FTSE gains 1% after investors see excellent Land Securities results combined with broker upgrades for energy and mining equities.
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CMC Markets Trades Up Security and Acceptable Use with RuleSafe
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011CMC Markets Trades Up Security and Acceptable Use with RuleSafe
London, UK (PRWEB) October 3, 2006
CMC Markets, a provider of Contracts for Difference, implements Secoda’s compliance management and policy awareness solution RuleSafe. Financial Services is one of the mostly heavily regulated sectors and CMC Markets addresses many of these requirements using RuleSafe.
About RuleSafe
RuleSafe provides employees with a focused view of policies relating to their job function, work process, and location by filtering complex information down to their specific requirements. Management track who have read and accepted the relevant policies, and who have not. The RuleSafe solution increases awareness, security and accountability while reducing cost and risk exposure.
“Our corporate strategy and principles include ensuring that all company employees are made aware of the policies that affect them in their business functions. Global awareness and timely communication in a multinational / multilingual organisation is a complex problem that has been addressed through the deployment of Secoda’s RuleSafe solution. We are able to communicate the policies electronically in different languages and track individual user acceptance of them,” said Paul Sexby, Information Security Manager, CMC Markets.
“We were delighted to be chosen by a company with such a strong technology and security pedigree as CMC Markets. Our ability to quickly transform the product to meet CMC Markets’ specific needs confirmed to us the breadth, flexibility and maturity of the RuleSafe solution,” commented Adrian Wright, Managing Director of Secoda.
About Secoda Risk Management (http://www.secoda.com)
Secoda is a privately owned UK company, incorporated in April 2002, and founded by former senior security officers in FTSE 100 and public sector organisations. Secoda’s flagship product is RuleSafe™, the foremost third-generation policy awareness solution on the market.
About CMC Markets (http://www.cmcmarkets.com)
CMC Markets handled over 8 million trades in the year to 31st March 2006 with an average value of $ 2 billion per business day across its full CFD product range (including Foreign Exchange and Financial Spread Betting). With offices in London, New York, Frankfurt, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, Beijing and Hong Kong, CMC Markets represents clients in more than 73 countries.
The company was founded in 1989 and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a Member of the NFA in the United States, BAFIN in Germany, the ASIC in Australia, OSC in Canada, CBRC in Beijing and SFC in Hong Kong.
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CMC Markets — Paul Sexby
Secoda — Charles Fairbairn, tel: +44 (0)20 7232 4877
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FTSE recovery continues as UK Index charges another 1% higher ? CFD Trading and Spread Betting
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011Joshua Raymond of City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/), shares his spread betting and CFDs insights for 21st March.
“Investors remained on the front foot in trading to help to maintain the FTSE 100′s recovery from the three-month lows that were hit at the height of the uncertainty over Japan’s nuclear crisis. Those uncertainties, along with the situation in Libya remain, but investors have notably been more ‘asset hungry’ at least in the short term having seen stocks come off by so much and have been hunting for bargains. It is this bargain hunting that has helped to drive stock valuations higher and helped the FTSE 100 to recover some 3.3% in the last three sessions.
Near term resistance on the FTSE 100 lies around the 5875 mark and so it could well be here that traders need to make a decision as to whether the recent bullish recovery from monthly lows is short term or not.
Traders have also taken confidence from Warren Buffett, the ‘Oracle of Omaha’, who said that the recent heavy stock falls in Japan represented a buying opportunity.
The price of crude oil however remains particularly sensitive to the situation in Libya and the Middle East. The developments over the weekend, where coalition forces have launched a series of strikes on Gaddafi’s forces, have kept trader sensitivities high, and this has nudged the price of crude oil higher by 1.5%. The price of crude oil could be set for some added volatility should civilians within Bahrain or Saudi Arabia use the situation in Libya as extra motivation to protest for regime change, knowing that they could have the backing of western states should any violence get out of control.
Telecom shares leap on AT&T deal to buy T-Mobile Telecom shares have leapt higher in European trading this morning after US firm AT&T agreed a deal over the weekend to buy T-Mobile for billion. Shares in Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile, have jumped 16% in early trading on the news after the firm announced that the sale would give it ample opportunities for share buy backs. Shares in industry peers have also rallied on the back of the deal, with Vodafone shares topping the FTSE 100 leader board, rallying 4% to 176.5p.”
