Trading Markets - Cexfinder

Our comprehensive trading markets categorization allows you to find cryptocurrency exchanges with specific trading markets.

Cryptocurrency Trading Markets:

Spot: Used for basic long-term investing into cryptocurrency. Fees are only paid when buying or selling without ongoing costs, and assets can be withdrawn to other exchanges or decentralized wallets.
Margin: Similar to spot trading, but you can borrow funds and increase leverage for potentially greater profits. Intended for intermediate traders who wish to trade with smaller risk. Involves trading fees and ongoing costs.
Futures: Best for day traders and intermediate to experienced users who want to long or short assets without having to own them first. Fees are paid when opening and closing positions, but while positions are open regular funding fees must also be paid every few hours. Allows using high leverage even over 100X for amplified profits, but is risky for newbies.
Options: Intended for experienced traders, Options market gives traders the opportunity to buy assets at a later date at specific prices. Options trading can offer greater flexibility compared to Futures, but deeper understanding and research is advised.
Onchain: With On-chain trading you can buy and sell assets directly on the blockchain without needing an exchange to officially list them, without having to set up web3 wallets, and directly with your Spot balances on your exchange account. This is mostly used to invest in newly released tokens and memecoins, and isn’t advised for newbies.

TradFi (traditional financial markets) can include stocks, indices, metals, commodities, and forex.

Stocks: These let you trade company stocks such as Apple, Google, Tesla, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and others. Typically these are tokenized stocks on either Spot or Futures markets.
Indices and ETFs: Trading indices allows you to speculate on the performance of a basket of stocks representing a specific market or sector, such as the S&P 500 (value of 500 largest public companies), Nasdaq (mostly tech sector), Dow Jones (industrial market), or the FTSE 100 (largest companies in United Kingdom).
Metals: Precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium are most common, with other industrial metals including copper, aluminum, iron, zinc, nickel and lead. Most crypto exchanges only have precious metals, but some also include industrial.
Commodities: Most commonly traded commodities include crude oil, natural gas, corn, wheat, coffee, but there’s other assets too. On most crypto exchanges with commodities, oil and gas are available, and very few offer other assets.
Forex: Foreign exchange markets let you speculate on currency values. Typically available currencies include USD, EUR, CAD, GBP, AUD, TRY, BRL, JPY, SGD, CHF. A wide variety of currencies and trading pairs are available on each exchange, so best to visit each platform for details.

Prediction Market: Similar to Polymarket, Prediction markets on cryptocurrency exchanges let you predict various sports, politics or other events.
Inscriptions & NFT Trading: Lets you purchase or sell non-fungible tokens directly on crypto exchanges, without needing wallets or external trading services like OpenSea.

For simplicity sake we categorize the following markets (or often just features) differently, but you may also be interested in:

CFD Trading: Specifically highlights crypto exchanges offering CFD trading.
Copy Trading: Lets you automatically copy trades from “expert” traders.
Demo Trading: Allows you to practice trading with mock/fake funds, often referred to as paper trading.
Leveraged Tokens: Lets you short-term invest with leverage for amplified gains without liquidation risk, but heed our warning.
P2P Trading: Peer-to-peer markets are used to on-ramp and off-ramp fiat and crypto.
Prop Trading: With Prop you can obtain high trading capital for increased position size.
Trading Bots: Automate trades based on specific custom criteria and set up trading bots to execute trades.

These (and more) features and filters can also be found on our main Filters page.