Build your trading skills with CMC

Develop your trading skills with our suite of free educative tools and resources. Find dedicated platform guides, advanced trading strategies, articles and webinars from our market analysts and more.

Beginner

Advanced

Forex

How-to

Shares

Indices

Charting

Platform

Research

Strategy

Treasuries

Rate and bonds

Commodities

Share baskets

Research Tools

Reset

6 minutes

Esports stocks to watchEsports, otherwise known as electronic sports, is where players compete in sports games or competitions by using video games.

Continue Reading

5 minutes

Gap tradingOccasionally, there comes a point when the stock market closes for the night and re-opens in the morning and there has been no trading activity in-between for a particular share.

Continue Reading

4 minutes

How does the Chinese renminbi Work?If you’ve been paying any attention at all to financial markets in recent years you’ll know China’s currency – the renminbi or yuan – is often in the spotlight.

Continue Reading

5 minutes

Dow theoryThe Dow theory is a financial markets theory developed by Charles H. Dow that rests on six basic tenets that were a precursor to modern-day technical analysis.

Continue Reading

8 minutes

Futures tradingFutures trading is the trading of financial instruments as contracts via a futures exchange. This is often through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

Continue Reading

7 minutes

What does over the counter (OTC) mean?OTC stands for over-the-counter. In trading terms, over-the-counter means trading through decentralised dealer networks. A decentralised market is simply a market structure consisting of various technical devices.

Continue Reading

6 minutes

Sharpe RatioThe Sharpe ratio (or Sharpe Index) is named after its creator William Sharpe, the 1990 winner of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences.

Continue Reading

+View more

Support