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Hong Kong — What a guide about markets can state, and where the symbol takes over

These pages describe how the families of instruments differ from one another. They stop exactly where an amount begins, because an amount belongs to a named symbol at a named moment, and no guide can hold one.

This site is an independent guide, not a broker: it opens no accounts, holds no money, takes no documents and costs nothing to read. Its subject is what is traded — currency pairs, metals, index and share CFDs, crypto CFDs, energies — and how those differ. Real accounts, deposits and trading live on the official exness.com.

Three layers, and what each is allowed to say

Every figure a beginner meets sits in one of three layers, and most confusion comes from asking the wrong layer.

Layer	What it can state	Example
A guide like this one	The shape of a market: what a family is, which parts stay constant, what has to be reread when the symbol changes	«On an index CFD a step is a point, not a fourth decimal»
The symbol's own details on the platform	Every amount: contract size, step value, spread, swap, hours	«What one unit of size holds on this metal, today»
An account, and Exness support behind it	Anything about one person's balance, documents or requests	«Where a particular withdrawal has got to»

A fourth layer would hold what a price does next. There is no such layer: no one predicts these moves reliably, so nothing here is written as though someone did.

Why an amount is never quoted here as current

A spread, a swap or a step value is true for one symbol at one moment. Printed on a page, it starts ageing immediately and gives a reader a figure they did not fetch — which is the whole habit these pages try to prevent.

So the amounts on this site appear only as worked examples with their inputs shown, and every one of them ends by naming the screen where your own figure lives. Where a sentence can point at no screen at all, it says so instead of rounding the gap off.

The same rule takes two things off every page. No statement about where a price will be, and no personal advice: a claim can be checked, a decision about somebody's own money cannot, so that decision stays with the reader.

Why no instrument here is named as the one to trade

The families differ in unit, in step size and in hours — not in how safe they are. Leverage works identically across all of them, and a market that sounds familiar is not a gentler one. A page that pointed at a favourite would be swapping a checkable description for an unverifiable preference, so these pages describe the differences and stop there.

What replaces the recommendation is a procedure, repeated on every page: read what the symbol states, redo the sizing sum with its own figures, and only then decide. The risk basics page holds the part of that decision no market changes.

When a line here disagrees with the platform

Note which layer the line belongs to

A description of a family, or an amount? Only the second kind can be out of date in the ordinary sense.
Open the symbol's own details

Contract size, step value, spread, swap and hours are all stated there, per symbol, on a free demo as readily as on a funded account.
Let the platform win, then report the wording

Where they disagree, the broker's screen is the record. Wording on this site goes to the form on the live chat page; a real account, document or payment goes to Exness support on exness.com, open 24/7.

Questions this site cannot answer for anyone

The question as it arrives	Which layer holds it
What is the spread on this symbol right now?	The platform. A figure copied from here would be a figure you did not read.
What is on my account at the moment?	The account. No balance is visible from here; it is shown on the official exness.com.
Was my document accepted?	The account. A document goes to the broker; nothing here can see one.
Which market should I trade?	Nobody's, as a fact. The market list sets out what differs; the choice is the reader's.
Where will this instrument be tomorrow?	No layer at all. A page that answers it is not better informed, only less careful.

The last row is the one worth carrying away. Anyone promising certain profit is showing you a warning sign of a scam, not an opportunity — and many people lose money when they start trading.

Questions readers ask about this site

Why are so few current figures printed on these pages?

Because an amount belongs to one symbol at one moment. Printed here it ages at once and teaches the wrong habit; the page names the screen instead.

Does a claim get stronger by appearing on several pages here?

No. Repetition inside one site is one source saying a thing twice. One live screen, or the official exness.com, settles more than ten pages here.

Can this site look at an account to settle a disagreement?

It cannot. No balance, payment or document is visible from here; that is Exness support on exness.com, 24/7.

Is any market described here as safer than the others?

None is. The families differ in unit, step and hours; the risk of leveraged trading is common to all of them.

How would a reader notice that a page here has gone stale?

Hold the line against the symbol's own details on the platform, or against the official exness.com. Where they disagree, the platform is right.

Who are these guides written for?

People who have never traded. Every term is explained where it first appears and again in the glossary.

Is there a way to check what is written here without spending anything?

For most of it, yes: a free demo account lists every family side by side, and the details of each symbol open with it.

Where to check next

What one account reaches

Five families, and what each one re-sets.

See the market list

Watch the layers separate

A free demo account: every symbol's details, nothing at stake.

Open the demo guide

The first checks, in order

What to confirm before anything is opened.

Start here