CMSmarkets
Who is CMC Markets?
Founded in 1989, CMC Markets is a global CFD and forex broker regulated by various authorities such as the UK’s FCA. CMC Markets is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company is trusted and reliable with many years in the industry. Its offering to traders is characterised by its low-cost pricing, wide range of tradeable instruments (10,000), and the Next Generation trading platform, which has good research, modern trading tools, and powerful charting.
What is CMC Market’s educational & research material?
CMC Markets offers traders articles, video updates, podcasts, and live webinars. From beginner to more professional content, traders can find a range of written content for forex and crypto trading. CMC Markets hosts a variety of learning videos and podcasts on its YouTube channel, and provides webinars from its in-house analysts and third-party provider called Trade with Precision. CMC Markets’ research is known for its Insights News, CMC TV, a bi-monthly print magazine, and the Opto market intelligence portal, with podcasts and articles. Reuters and Morningstar content is also available.
What are CMC Markets’ commissions and fees?
This is based on three tiers and, depending on which one each trader belongs to, they can access different material. Finally, CMC Markets offers GSLO which refers to guaranteed stop-loss order so that the stop-loss order price is met. There is a premium for this service and, if it is not triggered, traders can get the cost refunded automatically.
What instruments are offered by CMC Markets?
CMC Markets offers forex trading and cryptocurrency trading through CFDs. The broker also offers social and copy trading.
Features
Forex Trading – Yes
CFDs – 9852
Forex Pairs – 158
Physical crypto currencies – No
CFD cryptos – Yes
Copy Trading – Yes
What are CMC Markets’ trading platforms?
The CMC Markets Next Generation trading platform includes innovative tools and features, is fast and easy to use.
MetaTrader
Traders can still access the traditional trading platform with 62 instruments but compared to the Next Generation one, it lacks the number of features and tools.
Charting
The Next Generation offers 80 technical indicators and studies, 40 drawing tools, and 60 candlestick patterns. The breakout and emerging pattern tools auto-adjust when the chart time-scale is changed, so that traders can easily identify patterns from one minute to a whole month.
Chart Forum
The Chart Forum is a social-media forum where traders can publish technical analysis and see traders’ posts and CMC Markets analysts’ posts.
Automated trading
Pattern recognition and social-trading tools are available, but automated trading traders will need to use the CMC Markets MT4 platform.
Is CMC Markets safe?
CMC Markets is authorised by Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC), Investment Industry Regulatory Organisation of Canada (IIROC), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).