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New platform is really pants The pc version is bad enough but the mobile is virtually unusable. to get to a trade you must make Six/seven different actions .. any of which might lose connection. Just to get to prices takes four actions (it used to open straight up on the popular markets page)...

The reason for the two day time to be refunded is nothing to do with Capital Spreads. If Capital Spreads refund you today it will take two days to hit your account unless you pay for a same day transfer (£15/£20). It works the other way too. If you credit your account today you will get the...

Pretty sure i know who the guy is. But anyway he never actually funded his account with real money. He found a criminal way around the card payment system and credited his account with funds that never actually came from a bank account. Spread Betting companies must (no matter who you are)...

Lee Shepard is correct. Unless someone voluntarily goes to HMRC and says 'hey guys ..look I have made this spread betting.. can you decide if i should pay tax' (we can guess what their answer will be!) there is no tax to be paid. Apparently HMRC has never once approached the major SB companies...

511 dont believe all you read. Posts complaining about price manipulation are generally from disgruntled clients who lose money. If a Spread Betting company posts a manipulated price you can complain to the Ombudsman about it. The unpalatable fact for many clients is that when they lose they...

Luminex It is normally because of the issues of migration. Moving positions/cash/stops/orders etc from one system to another is quite hard and must be done right first time. This said, the New platform has been around for well over a year now which would seem to indicate other issues. Maybe...

gle101 No, no slippage. I do not think the markets are quite volatile enough for that to be a problem. They are a bit more exciting than last year but nothing like 2007 to 2011

peleus et al could not agree with you more. too much c**p is now put up on trading platforms these days. In reality all you need is a proper strategy / reasonable charts and a good competitive price I spoke to one of the guys at CS and he said that although they have over 3000 markets over 80%...

I wanted to put an opposite bet on versus my long position with Capital Spreads on the Dow this evening. So I went onto IG Index... their spread is 6 points (!) I could drive a bus through that (only 2 with CS as I write) guess I will wait till the morning. just noticed IG's DAX is TEN wide...

I think they started using the capital word because of capital spreads. I am not sure how many people knew that ETX was called ETX capital. About a year ago they relaunched but were reduced to re-employing old staff and then started making silly promo stunts. But without a reasonable USP base...

e-dash Actually the answer you were given is incorrect. With Capital Spreads you cannot have a position without a stop and that stop uses up margin on your account of 25% more than your stop loss.... i.e if your stop is to take a loss of £100 the system will take £125 from your available...

Yes Wonderful Yet another US based broker using the money they make in the US to build a base in the European CFD market when the product is actually illegal in the US. Therefore making it impossible for the Europeans to challenge them in their own backyard. Such is the spinelessness of Europe...

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Actually the earnings and savings bit is where the risk comes in for the broker. All FSA regulated companies are the first line of defense against money laundering , proceeds of crime/tax evasion etc. Nearly all criminal prosecutions in these area start with a notification from an FSA regulated...

Tar . Thanks for pointing out this site it is very useful for information. The CME prices say that they are just 5 secs delayed but looking at the Emini Mar Future on the S&P (ESH3) i would say that they are a lot more than this on occasion. I was watching for a while and it was more than a...