Introduction
to Online Trading

Day traders are traders who execute intraday strategies to profit from price changes for a given asset. They employ a wide variety of techniques in order to capitalize on market inefficiencies and generally classified as individuals who trade more than 4 times in a 5-day period. This means that they often close out all positions prior to the end of the trading day in order to avoid holding overnight positions.

Money traders are generally individuals who specialize in investments in the currency markets. These are also often called forex, FX or foreign exchange traders. The traders would generally not trade stocks or indices, but rather focus purely on investments in the currency markets.

A professional trader generally earns his or her living from investing in the financial markets. This means he or she makes a higher volume of trades than a retail trader, as well as larger investment sizes.

An investor is any individual that is active in the financial markets with the aim of profitably investing his/her money, either for himself/herself or for other people such as their clients. Investors generally have a longer time horizon than traders, and are more interested in longer term macro trends than short term opportunistic investments.

A copy trader is an individual that replicates or copies another investor’s strategy, with the goal of profiting alongside the investments that another trader or investor is making. These types of traders prevail on social trading platforms.

An opportunity trader is someone that waits for certain rare developments or events in financial markets in order to make an investment on an opportunistic basis, with the goal of benefiting from the volatility that often comes with unexpected events.

Online trading is the act of buying and selling financial products through an online trading platform. These platforms are normally provided by online brokers and are available to every person who wishes to invest money in the financial markets.

Trading platforms differentiate from one another through the quality of service they offer, as well as pricing and the range of products in which you can invest. This includes forex, futures, ETF’s, and many more.

Cornèrtrader, backed by the security and solidity of Cornèr Bank, one of the leading banks in Switzerland in terms of capital soundness, provides a state-of-the-art trading platform offering a wide range of investment products that clients can use in order achieve their investment goals.

Open a demo online trading account now and practice your trading strategy with a paper-trading account, without risking real money. This can be very helpful in refining your investment strategy and testing whether a previously developed idea behaves as expected. Once you are confident in your skill, switch to a live account and invest real funds.

Online trading allows you to make investments in more sophisticated ways than was previously possible via the brokers’ online trading infrastructure. The intuitive trading platforms and mobile compatibility enables you to always have an overview of your performance and asset positions, so that you can react quickly when market conditions change. A broader range of investments can be accessed than in the past, allowing you to capitalize on a wide range of market conditions. Discover all the advantages of investing online by participating at our free trading events on various trading topics.

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Cornèrtrader does not have a minimum initial fund requirement for Swiss residents. However, commissions profiles can be improved after reaching a given account value or monthly traded volume.
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Investing in shares is the act by which clients buy and sell securities on the stock exchange. Shares of single companies as well as indices of shares can be traded. These indices generally include the largest companies in the given country, and can be bought as a single index in order to gain exposure to a broad range of stocks in a given geographic region. Cornèrtrader is connected to more than 22 of the world’s major stock exchanges, and allows clients to trade in more than 18’400 stocks . This enables clients of Cornèrtrader to capitalize on a broad range of trading opportunities, in order to successfully implement their investment strategies.

Online trading is the act of investing money through the use of an online brokerage account. These online brokerages gives traders the possibility to invest in stocks, currencies, futures, options, ETF’s and a wide range of other investment products to capitalize on development in world markets. The shares or investment products are then held in a demat account. A demat Account is an account that is used to hold shares and securities in electronic format. The purpose of opening a demat account is to hold shares that have been bought or dematerialized (converted from physical to electronic shares), thus making share trading easy for the traders during online trading. With Cornèrtrader, you benefit from a broad range of trading opportunities, allowing you to position your portfolio dynamically as the markets move.

It began in 1996, when the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX) also became an electronic system. Since then, all banks being part of SWX operate from their own trading rooms connected to the stock exchange via computer. The digital age has enabled many online brokerages to facilitate trading for retail as well as professional investors, and has enormously increased the number of investments that traders can make, and the speed at which these orders can be executed. Since the onset of online trading, the speed, efficiency as well as the costs of investing have improved dramatically, and provided access to the financial markets to any investors who wish to participate in the financial markets.

Cornèrtrader regularly offers free trading events on various trading topics. Register online now and strengthen your investment strategy. More information about our educationals can be found here.