What is Online Trading?

Nowadays we don’t need to physically go to places like Wall Street to buy stocks or shares. Today we can do all of this from the comfort of home. 

This is called Online Trading.

It’s a very easy way to invest in the stocks & shares markets directly from your mobile phone or laptop via a website. There is a vast range of financial products that you can trade with, it doesn’t matter which ones you choose.

The idea is that you can either buy or sell a product through an online trading platform provided by a broker.

The main financial instruments you can trade online are Forex & CFDs (Contract for Difference), Cryptocurrencies, Indexes plus Options and Stocks (if you’re interested in stocks, you can find more info about stock trading at stocktrader.com or tradimo.com).

What is Cryptocurrency Trading

In the last few years, the big topic that investors and traders have been talking about is cryptocurrencies, also known as crypto. The number of traders starting to invest in crypto has boomed!

But what is a cryptocurrency?

A cryptocurrency is a digital currency used to trade or buy goods through an encrypted system which keeps the transactions secure.

There are a lot of digital currencies available such as Litecoin, Ethereum and Ripple. However, the most famous and globally recognised one is Bitcoin.

This means that cryptos are actual currencies, but different from the normal ones like Euro, Dollar, and British Pound because of a few features.

For a detailed explanation about Cryptocurrency and how to trade them, just follow this link to our cryptocurrency trading section.