Our comparison of the best trading platforms rank pricing, market access, customer services, apps and what added value a broker offers.
Managing your own SIPP certainly gives you a significant amount of control over your long term investments. But should you include CFDs in a SIPP account and which brokers offer CFDs in a SIPP? Here are the basics of trading CFDs in a SIPP account… Firstly can you hold CFDs in a SIPP? Yes, you
Trading CFDs in your SIPP. Could you and should you? Read More »
IG has welcomed news that complaints against financial spread betting brokers are falling. The Financial Ombudsman has announced a dramatic decline in the number of complaints levied against financial spread betting firms. While the total number of complaints against the financial industry increased by approximately 50,000 spread betting moved the other way. A spokesperson is
IG welcomes news that complaints against Spread Betting firms have fallen Read More »
Peter Cruddas, the founder of leading spread betting broker CMC Markets was quoted in The Times this morning in an article about the end of churn and burn broking. Cruddas highlighted that the days of high client turnover was gone for CMC and that they were focusing on only the “tastiest fish in the sea”
Why no decent spread betting or CFD broker should actually want churn and burn clients Read More »
Online forex trading provider, FXCM, has announced the launch of its new HTML 5 platform in Europe. Trading Station Web 2.0 offers a host of new features including a simpler and more intuitive interface, multiple language offerings, a video library and a speculative sentiment indicator widget which allows you to analyse the trading patterns of
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David Papier, who’s been with ETX Capital, since 2014 gives us his views on why clients should trade with ETX Capital, what makes them stand out from the crowd and helping clients put together effective trading strategies. First and foremost, why should a client trade with ETX Capital as opposed to any other broker? People
As part of what it says is its ongoing crusade to improve transparency Forex and broker FXCM has launched its Effective Spread Widget. It shows the quoted spread for its top FX alongside the spread at which trades were filled – also called the effective spread – the difference is displayed in a tablet key.
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If you’re looking to escape the clutches of ESMA’s leverage cap by going with an ASIC regulated broker and taking your trading offshore here are a few things you need to know. ASIC regulated brokers Pepperstone is the largest Aussie broker by far. City Index, is a well established UK broker also regulated by ASIC
Fed up with ESMA and looking for an ASIC regulated CFD or FOREX broker? Read More »
ETX Capital’s award-winning TraderPro platform was relaunched last year with full HTML 5 functionality and boasting a range of new features. Here’s a quick look at three features you may have missed… In-chart trading You can now carry out virtually all your trading from within the charts. These innovative new design features make it possible
Top 3 new ETX Capital TraderPro platform features you may not know about… Read More »
I love the way that even the FT trivialises what brokers do by calling them websites instead of massive financial institutions. It’s a bit like calling Facebook a blog, or Amazon an online shop. Anyway, CMC Markets is clearly benefitting from the regulators clampdown on spivvy little brokers nicking the big boys customers by tempting
CMC winning back the big punters, despite being just a “website” Read More »
ETX Capital, one of the longest running spread betting and CFD brokers based in the UK and regulated by the FCA has won a few more awards this year. Best Spread Betting Platform – ADVFN Financial Awards Best Trading Platform – Online Personal Wealth Awards Best Education – Online Personal Wealth Awards ETX also bagged
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