Learn to trade CFDs with Trading IQ Online

Invaluable online educational resource to help all new CFD traders with trading strategies.

Trading IQ Online, available to CFD customers via the Education Zone, is an invaluable addition to your trading reference library. It allows you to learn to trade CFDs and discover trading strategies at your own pace.

In eight easy-to-follow online modules:

  • you’ll learn about leverage and exposure, limit and stop orders, and technical analysis
  • you’ll gain an understanding of the risks associated with trading CFDs and ways to manage them
  • you’ll get hints and tips from our trading floor
  • we’ll run you through practical CFD trading strategies
Trading IQ
What you get with Trading IQ Online

Module 1 Introduction to Trading IQ

What are contracts for difference? How do they work, and which instruments can you trade. What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Module 2 Margin and Exposure

See how CFDs compare to traditional share trading. Explore the advantages of trading on margin. Understand different margin requirements, and learn how to calculate your own margin requirements across all our instruments. Includes a thorough explanation of the risks involved with CFDs and how to calculate your total exposure on each trade you make.

Module 3 Limit and Stop Orders

Understand the importance of using stop orders to help minimise trading risks, and limit orders to help lock in profits. Learn about slippage, and how to use guaranteed stop loss orders (GSLOs) to guard against it. Also learn to trade taking advantage of more advanced types of trading orders.

Module 4 Other Financial Markets You Can Trade with CFDs

Get a better understanding of trading indices, commodities, foreign exchange, treasuries and bonds from our CFD trading platform. See the benefits of different instruments and what they can bring to your portfolio, and understand the importance of US economic figures.

Module 5 CMC Plus+

Being a customer gives you access to a wide range of market research and analysis tools, including our information service, CMC Plus+.

Module 6 What is Technical Analysis?

Understand how technical analysis works and how you can apply it to your CFD trading. Learn to trade using line and candlestick charts to identify uptrends and downtrends in the most popular markets. Understand the difference between support and resistance. Learn how to place trades based on this analysis.

Module 7 Customising your Desktop Platform

Find out how to make your desktop platform your own, using any of the four default layouts available on Marketmaker™. Learn how to customise and develop trading pages.

Module 8 Hints, Tips and Strategies from our Trading Floor

This bonus module brings you hot tips and strategies straight from our trading floor designed to help you improve your CFD trading. Learn to formulate trading strategies using a trading plan and plot your activity using one. Get insights from our dealers, including where to from here, and what’s next.