The UK's best online trading platform1
We've built our web trading platform, Next Generation, to be powerful and intuitive.
It combines leading-edge features and security, lightning-fast execution2, and best-in-class insight and analysis. Designed to support any strategy.
Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
Protected up to £85,0003
FTSE 250 group
Tools built to enhance your analysis
We automatically scan over 120 of our most popular instruments every 15 minutes for emerging and completed chart patterns, such as wedges, channels and head & shoulders formations, and overlay them on to your charts to alert you to potential emerging trends.
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Performance analytics
Analyse your trading history and view your data in an intuitive and meaningful way. Understand which trading behaviours and patterns are making you the most money, where your strategy is leaking money, and your current level of risk.
Available to all live account holders.
Pinpoint pricing
One-click trading
Set your default position size and enter with a single 'click'.
Fast execution; no partial fills
All orders are fully executed without dealer intervention, regardless of your trading size.
Reliably stable
We consistently achieve core platform uptime4, so you can focus on your trading.
Precise pricing
We crunch 225m prices every day, from up to 14 tier-one liquidity provider feeds.
Supporting your risk/reward strategy
Our range of risk-management options help you stay in control, as you set your own limits and stay on top of the latest market movements.
Comprehensive range of order types
Define your exit prices using stops and take-profit orders, along with options such as trailing stops, partial close-out, and boundary orders.
Price alerts
Track the markets that matter to you and easily find out about the latest movements.
Guaranteed stop-loss orders
Get 100% certainty that your stop-loss will be executed at the price you choose.
Hedge your trades
Hedge a physical position in the underlying market with a trade on our platform, or open simultaneous buy and sell positions in your account.
100% automated execution
You can be sure your trade will be filled with no dealer intervention.
Trade from charts
Enter and close positions, and update your limit and stop orders directly from charts.
Your space, your place
Choose your own setup by customising the web-based platform to suit your individual style.
Editable auto stop-loss order
Default trade sizes
Charting templates
Customisable dashboards
Compare our account types
Spread betting
A tax-efficient5 way of speculating on the price movement of global financial instruments.
Go long or short on 12,000 instruments- Trade with leverage
- CMC web platform, iOS and Android app
- Tax-free profits5
- MT4 platform available
Available schemes: Price+, Alpha
CFD trading
Trade on the price movement of underlying financial assets, with no stamp duty on profits5
- Go long or short on 12,000 instruments
- Trade with leverage
- CMC web platform, iOS and Android app
- Pay no stamp duty on CFD trading profits5
- MT4 platform available
Available schemes: Price+, Alpha
FX Active
Commission-based forex trading6, designed for CFD traders who want to trade on pure price action.
- Go long or short on 12,000 instruments
- Trade with leverage
- CMC web platform, iOS and Android app
- Pay no stamp duty on CFD trading profits5
- MT4 platform available
- Spreads from 0.0 pips on 6 major FX pairs6
- 25% spread discount on 300+ FX pairs
Available schemes: Price+, Alpha
What other traders are saying about CMC Markets
As a financial services pioneer, we‘ve got the expertise allied to over 35 years‘ industry experience.That‘s why 1.5 million+ global traders and investors put their confidence in us.7
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Mobile app
2024 Winner
Best Mobile Trading Platform
ADVFN International Financial Awards
Get the functionality of our web platform in your pocket with mobile-optimised charting, full order-ticket features and real-time alerts.
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TradingView
No.1 platform for traders and investors8
Connect your CMC Markets account to TradingView and trade on its world- renowned charting platform, used by over 90 million traders and investors.
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Ready to get started?
Open a demo account with £10,000 of virtual funds or open a live account.
Do you have any questions?
Email us at clientmanagement@cmcmarkets.co.uk or call us on +44 (0)20 7170 8200 (Lines open 24hrs, Monday to Friday)
1Best Mobile Trading Platform, ADVFN International Financial Awards 2024; No.1 Web Platform, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2023; No.1 Platform Technology, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2022.
20.0040 seconds spread bet and CFD median trade execution time on CMC Markets' web and mobile platforms, 1 April 2023-31 March 2024.
3FSCS is an independent body that offers protection to customers of financial services firms that have failed. The compensation amount may be up to £85,000 per eligible person, per firm. Eligibility conditions apply. Please contact the FSCS for more information.
499.97% core platform uptime, CMC Markets financial year 2022-2023.
5Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and can change or may differ in a jurisdiction other than the UK.
6Fixed commission at $2.5 per $100,000 notional value traded
71.621 million unique user logins for the CMC Markets invest and CFD platforms globally, as at August 2024.
8According to SimilarWeb data, January 2025.
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