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 Overview: TradIndex.com was launched in 2002 having recognised the demand for a professional, fast and easy-to-use online trading platform. It saw a tremendous potential in using the Internet to allow individual traders in various countries worldwide to make profits from the movement of various markets, a form of speculating typically reserved for large banks and investment houses. Historically, the financial products traded in this fashion were often exotic and complex, but TradIndex.com has chosen to offer a straightforward, £1-per-tic web-based trading in established markets and as a result is very popular with beginners to the wonderful world of spread betting.
Markets: You can buy and sell the price on over 250 markets The company offers a wide range of global indexes including the FTSE-100, Wall Street, S&P 500, Nasdaq, German DAX, French CAC and S&P/MIB.
In the equity sector it offers the most popular single shares from the UK, US and European exchanges. If you want to speculate on bond markets you can spread bet on US and European Government interest rate futures including European Government bonds, short sterling, Euribor and Gilts.
Currencies and Commodities: Many currency pairs are offered including the GBP£/US$, Euro€/US$, GBP£/Euro€, and US$/Yen¥. You can also speculate on the price of Nymex crude, oil, gold, coffee and copper.
For more information on TradIndex’s markets: http://www.tradindex.com/Marketplace.aspx#
Products: TradIndex offers a free no-risk Player Account with £20,000 virtual funds that contains all the features and functionality of a "real money" trading platform. Aimed at the smaller investor the company enables clients to open an account with as little as £100 and offers spread bets from as little as £1 per point. A big part of what TradIndex offers is about client protection and mandatory stop losses are enforced on all spread bets to protect clients’ downside risk.
A wholly browser-based spread betting platform is offered that doesn’t require any downloads. It has recently been updated, the process for the platform redesign having taken over a year. TradIndex are pretty pleased with the result saying the new trading platform delivers a user experience that is second to none. “We worked with specialist user interface designers and software application programmers to create a platform that is easier to navigate, easier on the eye and even easier to place your spread bets,” they say.
Also offered is TradIndex Mobile (http://www.tradindex.com/SiteInfo/Mobile.aspx), a trading platform that is accessible from every mobile phone with an internet browser. It is one of the easiest to use mobile trading application in the market. Once you have an account you can simply log on to http://mobile.tradindex.com via your mobile phone and the fully functional trading platform will be ready for you to use. TradIndex Mobile offers all markets and trading functionality currently available on TradIndex.com's desktop site, including movable stop losses.
Size: Based in a single office in Square Mile TradIndex has only been in the market for five years but it has a small and loyal client base who like the intimacy and good customer service that being with a smaller operator brings.
Links:
Get a free spread betting book when you open a virtual account: http://www.tradindex.com/BookOffer/Index.aspx
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