Stocks

Intro

Stocks traded at Windsor Brokers Ltd. are stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which is the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$11.92 trillion as of August 2010. The daily average trading value was approximately US$153 billion in 2008. The NYSE provides a mean for buyers and sellers to trade shares of stock in companies registered for public trading, some examples of which are MSFT, NOKIA and GM.

How do you trade Stocks?

Stocks are traded in Lots where the minimum price fluctuation is measured in Ticks, where 1 standard contract size is equivalent to 1,000 shares. Stocks are traded in the CFD (Contracts For Difference) market.

Trading Stocks in the CFD market

In finance, a contract for difference (or CFD) is a contract between two parties, typically described as "buyer" and "seller", stipulating that the seller will pay to the buyer the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at contract time. (If the difference is negative, then the buyer pays instead to the seller.) In effect CFDs are financial derivatives that allow investors to take advantage of prices moving up (long positions) or prices moving down (short positions) on underlying financial instruments and are often used to speculate on those markets.