Spread Betting with CMC Markets

Risk Management with CMC Markets

Managing Risk

Spread betting allows you to trade on margin. Trading on margin increases your risk because you can potentially lose more than your initial deposit. Before you start trading with us, we recommend that you attend one of our free client seminars. CMC Markets offers a wide range of seminars and workshops; where you can learn the basics of spread betting.

Once you start trading, there are many ways of managing your risk with a range of flexible orders including Limits (Take Profits), Stop-loss and OCOs (One Cancels the Other). These orders can be placed online and are free to use.

CMC Markets also offers clients the opportunity to use a Controlled Risk Bet (CRB). CRBs enable you to place a stop order at a predetermined level in order for you to guarantee your maximum loss.

Therefore you have a known 'worse case scenario' should the market move against you. Because we guarantee the price at which the trade is stopped there are conditions to this type of order. Specifically there is a premium charge when opening the trade, and also any stop loss can only be placed a minimum number of points / percentage away from the current market price.

Where a CRB position is rolled a further premium is chargeable on the rollover. It is rare to find guaranteed stops in the traditional Share trading environment.