Making a Trade

Trailing Stops are a risk management tool that allow you to manage your risk without restricting your potential profit. They can help you to secure your gains as the market moves in your favour and give you added flexibility as they automatically track your profitable positions. This means you don't have to continuously think about monitoring your position and moving your stop manually.

At Capital Spreads  you can guarantee your automatic Stop Loss by selecting it to be a Guaranteed Stop Order. With a Guaranteed Stop Order you can trade safe in the knowledge that, should a market gap through your stop level, you will not suffer any extra losses from slippage and you will be stopped out at the level you requested.

But there is a premium and minimum distance for selecting your automatic Stop Loss to be guaranteed. For example, the premium (which is a multiple of your stake) and minimum distance for the UK 100 Rolling Daily is 2 and 30 respectively, so if you bought £5 per point a 5900.0, your account would be debited £10 (2 x £5) and your guaranteed stop would have to be a minimum of 31 points away (the minimum distance is the number specified, plus the market’s spread).

It is also possible to specify that any stop loss linked to a New Order is a Guaranteed Stop Order. In this case the premium is not applied until the New Order is filled.

You can place or amend a Guaranteed Stop Order at any time when the underlying market is open and any amend to the level has to be at least the minimum distance (minimum, plus the market’s spread) from the current quote.

If you close a position that has a Guaranteed Stop Order attached, then the premium is not recredited to your account. To find out what the premiums and minimum distances are please see the Market Information.

When making a trade the system will look for three things.

1) If you only have the minimum funds available then the stop loss will automatically be generated at 80% of the minimum IMR (initial margin requirement). You can find the minimum IMR for all of our products on the product information.

2) If you have more funds than the max CGSL (computer generated stop level) for that market - the system will allocate the stop at 80% of the max CGSL for that product, leaving you with extra funds as available margin.

The Capital Spreads  normal trading hours are Sunday 23:00 to Friday 21:15, UK time. This means that our Capital Spreads  is available around the clock. Customer Support hours are 08:00 to 19:00 UK time.

We quote many of our markets overnight, in particular the FTSE, Wall St, Nikkei and other indices, FX and some commodities. It is possible that you could have any orders filled during the time that we are quoting these markets.

For full details of the trading hours of our markets please see the Market Information Sheets: Market Information

We offer a full range of products including Indices, shares, commodities, currencies, bonds and interest rates. You can find full details of the products we offer if you click here to see our Market Information Sheets: Market Information

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We are open for trading from Sunday 23:00 until Friday 21:15, UK time. You can find details of the trading hours for individual products if you click on the “I” information button to the right of each product or you can find a full, detailed list of all contract specifications if you click here to see our Market Information Sheets: Market Information

Once you’ve clicked the TRADE button you will be offered the option to buy or sell. Once you have made your trade, it will be processed immediately. You should receive confirmation within a couple of seconds, or you will receive a message informing you that the trade has been declined. If the trade is declined, the reason why will also be displayed.

Capital Spreads  provides a variety of products to trade on between the hours of 23:00 on Sunday until 21.15pm on Friday (UK time). You can make your spread trades online or by telephone.

For guidance on how to trade using the Capital Spreads  online trading platform, please use our online User Manual.

If you wish to trade by telephone, our dealing line is +44 (0)20 7456 7010. If you have any problems or questions, you can call our Customer Support team on +44 (0)20 7456 7020 . Please refer to our Product Information Sheets for specific trading hours of individual products.