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How to Invest in Foreign Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)

Investing in ETFs is one of the most popular types of investments in the stock market, both among retail and corporate investors

The most popular ETFs among investors are those that invest in the broad U.S. stock market or its sectors. For example:

  • SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Ticker: SPY) – invests in stocks from the S&P 500 index, tracking the performance of the most popular stock index

  • Invesco QQQ ETF (Ticker: QQQ) – focuses on the NASDAQ-100 index of technology companies, tracking the performance of the second most popular U.S. stock index

These ETFs, along with other foreign securities, have been approved for trading on the Ukrainian stock market.

Investing in ETFs is similar to investing in stocks of industry giants like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Bank of America, or Tesla. To buy shares of an ETF, you need an open brokerage account and access to the exchanges where ETF shares are traded. You can also purchase ETFs on the over-the-counter market if you have a counterparty seller and want to make a direct transaction.

Before the large-scale war with Russia, BTC Broker provided access to U.S. stock exchanges as a sub-broker through its foreign partner broker. Currently, this service is temporarily unavailable due to NBU currency restrictions during martial law.

On domestic stock exchanges and the over-the-counter market, you can buy ETFs only if another domestic investor decides to sell them. As a result, the supply of American issuer securities for sale in the internal market is almost nonexistent.

If you have any further questions about buying ETFs, please feel free to ask us in any way that is convenient for you.