Stock market volatility presents unique investment and profit opportunities for individuals willing to trade with increased uncertainty and risk. Imagine being able to benefit from a diversified investment tool that combines leverage, low costs and simple trading, which also allows you to make profits in both rising and falling markets.

HFX supplies you with today’s most popular CFDs for European and American indices. All indices have an expiry date and are subject to rollovers every three months. HFX allows investors to continuously trade by automatically rolling a mature contract to a new contract. However, all existing order (limits, stop loss or take profit) will not be updated to the new contract.

Traders that don’t want exposure to rate adjustments are able to close a contract until the expiry date.

Profit / Loss Calculation

To calculate profit or loss when trading indices, it is imperative that you understand the number of "units" there are in a "lot" for each index:

For example, if you place an order to buy 1 lot of the S&P 500 index at $1205.45, and the index price rises to $1205.46, your investment increases by 1 Pip. 

Buying 1 lot is equal to 50 Units of the S&P 500 Index. 50*$1205.45 = $60,272.50

(This is specified in the above "Rates and Trading Conditions Table".  Other indices have different number of units per lot, and profits and losses are calculated accordingly.)

A profit of $0.01 for 1 lot of the S&P 500 is equal to $0.01*50 units = $0.5.  In this specific case, you made a profit of 50 cents.