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Spread betting and CFD trading are leveraged products which can result in losses greater than your initial deposit. Ensure you fully understand the risks.
About City Index:
Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a City Index trading platform.
As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, CFD trading and, in the UK, financial spread betting.
We constantly look to widen the range of assets we offer, improve the performance of our platforms and expand the range of services we provide. The result is that our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer service and support. Visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/ for more information.
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Markets open positive but jitters remain ever present.
The independent commission releases its UK banking reform plans, which are better news than expected for the banks, causing a bounce in their share prices, and another Japanese aftershock caps gains as America awaits the start of earnings season amidst a potential government shutdown.
FTSE falls; UK Q4 GDP final reading marginally better; Wolseley leads on dividend reinstatement ? City Index Spread Betting News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011City Index Market Strategist Joshua Raymond gives his financial spread betting insights for 29th March 2011
“The FTSE 100 traded flat to negative on Tuesday having started the session marginally in positive territory whilst traders showed mild enthusiasm for the final reading of UK GDP which showed that the contraction narrowed from 0.6% to 0.5%.
The FTSE 100 looks to be in consolidation mode, having charged 4% higher last week, with the UK Index lacking much upward conviction over the last two trading sessions. This is only natural having rallied so much so quickly last week and particularly in the context of a heavy calendar of economic data due out this week. Traders could be waiting to see which way the wind blows in terms of economic data before deciding upon their next move.
From an earnings perspective there has been much for investors to get their teeth stuck into today, with firms such as Wolseley, Thomas Cook, Kazakhmys and Man Group all reporting.
It is shares in Wolseley that have led today after the UK house builder reinstated its dividend and reported a 64% rise in profits to £275 million for the first half of the year to the end of January. Shareholders have reacted with positivity to the reinstatement of the dividend, as one might expect, helping to lift the firm’s shares over 2% to the top of the FTSE 100 leader board.
Italian banks have lagged wider European trade however, after UBI Banca surprised investors by announcing a €1 billion capital hike to boost its Tier 1 capital ratio ahead of European stress tests. The move has taken shareholders by some surprise and heightened concerns that this could be the start of further cash calls by other European banks.”
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Spread betting and CFD trading are leveraged products which can result in losses greater than your initial deposit. Ensure you fully understand the risks.
About City Index:
Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a City Index trading platform.
As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, CFD trading and, in the UK, spread betting.
We constantly look to widen the range of assets we offer, improve the performance of our platforms and expand the range of services we provide. The result is that our customers spread bet using innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer service and support. Visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/ for more information.
About City Index:
Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a City Index trading platform.
As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, CFD trading and, in the UK, spread betting.
We constantly look to widen the range of assets we offer, improve the performance of our platforms and expand the range of services we provide. The result is that our customers spread bet using innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer service and support.
Contracts for differences (“CFD”) trading and financial spread betting 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. Visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/ for more information.
Spread betting and CFD trading are leveraged products which can result in losses greater than your initial deposit. Ensure you fully understand the risks. Both spread betting and CFD trading are exempt from UK stamp duty and spread betting is also exempt from UK Capital Gains Tax. However, tax laws are subject to change and depend on individual circumstances. Please seek independent advice if necessary.
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Spread Betting and the Upside of Day Trading
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
In part 1, Spread Betting and the Downside to Day Trading, we discussed some of the negatives and pitfalls of day trading and spread betting. But what about the positives? What are the benefits for the day traders who like the ease and convenience of spread betting?
Many companies offer “daily rolling products” eg the FinancialSpreads.com FTSE Rolling Daily. Traditional daily spread bets would be closed out at the end of the day. However spread betting companies are always coming up with new products and variations. Daily Rolling Bets are now one of the most popular markets and are replacing the previously popular quarterly futures trades. In short, with daily rolling bets you benefit from the tight spreads and you can automatically roll your bet over to the next day without having to close and re-open the trade.
