Get the benefits of a market leader for trading CFDS

It’s now possible to trade in oil, grains, softs, energies, gold and other precious metals as simply as you trade any other CFD. Commodities CFDs provide direct exposure to the underlying commodity with all the benefits of trading a CFD.

A flexible instrument 

CFDs can be used to hedge or diversify your portfolio with commodities – without the large collateral requirements and lot sizes associated with Futures trading. The benefits are clear:

• Easy and flexible trading with high leverage and low minimum trade sizes.
• No commission or trading fees.
• Automatic cash settlement.
• One click trading to a wide range of global commodities.

Set your trading free - Avoid fixed lot sizes

With BCT Trader, you are not constrained by pre-defined lot sizes. For example, the minimum trade size of a US Crude Oil is 25 CFD contracts – that is 25 barrels of oil, compared to the Futures minimum trade size of 1 lot contract with 500 barrels of underlying asset. And if you prefer to trade 26 barrels – you can do just that.

Access the most liquid commodity markets

FX CFDs are a cost efficient, simple way to trade major currencies online: Trade commission free, with lower margin requirements from only 0.5% with a small minimum trade size of 5,000 notional value.

Benefit from trading Forex CFDs with BCT Trader:

• All costs are built into the Bid/Ask spread.

• No need to roll CFD positions overnight and no financing charge is applied.

• No exchange commissions.

• Low collateral requirements.

• Avoid restrictions on lot sizes with all the benefits of the price movement of the underlying Futures contract.

A simple and flexible trading instrument

BCT Trader provides an attractive opportunity to trade currencies in the FX market. Consider this comparison of three different ways to trade Euro/US Dollar:

Maximise profits and gain exposure to the world's largest stock indices with minimum capital commitment and lower risk. Index-Tracking CFDs allow you to benefit from a diversified investment tool that combines leverage, low costs and ease of trading. You gain the flexibility for turning a profit in both rising and falling markets.

Index-tracking CFDs provide the ability to trade an entire stock index on real-time prices in one go.

Take advantage of trading index-tracking CFDs with BCT Trader:

• Index-tracking CFDs track the performance of a stock market index. They can be sold short, opening up the possibility of turning a profit in a falling market.

• Maximum exposure with minimal capital requirements.

• Trade 22 leading stock indices with a single click.

• Very competitive Bid/Ask spreads with no additional commissions.

• Cost efficient market exposure because index-tracking CFDs don’t require the buying and selling of individual shares.

Avoid limiting yourself to fixed lot sizes

With BCT Trader, you can trade any number of indices without being constrained to trade pre-defined fixed lot sizes.

Trading single stocks as CFDs is a great way to trade in both rising and falling markets. Since CFDs are traded on margin, you have the ability to profit from even small market movements.

Global markets, flexible margins, world class execution

With low commissions and transparent pricing, BCT Trader enables you to trade the global stock markets from a single, easy-to-use, yet sophisticated trading platform. Explore the advantages:

• Trade 8,700 Single Stock CFDs from the worlds leading financial markets.
• Short sell stocks – the possibility of showing a profit in a falling market and for efficient hedging of current Stock positions.
• Low margin requirements, allowing you to leverage your positions up to 20 times -6000 Single Stock CFDs with just 15% margin or lower.
• Streaming prices give you instant fills and, often, deep liquidity.
• Benefit from market-leading execution, delivered at the right price from a bank you can trust.

Transparent pricing

BCT Trader provides Single Stock CFD trading on the best possible prices based on actual stock prices.

In a bid to bring greater transparency to the fast growing global CFD market, in September 2011 BCT Trader became the first financial institution to publicly report CFD trades made on our platforms via Markit BOAT.

Access more liquidity with BCT Trader

To improve your trading experience BCT Trader adds additional, dedicated liquidity to the most traded Single Stock CFDs. This means more trades will execute at the volume and price you are looking for.

Take advantage of Smart Order Routing

Not all the liquidity of a stock is found on the primary exchange. In fact, sometimes up to half of a stock’s overall liquidity can be found on secondary trading venues - in Europe, these are called Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs).

At BCT Trader, we instill the confidence that comes from getting faster order fills at the price you’re looking for. Our trading platform automatically searches all the trading venues where your stock trades, and finds the best price for you.

Bond CFDs provide a cost-efficient way for investors to trade on the evolution of the political risk that has overshadowed financial markets in the recent past.

Thanks to low margin requirements and small minimum trade sizes, Bond CFDs make it easy to hedge an existing cash bond portfolio or trade directionally on the evolution of interest rates.

Trade Bond CFDs today

With a wide range of European Government Bonds available as CFDs, you can easily trade the relative evolution of long-term interest rates between Germany, France and Italy (long one country’s Bond CFD whilst short another country’s Bond CFD).

For added simplicity, all trading commissions are included in the spread and eligible cash Bonds and Stocks can be used as margin collateral.