Take a position on the US, Europe and Asia through cash index CFDs — no single-stock risk, tight spreads, and margin netted across your whole book.
Cash indices are quoted continuously and carry a daily financing adjustment on positions held past the rollover. Where an index constituent goes ex-dividend, the cash price is adjusted so the position is neither helped nor hurt by the payment itself.
| Name | Sell | Buy | Spread | Chart 1D | Sellers | Buyers | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US30Dow Jones Industrial Average | 38904.2 | 38906.0 | 1.8 | 38.40% | 61.60% | OpenTrade | |
| NAS100US Tech 100 | 18342.5 | 18344.1 | 1.6 | 27.60% | 72.40% | OpenTrade | |
| SPX500US S&P 500 | 5204.8 | 5205.4 | 0.6 | 33.10% | 66.90% | OpenTrade | |
| GER40Germany 40 | 18124.6 | 18127.0 | 2.4 | 64.20% | 35.80% | OpenTrade | |
| UK100FTSE 100 | 8042.3 | 8044.1 | 1.8 | 57.90% | 42.10% | OpenTrade |
Prices shown are indicative and for illustration only — they are not a live feed and do not constitute an offer to trade.
An index is the market’s own summary of an economy. Buying one gives you the direction of hundreds of companies at once, without picking any of them — no single earnings miss, no delisting, no gap on one company’s news.
Our indices are cash CFDs: continuous pricing with no expiry to track and no contract to roll. You hold the position for as long as your view lasts, and pay only the spread and the daily financing on it.
Three steps to your first index position.
Open your account — register and verify in minutes.
Fund it — with no deposit fee from our side, at any amount.
Pick an index, size the position, and set your stop as the order goes in.
What traders ask us most often before they take their first index position.
An index is a single number summarising the value of a basket of shares — the S&P 500 tracks 500 large US companies, the FTSE 100 the largest hundred listed in London. You cannot buy the index itself, so what you trade is a CFD priced against it. Your profit or loss is the difference between the level you opened at and the level you closed at, multiplied by your position size.
A future has a fixed expiry date and has to be rolled into the next contract to keep the position open, which means a price gap and a new spread each time. A cash index is quoted continuously with no expiry — you hold it until you close it. The trade-off is that a cash position carries a daily financing adjustment, where a future prices that cost into the contract instead.
Broadly, when its home market is open, plus the extended hours around it. US indices are most active from the New York open; European indices through the London and Frankfurt sessions; Asian indices overnight in European terms. Liquidity is deepest during the home session, so spreads are tightest then and can widen outside it.
When a company in the index goes ex-dividend, the index level drops by roughly the value of that payment on the open — mechanically, not because anything went wrong. To stop that being an artificial gain or loss, a dividend adjustment is applied to open positions: credited on a long, debited on a short. The net effect is that the payment neither helps nor hurts you.
Cash index positions carry a daily financing charge based on the underlying interest rate and the full notional value of the position, not just your margin. It is usually a debit on a long and can be a credit or a debit on a short depending on prevailing rates. Over days it is minor; over months it compounds, which is worth building into any position you intend to hold.
Less exposed to any one company, which is a real difference — a single profit warning cannot halve an index. But an index is still a leveraged position that moves on macro news, rate decisions and shifts in risk appetite, and leverage scales the outcome either way. Diversification within the instrument is not the same thing as low risk.
Interest-rate expectations first, since they change what future company earnings are worth today. After that: inflation and employment data, the earnings season for large constituents, currency moves for export-heavy indices, and broad shifts in risk appetite that lift or drop most indices together.
Yes. Indices, currency pairs, metals and commodities are all quoted in the same terminal on one account number, and margin is netted across the whole book rather than held separately for each position.
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