Spot energies are energy commodities such as crude oil and natural gas that are traded at current market prices for immediate settlement in the spot market.
Spot Energies
Expand your investment portfolio by trading in the world’s leading spot energy markets.
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Thousands of traders choose to trade spot energies — and here’s why:
Diversify your portfolio with energy trading, including oil and gas, while protecting your investments against inflation. Spot energy markets are known for their strong volatility, creating opportunities for profitable trades. Additionally, they are widely used as an inflation hedge, as energy prices often rise during inflationary periods.
Diversification
Spot energies often show lower correlation with traditional asset returns. As a distinct asset class, they help diversify investment portfolios while strengthening overall risk management strategies.
Protection Against Inflation
During natural disasters or economic crises, supply disruptions can create sharp market volatility. Spot energies like oil offer opportunities to manage risk and benefit from price fluctuations.
Inflation Hedge
Spot energies are widely viewed as an effective hedge against inflation. Their prices often rise during inflationary periods, helping preserve purchasing power and maintain portfolio stability.
High Leverage
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What is Spot Energies Trading?
An easy and convenient way to diversify your portfolio.
Trading commodities such as oil for immediate delivery offers a flexible and efficient method to expand your investment strategy. Popular spot energy instruments include UK Brent Oil, US Crude Oil, and US Natural Gas, all of which provide exposure to globally traded energy markets.
The term “spot energies” refers to commodities that are bought and sold at current market prices for immediate settlement. These instruments are traded in the spot market, meaning transactions are executed at real-time prices. Crude oil trading presents opportunities to profit across various market conditions and political environments. In recent years, increased volatility in the energy sector has created strong price trends, offering potential opportunities for both short-term swing traders and long-term strategic investors.
The two primary global oil benchmarks are WTI (West Texas Intermediate) in North America, traded on NYMEX, and Brent Crude (North Sea Brent Crude), which serves Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and is traded on the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange).
Specification of Spot Energies
Get an overview of Contract size, Tick size and Swaps.
Symbol
Full name
Contract size
Tick size
Swap Short/Long (points)
Comission
Monday open time GMT+2
Trading time** (GMT+2)
Friday close time GMT+2
Trading Platform
WTIUSD
Oil - US Crude
1000
0.001
0
0
23:55
01:00-23:55
23:55
MT5
BRNUSD
Oil - Brent Crude
1000
0.001
0
0
23:55
03:00 - 23:55
23:55
MT5
NGCUSD
Natural Gas
10000
0.0001
0
0
23:55
01:05 - 23:55
23:55
MT5
Notes:
All systems at alpha prime fx may experience a daily restart period at 00:00 (GMT+2). During this time, pricing and trade execution may be temporarily unavailable for up to 10 minutes.Swap charges are subject to change without prior notice.
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*Please note that swap rates may be applied triple on Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays depending on the instrument. For complete details, kindly refer to the “Specification” section of each instrument on the trading platform.
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What are spot energies?
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Which energy instruments can I trade?
You can trade popular energy products including UK Brent Oil, US Crude Oil (WTI), and US Natural Gas, giving you exposure to global energy markets.
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Why trade spot energies?
Spot energies offer high liquidity and strong volatility, creating opportunities to benefit from price movements in both rising and falling markets.
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Can spot energies help hedge against inflation?
Yes, energy prices often rise during inflationary periods, making spot energies a commonly used tool for portfolio diversification and inflation hedging.
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What factors influence spot energy prices?
Energy prices are affected by supply and demand, geopolitical events, natural disasters, economic data, and decisions made by major producing nations.
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