How to trade Hong Kong shares
The Hong Kong market is overflowing with top stocks including Tencent, Alibaba and Bank of China. Learn how to trade shares in Hong Kong-based companies.
Three steps to trade Hong Kong shares
With us, you can only get exposure to Hong Kong stocks by trading them using derivatives such as CFDs.
Trading only requires a deposit known as margin – which is a small percentage of the full value of the trade – to open a position. And, you can speculate on rising or falling share prices, because you don’t own the underlying asset. A popular benefit of shares trading is that you might offset any profits from CFD trading against losses for tax purposes.1
Open an account
To start trading on a share’s price movements, you can open a live trading account online – on our website or via our app. Alternatively, you can build your confidence with a demo account, which offers $20,000 in virtual funds.
Trade Hong Kong stocks
Once you’ve created an account and you’ve decided which Hong Kong stocks you’re interested in, you can start trading shares via derivatives, which means that you’ll ‘buy’ the market to open a long position, or ‘sell’ to open a short one.
Whichever method you choose, you can monitor your open positions on your workspace from within our platform. Any running profit or loss will move in line with the underlying share prices. When you’re ready to close your position, you can click on the open position and select ‘close’.
Trading Hong Kong shares summed up
- With us, you can only speculate on Hong Kong shares via a leveraged trading account
- When investing, you would put up the full value of the shares upfront. When trading with leveraged products like CFDs, you’ll only put up a margin
- There are many notable Hong Kong stocks to trade, such as AIA Group, Ping An, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent Holdings, Geely, Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Construction Bank
Footnote
1Tax laws are subject to change and depend on individual circumstances. Tax law may differ in a jurisdiction other than the UK.
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