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CMC Markets' trading platforms provide access to CFD trading and financial spread betting on over 5000 companies, indices, commodities, treasuries and currencies using leverage.
CFD
CFD provides you with economic benefits similar to an investment in an underlying asset without the costs and limitations associated with physical ownership. A CFD is a cash-settled investment in products which are based on currencies, commodities, indices and companies. A CFD tracks the price movement of your chosen product, including dividend on stocks, interest on positive carry currency positions, and coupon on interest bearing instruments.
A CFD is a leveraged product which has the potential to magnify profits as well as losses. However CMC Market’s next generation CFD platform also offers a unique variable financing feature which means that you can choose to deposit as much or as little (subject to minimum margin requirements) of the overall value of the trade.
Spreadbet
Spread betting allows you to trade on the price movements of financial markets, including currencies, commodities, indices and companies. Spread betting with CMC Markets gives you similar economic benefits to the ones you would experience when investing in an underlying asset, but without the costs and limitations associated with physical ownership. Spread bets are cash-settled investments in financial products that offer a number of benefits, including dividend on stocks, interest on positive carry currency positions, and coupon on interest bearing instruments.
Spread betting has many of the same benefits as a CFD with one important difference, you are betting a specific stake size per point movement of a product rather than trading a specific number of shares or units.
Ordinarily, profits from spread betting are free from capital gains tax and stamp duty in the UK and Ireland, although tax laws are subject to change. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances.
(This product is only available in the UK and Ireland).
Stockbroking
CMC Markets also offers Australian customers the ability to buy and sell ASX-listed equities as well as listed funds, with customers having access to live market data and research from some of Australia’s most respected stock market analysts.