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Invest in Shares

Invest in over 35,000 domestic and international shares and ETFs from 15 global markets. Plus a wide range of domestic products including Options, mFunds, warrants and more.

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Trade CFDs

Trade contracts for difference (CFDs) on over 12,000+ products including FX Pairs, Indices, Commodities, Shares, Cryptocurrencies, and Treasuries.

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Platform guides

Choose CFDs or Stockbroking to see the platform guides for the product you're interested in.

CFDs

Getting started

CFDs

CFD Trading Platform - How to Place a Trade

Learn how to place a trade on the Next Generation trading platform.

CFDs

CFD Trading Platform - Charting

In this video we take you through the charting function of the Next Generation trading platform.

CFDs

CFD Trading Platform - Alerts

In this video we take you through how to set up alerts in the Next Generation trading platform.

CFDs

How to place an order on the HTML5 platform

CFDs

Trade CFDs using guaranteed stop-loss orders

Find out how you can apply a guaranteed stop-loss order to your trades, and amend or cancel it should you choose to.

CFDs

Access the markets with our product library

Learn how to search for markets on our platform, look for undervalued and overvalued CFDs with our useful filtering tools and much more through our product library.

CFDs

CFDs

How to create a watchlist

Create and customise your own watchlists with saved charts and the ability to sort products by daily price performance.

CFDs

CFDs

How to place a CFD order

Learn how to place a CFD trading order on the Next Generation trading platform, including how to add one of our range of stop-loss orders as part of your risk-management strategy.

CFDs

How to set up price alerts

The price alerts function allows you to configure alerts to trigger when your chosen product hits a certain price.

CFDs

One-click trading

Discover the full capabilities of '1-Click Trading' and how it could aid you in more efficient order placement, especially in fast-moving, volatile markets. 1-Click Trading is not recommended for inexperienced clients.

CFDs

CFD trading tutorial with our Next Generation platform

Find out how to set up specific layouts tailored to your needs, access the markets and find useful information within the product library. You'll also learn how to place an order, set up a watchlist, and access our powerful trading tools to aid in your trading decisions and strategies.

CFDs

How to use module linking

Learn how you can group different platform features together, so that when you update the product you want to look at, all the other features you've linked will also update.

CFDs

Monitor your positions

Your account window shows detailed information about all of your CFD trades and/or spread bets, including open positions, real-time profit or loss, and a detailed history of all your transactions.

Further training

CFDs

CFD boundary orders

Sometimes in volatile, fast-moving markets there can be slippage or gaps between the price on the screen and the price of execution. Boundary orders allow you to specify a range or 'boundary price' that you are willing to accept in terms of slippage, ensuring your trade is executed.

CFDs

Our market calendar

Our market calendar, powered by Thomson Reuters, displays a wide range of global economic data releases along with the relative potential impact on financial markets. Find out how to configure alerts to notify you in advance of an announcement.

CFDs

CFD client sentiment analysis

Our client sentiment feature provides an insight into the trading sentiment of other CMC Markets clients. Accessible via the product overview, it shows what percentage of our clients are long and short, on a particular product.

CFDs

What is the portfolio mixer?

Discover our unique trading tool that allows you to create your own CFD portfolio across multiple asset types.

CFDs

Using Morningstar to analyse share CFDs

Morningstar quantitative equity research reports are available across most of our global CFD share products. The reports present the current cash fundamentals for a share, along with a series of value estimates, to reveal what the share could potentially be worth versus its current underlying price.

CFDs

Price ladder explained

Find out how our price ladder technology allows you to trade CFDs in larger sizes in just one transaction, with 100% automatic order execution.

Stockbroking

Getting started

Stockbroking

Introduction to international share trading

Introduction to international share trading

Stockbroking

CMC Markets and leveraged real-time connection

Enjoy the streamlined efficiency of trading on a Leveraged Equities Margin Loan with real-time connectivity to the CMC Markets Stockbroking platform.

Stockbroking

Successful gearing strategies

Why do successful investors use gearing? To ensure you’ve got the tools you need, CMC Markets and Leveraged have hosted a complimentary webinar to give you a greater insight into how to trade with a linked Margin Loan. In this one-hour, online seminar Leveraged’s Julie McKay and CMC Markets Stockbroking’s Michael McCarthy will examine the case for turbo-charging results. Starting with the basic building blocks, they’ll discuss risk management, portfolio protection and income generation, while showcasing the new “one-stop” platform for shares and gearing. This is a straightforward discussion of potential risks and rewards employing leverage in markets, and includes advanced strategies for more experienced investors.

Stockbroking

Options - Investment Heroes

Why do options appeal to a wide range of investors and traders? How do they differ from shares? See how options can give you the flexibility and ability to protect, grow or diversify your position with our Head of Options - Michael Newland.

Stockbroking

Tax and Portfolio Reporting with your CMC Markets Invest account

We have partnered with Sharesight™ to enable portfolio tracking and tax reporting that is fully integrated into the CMC Markets Stockbroking platform. See how it works.

