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What types of trading is available on the stock exchange?

The PSG Online trading system gives you access to a variety of financial instruments from a single login. You will be able to access all your trades, investments and insurance. Our intuitive online share trading system provides you with direct market access, live prices and can automatically execute on your parameters for buying and selling shares as well as alerting you to new opportunities that match your trading strategy.

SSF - Single stock futures are a powerful, JSE-listed trading instrument that give day traders a mechanism to exploit any market movement - up or down. Futures have three main uses: to hedge risk, to speculate and to invest in instruments not easily available for normal equity trading - like JSE indices, oil and gold.
CFD - A contract for difference mirrors the performance of shares or an index, thereby giving you all the benefits of share trading without having to physically own shares. Contracts for difference provide an excellent vehicle for short term trading strategies and is the preferred vehicle amongst hedge funds.
Shares - Share trading is the foundation of any trading strategy. There is a simple 3 step plan to manage this complex process:
1. Identify market trends through technical analysis.
2. Protect your earnings and preserve your capital over the long term.
3. Manage trades to exit at a profitable point.
Currency Futures - Currency Futures are easy to trade and provide high liquidity. As you can buy and sell in local currency, local day traders can access global currency movements without utilising foreign investment allowance.
Commodities - trading Commodity futures can be profitable and has a range of diversification and hedging benefits. Trading gives you direct access to commodities but also has a variety of uses from diversification to enhanced trading strategies and are ideal for hedging your exposure to commodity companies.

What is Share Trading?

Trading refers to buying or selling of shares, commodities, currencies or other financial instruments over short time periods. When investing in shares, you expect to earn dividends or for the shares to increase in price over the longer term. In both share trading and share investing you are trading in instruments listed on a securities exchange. The main difference between share investing and share trading is the day trader in shares expects an exit. Day traders have a specific set of criteria that can be loaded onto the trading system to trigger the exit plan. Although both are part of a comprehensive financial strategy it is important to understand this simple distinction and keep the two trades separate.

A day trader aims to make a profit from buying and selling stock as they read market fluctuations. This means that when the share value is dropping you get rid of it; if it rises you sell it and re-invest your profits. But you don't have to buy first. There are in fact two ways of making money with trades. A long trade is when you buy stocks at a low price and sell them at a higher price. A short trade allows day traders to borrow and sell stocks at a higher price and replace them later with stocks purchased at a lower price. In this way a day trader can make profit on the stock market regardless of the direction. Making profit from equity trading is all about timing. However, a day trader requires considerable knowledge and technical analysis to predict short-term price fluctuations

Whether you are comfortable trading on your own, or are looking for helpful, professional advice, PSG Online's trade and brokerage services will work with your trade strategy, at a level of risk that you are comfortable with.

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