With ongoing uncertainty in the commodities markets and a turbulent global economy climate of recovery, markets have been increasingly volatile, providing CFD traders and other margined investors with the opportunities of generating significant returns, but also posing the substantial risks of leverage as markets turn against a position. As highly [...]
The total number of spread betting accounts currently active in the UK has topped 1 million, marking the extent of the rise in popularity of the spread betting craze over the last decade. With a heightening media and public profile for spread betting, combined with the timely rise and proliferation [...]
Independent Investor has asked traders looking to improve their consistency to exercise discipline in deciding how to trade, to maximise profits on rising positions and cut losses early to avoid capital decay. With substantial leverage built in to the DNA of a CFD transaction, the need to allow profits to [...]
Leading spread betting company City Index has just launched its own proprietary iPhone app, designed to allow new and existing traders access to their spread betting accounts remotely via their smartphone handsets. Available for download from the Apple AppStore, the app opens up access to the full City Index spread [...]
The Financial Ombudsman has upheld a series of complaints from investors and private individuals in relation to the fees charged by some CFD brokers, which it said were too high and took effect too quickly to deduct from trading capital. The fees charged by discretionary and advisory CFD brokers, which [...]
Leading contracts for difference broker IG Markets has launched its New Zealand version of its iPhone CFD trading app, hot off the heels of similar launches in the UK, Europe and Asia as it rolls out its mobile trading platform worldwide. The iPhone trading app enables investors to execute trades [...]
We urge CFD traders contemplating long-term positions to remember to factor in the costs of financing significant leverage portions when calculating whether or not a trade viably profitable. CFD positions, which are traded on margin and therefore composed of significant leverage portions, attract financing costs overnight, charged at a [...]
A poll of LMAX and University College London professionals has suggested the future of CFD trading could be automated, with some 79% of those polled indicating greater automation as their forecast for the industry long-term. A poll conducted by the LMAX trading venue and University College London has revealed more [...]
Following a recent release of the new trading platform by CMC Markets we reviewed the platform and found out that traders were quite happy with it. It’s a bit slow but it’s surely different from others. Now we decided to dig deeper and pay attention to the overnight financing. It’s [...]
Shares in London Capital Group, the owner of the leading financial spread betting company Capital Spreads, plummeted over 10% on Tuesday following the news that Paddy Power are reviewing their financial spread betting business. This is the second financial blow for LCG in February after they were ordered to pay [...]
