Metal – Austin Pips

Metal Trading

Austin Pips offers you access to the most popular precious metals, backed by consistently tight pricing and a professional trading environment.

Trade Metals CFDs with Austin Pips

Austin Pips allows you to trade the spot price of metals like Gold (XAU) and Silver (XAG) against major currencies such as the US Dollar (USD) or Australian Dollar (AUD), with leverage up to 500:1.

Open a trading account with Austin Pips to gain access to global market prices on Gold CFDs and Silver CFDs, and experience trading with a globally connected, professional brokerage.

What are the benefits of trading Metals?

Trade in Any Direction – Go short or long based on your market view, and maximise trading opportunities.
Advanced Trading Platforms – Use Austin Pips with real-time gold and silver news, charts, and multi-device access.
Educational Resources – Access rich learning materials and trading tools to refine your strategies.
Hedge Investment Risks – Use high-value assets like gold and silver to manage and reduce risk exposure.
Low-Cost Trading – Benefit from low margin requirements and cost-effective trading, without compromising execution quality.

What is the Best Platform Trade Metals?

Austin Pips, The world’s most popular trading platform.

Discover the benefits of Forex trading on one of the most powerful platforms available — Austin Pips. Whether you’re on desktop or mobile, the Austin Pips platform is always ready when you are, offering a seamless, flexible, and professional trading experience.

Spreads from 0.0 pips & leverage up to 500:1
Customisable interface, including technical indicator colours
One-click trading for fast execution
MarketWatch for real-time monitoring
Live price streaming on both Live and Demo accounts
128-bit encryption ensuring secure trading
Supports Expert Advisors (EAs) and custom alerts
Fully compatible with iOS, Android, and Mac devices

4 Reason to choose Austin Pips

A Global Forex broker

Global Regulated Broker

Boost your trading experience with a licensed and fully regulated global forex broker, backed by multiple industry awards.

Low Latency Execution

Give your forex trading an edge with robust, feature-rich, and easy-to-use platforms like Austin Pips and Iress.

Low Latency Execution

Access all available market prices with tight spreads and ultra-low latency for fast, efficient trade execution.

Forex Trading Leverage

Enjoy leverage of up to 500:1 across 50+ currency pairs, allowing you to widen your exposure to the global forex markets.

What is Metal Trading?

At Austin Pips, we provide exposure to the most popular precious metals, an important asset class in commodities trading. Metal trading is closely tied to the outlook of global markets and major currencies, and metals are traded against major currencies just like other currency pairs on our platform.

The price of precious metals is influenced by factors such as supply and demand, interest rates, economic uncertainty, industrial output, and the strength of the dollar. Metals like gold are traditionally viewed as a safe haven during times of volatility. Traders can use metals to express their outlook on certain industries or to hedge their portfolios.

Through careful analysis, CFD traders predict the direction of metal prices and aim to capitalize on short-term or long-term price fluctuations. The market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, giving traders flexibility to act at any time.

An Example of Leveraged CFD Trading

Suppose you want to trade CFDs, where the underlying asset is the XAUUSD a Metal, also known as Gold vs US Dollar. Let us suppose that the XAUUSD is trading at:

You decide to buy 100 oz of XAUUSD (1 Lot of XAUUSD) because you believe that the XAUUSD price will rise in the future. Your margin rate is 0.2% (Account Leverage 500:1). This means that you need to deposit 0.2% of the total position value into your margin account.

Now, in the next hour, if the price moves to 1793/1793.1, you have a winning trade. You could close your position by selling at the current price of 1793 USD.

In this scenario, the price moved in your favor, allowing you to lock in a profit. However, if the price had declined and moved against your prediction, you could have faced a loss. This continuous evaluation of price movements and the resulting profit or loss occurs daily, leading to a net return (either positive or negative) on your initial margin.

In the case of a loss, if your free equity (account balance + profit/loss) falls below the margin requirement (in this example, 896.6), the broker will issue a margin call. If you fail to deposit additional funds and the market continues to move against you, once your free equity drops to 50% of your initial margin, the position will be automatically closed at the current market price, known as a “stop out”.

Notice how even a small difference in price can create significant opportunities to trade. This small difference is referred to as a “pip” or “percentage in point”. In the case of indices trading, 1 pip is equivalent to a price increment of 1.0, also known as an Index point.