Discover the UK’s leading, award-winning trading platform1
Packed with powerful features, yet intuitive, and available to everyone. Whatever the next step in your trading journey, our platforms can help you get there.
FCA regulated
Protected up to £85,0002
FTSE 250 group
Why trade on our trading platforms?
Ultra-fast execution
Experience fully automated, lightning-fast execution speeds of 0.0030 seconds. (0.0030 seconds CFD median trade execution time on CMC Markets' web platform, 1 April 2022-31 March 2023.)
Transparent pricing
See bid and ask prices, premiums, and more up front, helping you to understand your costs before you place a trade.
Powerful charting
Gather and analyse data with 115+ indicators and drawing tools.
Market insights
Understand trends with our pattern-recognition scanner, and gauge market sentiment with our handy tools.
Trusted financial news and analysis
Read Morningstar equity research and Reuters news within the platform.
On-the-go trading
Download our mobile app and get the functionality of our web platform in your pocket, allowing you to open, close and modify trades on the move.
Instant notifications
Use our platform to set up trading alerts via push notification, text message or email.
Our platforms at a glance
Pioneering trading technology that suits all styles of trading
Advanced charting
Pattern recognition scanner
Advanced order execution
Gauge market sentiment
Morningstar equity research & Reuters news
Get the functionality of our web platform in your pocket
Open, close and modify trades on the go
Intuitive mobile-optimised charting
40+ indicators and drawing tools
Set up alerts via push, SMS or email
The world's most popular trading platform
Tight spreads on 175+ FX pairs, plus indices and commodities
Spreads from 0.0 pips on 6 major pairs with our FX Active account3
Fast, 100% automated execution on our London-based server
No scalping restrictions
Free premium indicators and EAs
Spread betting
A tax-efficient4 way of speculating on the price movement of global financial instruments.
Go long or short on 12,000 instruments- Trade with leverage
- CMC web platform, iOS and Android app
- Tax-free profits4
- MT4 platform available
Available schemes: Price+, Alpha
CFD trading
Trade on the price movement of underlying financial assets, with no stamp duty on profits4
- Go long or short on 12,000 instruments
- Trade with leverage
- CMC web platform, iOS and Android app
- Pay no stamp duty on CFD trading profits4
- MT4 platform available
Available schemes: Price+, Alpha
FX Active
Commission-based forex trading3, designed for CFD traders who want to trade on pure price action.
- Go long or short on 12,000 instruments
- Trade with leverage
- CMC web platform, iOS and Android app
- Pay no stamp duty on CFD trading profits4
- MT4 platform available
- Spreads from 0.0 pips on 6 major FX pairs3
- 25% spread discount on 300+ FX pairs
Available schemes: Price+, Alpha
What other traders are saying about CMC Markets
As a financial services pioneer, we‘ve got the expertise allied to over 35 years‘ industry experience.That‘s why 1.5 million+ global traders and investors put their confidence in us.5
Spread Betting & CFD Trading
Ready to get started?
Open a demo account with £10,000 of virtual funds or open a live account.
Do you have any questions?
Email us at clientmanagement@cmcmarkets.co.uk or call us on +44 (0)20 7170 8200 (Lines open 24hrs, Monday to Friday)
1Best Mobile Trading Platform, ADVFN International Financial Awards 2024; No.1 Web Platform, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2023; No.1 Platform Technology, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2022.
2FSCS is an independent body that offers protection to customers of financial services firms that have failed. The compensation amount may be up to £85,000 per eligible person, per firm. Eligibility conditions apply. Please contact the FSCS for more information.
3Fixed commission at $2.5 per $100,000 notional value traded.
4Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and can change or may differ in a jurisdiction other than the UK.
51.621 million unique user logins for the CMC Markets invest and CFD platforms globally, as at August 2024.
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