CMC Markets Review and Information 2022

CMC Markets was founded by Peter Cruddas in 1989. Since then, the company has grown to become a global leader in online retail trading. There have been numerous significant milestones for the Group over the past 25 years, including the company's expansion into new markets around the world and continued championing of innovation and new trading technology.

When “Currency Management Corporation”, later abbreviated to CMC, first began trading in London in 1989 as an FX broker, the office contained one desk, one telephone and one highly ambitious trader and entrepreneur. Over the following years the company grew rapidly, and in 1996 it launched the world’s first online retail FX trading platform, allowing its clients to take advantage of markets previously only accessible to institutional traders.

In 2000, CMC Markets expanded its business to become a CFD broker. In 2001, the company launched an online financial spread betting service, becoming the first spread betting company to launch the daily Rolling Cash® Bet. The innovative daily Rolling Cash® bet concept subsequently became an industry benchmark.

In 2002, CMC Markets opened its first overseas office in Sydney, launching into the Australian market as an online CFD and foreign exchange provider. By 2007 the company had expanded its global footprint with additional offices in New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Singapore and Sweden, and had sold a 10% equity stake to Goldman Sachs. Further global growth followed over the next few years, with offices opened in Norway, Spain, Italy, France, China, Austria and Poland, taking the number of operations around the world to 14.

CMC Markets launched its award-winning* Next Generation platform in 2010 and since then has rolled it out across all the regions in which the Group operates, frequently adding new tools, features and enhancements.

In 2014 the Group celebrated its 25th anniversary and over the last two years has received more than 50 awards worldwide – a recognition of the quality of the Next Generation trading platform and associated service.

In 2015, CMC Markets announced a 61% increase in underlying profit before tax to £51.9 million, for the financial year ended 31 March. The Group also extended into Eastern Europe with the launch of a Warsaw office, bringing the total number of offices up to 14. In July, a new fixed-odds product, Countdowns, was launched in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, before it was later rolled out across Europe. In November, CMC Markets picked up three accolades at the 2015 Shares Awards, including Financial Services Provider of the Year for a fourth time in five years.

CMC Markets UK plc (173730) and CMC Spreadbet plc (170627) are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority except for the provision of Countdowns for which CMC Markets is licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission, reference number 42013.

*Awarded 'Best Trading Platform Features', Investment Trends 2014 UK Leveraged Trading Report, based on highest user satisfaction among spread bettors, CFD traders and FX traders; 'Best Online Trading Platform', Shares Awards 2013 & 2014.

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CMC Markets Reviews and Comments

People like this broker. However, I found it reliable one. Slippage is worse than average among other brokers but they offer the most efficient platforms probably. Easy to operate and intuitively simple. And it is one of very few brokers that was founded in the eighties. In 1989 to be exact!
Fizzel 4 Feb 2017 Reply

They offer the intuitive Next Generation platform. Well, I have tried it and can say that I can set it up just as I want customizing design layouts. It allows great control of executions when placing and closing the trades from charts. There are also useful options like one-click trading, boundary orders, price ladders, guaranteed stop-loss orders and others, which I really appreciate as far as they improve trading. Besides, the platform offers an access to different sources of market news. What else? I can look through the number of traders and their position values in real time and learn different types of behavior at the market improving my strategy.
Tosh 21 Jun 2016 Reply

CMC Markets is registered bookmaker. And still it provides very good trading, approach to thousands of markets and good prices on different currency pairs. I compare the prices with other brokers – there are differences but very slight. Here I trade within contract for difference between the opening and closing price of the contract. The price movement allows me to ignore the market in general and the broker creates the comfortable environment for that. They guarantee execution of stop losses at the price I set and they do it!
Mitch 18 Jun 2016 Reply

Just imagine! It allows traders to trade with more than 7000 products including currency pairs. to stay here you should choose one of the platforms it offers. I trade on their unique product – “Next Generation Platform” because it provides automated execution and customizable options. I’ve been adapting the facilities in such a way the platform complies with my needs and strategies choosing the necessary indicators out of 80 ones available. also use such tools as helpful charts, pattern recognition and boundary spread bets. In order to stay informed of the market conditions, I integrated Reuters news. This platform is really good.
Rudy 17 Jun 2016 Reply
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Great! Great! And once again great! I’ve been with it for quite a while. The platform – I could not ask for better! There are no limits within reason. The order is executed rapidly – just within a second. If there are some technical problems with the system and as the result the money is lost, they are ready to reinstate the lost positions. It happened to me and I call a manager, she solved the problem. Customer support is solid here. Taking into account the deposit requirements this broker is meant for advanced traders.
Daniel 15 Jun 2016 Reply

competitive spreads and rather good overall. feel a lack of options sometimes. but customer service specialists treat a trader respectfully and respond the questions straight away. it’s a pity that they refuse their old convenient platform. there are some problems with news within this latest version, only limited number of it is available. and the prices can differ from real ones. as far as i know old traders are leaving because of this discomfort. i am still here. my recommendation is you can trade here with profit if you are experienced but you’d better look for the more flexible broker.
mirko 10 Jun 2016 Reply
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