Stockbroking

mFunds on the CMC Markets stockbroking platform

As a foundation member of the mFund Settlement Service – CMC Markets offers direct access to invest in unlisted managed funds quickly and conveniently, through our award-winning platform. Access a range of asset classes and market sectors – without the paperwork burden usually associated with investing in unlisted managed funds.

Stockbroking

Targeting Stock Opportunities

How do traders overcome the emotional roller coaster that comes with the risks and rewards of markets? A well-constructed trading plan is often the answer, and can be the difference between profit and loss.

Stockbroking

Share Trading With a Decisive Trading Strategy

The primary reason most traders lose money is that they fail to establish a reliable and decisive strategy. There are many misbeliefs and myths surrounding the subject of trading strategies and technical analysis, join a resident trader from Trade With Precision as they cover all the strategy basics you need to know. Webinar highlights: • We define technical analysis and how this differs immensely from technical trading strategy • Learn a trading strategy that traders of all abilities can apply to the stock market • Learn to understand, manage and deal with risk like a professional trader

Stockbroking

Combining Technical Analysis and Fundamental Analysis

Join CMC Markets’ Chief Market Analyst, Ric Spooner, for an interactive discussion on how to use both fundamental analysis and technical analysis to gain an edge in stock trading. In this session you will learn about: - Creating separate share trading and investment portfolios - Using technical analysis to improve the timing of buy and sell decisions - Using fundamental analysis as a filter to improve active trading strategies based on technical analysis - See the CMC Markets Stockbroking platforms in action and learn more about key platform tools CMC Markets is a global leader in online trading, offering CFD and FX trading. Learn how to trade CFDs with our variety of educational videos on trading strategies. Trade the global financial markets, including currencies, commodities, indices, companies and treasuries. Spreads may widen dependent on liquidity and market volatility. Investing in CFDs carries significant risks and is not suitable for all investors. You could lose substantially more than your initial deposit. You do not own, or have any interest in, the underlying assets. We recommend that you seek independent advice and ensure you fully understand the risks involved before trading.

Stockbroking

Risk and Opportunity – A Portfolio Approach For Investors and Traders

Join CMC Markets’ Chief Market Strategist, Michael McCarthy, for an interactive presentation on share market risk and opportunity. A portfolio approach to risk and opportunity in the share market is powerful whether investing for the long term or creating trading income. This session explores: • Using the CMC Markets Stockbroking platform tools to identify share market opportunities • Key concepts in portfolio construction, including diversification and correlation • Utilising the full suite of investments in a “core and satellite” construction

Standard platform

Stockbroking

CMC Invest Standard Platform - Introduction

Watch this quick introduction to our standard platform

Stockbroking

CMC Markets Invest Standard Platform - Watchlists

Learn to create watchlists for easy access to your favourite stocks

Stockbroking

CMC Markets Invest Standard Platform - Insights

Stay on top of economic news and market movements using the insights menu in CMC Markets Invest platform.

Stockbroking

Share Trading Standard Platform - Tools

Learn how to use our suite of trading tools available on the Standard platform

Stockbroking

Introduction to international share trading

Introduction to international share trading

Stockbroking

CMC Markets Invest standard platform's advanced charting package

Watch and learn how to use our advanced charting package with the help of Ric Spooner, Chief Market Analyst.

Pro platform

Stockbroking

Pro share trading platform

The new and improved Pro share trading platform with enhances features.

Stockbroking

Trade Options on our Pro platform

How to trade options using Pro platform

Stockbroking

Pro platform - Trading Tools

Learn how to trade with the platform-integrated trading tools on CMC Markets Stockbroking's all-new Pro platform. Designed with the frequent share trader in mind, the Pro platform offers a range of features to support your trade activity. Created by the same team that brought you the award-winning Next Generation CFD trading platform, our Pro stockbroking platform has been built by traders for traders.

Stockbroking

Pro platform - charting

Learn how to trade with the help of inbuilt professional charting on CMC Markets Stockbroking's all-new Pro platform. Designed with the frequent share trader in mind, the Pro platform offers a range of features to support your trade activity. Created by the same team that brought you the award-winning Next Generation CFD trading platform, our Pro stockbroking platform has been built by traders for traders.

Stockbroking

Pro platform - order ticket

Learn how to trade with our advanced order ticket and conditional orders on CMC Markets Invest's all-new Pro platform. Designed with the frequent share trader in mind, the Pro platform offers a range of features to support your trade activity. Created by the same team that brought you the award-winning Next Generation CFD trading platform, our Pro share trading platform has been built by traders for traders.

Stockbroking

Pro platform - watchlists

Easily monitor the stocks you’re most interested and keep track of the daily market movements using the watchlists functionality in our Pro platform.

Stockbroking

An introduction to the CMC Markets Invest Pro platform

The CMC Markets Invest Pro platform has award winning features designed for the experienced trader to create a customized trading experience. Watch our platform introduction video

Stockbroking

Pro platform - multiple Layouts

Learn how to trade using the multiple layouts feature on CMC Invest all-new Pro platform. Designed with the frequent share trader in mind, the Pro platform offers a range of features to support your trade activity. Created by the same team that brought you the award-winning Next Generation CFD trading platform, our Pro share trading platform has been built by traders for traders.

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Access our full range of products, CFD trading tools and features on our award-winning platform

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