Our Services

The TD Financial Spread Trading
account offers you the following:

Free demo account

Our free demo account lets you test out your strategies on a virtual trading platform. Manage a mock portfolio of £10,000 on our virtual trading platform until you’re ready for the real thing. The platform also offers you comprehensive charting, watchlists and educational guides to refine your trading, as well as telephone support should you need to speak to someone directly. We can not offer dealing or trading support on a demo account.

Sophisticated but Easy to Use Trading Platform

The TD Financial Spread Trading platform is designed for the active trader. It gives you all the information you need to make decisions and action them from one simple trading platform. It also provides you with a wide range of support tools, charting, analytics and information to help you make and time your trading decisions.

Straightforward Funding

You can easily fund your TD Financial Spread Trading account using your debit card online once your spread trading account is activated.

Tax Free Profits

Any capital gains you make from your TD Financial Spread Trading account are completely free of Capital Gains Tax. You should be aware that, whilst profits made from Spread Trading are not subject to Capital Gains Tax (CGT), you are unable to offset any losses against capital gains for CGT purposes.

Also Financial Spread Trading is currently exempt from UK stamp duty.

Please note the tax treatment of these products depends on the individual circumstances of each customer and may be subject to change in future.

Range of Markets

The TD Financial Spread Trading account gives you access to a wide variety of UK and International markets, as well as indices, sectors, commodities and FX.

Bull or Bear?

One of the advantages of financial spread trading is the opportunity to short (or sell) the market. You can therefore profit from both rising and falling markets.

Hedging

You can use your TD Financial Spread Trading account to hedge your existing share portfolio. For example, if you have some shares which are decreasing in value in the short-term, you could “Sell” the value of the share using a sell trade and possibly make a profit to counter-balance any decrease in the value of your shares that you hold.

Stake Size of Your Choice

Financial Spread Trading also allows you to trade in sizes smaller than those usually available in the underlying market.

Trade in One Currency

On the TD Financial Spread Trading platform you can trade on a huge variety of financial products in one place and in one currency. We currently offer three currency accounts. When opening a spread betting account you select the base currency you wish to trade allowing you to avoid costly exchange rates when trading on international markets. The currency selection at account opening cannot be changed after your account is activated.

Trade on Margin

TD Financial Spread Trading allows margined trading , which means you need only deposit a small percentage of the full value of your trade leaving your excess capital to continue working hard elsewhere.

This ability to leverage means that Financial Spread Trading can carry a high degree of risk to your capital, consequently losses can quickly and substantially exceed your initial investment. You may lose more than your initial investment and you may also need to make further deposits. Financial Spread Trading is not suitable for everyone. You should therefore ensure you fully understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary.

No Commission or Fees

TD doesn’t charge commission or fees. We make our profit from the spread added to the underlying market prices. Please note there is a charge for applying a guaranteed stop order.