What Is Actually Traded on an Exness Account, and How the Classes Differ

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Account conditions that apply across every class

• Most withdrawals are processed automatically, 24/7 — processing times may vary
• Low entry: open a Standard or Standard Cent account with no minimum initial deposit
• Raw spreads from 0.0 pips on the Raw Spread and Zero accounts
• Negative balance protection — losses are limited to the funds you deposit
• Swap-free (Islamic) accounts available
• MT4, MT5, the Exness Terminal web platform and the Exness Trade app
• USD-based accounts — practical for traders in Pakistan

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Where the differences show up as numbers

See them priced: live spreads by instrument, the currency converter, the lot size calculator and what a point is worth.

Exness — the short version on the instrument list

Exness has run since 2008 and offers over a hundred instruments across currencies, metals, energies, indices, shares and cryptocurrencies, all through the same account and the same platforms. Accounts open with no minimum initial deposit, the Raw Spread and Zero tiers quote from 0.0 pips, and negative balance protection limits losses to the funds deposited. What the list does not do is make the classes interchangeable — the arithmetic of a position changes with every one of them. Independent accounts of trading across the range sit in the Exness reviews on Trustpilot. CFDs carry a high risk of losing money — confirm the latest terms before depositing.

The unit is the first difference, and the largest

On a currency pair a unit is a quantity of the base currency, quoted against the second currency in the pair. On a metal it is a weight. On an index it is a multiple of the index level. On a share it is a number of shares. These are not variations on a theme; they are different measurements that the platform displays in the same column, and the column heading is the only thing they have in common.

Because of that, the smallest movement means something different in each class. Currency pairs are usually quoted to a fraction of a hundredth of the quote currency; metals and indices are quoted in whole or decimal units of price. A move that reads as a large number on one instrument and a small one on another is telling you about the quoting convention, not about how far anything moved.

The number that reconciles all of this is what one unit is worth per point of movement. It is the only figure that puts two instruments on the same scale, and it is the figure most often skipped, because the platform will happily accept the same volume on any of them without comment.

What each class actually responds to

A currency pair is a relationship, not a thing. It prices one currency against another, so it can move because of either side, and a chart that looks like a decline in one currency may be a rise in the other. This is why a pair can behave in a way that seems unrelated to any news about the country a trader is watching — the other half of the quote was doing the work.

Metals and energies price a physical commodity in a currency, which gives them two sources of movement at once: the commodity and the currency it is quoted in. Indices price a basket, so a single component matters much less than it would on its own, and the basket keeps moving when any individual name is quiet.

Shares and cryptocurrency contracts sit at the opposite end: concentrated, and moved by things that affect one name only. Familiarity is worth less here than it feels. Knowing a company well is knowledge about a business, and a price is not a business — it is what other participants are prepared to pay for it this afternoon.

Choosing between them without pretending they are the same

Availability differs by class and it is a practical constraint rather than a detail. Currency pairs trade around the clock through the working week; instruments tied to an exchange follow that exchange's schedule and are unavailable outside it. A plan that assumes a position can be adjusted at any hour is a plan that only holds for part of the list.

Instruments inside a class tend to move together, and instruments across classes sometimes do too. Two positions that feel like diversification because the symbols look different can be a single exposure written twice, which shows up only when they both go the same way at the same time.

The unglamorous approach is the one that holds up: pick a small number of instruments, learn what one unit of each is worth per point, and add a new class deliberately rather than because its chart looked interesting. Every class on the list carries the same high risk of losing money; use only money you can afford to lose.

Reading an unfamiliar instrument before trading it

1. Find what one unit represents — a quantity of currency, a weight, a multiple of an index level, or a number of shares.
2. Read the quote and count the decimals, so the smallest quoted movement is a known quantity rather than an assumption.
3. Work out what one unit is worth per point of movement; this is the only number that compares one instrument with another.
4. Check the hours it is available, and whether they overlap with the hours you are actually at a screen.
5. Check what else already open moves with it, before treating it as a separate position.
6. Recalculate the size from scratch — a volume carried over from another class is a different position wearing the same number.

General description of instrument classes. Symbol availability, quoting and hours are set per instrument; confirm the live specification in the platform.

One account, six kinds of thing

General characteristics of the classes as traded through contracts for difference, not a quotation of specific contract specifications. Availability and specifications are shown per symbol in the platform.