Spot metals, such as gold and silver, are popular instruments for traders seeking to hedge against inflation, diversify portfolios, or take advantage of geopolitical uncertainty. These assets offer a unique balance between volatility and safe-haven demand, making them attractive for both short-term speculation and long-term strategies.
With Zenitdex.net, you can trade spot metals using leverage, gaining exposure to metal price movements without owning the physical asset.
Trading in metals usually involves precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum, all of which are scarce substances that have important industrial applications. When trading in metals investors are looking to earn returns from appreciation in prices, as metals do not offer dividends or regular yields.
- Trade long and short
- Hedge physical metals
- Diversify your portfolio
- Trade on margin
Our gold contract is equivalent to 100 troy ounces or 1 brick of gold. If the market is trading at $1,800 per ounce, the gold contract value will be $1800*100 ounces = $180,000.
You can trade gold (XAUUSD) and silver (XAGUSD) with mini lots (0.1 contracts) and micro lots (0.01 contracts) on your trading account. However, the minimum trade size of Copper (XCUUSD) is 1 contract (1.00 lot in MT4).
There are no expiration dates for metal CFDs offered on Zenitdex.net MT4. You can hold open positions of Metal CFDs indefinitely; they are offered in spot transactions. However, please note that swap points may be charged on your open positions according to your daily trading volume.
Yes. Our metal CFDs are leveraged products, which allow traders to speculate on the rise or fall of metal prices for a fraction of the cost of the underlying market.
Yes. A swap charge will be applied to an open position if trades are held overnight (over 00:00 MT4 server time). The rates may also vary depending on the size and direction of the trade and underlying interest rate.
On Wednesday nights, Triple swap will be charged to the account to settle trades over the weekend where no swap rates have been charged due to market closure.
Zenitdex.net offers spot metal CFDs primarily for popular precious metals such as Gold (XAU/USD) and Silver (XAG/USD). You can also trade Copper (XCU/USD).
The price of gold or silver in CFD trading directly mirrors the real-time spot price of the physical metal in global markets. This price is influenced by fundamental supply and demand, the strength of the US dollar, prevailing interest rates, and broader geopolitical or economic risk sentiment.