Luxembourg-based Westcore Capital Ltd has become the latest broker to enter the increasingly competitive CFD market, offering its investment clients the opportunity to trade contracts for difference through its current brokerage platform. Specialising in brokering derivative trades across futures and options, Westcote Capital also offer clients managed fund opportunities, allowing [...]
The new spread betting platform from CMC Markets has launched to a widespread positive reception, with traders and analysts in equal measure responding positively to the newly developed application which boasts a 'revolutionary' new trading mechanism. The much anticipated trading platform, which combines a completely new visual with improved trading [...]
Spread betting could be set to become an even more popular alternative to traditional trading channels with volatile equities markets and consistently low interest rates, according to a senior industry analyst, as traders seeks additional ways to generate a return on their money. Patrick Connolly of AWD Chase de Vere [...]
City analysts and regulators are warning that the widespread increase in algorithmic trading bots across global markets could "overwhelm" the trading systems currently facilitating the world's major stock exchanges, leading to repeat scenes like the Dow Jones flash clash where markets shed over 1000 points in a matter of minutes [...]
As Betfair prepares to launch its new contracts for difference exchange LMAX to a buzz of industry hype and activity, and with the backing of global investment house Goldman Sachs, London Capital Group have suggested the impact on their operations will not be significant as it continues to build on [...]
The large spread betting group, IG Group, is predicting a thinning out in the ranks of spread betting exchanges. Their theory is that the new Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulations mean that the spread betting groups are going to need to keep large amounts of cash on hold and that [...]
A former City trader has been found guilty of using insider information in consort with an associate to earn several hundred thousand pounds from spread trading. The trader, originally from South London, set up a spread betting scheme whereby sensitive information was channeled from the fund at which he worked [...]
Further good news from the City for spread betting platforms – London Capital Group have announced positive second quarter results, showing a year-on-year rise in profits to around £4 million, with an equally strong balance sheet reflecting a solid trading position for the spread betting giant. Along with several other [...]
There is a common misconception that Spread bets and Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are immune from the laws that govern insider trading. This is simply not the case. Anyone who is investing in spread bets or CFDs should be doing this because of their opinion on the market, and not [...]
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided that Contracts for Difference (CFDs) have to be regulated more thoroughly. The Financial Services Authority has had Contracts for Difference in it sights for some time. This is an extension of its crusade to clean up the market in small shares (“small caps”) [...]
