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"Excellent service. User-friendly fast trading platform." - JH |
- Futures are the preferred instrument of active traders. The futures markets are fully electronic, 100% centralized and totally transparent. There are no market makers. Professional and retail investors have identical information.
Of all financial instruments futures have the lowest commissions and the tightest spreads. Futures are easy to understand and offer the active investor a large variety of underlying values.
- Various types of data shown in the WHS FutureStation trading platform serve to illustrate the transparent and centralized nature of the futures markets. For example:
- Clients have direct access to all the major markets. In total 2.000+ electronic futures are available.
- Short selling is allowed on all futures. Futures positions can be opened on margin. The active investor can thus determine his own leverage.
- WH SelfInvest is technologically very advanced in futures trading. This makes life significantly easier for active investors. For example, a single order is sufficient to switch a long position into a short position because the order acceptance is based on the position size of the resulting short position and not on the order size. Another example, unique in futures trading, is the possibility to use conditional orders to open a position.
- For all futures markets which do not accept stop orders on their servers, WH SelfInvest will keep the stop order on its server. As such stop orders never reside on the client's PC, unless he wishes this to be the case.
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| "Time and sales" … all executed orders as well as all changes in bid and ask price: | Support and resistance … all order volume present in the order book at the corresponding prices: | Market profile … the number of futures contracts traded split into trades at the bid and trades at the ask: |
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| Market | Country | Most popular futures contracts |
| Eurex | D | Dax, Bund, Eurostoxx 50 |
| Euronext Paris | F | CAC40 |
| Euronext A'dam | NL | AEX |
| Liffe | GB | FTSE 100, Euribor |
| Nymex | USA | mini Crude Oil |
| CME | USA | Nasdaq, S&P, Eurodollar |
| CME-CBT | USA | DJIA, T-Bond, T-Note, Wheat, Corn |
| CBOT | USA | Gold, Silver |
| NYBOT | USA | Russel 2000 |
The account
- WH SelfInvest has designated Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, ING Luxembourg and Macquarie Bank Ltd. to serve as depository banks. The assets received at ING Luxembourg and Banque Internationale à Luxembourg will be send on to Macquarie Bank Ltd. for the additional provision of clearing and execution services for our futures clients accounts. Macquarie Bank Ltd. belongs to the Macquarie Group Ltd. which is quoted on the ASX exchange. Client assets are accounted for on an individual basis and are segregated from our company’s assets.
- Trading futures in EUR, USD, GBP, ... via one single account? Yes, it is possible. A profit on, say, a future in USD remains in USD. In this way the client incurs no conversion costs as it would be the case in the mono-currency accounts offered by most of our competitors.. At the end of each month all balances are converted, without cost and at institutional exchange rates, in the client's base currency.
- The minimum required to open a futures account is € 10.000 or the equivalent in GBP, USD, ... There is no maximum amount. The account can go below € 10.000 when trading.
- The account is subjected to Luxemburg banking secrecy and can be held in EUR, GBP, USD or CHF. You can also open an account with one of our branches in France, Germany or Belgium. All staff in all offices speak English.
- Funding the account can be done by money transfer to a 'client assets' account with ING Luxembourg or Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. WH SelfInvest will only accept transfers coming from the account holder. Transfers from third parties, including family members, will be rejected. The money will automatically be posted to your own individual account. The cost is € 5.
- Transferring money out of the account is straightforward. For security reasons we do not accept transfer instructions via e-mail or internet. Only a signed, written instruction is acceptable. You can fax your transfer instruction to +352 42 25 75 25. Transfer costs are fixed at € 5 for amounts < € 30.000 and 0,10% (max. € 50) for amounts > € 30.000. Transfer form.
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- Low commissions. No minimum commission. No extra charges for telephone orders. Guaranteed volume rebates; no volume bands. Cancelling or modifying an order is free of charge.
- Competitive margins. Half margin for intraday positions. Choice of stable, proven trading platforms. Tick-by-tick price quotes (note: do not trade futures actively unless your broker has tick-by-tick quotes).
- All order types available, including stop orders, bracket orders and build position orders. Trading strategies can be partially or fully automated ... without programming.
- Direct access to all major markets. Trader teaching tools including market structure points-based trading signals.
- A legendary service.
We pride ourselves on satisfied clients. A high proportion of new clients have been recommended by existing clients. |
| “Superb broker! I am extremely satisfied with the speed and quality of the service." |
| "I thank you for your excellent service. - GF" |
"I am very satisfied with your team's initiatives and have received many useful tips. - BD" |
"WHS offers what are currently the best trading platforms on the market. They know their stuff. It is their passion." |
| "I encourage you to maintain your quality service. - LN" |
| "Excellent service. User-friendly fast trading platform! - JH" |
| "Constant quality service since the beginning. - AL" |
| "I was pleasantly surprised by your service level and trading platform. I recommend you frequently to other traders. - GF" |
| "The futures platform is exceptional. And thank you for your excellent service!- GL" |
| "I have so much fun on your platforms! They are so cool! - DC" |
"Very professional. Very responsive. Super tools. Their desk can get you out of every difficult spot." |
| "I am a client for a long time now. I greatly appreciate the reliability of your service. Continue like this! - CC" |
| "Very satisfied with WH SelfInvest, quick responses to my e-mails, excellent trading platform. - RM." |
