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Learn to trade CFDs

Browse our education content to learn how CFDs work and how to develop your own CFD trading strategy.

CFDs explained

What are CFDs?

CFD examples

Advantages of CFDs

Risks of CFDs

Trading CFDs with CMC Markets

Commission rates

CFD holding costs

Calculating CFD margins

CFD market data fees​

What is a spread?

Cash rebates explained

GSLO charges explained

CFD trading strategies

How does news affect forex trading?

Day trading

Tell-tale trading patterns

Trendlines

Support & resistance

Introduction to the financial markets

Understanding trading charts

Money and risk management

Morningstar market reports

Reuters news service

1 click trading guide

Company fundamentals

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CFD platform quick guide

View, download and print our CFD platform quick guide. This concise guide shows you where to find all the products, features and tools you might need while trading CFDs on our platform. 

CFD quick guide

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Trading Smart series

Covering a range of important trading topics, our free Trading Smart series of ebooks have been created to strengthen your knowledge of the financial markets and help you build an effective trading strategy.

CFDs Getting started
Trade the financial markets using CFDs

See how to place a trade, set risk management and monitor positions on our easy-to-use CFD platform.
CFDs Getting started
Learn about our advanced charting package

Finding a strategy that suits you is important and we have over 80 technical indicators, an inbuilt Pattern Recognition Scanner, comparison charts and drawing tools that could help you.
CFDs Getting started
How to identify chart patterns automatically

On any chart, on most time intervals, our pattern tools function can highlight the most popular technical pattern types including triangles, channels, double tops & more.
CFDs Getting started
Our client sentiment tool

Easily accessible via the Product Overview, the Client Sentiment feature shows you what percentage of our clients are long and what percentage are short, on a particular product.

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Trading guide
CFD trading with CMC

Find out more about our award-winning CFD trading platform provides access to over 10,000 global products, at competitive spreads and margin rates.

Trading guide
CFD Margins

In order to open a CFD position on your account you will need to deposit an amount of money known as margin. Learn more here.
Trading guide
CFD Holding costs

At the end of each trading day (17:00 New York time), positions held in your account may be subject to a charge called a 'holding cost'. Find out more details here.
Trading guide
Guaranteed stop loss orders

Learn more about guaranteed stop-loss orders (GSLO), available for most products, they work in the same way as a stop-loss order except that it guarantees to close you out of a trade at the price specified

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