Exness instruments: what you can trade and how the specs differ

What Exness offers

Exness offers contracts for difference (CFDs). A CFD is a contract that follows the price of an underlying asset. You do not own the currency, gold, share or coin itself. You gain or lose on the price difference between opening and closing the position.

According to Exness, it offers CFDs on over 200 CFD instruments. On the Standard account, the instrument groups are forex, metals, cryptocurrencies, energies, stocks, indices. The sources we use do not give a count for each category. To see the current list for your account type, open the instrument list in your platform or check the official site.

Leveraged CFD and forex trading can lose money fast. Before you trade any category, read Leverage and Margin call and stop out.

How contract specifications differ

A contract specification is the set of rules for one instrument:

• Contract size: how much of the asset one lot represents.
• Minimum and maximum volume: the smallest and largest order size.
• Pip size: the smallest standard price step.
• Leverage and margin rules: how much of the position value you must hold as margin.
• Swap schedule: the overnight charge or credit, and the day when it is tripled.
• Commission: charged on some account types.
• Trading hours: when the instrument can be traded.

Each category sets these rules differently. The sections below cover what the sources state.

Forex

The general minimum lot is 0.01 lot. The general maximum lot size is 200 lots (7:00–20:59 GMT+0), 60 lots (21:00–6:59 GMT+0).

Unlimited leverage, for traders who meet the conditions, covers Forex majors and minors, DXY, USDCNH, HKDJPY, USDHKD, USDTHB; all commodities except XAUUSD247; BTCUSD, BTCUSDT, ETHUSD, ETHBTC. Around high-impact news, higher margin requirements (HMR) apply from 15 minutes before to 90 seconds after high-impact news. For forex, HMR leverage is 1:200 (0.5%).

More detail: Currency pairs.

Metals

Gold (XAUUSD) has these specifications:

• Contract size: 100 troy ounces
• Volume: min 0.01 lot, max 200 lots
• Trading hours: 24/5
• Swap: triple swap on Wednesday
• Maximum leverage: 1:Unlimited if eligible
• HMR: 1:200 – 1:1000 (0.1%-0.5%). Exness's own Help Center pages give different HMR figures for gold, so check the current value in the platform.
• Commission: Raw Spread 3.5 USD, Zero 5.5 USD per lot per side
• Account types: Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread, Zero

There is also a separate gold symbol: XAUUSD247: gold 7 days a week, fixed leverage 1:200.

More detail: Metals, Gold.

Energies

Energies are CFDs on oil and similar products. Exness states that the unlimited leverage list covers all commodities except the separate gold symbol above. Check the current specification for each energy symbol in the platform before you trade.

More detail: Energies.

Indices

On Exness, the Nasdaq-100 is listed as USTEC. The Dow Jones is listed as US30 and the S&P 500 as US500.

USTEC has these specifications:

• Contract size: USTEC: 1, USTEC_x100: 100
• Minimum volume: USTEC: 0.05 lot, USTEC_x100: 0.01 lot
• Maximum volume: USTEC: 300 lots by day (MT4) / 500 lots by day (MT5), 200 lots at night (MT5); USTEC_x100: 20 lots
• Pip size: 0.1
• Commission: Raw Spread: 0.3125 USD per lot per side, Zero: 0.625 USD per lot per side
• Swap: triple swap on Friday
• Maximum leverage: 1:Unlimited if eligible

Leverage rules for indices:

• Leverage is fixed for most indices except JP225, USTEC, USTEC_x100, US500, US500_x100, US30, US30_x10.
• The move to dynamic leverage on US indices: US30, US500, USTEC, JP225 (+x10/x100): from 400 to unlimited, planned for 7 November 2026; rollout dates may change.
• During HMR: US30/USTEC/US500/JP225 during HMR: 1:400 (0.25%) at the daily break, 1:50 (2%) over the weekend.

Trading hours differ by underlying instrument; servers run on UTC+0.

The Exness source page is contradictory on whether USTEC is available on Standard Cent accounts. Check this in the platform.

More detail: Stock indices, USTEC, US30.

Stocks

Stock CFDs follow different margin and swap rules from the other categories:

• Stop out: the stop out level can be raised to the full margin level during the stocks' daily break hours, and in case of increased market risk. Check the current rule in the Exness personal area or on the official site.
• Swaps: stocks are not in the default swap-free instrument list, so swaps are charged.
• Execution: on the Pro account, execution is instant (forex, metals, energies, stocks, indices), market (cryptocurrencies).

Check the current list of stocks and their specifications in your platform.

Crypto

On the Pro account, cryptocurrencies use market execution, as the execution rule above shows. Market execution means your order fills at the next available price, which can differ from the price you saw.

On Standard Cent accounts, platform availability is MT4 and MT5 (BTCUSDc, ETHUSDc not on MT4). The maximum volume there is 200 lots day and night (ETHUSDc 2000 lots). BTCUSD, BTCUSDT, ETHUSD and ETHBTC are in the unlimited leverage list.

Crypto prices can move sharply. More detail: Crypto CFDs.

Account type changes the conditions

The same instrument can have different trading costs on different accounts:

• Standard: spread from 0.2 pips, no commission.
• Raw Spread: commission up to 3.50 USD each side per lot.
• Zero: commission from 0.05 USD each side per lot.

Compare all types on Account types, Spreads and Commissions.

Before you trade from Pakistan

The SBP has issued statements on offshore forex and CFD platforms that apply to Pakistani residents. One example: per the SBP, remitting foreign exchange to overseas forex/margin/CFD platforms is not allowed through any payment channel (FERA s.5(1)). Read Is Exness legal before opening an account.

Frequent questions

How many instruments does Exness have?

Exness states over 200 CFD instruments. It does not publish a count per category in our sources.

Does Exness offer stocks?

Yes, stocks are listed among Standard account instruments as CFDs. Stocks follow special stop out and swap rules, described in the stocks section above.

Is Exness crypto real coin ownership?

No. Exness crypto instruments are CFDs, so you trade the price difference and do not hold coins.

What is the Nasdaq symbol on Exness?

The symbol is USTEC. See USTEC.

Where do I see full contract specifications?

In the instrument properties inside your trading platform, or on the official Exness site. See Platforms and apps.