If you are a buyer there will be a small overnight charge
If you are a seller the spread betting company will even pay you a small overnight fee
If you do decide to trade over short periods of time then you may be better off spread betting than share trading. With equities you have to pay Stamp Duty which is not applicable to spread bets*. With Stamp Duty currently at 0.5% in the UK and 1% in Ireland that soon adds up over a large number of trades
Unlike 5 years ago there is now a lot of competition amongst the spread betting companies and that has led to narrower spreads, particularly on the daily spot markets and daily rolling markets. Many companies offer a 1 or 2 point spread on their daily FTSE 100 markets
Spread betting on daily markets is tax free. Whether you day trade and/or trade quarterly futures spread betting is still tax free*
Day trading can be a negative for those who cannot sit in front of the markets all day but it can benefit those who are free one or more days a week. So you work part-time or perhaps you are retired or work weekends and therefore are free during the week when the markets are open? Of course that may mean you have less funds to trade so you do need to be extra careful. And of course trading still needs effort and discipline not just the time. But if you are motivated and have the time then it can be a useful extra form of tax free income
There is already a large and established market for day trading shares but it is not as easy to gain exposure to markets like Gold and Crude Oil or indices like the Dow Jones, FTSE 100 or Nikkei 255. With companies like World Spreads you can easily and quickly gain exposure to these markets and trade many other Indices, Forex and Commodities markets. Naturally the US and Asian markets have different opening hours and note that the American markets do not all open at the same time, they have a staggered start
There are a number of pros and cons to this form of trading. Quick, tax free profits are always very tempting however make sure you understand the downside of each spread bet before you trade.
Spread betting carries a high level of risk to your funds. You can lose more than you initially invest. It may not suit all investors. Only speculate with funds that you can afford to lose. Ensure you understand the risks and seek independent financial advice if and when necessary.
* Tax law can change and/or may be different if you pay tax in a jurisdiction outside the UK.
Situated in the centre of London’s financial district the author is a well known commentator for some of the leading financial spread betting companies
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Spread Betting Market Commentary: FTSE charges higher after company earnings and broker actions lift optimism
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Financial spread betting and CFD trading expert Joshua Raymond of City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/) takes a look at the EU markets as the FTSE charges higher on 11th January.
“A combination of positive factors including company earnings, broker recommendations and bid speculation has helped to encourage investors to buy into equities today, pushing the FTSE 100 higher by 1% and back above the 6000 level once again.
There are a lot of positive catalysts to today’s markets that is helping to boost optimism that the last few days of losses were more about profit taking than a change in sentiment. The fact that the FTSE 100 has quickly regained the 6000 level once more raises confidence that the recent bull trend could continue, particularly if the UK Index can consistently maintain above the 6050 level.
Alcoa’s numbers brighten hopes for a good Q4 Earnings from US miner Alcoa, which beat markets expectations, has boosted hopes for a strong earnings season and this has helped to encourage higher risk appetite in some of the key miners this morning. A stronger Copper price, which has shunned the stronger dollar, has also helped to facilitate buyer demand for mining shares.
That said, investors are likely to want to see earnings from tech bellwether Intel and bank JP Morgan later in the week before buying into an outperforming US earnings season.
ARM jumps another 6% Bid talk continues to lift the market with shares of ARM Holdings this time taking flight to lead the FTSE 100 winners list, jumping 6%. Bid talk has surrounded the chip designer for some time now with Apple, Intel and Microsoft being widely speculated by some of the UK press. We have seen high investor interest in ARM’s shares since the announced Microsoft deal, both in terms of what the deal could bring ARM but also how its rivals may react.
CSR shares leap on patent settlement CSR shares leapt 13.5% on Tuesday after the chipmaker settled a legal battle over patents with US rival Broadcom. The settlement figure comes in at .5m, which will be paid over the next 5 years, and will be offset by a reduction in legal costs of at least m. Some analysts have also predicted the settlement could result in a 10% jump in both operating profit and EPS.
The patent legal issue had created a cloud of uncertainty over the firm, and this has kept its shares pinned down of late whilst rival chip makers such as ARM have enjoyed a good run. Investors clearly are taking the settlement as drawing a line in the sand and this has helped to free up strong buyer demand for its shares.”
You can help to keep your spread betting skills sharp with a free demo spread betting account at City Index. Visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/learn-to-trade/demo-account.aspx for details.
About City Index:
Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a City Index trading platform.
As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, binary betting, CFDs and, in the UK, spread betting.
We constantly look to widen the range of assets we offer, improve the performance of our spread betting and CFD trading platforms and expand the range of services we provide. The result is that our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer service and support.
Spread betting and CFD trading are leveraged products which can result in losses greater than your initial deposit. Ensure you fully understand the risks.
For more information, visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/.
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