Good Spread Betters
Spread Betting Trading Centre: How does your company compute the spread?
CMC Markets: Our prices/spreads are generated by taking into account the price of the underlying instrument, market conditions, liquidity of the instrument, the size of any one bet and the term of the bet.
Spread Betting Trading Centre: Are there minimum or maximum bets users are restricted to?
CMC Markets: At CMC Markets, you can trade from £1 per point on any market which is the equivalent of 100 shares. There is no maximum order size, as long as there is enough liquidity in the underlying market and you have enough funds to cover the margin requirement.
Spread Betting Trading Centre: Do you charge fees for your services or is it built into the spread?
CMC Markets: No, we don’t charge any fees for spread betting or, in fact, inactivity fees for not dealing. The only cost to the client is in the spread and a small financing charge to hold long positions overnight, Clients with short positions may receive financing.
Spread Betting Trading Centre: Which safe guards does your company provide for their betters?
CMC Markets: CMC Markets is regulated by the Financial Services Authority which means that we have clear guidelines in the way we have to treat our customers and their money.
Aside from that, our clients have access to a range of risk management tools that we advise customers to use, as well as a comprehensive education program so they can learn about the risks and rewards of our products before they start trading.
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Page 3 - Our most popular spreads Page 4 - Most common Spread Betting mistakes
