Customisable margin

Trading on your terms

CMC Markets have revolutionised Share CFD trading with the introduction of customisable margin. This market leading initiative allows clients a greater degree of control over their investments. You can now decide on each and every order ticket just how much margin you wish to use. In effect you have the ability to de-leverage the product by selecting your own margin amount. It is in your control how much you want each product leveraged (subject to the minimum margin requirements). You can choose high, medium or low leverage - the choice is yours putting you in control of the markets you want to trade on your terms.

Invest or trade?

Trade:

If you wish to trade short term then you might decide to use the minimum pre-set margin requirement, which for shares starts at just 10%. In this scenario you are effectively borrowing the remaining 90% from CMC Markets and will incur a financing charge if you hold the position open overnight (past 17:00pm New York Time). Click here to see some example calculations.

With this option you have the scope to trade off short term price movements without having to tie up a large percentage of your own capital.

Minimum margin for trading

Invest:

For those that want to invest longer term the product can be de-leveraged to ride out the volatile trading sessions that may lead to your position being closed out, if you have a highly leveraged position. By de-leveraging and selecting a lower borrowing amount, you balance the risk against financing and by borrowing less you are less likely to be stopped out of your position. It is a question of balancing risk against leverage but the point is, we give you the tools to choose. The choice is yours.

Margin for investing

Traditionally, this would not be possible with a regular CFD provider but CMC Markets has now given the control back to you. You can invest 10%, 50% or even 100% of the total position size and the less you borrow the lower your overnight financing charge.

So instead of having to open up a traditional stock brokerage account you can now combine the two, investing and trading, within one CMC Markets account. If you normally trade physical shares, just select zero financing requirement and put up the whole value of your position.

Browse our product library and see the margin requirements for all our Share CFD products.