Trade Silver / US Dollar with LHFX

XAG/USD is the spot price of silver quoted in US Dollars per troy ounce. Silver is both a monetary metal (traded alongside gold for centuries) and an industrial metal (roughly 50% of annual demand goes to industrial use: solar panels, electronics, electrical contacts, and EV components). This dual demand makes silver one of the more volatile precious metals. The global silver market is significantly smaller than gold's, with roughly one-tenth the total value. Annual mine supply is around 25,000 tonnes, with Mexico, Peru, and China the largest producers. Most silver comes as a byproduct of zinc, lead, and copper mining, which means silver supply is partially insensitive to silver prices. At LHFX you trade silver as a CFD on the XAG/USD pair. You profit or lose based on XAG/USD price movement, can go long or short, and have leverage up to 1:200 available. You never receive physical silver. Silver typically moves with gold but with higher beta. When gold moves 1%, silver often moves 1.5 to 2% in the same direction. This relationship is tracked through the gold-silver ratio (XAU/USD divided by XAG/USD), which ranges historically between 30 and 100. The ratio expands when gold outperforms silver and contracts when silver outperforms gold.

Open an LHFX account, fund it, and add XAGUSD to your MT5 Market Watch. Spreads are wider than gold; commission is $3 per side; leverage up to 1:200 is available. Silver volatility is higher than gold. Daily 2 to 4% moves are routine; 5%-plus days happen on Fed surprises, industrial-demand inflection points, or short-squeeze events (silver has a history of brief, sharp upside spikes driven by retail or commodity-pool positioning). Size your position to your account. A 5% adverse silver move should cost no more than 2 to 3% of your account. Watch the gold-silver ratio. Silver outperformance and underperformance can persist for weeks; positioning long silver against short gold is a common spread trade for traders who want commodity exposure with a reduced macro-overlay risk. Set a stop loss before entry. Silver gaps more than gold on Sunday open during Asia-event news. Worked example. On a $1,000 account at a $25 silver price, opening 0.1 lots of XAGUSD (500 oz exposure, $12,500 notional) requires roughly $62 in margin at 1:200. A 5% adverse move costs $625, well above account. Size down: 0.02 lots is $125 risk on a 5% move, or 12% of account. For a 3% risk budget, scale to 0.01 lots.