Capital Spreads we are making some changes to several spread betting and all CFD stock index markets from Tuesday 8th September. Simplifying unit risk calculations on spread betting and CFD stock index markets From Tuesday 8th September 2015 the underlying unit risk for the daily and futures US Tech 100, [...]
If there's one thing Steve Ruffley knows more about than trading, it's educating other traders. Now Steve is sharing his secrets in his new book The Ruff Guide to Trading. You can find out how to assess trading opportunities, how to manage your risk, and how to build the trading [...]
Financial spread betting and CFD broker DF Markets are incredibly honoured to share that they have been nominated for an award in eight different categories for Shares awards 2015, an annual event celebrating the best of the UK's financial services industry. To win, they need of their customers: all you [...]
A new Greek proposal for a 3rd bailout agreement with the EU will be reviewed on Sunday 12th July. This has the potential to impact various financial markets through the weekend. In light of this, Capital Spreads would like to make you aware of changes to their margin requirements [...]
UK leading spread betting and CFD broker IG Group have signed a partnership deal with Australian rules football club Melbourne FC giving it more exposure to a lucrative CFD market in Australia. The deal runs till the end of 2016 and will benefit both sides in the short term as [...]
This has been a tough year for CFD and financial spread betting leading provider IG Group after it came into a spotlight following the announcement from SNB on 15 January 2015 and how it handled EUR/CHF trades leaving many clients on the brink of bankruptcy. This time IG Group are [...]
Margin requirement is the minimum amount you need as margin to open a new position. This is determined by the minimum Initial Margin (IM) figure for the market you wish to trade. You multiply the minimum IM by your unit stake to calculate your minimum margin requirement. From 20th April, [...]
ICAP founder Michael Spencer has sold his spread betting firm City Index for $118 million. The buyer was Bedminster, NJ based GAIN Capital, a U.S. firm that will now be servicing over 230,000 customers with the addition of their newest acquisition. The combined trade volume of GAIN’s transaction will now [...]
EXANTE prime brokers has lowered their FORTS execution fees down to 1 ruble per contract. Clients can now get cutting edge, industry leading access to one of the fasting growing derivatives markets in the world. Additionally due to EXANTE's global reach clients also have the opportunity to arbitrage these contacts on [...]
Financial spread betting company IG Index has introduced a new feature called "Insight". It has been developed to provide traders and spread bettors with live news, market analysis and data. Now, with just a few clicks you can see: charts, live news from Thompson Reuters, professional market commentary, broker updates [...]
