With Astral Financial you can trade over 18,000 shares on over 30 global exchanges. You can also use the value of your shareholding account as collateral for trading in margin products.
Trade all listed Shares
UK & Worldwide
Exchange Traded Funds
Investment Trusts
We can provide you with advice on the content of your current portfolio, giving recommendations on which stocks and funds to invest in.
Investors are increasingly looking to Contracts for Difference (CFDs) as a more efficient method of trading shares. CFD trading is carried out on live prices on City of London Markets’ trading platform.
Access to over 9,000 CFDs including 22 Index-Tracking CFDs, 20 Commodity CFDs and 7 Forex CFDs across 30 exchanges worldwide
Total transparency is achieved by trading CFDs on clean exchange prices. CFD pricing is streamed directly to the platform giving deeper liquidity
Trade CFDs on an exchange DMA basis from over 15 major exchanges Leverage CFD investments by trading on margin
CFDs can be short sold, opening up the possibility of showing a profit in a falling market and efficient hedg ing of current Stock positions
Manage positions across multiple currencies with ease from a single trading account.
A Future is a contractual agreement to buy or sell a particular commodity or financial instrument at a pre-determined price on a specific date in the future. Futures contracts can derive from a variety of assets, from traditional commodities like corn, wheat and orange juice, to different asset classes like government bonds, interest rates, energy and stock indices.
Transparent Pricing
Futures are highly liquid exchange traded financial instruments, meaning individuals can trade on tight
spreads. The transaction costs are comparatively low and their pricing is transparent due to the level of specificity found in Futures Contracts, as well as the regulations imposed by the various exchanges. No physical delivery
Astral Financial does not support physical delivery of the underlying security on expiry of a Futures Contract.
On or before the expiry of a Futures Contract, Astral Financial will cash settle a client’s positions on their behalf.
Astral Financial allows you to trade Contract Options on gold, oil and other commodities, currencies, interest rates, bonds and major stock indices.
Leverages directional plays with a known loss potential
Volatility plays – either positioning for a directional change in volatility or for no change in volatility
Multi-asset portfolio hedging against price movements of the underlying assets
Opportunity for revenue enhancement
Astral Financial offers over 179 currency crosses (including Gold & Silver). You can also access 43 FX Options.
Trade 179+ Spot FX currency crosses including Gold & Silver
Count on excellent liquidity
Experience low margin requirements
Highly competitive Bid/Ask spreads
Versatile order types including limits and trailing stops
An Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is an index-based investment, whose performance is based on its correlating index. ETFs give investors the chance to buy whole indices as easily as buying a share on stock exchanges. These investment products can be included in ISAs and have the lowest annual charges of all collective investment schemes. In addition, some ETFs list derivatives and futures contracts and can also be sold short or margined.
ETFs are a ‘tax friendly’ investment. Capital gains taxes are generally lower for ETFs than traditional mutual funds due to the structure of each trade. The individual capital gains are not realised until the assets are sold with the entire fund.
Many ETFs list options and futures contracts, which are great tools for risk-managing your portfolio. So whether you want to hedge your ETFs with calls and puts or trade ETF volatility with option straddles, some funds will have that flexibility.
Trading ETFs is similar to purchasing a ‘mini-portfolio’ as opposed to a basket of stocks. Therefore, you can target a certain price and purchase with one single transaction. ETFs are traded throughout market hours. ETFs can be sold short or on margin, and prices are continuously
updated during the trading day. In other words ETFs trade just like equities on the stock market.
