Advanced Charts: See CMC charts below for details.
Chart Message Boards: These allow full sharing of trade set-ups between investors. There’s also market commentary from in-house analysts.
Client Sentiment Readings: Simple charts that show whether the clients are long or short of a particular market. Interestingly they can be split by ‘All’ or just ‘Top’ CMC clients. For more, see Client Sentiment below for a screenshot and/or the video guide to the CMC charts.
CFDs: The comprehensive CFD service lets clients trade thousands of markets and covers global shares, stock market indices, commodities and treasuries.
An Extensive Forex Service: Clients can trade over 300 forex markets.
Daily Commodities: As well as commodities futures, unlike most spread betting companies, CMC also offer a range of daily commodity markets.
Price Depth Ladder: The price ladder allows clients to enter trades which are far larger than the normal market size, in just one transaction. Note that when trading in the largest sizes, CMC normally offers a similar price but with a slightly wider spread. Editor’s comment – we haven’t heard of this negatively impacting any investors trading normal sizes.
Price Alerts: Clients can receive alerts when prices reach a predetermined level on a selected market. Alerts can be sound based, via pop-up or email.
Risk Management: There are risk management tools to help maximise profits and minimise losses. Tools include Stop Loss orders, Trailing Stop Loss orders and Boundary orders.
Watchlists: By creating and personalising watchlists, clients can organise and focus their trading.
News & Insights: As well as an economic calendar from Dow Jones, clients can access a live Reuters stream as well as the latest insight from in-house analysts.
Demo Spread Betting, CFD & FX Trading Accounts: Investors can open a demo account and practice their trading strategies with £10,000 of virtual funds. Demo accounts can also be accessed via the mobile apps.
The CMC Markets Trading Platform:
CMC Markets Awards
In recent years, the CMC platform and service have won a range of awards:
Best Online Spread Betting Service, Money AM, 2012
Best CFD Mobile App, Investment Trends Report, 2012
Best Spread Betting Service, Shares Magazine, 2011
Financial Provider of the Year, Shares Magazine, 2011
Best Spread Betting Broker, Trade2Win, 2011
Best CFD Broker, Trade2Win, 2011
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CMC Markets Client Sentiment and Message Boards
CMC Markets Mobile Trading
Clients can download the spread betting and CFD trading apps in order to access their accounts, place trades and amend positions.
The mobile apps are available on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The secure trading apps let clients:
Place new trades and manage existing positions
Use advanced order tickets with boundary choices, customisable margin (CFDs only), trailing stops etc.
Apply risk management orders e.g. Stop Loss and Take Profit orders
View live prices and multiple chart types. The charts come with features such as date range and interval size
Manage and fund their account
Search and filter markets by type, country, volatility and performance
Check the market fact sheets which detail spread sizes, margins, volatility, market hours etc.
Create and update personalised watchlists
Access 24 hour client support
Test the app using a demo account which comes with £10k of virtual funds
CMC Markets iPhone Trading:
CMC Markets Charts
The advanced charts on the CMC Markets platform offer a wide range of features and functions:
Trade Directly from the Chart‡: Clients can trade directly from the charts, they can also see open positions and edit stop loss and take profit orders on the charts.
Pattern Recognition‡: There is a built in scanner to alert and identify 9 common pattern types and 50+ candlestick formations.
Chart Comparisons‡: This allows users to drag and drop any number of additional markets onto an existing chart so they can compare the price history, correlations, potential pairs-trading opportunities etc.
Subscriptions: Clients can set up to 5 subscriptions that will scan for a specific pattern, interval or product. The results from a subscription will appear and show any emerging patterns that have yet to break out and which ones to look out for.
Back Testing: The back testing tool helps to identify potential trading opportunities by showing the previous success rates of particular patterns over a specified time period and interval.
Overlays: There are 25+ technical analysis overlays such as Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands, Pivot Points, Ichi Moku Clouds and Parabolic SAR etc.
Technical Studies: There are 45+ technical studies including MACD, RSI, DMI and Stochastics.
Drawing Tools: These let clients add their own trendlines, support and resistance lines as well as Fibonacci retracements, price channels etc.
‡ not currently available on the mobile trading charts.
A typical CMC Markets Chart
CMC Markets Account
A quick overview of the CMC Markets account:
CMC Markets Services
Online Application
Credit Account
Deposit Account
Stop Loss Available
Automatic Stop Loss
24 Hour Trading
FSA Authorised and Regulated
New Account Offer
Candlestick Charts
CMC Markets iPad Trading:
About CMC Markets
CMC Markets was established in 1989. The company now has over 75,000 clients and executes over 33m trades per year.
CMC Markets is the only spread betting company to have received the UK government’s Millennium Award for technology innovation.
According to the CMC Markets website, the organisation is “focused on providing award winning education and support for all levels of experience”. As such, they were the recipients of the Best Online Education award from MoneyAM for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The platform and service have also won a number of other important awards, please see CMC awards above for some of the more recent accolades.
CMC Markets UK plc and CMC Spreadbet plc which are authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Services Authority, registration numbers; 173730 and 170627 respectively. Address: 133 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BX, United Kingdom.
Spread betting, CFDs and FX are leveraged products and carry a high level of risk to your capital. It is possible to lose more than your initial investment. These products may not be suitable for all investors, therefore ensure you understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary.
This video gives a basic overview of the platform and covers; creating your own layout, finding a market via the product library, client sentiment, accessing Reuters news, getting a chart, creating a trade, trading orders, seeing trading orders on the charts and checking a trade.
Video Guide to CMC Markets Charts
This short video takes a look at the charting package and covers a number of key features and functions.
Video Guide to the Advanced Features on the CMC Platform
A 30 minute look at the CMC Next Generation trading platform. This video covers some of the more advanced features, including the Pattern Recognition Scanner, Chart Message Boards and live Economic Calendar.
CMC Markets UK plc and CMC Spreadbet plc which are authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Services Authority, registration numbers; 173730 and 170627 respectively. Address: 133 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BX, United Kingdom.
Spread betting, CFDs and FX are leveraged products and carry a high level of risk to your capital. It is possible to lose more than your initial investment. These products may not be suitable for all investors, therefore ensure you understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary.
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'CMC Markets' edited by JW, updated 21-May-13
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User Reviews and Opinions
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Comment by Jenna Cutly
21-May-13
[5:10pm] We have now added a series of videos looking at the CMC platform. It you use the CMC platform a lot then it's worth having a look at the last video http://www.cleanfinancial.com/cmc_markets.php#vid... - it's 30 minutes long but covers a lot of the new features on the platform. Some of them aren't that easy to find but they are useful.
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