Open a CFD demo account
Improve your trading skills with our award-winning platform*
- Practise trading across thousands of instruments, including FX, indices and commodities
- Powerful charting and innovative trading tools
- Practise on the move with our mobile and tablet apps
- Award-winning support around the clock, whenever the markets are open**
- News and insight from our team of global market analysts
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Losses can exceed deposits on a live account
No risk
- Trade £10,000 virtual funds
- No expiry date
- Instant approval – start practising in seconds
- No credit card information required
You are our focus
Our aim is to help you become a better CFD trader. We're passionate about online CFD trading, constantly innovating our platform and product offering so you can get the most out of the financial markets and CFD trading.
Value for money
We offer competitive and reliable pricing, with tight spreads and low margins^. Trade CFDs on key FX pairs like EUR/USD from 0.7 points, 1 point on major indices like the UK 100, and 0.3 points on Gold. Our margin rates start from 0.20% for FX and index CFDs.
More opportunities
CFD trading offers you the ability to diversify your portfolio, with leveraged trading on a huge range of forex, indices, commodities and treasuries.
Over 27 years' experience
Since launching in 1989, we've become one of the world's leading CFD trading and spread betting providers. As one of the industry’s pioneers, you can be confident that when you're trading CFDs with us, you're trading with one of the best in the business.
Intuitive platform
Our unique online CFD trading platform, Next Generation, has already won multiple awards and we’re consistently working on new functionality, products and tools to enhance your CFD trading experience.
Multiple award-winners
We have won over 50 awards worldwide since 2013 – a recognition of the quality of our service, and dedication to delivering innovation and technology through our web-based trading platform and native mobile apps.
98% of calls answered in under 20 seconds
When there's a market open, we are too
What is CFD trading?
What are CFDs?
A CFD is a cash-settled leveraged product that tracks the price movement of a financial market, such as indices, forex, commodities, shares and treasuries. A key feature of trading leveraged products is that as you only have to put down a small deposit for a much larger market exposure, and as such it has the potential to magnify profits as well as losses, which can exceed deposits.
When you trade CFDs, you don’t buy or sell the underlying asset or product. Instead, you speculate on whether the price of that product will rise or fall. We offer CFDs on thousands of global instruments and you can buy or sell a number of units depending on whether you think prices will go up or down.
For every point the price moves in your favour, you gain multiples of the number of units you have bought or sold. For every point the price moves against you, you make a loss.
Why trade CFDs with CMC Markets
- Access thousands of global CFD instruments
- Practise on our award-winning Next Generation platform and mobile apps
- Build your risk management skills with our range of stop orders including guaranteed stop-loss orders
No risk
Open a free CFD trading demo account today
- Trade £10,000 virtual cash
- No expiry date
- Instant approval – start practising in seconds
- No credit card information required
Losses can exceed deposits on a live account
Trade CFDs with a reputed global provider
60,000
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Losses can exceed deposits on a live account
Winner 2016
Financial Services Provider of the Year
Shares Awards
Winner 2016
Best Online Trading Platform
Shares Awards
Winner 2016
Best Forex Trading Platform
UK Forex Awards
Winner 2016
Best Forex Binary Options Broker
UK Forex Awards 2015
Winner 2016
Best Spread Betting and CFD Education Tools
ADVFN International
Financial Awards
Winner 2016
Best Mobile/Tablet Application
Online Personal Wealth Awards
Winner 2016
Mobile trading
Investment Trends 2016 UK Leveraged Trading Report
Winner 2016
Platform features
Investment Trends 2016 UK Leveraged Trading Report
Awarded 'Best Platform Features' and 'Best Mobile Trading', among spread betters, CFD and FX traders.
Investment Trends 2016 UK Leveraged Trading Report
*Awarded 'Best Platform Features' and 'Best Mobile Trading', based on highest user satisfaction among spread betters, CFD and FX traders, Investment Trends 2016 UK Leveraged Trading Report; 'Best Online Trading Platform', Shares Awards 2016; 'Best Forex Trading Platform', UK Forex Awards 2016; and 'Best Mobile/Tablet Application', Online Personal Wealth Awards 2016.
**Awarded 'Best Customer Service', based on highest user satisfaction among CFD traders, Investment Trends 2016 UK Leveraged Trading Report and 'Best Forex Customer Service', UK Forex Awards 2015.
^Spreads may widen and margins may increase in volatile markets.