Glossary

The length of time you expect to hold an investment before you need the money, which shapes how much risk and volatility you can reasonably accept.

A trading app is a mobile application that lets you place orders, monitor positions, and manage a brokerage account from a smartphone or tablet, often covering stocks, ETFs, forex, or CFDs.

A trading platform is the software traders use to view market prices, place and manage orders, and monitor open positions and account balances with a broker.

A Trustpilot review is a public customer rating and written comment posted on a third-party review platform, often used by investors to gauge sentiment about a broker or financial service before signing up.

Volatility measures how much and how quickly an asset's price moves up and down over time, often used as a shorthand for investment risk.

A withdrawal is the process of taking money out of an investment or brokerage account and transferring it to a linked bank account or payment method.

Yield is the income an investment generates, expressed as a percentage of its price, commonly used to compare bonds, dividend stocks, and funds.