Academy How to trade Intel Corp stocks

Intel Corp - stock price, description, and characteristics

The world's top producer of microprocessors and chipsets, Intel Corp., was established on July 18, 1968, in Mountain View, California, by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. Intel generated $77.9 billion in sales in 2020, making it the world's biggest chip manufacturer.

In 2020, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSM), Intel's closest rival, finished in third with $45.5 billion in revenue, followed by Samsung Electronics with $57.7 billion in semiconductor sales.

The fact that Intel manufactures its products sets it apart from the majority of other semiconductor businesses. The majority of semiconductor "manufacturers" contract out the actual production of their goods to foundries in China. Even for other businesses, most of which are too tiny to be considered serious rivals, Intel manufactures processors. Is there an interest conflict there? Actually, no. Building a fabrication facility may cost several billion dollars, so it seems reasonable that Intel would want to keep its facilities active.

In fact, Intel produces its chipsets in China, but at facilities that are owned by Intel. Some American doomsayers hold the common belief that China's cheap labor costs have made it the world's factory and the go-to location for U.S. businesses looking to "send employment offshore" and cut costs by a few cents per unit.

By the end of 2020, Intel employed 110,600 people worldwide, with around half of them based in the United States. 3

Intel stock performance

Intel Corp. stock (INTC) seems to be having a hard price decline. If you bought Intel stock in 2021, you would be down around 50%. However, the ten-year performance would yield 21%. The 20-year mark is up almost 100%.
If we look at the mid-range, the stock grew strongly from 2016 until 2020, when the global chip shortage struck all across the globe.
The future might bring rehabilitation and opportunities for a buy-in after a huge decline.

Intel’s stock price has been turbulent over the last few years as COVID-19 caused a global chip shortage, which caused high volatility across all industries.
Fed’s ultra-loose monetary policy also put fuel to the fire, which as we can see has not helped the decline over the last year.

Trading Intel Corp. (INTC) with Purple Trading

To start your Intel CFDs trading, first, you need to locate the ticker INTC on our Purple Trading MetaTrader 4 platform. To open a trade, either double-click or press the new order button, and the following window will pop up.

Lot value calculation

When you open our MetaTrader 4 platform and click on the INTC ticker, you'll observe that the minimal volume for trading Intel CFDs is one lot (1.0). If you trade one lot, you will gain or lose 1 USD for each 1 USD the stock makes as you are buying at a 1:1 ratio (1 lot equals 1 share). For example, you buy 5 lots at 30 USD, and INTC goes to 40 USD. Your total profit will be 50 USD (calculated as 10 USD (1000 cents) movement * number of lots/shares per the move). The same logic applies to calculating your profit or loss when entering a short position.

Keep in mind that INTC is quoted in US dollars, therefore if your account is in EUR or another currency, your profit or loss must be converted to EUR at the current exchange rate.
You can trade at the current market price (market execution) or utilize pending orders, (limit and stop orders). You can initiate the trade without the stop-loss and take-profit orders now and add them afterward.