Trade the global markets

Over 300 FX pairs

You wanted tighter FX spreads

Our new Next Generation pricing allows you to trade FX pairs starting from as little as 0.7 pts.

We offer 300+ currency pairs, 100% automated execution and no dealer intervention. CMC Markets customers are offered competitive prices on the world's major currency pairs with bid-ask spreads that are usually only accessible to large Forex traders.

Our FX spreads are extremely competitive, regardless of trade size. We believe CMC Markets has some of the most competitive spreads on FX pairs. Competitive forex spreads are important because the tighter the quoted spread, the less the market has to move in your favour before your trade becomes profitable.

Why trade Forex with CMC?
Low FX trading costs, superior platform functionality and many more benefits with CMC Markets. Have you thought of switching FX provider? Read more.

Lowest spreads on FX pairs
Precision pricing, no dealer intervention and now our tightest ever spreads. 0.7 pts spreads on popular FX pairs. Read more.

Trade Cash or Forward Products
We offer you the choice to trade the cash price with no expiry, or a range of Forward contracts on the major FX pairs with competitive spreads and the ability to auto-roll positions via the platform.
Learn more about Forward contracts. Read more

You wanted tighter index spreads

We offer 26 major indices with spreads from as little as 1 pt.

Starting from just 1 pt on the major indices, like the UK 100, US NDAQ 100 and Germany 30, our index spreads are extremely competitive, regardless of your trade size. Competitive index spreads are important because the tighter the quoted spread, the less the market has to move in your favour before your trade becomes profitable.

Spread bet indices with CMC
If you are looking for tighter spreads and the best platform features, find out why experienced traders are choosing CMC Markets. Read more.

Looking for CFD index trading?
Our CFD platform is built for speed and execution. Did you know we processed over 33 million orders last year. Read more.

Trade Cash or Forward Products
We offer you the choice to trade the cash price with no expiry, or a range of Forward contracts with highly competitive spreads and the ability to auto-roll positions via the platform.
Learn more about Forward contracts. Read more

Commodities

You wanted tighter commodity spreads

Our new trading platform allows you to trade 27 popular Commodities from as little as 0.4 pts.

CMC Markets has revolutionised commodities trading with the introduction of cash commodities into our Next Generation trading platform, enabling us to cut the cost of trading your favourite commodities like Gold, Silver, Crude oil, Copper and many more.

You can now trade Gold, for example, from just 0.4 pts spread with an initial margin of just 1%, and both Crude Oil West Texas and Crude Oil Brent are now from just 3.5 pts spreads with a 1% margin requirement.

Introducing cash commodities
Cash commodity prices are created by stripping out the carrying costs that are built into complex futures prices. When we do this the price becomes smoother and more continuous, avoiding the price disparities seen when a futures contract expires and is replaced by the next contract.

You can approximately work back to the futures price from the CMC Markets cash price, using this formula: Daily move of the future ≈ daily move of the CMC Markets cash + daily carrying costs

Trade Cash or Forward Products
We offer you the choice to trade our unique cash price with no expiry and up to 20 years of price data, or a range of Forward contracts with highly competitive spreads and the ability to auto-roll positions via the platform. Learn more about Forward contracts.
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Shares

You wanted low trading costs

With CMC Markets you can trade global shares from 0.08% commission, with low minimums.

CMC Markets is renowned for driving down the costs of trading through low dealing spreads and low margins. We have now cut the cost of trading share CFDs to just 0.08% on many markets with low minimums. We also don't charge more for orders taken over the phone.

Share CFDs are not subject to stamp duty and there are no additional costs like floor fees, data feeds (except for Australian share CFDs) and share registration fees. Apart from the underlying physical bid and offer spread your only execution cost is the commission.

Stamp duty in the UK is currently set at 0.5%, so if you trade a physical share with a total position size of £10,000 you will have to pay £50. This is on top of any additional charges like commission, registration fees etc.

Low share CFD commissions
CMC Markets is committed to driving down the cost of trading. Discover how much you can save with CMC. Read more

Control your margin
Forget traditional CFD trading – choose the amount of margin you feel most comfortable with (from 5% right up to 100%). Read more

Fractional trading
You can trade share CFDs from as little as 1/1000 of a unit, or a specific amount in sterling. This allows you to buy or sell just a fraction of an asset. Read more

Treasuries

You wanted more choice

CMC Markets Treasuries consist of both government bonds and short term interest rates.

Short Term Interest Rates (STIRs) allow you to trade on the direction of a country’s 3 month interest rates. The prices for all STIRs are calculated by taking the market's expected level for the 3 month rate and subtracting them from 100. For example, if Short Sterling is trading in the market at 96.50 this means that the market is expecting the 3 month rate to be around 3.50% (100.00 - 96.50)

The reason STIRs are priced like this is due to their correlation with bonds, so when central banks are expected to raise interest rates, bonds and STIRs should fall in price. Therefore, if you buy or go long on a STIR, you believe that interest rates are going to fall. Conversely, if you go short on a STIR you believe interest rates will rise.

Government bonds are issued by national governments. They generally promise to pay a certain amount (par value) at a given maturity, as well as periodic coupon payments. An investor loans the par value of the bond to a country across a pre-defined period of time for a certain interest rate. Because government bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of a national government, its assets and power of taxation, they are generally considered to have the lowest risk of any debt.

Government bonds allow you to trade on the direction of long-term interest rates in various countries. For instance a US Treasury Bond, or T-Bond, allows you to take a view on long-term interest rates in the US.

Trade Cash or Forward Products
We offer you the choice to trade our unique cash price with no expiry and up to 20 years of price data, or a range of Forward contracts with highly competitive spreads and the ability to auto-roll positions via the platform. Click here to learn more about our forward contracts.