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Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 75% of retail investor accounts lose money when spread betting and/or trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Platform guides

View our spread betting and CFD trading video guides.

Spread betting

Getting started

Spread betting

One-click trading

Discover the full capabilities of '1-Click Trading' and how it could aid you in more efficient order placement, especially in fast-moving, volatile markets.

Spread betting

Spread betting chart forum

Learn about our online community. The chart forum allows our clients to share and swap technical analysis with other clients and our global team of market analysts, helping you to identify potential key moves and patterns in the financial markets.

Spread betting

Spread bet with advanced charting

Learn how our advanced charting package can help you with your technical analysis and spread betting strategies.

Spread betting

Access the markets via our product library

Learn how to search for products on our platform, look for undervalued and overvalued markets with our useful filtering tools and much more through the product library.

Spread betting

How to create a watchlist

Create and customise your own watchlists with saved charts and the ability to sort products by daily price performance.

Spread betting

Spread bet using guaranteed stop-loss orders

Learn how to attach a guaranteed stop-loss order to a trade if you want 100% certainty that you will be closed out of that trade at an exact price, specified by you, regardless of market volatility or gapping.

Spread betting

How to place a spread bet order

Learn how to place a spread bet on the Next Generation platform. Order types include market, stop-entry, limit, plus regular, trailing and guaranteed stop-loss and take-profit orders.

Spread betting

Monitor your positions

The account window shows detailed information of all your spread bets and/or CFD trades, including open positions, real-time profit or loss, and a history of your transactions.

Spread betting

Spread bet the financial markets

Learn how to spread bet the financial markets with our Next Generation trading platform. Access over 9500 instruments and undertake research and analysis using a wide range of advanced support tools like client sentiment charts, pattern recognition, chart forum and insights from our market analysts.

Spread betting

Spread bet with multiple layouts

The multiple layouts feature helps you to increase the size of your trading dashboard and use it more efficiently. Save and amend multiple layouts and switch easily between them.

Spread betting

Spread betting on the Next Generation platform

Find out how to set up specific layouts tailored to your needs, access the markets and find useful information within the product library. You'll also learn how to how to place an order, set up a watchlist, and access our powerful trading tools to aid in your trading decisions and strategies.

Spread betting

Spread betting mobile app

Learn about all the features and tools as your disposal with our award-winning spread betting mobile app*.

Spread betting

How to use module linking

This feature allows you to group different modules together so that when you change the instrument shown in one module, all of the other modules in that group will automatically update to show the new instrument.

Further training

Spread betting

How to set up Price Alerts?

Our Price Alerts function on the platform allows you to configure alerts to trigger when a chosen product hits a certain price.

Spread betting

Boundary trading tools

Sometimes in volatile, fast-moving markets there can be slippage or gaps between the price on the screen and the price of execution. Boundary orders allow you to specify a range or 'boundary price' that you are willing to accept in terms of slippage, ensuring your trade is executed.

Spread betting

Our Client Sentiment tool

Get an insight into the trading sentiment of other CMC Markets clients with our Client Sentiment feature. 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. The client sentiment feature is for general information only.

Spread betting

Morningstar fundamental analysis

Morningstar quantitative equity research reports are available for most of our global spread betting and CFD shares. The reports present all the current cash fundamentals for a share, along with a series of value estimates, to reveal what the share could potentially be worth versus its current underlying price.

Spread betting

Our market calendar

Our market calendar, powered by Thomson Reuters, displays a wide range of global economic data releases along with the relative potential impact on financial markets. Find out how to configure alerts to notify you in advance of an announcement.

Spread betting

Price ladder

Our price ladder technology allows you to spread bet and trade CFDs in larger sizes with just a single transaction, and the added security of 100% automatic order execution.

CFDs

Getting started

CFDs

Trade CFDs using guaranteed stop-loss orders

Find out how you can apply a guaranteed stop-loss order to your trades, and amend or cancel it should you choose to.

CFDs

Access the markets with our product library

Learn how to search for markets on our platform, look for undervalued and overvalued CFDs with our useful filtering tools and much more through our product library.

CFDs

CFD trading mobile app

Learn about all the features and tools as your disposal with our award-winning CFD trading mobile app.

CFDs

How to create a watchlist

Create and customise your own watchlists with saved charts and the ability to sort products by daily price performance.

CFDs

Trading CFDs on the Next Generation platform

Learn about trading the financial markets with CFDs on our Next Generation trading platform. See how you can place CFD trades on currencies, indices, commodities, shares and treasuries and access thousands of different instruments.

CFDs

How to place a CFD order

Learn how to place a CFD trading order on the Next Generation trading platform, including how to add one of our range of stop-loss orders as part of your risk-management strategy.

CFDs

How to set up price alerts

The price alerts function allows you to configure alerts to trigger when your chosen product hits a certain price.

CFDs

Monitor your positions

Your account window shows detailed information about all of your CFD trades and/or spread bets, including open positions, real-time profit or loss, and a detailed history of all your transactions.

CFDs

One-click trading

Discover the full capabilities of '1-Click Trading' and how it could aid you in more efficient order placement, especially in fast-moving, volatile markets. 1-Click Trading is not recommended for inexperienced clients.

CFDs

Trade the financial markets using CFDs

Find out how to set up specific layouts tailored to your needs, access the markets and find useful information within the product library. You'll also learn how to place an order, set up a watchlist, and access our powerful trading tools to aid in your trading decisions and strategies.

CFDs

How to use module linking

Learn how you can group different platform features together, so that when you update the product you want to look at, all the other features you've linked will also update.

CFDs

Trade with multiple layouts

The multiple layouts feature helps you to increase the size of your trading dashboard and use it more efficiently; save and amend multiple layouts and switch easily between them.

Further training

CFDs

CFD boundary trading tools

Sometimes in volatile, fast-moving markets there can be slippage or gaps between the price on the screen and the price of execution. Boundary orders allow you to specify a range or 'boundary price' that you are willing to accept in terms of slippage, ensuring your trade is executed.

CFDs

Our market calendar

Our market calendar, powered by Thomson Reuters, displays a wide range of global economic data releases along with the relative potential impact on financial markets. Find out how to configure alerts to notify you in advance of an announcement.

CFDs

CFD client sentiment analysis

Our client sentiment feature provides an insight into the trading sentiment of other CMC Markets clients. Accessible via the product overview, it shows what percentage of our clients are long and short, on a particular product.

CFDs

Using Morningstar to analyse share CFDs

Morningstar quantitative equity research reports are available across most of our global CFD share products. The reports present the current cash fundamentals for a share, along with a series of value estimates, to reveal what the share could potentially be worth versus its current underlying price.

CFDs

What is the portfolio mixer?

Discover our unique trading tool that allows you to create your own CFD portfolio across multiple asset types.

CFDs

Price ladder explained

Find out how our price ladder technology allows you to trade CFDs in larger sizes in just one transaction, with 100% automatic order execution.

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