Online trading services and advice

Trading should be your primary concern, not worrying about the choice of online trading platform. With this in mind we have selected what we consider to be the best online futures trading platform available today.

Dramatic changes have swept the global derivatives markets in recent years. The trading volume of the open outcry based London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) was overtaken by the fully electronic exchange EUREX in October 1997. This significant event led to LIFFE going electronic and began the overall trend towards electronic exchanges.

Although electronic access is much more commonplace today many traders are unaware that although an exchange might be electronic, the access to the main engine itself has often only been available to Clearing Members and Market Professionals and not to end users, effectively negating the advantages that the electronic platform provides.

Many electronic brokers still only offer their clients a low-tech online trading solution which can best be described as online ticket-writing or a glorified e-mail system with the orders still going through a human interface in the form of dealers in a dealing room. This type of trading is slow and inaccurate and still leaves room for improvement in the delivery.

In the Futures market the difference between success and failure can be measured in fractions of a second. Professionals and institutional traders consider it is absolutely crucial that they have the ability to look at live bids and offers with full market depth and be able to point and click, and to make, join, or counter an offer or a bid. In short it is essential that the trader has maximum Speed, Accessibility and Transparency when trading the Futures market.

Recent developments in technology have lead to the development of Interactive trading systems. These systems are greatly empowering the individual trader.

Please call us on 020 7 398 2555 for more details about opening up an online CFD trading account with Blue Index, the CFD trading specialists.