CMC Markets Trading Week – 5 days to profit promotion

CMC Markets is currently running an interesting promotion where they will absorb any losses the trader make for 5 days if they trade the TIQ AUSSIE200 index.
YOu must sing up before April 30 with $1000 minimum deposit.

http://www.cmcmarkets.com.au/pages/trading-week

GFT Trading Challenge

GFT is running a trading challenge with real cash prizes of up to 50,000 up for grabs.
This is a good way to score extra money while you trade.

http://www.gft.com.au/trading-challenge/index.asp

CFD trading vs spread betting – differences

The key differences between cfd and spread betting are
> CFD trade on price per share while spread betting trades on dollars per point
> CFDs can be traded with no spreads while spread betting markets are run by market makers who palces spreads between the buy and sell price
> no expiry on CFDs
> CFD contracts is [...]

CFD or Margin Loans?

CFD trading in some ways achieves the same things as a margin loans.
It allows to gear into shares to supercharge your profits or losses.
While CFD trading tend to be short term in anture margin loans are used for buy and hold investments.

One interesting difference between the two is the interest rates on finance. The interest [...]

CFD – Emissions Trading

With the amount discussions going on around emissions trading, will CFDs experience another level of growth as a result of the hedging demands from carbon emitters?

Will emissions become tradeable like other commodities?

Will follow up with another post once i do more research on this.

CMC Markets Understanding volatile markets – Free Education Seminar

CMC as part of their series of education seminars is providing a free seminar on understanding volatile markets. People who register for the free seminar will receive a free copy of Real Traders II by Eva Diaz.

http://www.cmcmarkets.com.au/en/content/education/education_seminar.jsp

FP Markets Commission Free Trading

FP Markets is offering commission free trading when you present a contract note from your broker between 11 Feb and 11 March 2008.

Go to their website for more information.

http://www.fpmarkets.com.au/comm_promo.html

Fat Prophets CFD Trading Report

Fat prophets already run popular investment reports on Australian shares, mining shares, and UK shares.
They introduced a daily report in September 2007 which provides CFD trading advice on the equity, fixed interest, currencies and commodities markets.
Their website provides details of the performance of closed trades.

http://www.fatprophets.co.uk/cfd/content.aspx?page=Home

The Trading Game

This is an interesting idea. This website runs a CFD trading game which mirrors the real market but lagged. This will allow traders to test their skills before they use real money. http://www.tradinggame.com.au/

ASX CFD Seminars

ASX is running series of free seminars commencing in February 2008.
Don’t miss these seminars as they a valuable source of useful information if you are a beginner.

http://asx.com.au/investor/cfds/education/seminar.htm

 
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