How to Trade Stocks for Beginners:
Many forex brokers also offer their clients the opportunity to buy and sell individual stocks (also known as shares), such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, etc. You can trade them directly by owning the actual stock or you can trade them as a derivative, such as a CFD.
At the moment, ATFX only offers CFD stocks. You will see a list of tradable assets available on your platform. Spreads will vary, and movements in an individual stock can be very volatile compared to currency pairs.
For example, Facebook’s stock price can easily rise or fall by 5% in a trading session, while a 1% change in a currency pair during a trading session is unusual.
Forex is a 24/5 market and experiences moderate changes during different sessions, unlike stock prices which can rise or fall suddenly and sharply when the markets open. They are less liquid, and there are fewer buyers and sellers, so such large price movements are more common.