General

The Withdrawal Amount is the amount of money that you can transfer or withdraw from your stock account at any given time. You can’t withdraw funds from the Stocks account prior to settlement. For most stock trades, settlement takes two business days after the sell date, and the Withdrawal Amount will update automatically once the trade has settled. Cash balance refers to the amount of money that an investor has available to purchase securities. Funds not yet settled are not available for transfer or withdrawal, but may be included in your current cash balance.

Extended Hours trading is available from:
Pre-market: 4:00am - 9:30am ET, Monday to Friday
After-hours: 4:00pm - 8:00pm ET, Monday to Friday
Only limit day orders will be accepted as extended hours eligible. All other order types and TIFs will be rejected.
Fractional shares and orders with notional sizes are not available during extended hours trading.

Day – A DAY order is eligible for execution only on the day it is live. By default, the order is only valid during Regular Trading Hours (9:30am – 4:00pm ET). If unfilled after the closing auction, it is automatically canceled. If submitted after the close, it is queued and submitted the following trading day. However, if marked as eligible for extended hours, the order can also execute during supported extended hours. Good until Canceled (GTC) – A GTC order remains eligible for execution until canceled. Fill or Kill (FOK) – A FOK order is only executed if the entire order quantity can be filled, otherwise the order is canceled. Immediate Or Cancel (IOC) – An IOC order requires all or part of the order to be executed immediately. Any unfilled portion of the order is canceled.

A stop (market) order is an order to buy or sell a security when its price moves past a particular point, ensuring a higher probability of achieving a predetermined entry or exit price. Once the order is triggered, the stop order becomes a market order. A stop order does not guarantee the order will be filled at a certain price after it is converted to a market order. In order to submit a stop order, you will need to specify the stop price.

A limit order is an order to buy or sell at a specified price or better. A buy limit order (a limit order to buy) is executed at the specified limit price or lower (i.e., better). Conversely, a sell limit order (a limit order to sell) is executed at the specified limit price or higher (better). Unlike a market order, you have to specify the limit price when submitting your order. While a limit order can prevent slippage, it may not be filled for quite a bit of time, if at all. For a buy limit order, if the market price is within your specified limit price, you can expect the order to be filled. If the market price is equivalent to your limit price, your order may or may not be filled; if the order cannot immediately execute against resting liquidity, then it is deemed non-marketable and will only be filled once a marketable order interacts with it. You could miss a trading opportunity if price moves away from the limit price before your order can be filled.

A market order is a request to buy or sell a security at the currently available market price. It provides the most likely method of filling an order. Market orders fill nearly instantaneously. As a trade-off, your fill price may slip depending on the available liquidity at each price level as well as any price moves that may occur while your order is being routed to its execution venue. There is also the risk with market orders that they may get filled at unexpected prices due to short-term price spikes. Executing a market order outside of regular trading hours carries significant risk, as the market may experience substantial movements before trading resumes.

For listed stocks, pre market (4:00am - 9:30am ET) and after hours (4:00pm - 8:00pm ET) trading is available.

Stock CFDs generally trade during normal hours only. However, 24/5 trading is available on select major US stocks.

For stock CFDs, a selection of over 3.000 top stocks from the US, UK, Hong Kong, Australia and multiple European exchanges are available. For listed stocks, 8.000+ US Shares are available.

The decision is yours.

Listed stocks represent direct ownership of shares in a company. When you buy listed stocks, you become a shareholder and have voting rights, which means you can participate in decisions about the company's future. You are also entitled to receive dividends, which are a portion of the company's profits that are distributed to shareholders.

CFDs (Contracts for Difference), on the other hand, are derivatives that track the price of an underlying asset, such as a stock.  You do not receive any entitlements but are able to utilize leverage to gain more market exposure and are not restricted by any Pattern Day Trader rules, so can enter and exit the market as many times as you would like during the  stock trading hours.

Yes, shares can be transferred in and out between registered brokers. Please contact our support staff who can assist you with your preferred transfer method.

For listed stocks, fractional share trading and/or notional volume trading is available on the majority of our offering. You can view if an instrument is able to be fractionalized or not on the trading ticket in the Stocks platform. In addition all our Stock CFDs are micronized, so you can speculate in increments of 0.1 Shares, however there is no physical ownership involved in CFD Trading.

Yes, pre-market trading is available on a limited number of stocks.

Tradu offers 8.000 listed stocks on 1:1 leverage, and 3.000+ Stocks CFDs on up to 1:5 leverage. Learn more about trading stocks.

Yes. Tradu offers both listed stocks, as well as leveraged stocks CFDs, all from a single app. Learn more about investing in stocks.