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CFDs are complex instruments carrying a high risk of losing money rapidly, because they are traded on margin. Consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

ArtemisiaMarkets
Client area

Markets

What you can trade

The instruments available on an Artemisia Markets account, and where the definitive list lives.

The firm is an intermediary. The instruments you can trade are the instruments the product supplier issues and admits to the account, and the authoritative list is the symbol list in your terminal rather than a page on a website. A symbol that is in the terminal is tradable; one that is not, is not.

Contract size, tick value, trading hours, minimum and maximum order size and the margin requirement for each symbol are in that symbol’s contract specification in MetaTrader 5. Those are the figures that govern your order at the moment you place it.

Foreign exchange

InstrumentMinimum price fluctuationSize of 1 lotMinimum lotPip valueLeverage
EUR/USD0.00001100,000 EUR0.0110 USD1:100
USD/CHF0.00001100,000 USD0.0110/USDCHF1:100
EUR/GBP0.00001100,000 EUR0.0110 × GBPUSD1:100
USD/JPY0.001100,000 USD0.011000/USDJPY1:100
GBP/USD0.00001100,000 GBP0.0110 USD1:100
AUD/USD0.00001100,000 AUD0.0110 USD1:100

CFDs on indices and commodities

InstrumentUnderlyingCurrencyLotMinimum / maximum sizeTick sizeLeverage
EUSTX50EURO STOXX 50EUR1 contract1 / 5001 point1:100
GER30DAXEUR1 contract1 / 1,0001 point1:100
JPN225Nikkei 225JPY1 contract1 / 25,0001 point1:100
NAS100NasdaqUSD1 contract1 / 2,5001 point1:100
SPA35IBEX 35EUR1 contract1 / 2501 point1:100
UK100FTSE 100GBP1 contract1 / 1,0001 point1:100
US500S&P 500USD1 contract1 / 5,0001 point1:100
US30Dow Jones Industrial AverageUSD1 contract1 / 1,0001 point1:100
HK50Hong Kong 50HKD1 contract1 / 5001 point1:100
UKOILBrent crude oilUSD1 contract10 / 1,0001 point1:100
USOILWest Texas Intermediate crude oilUSD1 contract10 / 1,0001 point1:100
USBKTUS dollar against a currency basketUSD1 contract1 / 2501 point1:100

Futures CFDs

InstrumentUnderlyingCurrencyMinimum trade sizeExpiryLeverage
GER40Z5Germany 40, December 2025EUR0.0117 December 20251:100
NAS100Z5US Tech, December 2025USD0.0117 December 20251:100
US30Z5Wall Street 30, December 2025USD0.0117 December 20251:100
US500Z5US 500, December 2025USD0.0117 December 20251:100
BRZ5Brent oil, December 2025USD1027 October 20251:100
CLX5Crude oil, November 2025USD1015 October 20251:100
GCZ5Gold, December 2025USD121 November 20251:100
NGX5Natural gas, November 2025USD10024 October 20251:100
SIZ5Silver, December 2025USD5019 November 20251:100

Futures contracts do not roll over automatically. A position still open at expiry is closed at the firm’s discretion.

Trading hours

InstrumentTrading hoursDaily break
All FXMonday to Friday, 00:10 to 23:55—
XAU/USD, XAG/USD, XTI/USD, XNG/USDMonday to Friday, 01:05 to 23:55—
XBR/USDMonday to Friday, 03:05 to 23:55—
EUSTX50, SPA35, SWI20, UK100Monday 01:00 to Friday 23:5518:25 to 18:40 and 23:55 to 00:10 daily
GER30Monday 01:00 to Friday 23:5523:55 to 00:10 daily
JPN225Monday 01:00 to Friday 23:5508:55 to 09:10 and 23:55 to 00:10 daily
US30, US500, NAS100Monday 01:00 to Friday 23:5522:55 to 23:10 and 23:55 to 00:10 daily
UKOIL, USOIL, USBKTMonday 03:15 to Friday 23:4523:45 to 03:15 daily

Server time is GMT+2 from autumn to spring and GMT+3 from spring to autumn. Midnight server time is 17:00 EST. Hours change with national holidays and with liquidity, so the terminal is the copy that governs.

Order sizes

One standard lot
Forex: 100,000 units of the base currency. CFDs: 1 contract.
Minimum order
Forex and commodities 0.01, CFDs 1.00
Maximum order
Forex 50 lots, oil and natural gas 20 lots, CFDs 1,000 lots
Open positions
No fixed limit, subject to the firm’s risk assessment
Pending orders
Pending orders, stop loss and take profit may be placed as close as 0.1 pips to the market price

Margin and close-out

Margin call level
100%
Close-out level
100%

The firm does not make margin calls. At the close-out level the platform begins closing positions on its own, starting with the most unprofitable, and it remains the client’s responsibility to keep the account funded.

Execution

Orders are executed on an agency basis. There is no dealer intervention between the order and the market, no re-quoting, and no discretion applied to the price you are filled at.

Execution is market execution rather than instant execution. A stop loss and a take profit can therefore only be attached once the order has been filled, not while it is being placed.

Order types

  • Buy limit
  • Sell limit
  • Buy stop
  • Sell stop
  • Stop loss
  • Take profit

Pending orders, stop losses and take profits may be placed as close as 0.1 pips to the market price. An order placed that close may be triggered immediately.

Strategies

Expert Advisors are permitted. Choosing, testing and monitoring one is the client’s own responsibility, and the Expert Advisors Policy sets out the limits of the firm’s.

Scalping is permitted, with no limit on the number of trades or on how few pips a position is held for. Arbitrage is not permitted.

Positions may be hedged at any time while free margin is positive. A fully hedged position carries no margin requirement, but the spread is still paid on it and it can still be closed out.

There is no restriction on trading around news. Volatility around a release causes slippage, which means an order can be filled at a price other than the one asked for.

How margin is calculated

Balance
B
Equity
E = B ± unrealised profit and loss
Margin
M = position size ÷ L
Margin level
ML = E ÷ M × 100%
Free margin
FM = B − E − M
Leverage
L

Position value divided by leverage gives the margin required to open a trade. One lot of EUR/USD at 1:100 therefore needs 1,000 euro of margin, converted into the account currency.

Contract specifications as published by Tier1FX International, the product supplier, and applied to accounts at this firm.

The instruments above are those the product supplier specifies. The full symbol list available on your account is the list in your terminal, and it is the one that governs.

Accounts

The terms below are the ones in the Customer Agreement you sign. Each one is cited to its clause, so you can check the page against the contract rather than take it on trust.

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