Platform

so so.

I’ve tried their system using the £200 cash back.

It is easy to use platform with ok spreads but I found it has lack of one important feature:

The ability to set an order with stop loss. You need to open a position in order to set the limit and the stop. Another thing that I found very confusing was the way the system closes positions when the stop loss is triggered. It takes 5 minutes before the actual position taken from your open position page, which makes you think it is still open… not really good.

But their customer service is good and they did give me back my £200 (my trades didn’t go right for me…)

The good thing about them is that they gives you a £1000 credit. So you don’t need to deposit any money. I like that

I’ve tried for long time to find a good package for decent price. I tried sharescope and wasn’t happy.

Now I am using IG Index charting package.

I am using it through my CFD account and it cost £30 a month but you get a refund if you make 4 CFD trades in a month. It is not perfect package but it offers me what I need and it looks great. Highly recommended!

It has to be Capital Spreads

1 point FTSE, DAX, EUR/USD

2 points GBP/USD

3 points Dow 30

you won’t find better than that!

Having said so the platform is a bit old and slow.

Hi all,

If you think the trend has changed and the USD is going to be stronger or even if you think the opposite, you want to find the best spread out there.

for daily most of the companies offer 3 points spread but for September or December there is a difference. Again IG Index are not competitive and offer 12 points spread. City Index and Paddy Power trader offer better – only 8 points spread.

You may think that it is not a big difference but you will be surprised how much the spread is eating your profits. So shop around!

Hi all,

We all know how it is important to have a good platform to use. I recently tried ODL Markets and here is my impression:

Their spread is very good on indexes like DAX, FTSE but on shares they don’t excel on shares. Their share option is a bit limited compared to IG Index but still you can find all the shares under FTSE350 which is more than enough.

I found the platform very easy to use that you can start to use it from the moment you open an account. No learning curve at all. On the other side there aren’t sophisticated tools like trailing stop loss. There is the basic chart tool and that’s it.

On the news I thought it is a bit odd that they dividend section (which is a good idea) has not been updated since Dec 08. The design of the platform is very easy on the eyes (unlike some other platforms) but it has a feel of the 90′s it is not very modern design like Tradefair for example.

The bottom line is very recommended. Easy to use, good spread and easy on the eyes.