton other commodities. These CFDs give you an easy and cost- effective way to trade one of the most liquid markets in the world.
By trading commodities as contracts for difference (CFDs), you are only speculating on the price movement and are never required to hold the underlying asset.
Commodity products can be traded with leverage of up to 400:1.
The futures commodity contract generally tracks the movement of the nearest-month futures contract. Such products expire on a monthly basis, closing the open position and opening a new one at the price of the next month’s contract. Due to the properties of the underlying asset, traders do not pay holding costs on the contract.
Spot commodity contracts are presented to traders in the form of spot prices, using algorithms to convert underlying futures prices through algorithms. Such products do not have a fixed expiry date, but traders will be charged a holding cost daily.
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At the end of each trading day (5pm New York time), your open forex trading positions may be subject to a charge known as holding, swap, or rollover cost. The holding cost can be added to or deducted from your account depending on whether you are long or short.
FX holding costs are based on the tom-next (tomorrow to next day) rate and a fixed markup in the underlying market for the currency pair, and are expressed as points in the MT4 platform.
Most liquidity providers around the world (including global banks, financial institutions, prime brokers, and other market participants) are closed for business on Saturday and Sunday. However, they will still charge a holding cost for weekends. Generally, the foreign exchange market will calculate a three-day holding cost for an overnight open position on Wednesday. There is no holding cost on national holidays, but a holding cost for an extra day is calculated two working days before the national holiday.
Instrument | Spread from | Underlying asset | Units | Maximum leverage | Minimum trade size |
USOUSD (WTI oil spot) | 2.5 | NYMEX WTI crude oil futures, CME | Barrels | 100:1 | 0.01 |
USOUSD (WTI oil Forward) | 3 | NYMEX WTI crude oil futures, CME | Barrels | 100:1 | 0.01 |
UKOUSD (Brent oil spot) | 2.5 | Brent crude oil futures, CME | Barrels | 100:1 | 0.01 |
NGAS (Natural Gas) | 0.6 | Natural Gas Futures, CME | MMBtu | 50:1 | 0.01 |
Copper | 2.7 | BrentCopper Futures, CME | Tonnes | 50:1 | 0.01 |
Cocoa | 3.2 | Cocoa Futures, CME | Metric tonnes | 20:1 | 0.01 |
Corn | 7 | Corn Futures, CME | Metric tonnes | 20:1 | 0.01 |
Cotton | 14 | Cotton Futures, CME | Tonnes | 20:1 | 0.01 |
Soybean | 12 | Soybean Futures, CME | Bushels | 20:1 | 0.01 |
Wheat | 6 | Wheat Futures, CME | Bushels | 20:1 | 0.01 |
* Spreads are indicative only.
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“Spread from” is the lowest spread that can be offered on the given product. If the underlying market spread widens during the trading day, or if you are trading out of hours, the platform spread may also widen. Spreads shown are for the first price available for the average market trade sizes in the relevant product. The spread may widen for larger trading sizes. Please refer to the MT4 platform for more information.
This data is provided for general information only and may not be current. Please refer to the product properties section of the MT4 platform for real-time information on the spreads, margin requirements, commission (if applicable), and trading hours of a particular product.