Trade Samsung Electronics in Colombia

Samsung Electronics (SMSN) is tradable as a perpetual from Colombia: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Samsung Electronics trading legal in Colombia?

Colombia neither bans crypto nor licenses it, and those are two different facts that a reader has to hold at once. An individual may lawfully buy, hold and sell crypto-assets, and the tax authority treats that as ordinary asset ownership: DIAN's Concepto Unificado on criptoactivos of 17 October 2023 classifies crypto-assets as intangible assets that form part of a taxpayer's patrimonio and can produce taxable income, and it obliges Colombian tax residents to report their holdings every year.

What Colombia does not have is a supervisory regime. On 26 July 2024 the Superintendencia Financiera stated that it does not supervise, regulate, oversee, endorse or grant permits for transactions or business models based on virtual assets, and that dealings in digital or crypto-assets are not part of the financial system.

What the contract is

A perpetual on SMSN tracks price and does not confer ownership of the underlying — the same contract mechanics apply in every jurisdiction; what differs by country is legal status and funding rails.

Sign up on Canborsa with email, X or a wallet

No document upload to open the account. Canborsa is non-custodial: your collateral stays under your own keys until a position opens.

Email X Wallet

Fund the account with USDC

Deposit USDC over Canton, Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain or Arbitrum. Canborsa takes no fiat, so buying the USDC happens wherever you normally buy stablecoins.

→Robinhood Chain

Open SMSN-PERP

Pick SMSN in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 20x .

SMSN-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of SMSN at 5x uses $200 of collateral. Higher leverage moves the liquidation price closer to your entry: your exposure is the position size, whatever margin you posted. Set a stop-loss below your entry before you walk away.

No crypto-specific rate. DIAN treats crypto-assets as intangible assets (bienes inmateriales o incorporales): holdings are declared in patrimonio at 31 December each year, and profits fall under the ordinary impuesto sobre la renta y complementarios; there is no dedicated crypto regime. Airdrop rewards are the one carve-out the concept names, treated as ganancia ocasional under art. 302 of the Estatuto Tributario.

Trading Samsung Electronics from Colombia: legal.

Colombia traders can fund Samsung Electronics positions using Bank transfer (COP).

Colombia residents can trade Samsung Electronics on 10 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Extended.

On Canborsa, traders in Colombia can use up to 20x leverage on Samsung Electronics.

Canborsa charges 0.07% per side (0.14% round trip) on Samsung Electronics.