Trading CFDs Part Time Using Free Online Trading Tools

LONDON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Start trading CFDs with City Index using this easy-to-follow guide. The below guide details how best to utilise the free online trading tools available to you as a City Index client and how to use them to help fit CFD trading around your life.

Online Trading Platform

Through City Index, you can benefit from a suite of CFD trading tools and education resources.

With the aim of building your trading confidence, you can also familiarise yourself with the City Index trading platform through a demo trading account.

Through the online trading platform you can access multiple opportunities to speculate on price movements across 12,000 financial markets.

By offering free trading tools to its clients; City Index aims to help new traders to gain the upper hand in the marketplace and limit trading risk.

CFD Trading with City Index

Whether trading across the City Index online or mobile trading platform; you can access real-time financial news and analysis feeds, direct from the Dow Jones Newswires, to help you place better-informed trades and ultimately limit your risk.

Through the City Index trading platform, CFD traders can:

• Place trades securely from their browser 24-hours a day
• Access over 12,000 markets including global shares, indices, forex, commodities, bonds and options
• Access the interactive live pricing charting package, including a range of technical analysis tools
• Create multiple Watch Lists to monitor potential future trades

Free Webinars

Free webinars are held by a team of trading experts from City Index and are accessible through their site 24-hours a day.

 These webinars aim to help traders learn at their own pace and from their own computer at a place to suit them.

Free Demo Trading Account

As mentioned above; the demo trading account can be used for traders looking to practice before they place their first CFD trade using a live trading account.

For two weeks, using a £2,500 virtual cash balance, you can take positions on over 12,000 CFD markets using the suite of professional City Index trading tools.

Limit your Risk

It is important to remember before you start trading CFDs - that as a leveraged product, it can result in losses greater than your initial deposit. It is imperative that you fully understand the risks and utilise the available risk management tools such as stop loss orders, when trading.

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 in over 50 countries. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, CFDs and, in the UK, financial spread betting with City Index.

We constantly look to improve the performance of our platforms and expand our range of services. The result is our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer support. Visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/ for details.

SOURCE City Index