Web platform
With our Web app, you can easily access the global financial markets from your computer, through all of the popular browsers. That means there’s no need to download and install any software, simply log in to your account to start trading CFDs.
Features
Our web CFD trading platform is equipped with lots of useful features that give you more control over your investments. Here are some of the highlights:
Advanced risk management
From our order tickets you can set risk management features such as stop losses, trailing stops and take profit orders. Or, let the platform suggest a stop loss for each position by enabling transaction based stop losses. From the CFD order ticket, you can choose to trade in units or amount. Stop loss orders will close out a position at your specified price to help you limit losses. Trailing stop losses are similar except they move in the same direction as price when it moves favourably for you, in order to lock in profits. Take profit orders allow you to pre-set a profit level at which to close a transaction.
Advanced charts
Real-time dynamic charts with up to 5 years of history come as standard. With multiple chart types and over 60 technical indicators available, you can easily customise charts to suit your unique trading style. Plus, you can view live trades on a chart and edit your stop and take profit orders by clicking on the trade icon and dragging the stop loss and take profit levels up or down. If you’re viewing the chart for a product you’re interested in, you only need to click on the buy or sell price to open up an order ticket from which you can place a trade and set your risk-management orders. Our charting tools are indicative and provided for information purposes and must not be relied upon as investment advice.
Order types
You can choose between two different order types when you open a position. Market orders are when you open or close a position at the current market price. And limit orders allow you to enter a transaction at a predetermined price, and within a specified time frame. So you can tell the platform to only open a position for you when the price hits a certain level, and you can specify when this order will expire. Please note that your specified target price may not be guaranteed due to market conditions.
Factsheets
We've put together a handy factsheet for every product in our product library. Everything you’ll want to know is covered, from the basics, like trading hours, margin rates and spreads, through to real-time news and some insights on how other market forces may influence prices.
Watchlists
Take more control of your investing by creating and personalising your own watchlists so you can easily monitor the performance of the products you’re interested in. Simply drag and drop prices into an existing watchlist, or create a new one directly from the product library. To personalise them even further you can change the colour of the title bar and easily reorder lists by dragging the products up or down into a new position.
News and analysis
We stream the Dow Jones Newswire service live into our CFD trading platform. Get all your breaking news from around the globe as and when it happens, and never miss an important announcement again.
Our team of market analysts, in conjunction with Dow Jones Newswire, write updates throughout the day on market activity, breaking news and big announcements. The style is short and sharp and our updates cover general market conditions, companies in focus, economic and company announcements, commodities and foreign exchange news.
Customisable margin
You can easily dial up or down the amount of initial margin you would like to pay on each transaction, and the amount you’d like to borrow from CMC Markets. Pay for the whole position yourself, or borrow most of the funds to open the position from us, the decision is yours. Remember that financing can enhance profits as well as losses.
Overnight financing fees apply only on the borrowed amount. If you pay for the whole position there are no overnight costs to pay. Overnight financing fees are charged daily.
Portfolio mixer
Exclusive to our CFD platform, our portfolio mixer allows you to pick and choose your favourite stocks, currencies, indices and commodities and bring them all together. Drag and drop any number of products into the mixer to combine them, choose a weighting for each one and then follow your mix’s performance on a chart. To enhance and refine your mix, you can change the weightings, add or remove products, or even sell rather than buy. Compare the past performance of your portfolio and products to see how they react to different market conditions.
Fractional ownership
You can buy and sell CFDs by units or amount. Fractional ownership is a new feature that allows you to invest in just a fraction of a unit. You can trade from as little as 1/1000 of a unit, or its equivalent amount in pounds. That means you can choose more accurately where you want to allocate your funds. With a traditional broker, the smallest trade size you could invest in would be one share. Fractional ownership is another way we give you more control over how you trade CFDs.
Intuitive product library’
Welcome to our intuitive product library, where you can find the products you’re interested in quickly and easily. Sort our extensive range of products with our straightforward navigation menu - browse by product type, sector, region, country, performance or volatility. If you know what you’re looking for, simply type the product name, ticker code or nickname into the search box. When you’ve found the product you want to trade, just drag and drop it onto your dashboard or into a watchlist.
Create your own trading dashboard
Click once to pick up and move anything on your screen to create your own customised layout. Found something to trade? Drag and drop to create a quote panel and you’re ready to go. Want to monitor gold and oil? Drag them into your watchlist and you’re done. Fancy a chart? Just drag and drop to add it in.
Your CFD account
All account details are available in real time, all the time. View your account value, margin, open positions, orders, profit or loss and a full account history. You can keep a close eye on all of your open positions and follow their performance easily through your account.