Learn to Trade

Learn to trade with City Index

If you're new to CFD trading, take advantage of our introductory period of reduced minimum trade sizes to develop your knowledge. For two weeks, you can trade CFDs with no minimum trade size and reduced minimum commissions.

Simply choose the 'Learn to Trade' option in our online application to automatically enjoy access to our introductory period of low trade sizes.

Learn to trade guides

To help you make the most of trading with us, we provide a range of useful guides within our trading platform:

• Trading Platform guide
• Charting Guide
• Learn to Trade guide

Our other learning resources include...

• Demo account: Test your trading skills with a demo account. When you sign up, you will receive €10,000 of virtual cash to practice your trading techniques with. It's a great way to familiarise yourself with our trading platform, and to get used to working with live market prices.
• FAQs: Discover answers to common queries about trading, orders, margins, and more.
• Glossary: If you need to know what a particular term means, you can find out in our glossary.
• Introduction to managing risk: CFDs are leveraged products with an inherent element of risk. These risks can be managed by using the trading tools available through City Index. Find out more about how you can control your risks without limiting your profit potential.

CFD-Handel

Contracts for Difference

Contracts for Difference, also known as CFDs, are a rapidly growing market attracting increasing numbers of retail traders around the world.

A flexible alternative

CFDs offer a flexible alternative to traditional trading, allowing you to maximise your market involvement for only a fraction of the investment you would need to trade the underlying asset directly.

Wide range of markets

We offer access to prices on 12,000 markets, so whatever your trading objectives you’ll find the instruments you want to trade, including thousands of prices on equities in European, North American, UK and Asian markets. We also offer trading on the movement of indices, currencies, commodities and interest rates.

News, economic data and analysis

To help you make those all-important trading decisions we also have the latest market news, economic data and company announcements, plus comment and analysis from experienced traders and market commentators.

Other features of online CFD trading with City Index

• Trading tools to limit your downside and manage your risks
• Low margins ensure cost effective trading, freeing up your capital to use elsewhere
• Simple and intuitive platforms let you buy and sell CFDs the instant you want to
  
• Instant access to your account, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• We provide the latest market news, economic data and company announcements

CFD trading carries a high level of risk to your capital with the possibility of losing more than your initial investment and may not be suitable for all investors. Ensure you fully understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary.

Enhanced trading platform

With our innovative online trading platform, you have instant access to all the markets you need and the tools you need to trade them.

Streaming tradeable prices

Keep up-to-date with the very latest price movements and act on them in real time.

Firm quotes up to Our Size

For every CFD market that we trade we will deal at our quoted prices - providing execution certainty for deals within this size.

Prices that track the underlying instrument accurately

Our CFD prices always replicate those of the underlying instrument so you can be sure that your trade will give you the result you expect.

Comprehensive market news, research and charting

Real time news, prices, and market data provide resources to help you make informed trading decisions while our professional charting package includes a range of indicators for technical analysts.

Sophisticated order management tools

A wide range of order types including stops, linked, and contingent orders allow sophisticated risk management while advanced tools for trade closure and auto-roll over offer trading flexibility.

Deal anytime, anywhere

With no software to download you can login to your account and trade whenever you want to, wherever you are.

Offers

Introduce friends or colleagues to City Index and receive €200

With our refer a friend offer, simply introduce up to 3 of your friends or colleagues to City Index and you will be rewarded with €200 per referral.

It's so simple to get rewarded:

1. Contact your Account Manager and give your friend or colleague's contact details
2. Your friends or colleagues meet the account requirements*
3. You will receive €200 per referral

For more information on this offer, please contact Michael Drew: michael.drew@cityindex.co.uk.

*Terms and Conditions apply

About City Index

More and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of trading Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and many of them are discovering these benefits by using a City Index trading platform.

As a group, we now carry out over 1.5 million trades every month for people in over 50 countries.

We provide access to thousands of markets worldwide, and we constantly widen the range of assets on offer, improve the performance of our platforms and enhance the services we provide. The result is that our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and the best in customer service and support.

Our products have been designed for retail and small institutional clients, providing a straightforward way to trade the price movements of equities, indices, currencies, precious metals, commodities, and more.

Established in 1983, we have grown to become one of the world’s leading providers of Contracts for Difference, FX, and in the UK spread betting, thanks to our focus on innovation and great service.

City Index is part of IPGL, a privately owned company with a substantial shareholding in the world’s leading derivatives broker, ICAP plc.