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Improve your trading skills with our award-winning platform. Practise trading across thousands of instruments, including FX, indices and commodities.

✓ Trade $10,000 virtual funds

✓ Instant approval with no expiry date– start practising in seconds

✓ Powerful charting and innovative trading tools

✓ Practice on the move with our mobile and tablet apps

Est. 1989

1M+ global clients

LSE listed

Why traders choose CMC

We’ve been dedicated to creating the best in-class trading platform for CFD traders for more than 30 years, with competitive spreads, advanced trade functionality and no dealer intervention, regardless of your trade size.

No hidden feesTrade FX pairs with from 0.0 pips^ and get transparent pricing on more than 12,000 global instruments.
Local customer supportOur support team is available 24 hours, Monday – Saturday (in line with global market hours)
Australia's best for CFDsWe're proud to be awarded Best for CFDs* in Australia by WeMoney and we're backed by over 30 years' experience – so you know you're in good hands.

^Commission charged at 0.0025% per transaction. View all fees. *Awarded Best for CFDs, WeMoney 2024.

What is CFD trading?

A CFD is a cash-settled leveraged product that tracks the price movement of a financial market, such as indices, forex, commodities, shares and treasuries. A key feature of trading leveraged products is that as you only need to put down a small deposit for much larger market exposure which has the potential to magnify profits as well as losses, which can exceed deposits.

When you trade CFDs, you don’t buy or sell the underlying asset or product. Instead, you speculate on whether the price of that product will rise or fall. We offer CFDs on thousands of global instruments and you can buy or sell a number of units depending on whether you think prices will go up or down.

For every point the price moves in your favour, you gain multiples of the number of units you have bought or sold. For every point the price moves against you, you make a loss.

Why trade CFDs with CMC Markets

✓ Access thousands of global CFD instruments

✓ Practice on our award-winning CMC platform and mobile apps

✓ Build your risk management skills with our range of stop orders including guaranteed stop-loss orders

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The ideal platform for CFD trading Fast execution, precise charting and accurate insights are vital to your success as a trader.

Advanced order execution

We offer a range of advanced order types, including trailing and guaranteed stop losses, partial closure, market orders and boundary orders on every trade, so you have the flexibility to trade your way.

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Client sentiment

Our client sentiment tool shows you where the market is bullish and where it’s bearish, based on real-time trades. Identify trends based on how that sentiment changes over time across our whole client base or just our top traders.

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