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Stock CFDs follow the price of listed companies without you owning the underlying shares. This page covers what moves a share price and how stock trading works at MarketsAll.
Instrument Type
Stock CFDs
Key Drivers
Earnings and rates
Ownership
No ownership of underlying shares
Trading Platform
MetaTrader 5
Stock Instruments
These are the stock instruments listed on the MarketsAll MetaTrader 5 server. Availability and conditions can change, so check the current terms in the platform.
Live quotes are shown when the price feed is available. Spreads and contract details for each instrument are published in MetaTrader 5.
Traders following the broad market rather than a single company often use index instruments instead. The US500 index CFD is covered on our indices page.
What Is Stock Trading?
A share is a unit of ownership in a company. Once listed, shares change hands throughout the trading day, and the quoted price is the level at which buyers and sellers are currently willing to transact.
Behind that price sits a view of the company: the profits it reports and the profits the market expects it to make.
MarketsAll offers stocks as Stock CFDs. A Stock CFD tracks the price of a listed share and gives price exposure only, with no ownership and no shareholder rights. The result is the difference between the opening and closing price, adjusted for the applicable trading conditions.
What Moves Stock Prices?
Share prices respond to information about the company itself and to the conditions around it.
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Earnings
Published results show what a company earned in the period. The reaction depends on how those figures compare with what the market expected.
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Guidance
Management's outlook for the coming periods. It resets the expectation the next results will be measured against.
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Interest Rates
Rates affect borrowing costs and how future profits are valued today. Shifts in rate expectations tend to move whole sectors at once.
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Economic Conditions
Growth, employment and consumer demand influence how much companies sell and at what margin. Cyclical businesses are the most sensitive.
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Sector Performance
Shares in the same industry often move together when news affects the sector, such as input costs or regulation.
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Corporate Developments
Leadership changes, product launches, legal proceedings, buybacks or mergers can reprice a share independently of the wider market.
Understanding Company Results
A small set of figures does most of the work when a results release is read.
Each figure is read against what the market already expected, and that comparison usually matters more than whether a number rose or fell. Guidance moves the expectation the next release will be judged against.
Why Share Prices Can Move After Good Results
Expectations are priced in before results are published, which is why a share can trade lower on an announcement that looks positive.
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Expectations form first
Analysts and traders form a view of the likely figures, and prices tend to reflect that view in advance.
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The results are published
The reported figures become public and can be measured against the expectation already in place.
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The market compares rather than counts
Attention falls on the gap between expectation and outcome, not on the direction of the figure alone.
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The outlook resets expectations
Guidance can change the view of the coming quarters even where the reported period was strong.
This is one common explanation, not a rule. The reaction to a results release cannot be predicted reliably in advance.
Dividends
A dividend is a share of profit a company may choose to pay its shareholders, quoted as a cash amount per share. It can be raised, reduced or suspended.
Dividend Yield = Annual Dividend per Share ÷ Share Price
Annual dividend per share
The cash amount declared for each share over a year
Share price
The current market price the dividend is measured against
The yield therefore changes when either the dividend or the price changes. The ex-dividend date is the date from which a new buyer of the share is generally no longer entitled to the declared dividend, and the payment date is when it is paid.
Holding a Stock CFD is not the same as holding the share, so a CFD carries no dividend entitlement and no shareholder rights. Where a dividend adjustment applies to an open position, it depends on the instrument, the position and the applicable trading conditions.
Dividend Adjustment Calculator
A Stock CFD carries no dividend entitlement and no shareholder rights. Where a company declares a dividend, an adjustment may instead be applied to an open Stock CFD position. This tool estimates the size of a single such adjustment for illustration only.
Estimated Dividend Adjustment
This calculator is for illustration only and covers a single declared dividend, not a yearly total. Any actual CFD dividend adjustment depends on the position direction, position size, instrument and applicable trading conditions. The figure is stated in the quote currency of the instrument and is based only on the values entered above. It is not a dividend, not income and not an amount you are entitled to receive.
Depending on the direction of the position, an adjustment can be credited to or debited from the account. The values above are your own assumptions and are not quotes, forecasts or a MarketsAll dividend schedule. The conditions that apply to each stock instrument are shown in MetaTrader 5 and on the pricing page.
Stock Trading at MarketsAll
Trade Currencies, Stocks, Indices, Commodities, Cryptocurrencies and Fixed Income products with MarketsAll.
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Stock CFDs
Stocks are offered as CFDs on selected listed companies. A position follows the price of the underlying share without conveying ownership.
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MetaTrader 5 Platform
Stock instruments are traded on MetaTrader 5 across desktop and mobile, or in the browser with WebTrader.
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Leverage up to 1:200
Up to 1:200 applies across all MarketsAll account types. Profit and loss are calculated on the full position size.
Account Conditions
Transparent pricing across account types. The benchmark below is the EUR/USD spread published for each account tier. The conditions for an individual stock instrument are shown in MetaTrader 5 and on the pricing page.
Benchmark spreads vary by account type and market conditions. Review the applicable trading conditions before opening a position.
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