Products & Markets
Blue Index offers a wide range of trading products available on the most active markets on the globe.
Blue Index offers the following products:
Equity CFDs
The best way to trade individual shares on margin is by using Contracts for Difference (CFDs).
Whilst giving the investor all the benefits of the underlying equity market, they enable an investor to avoid many of the costs and problems involved in the purchasing of physical shares.
With Blue Index you can trade thousands of individual UK, US and European shares on margin using Contracts For Difference (CFDs). Equity CFDs have substantial advantages over conventional share dealing or spreadbetting.
- Trade long or short
- No stamp duty
- Utilise leverage
- No expiry period
- No extra spread
Flexibility: profit in a falling as well as a rising markets
You can trade long or short of any qualifying share, enabling you to take a positive or negative view. Other methods of shorting shares are often inconvenient or expensive.
Leverage: control larger positions
Take a position in a share without having to put up the full underlying contract value. Instead you put up a deposit (margin) as initial collateral, usually 10%. This has the potential to significantly magnify profits but ca n also magnify losses. Blue Index recommends the use of stop losses with each CFD trade.
Cost effectiveness: no stamp duty
Under current tax legislation, CFD contracts are not liable to UK Stamp Duty.
Immediate execution: deal at the market price or better
There is no extra spread to pay when trading CFDs through Blue Index and you can deal immediately with no irritating wait.
Corporate Actions: Participate in specific events
Gain from dividends, stock splits and movements in and out of Index groups.
Cross borders: trade world markets
CFDs are offered on stocks on all the major world bourses. UK stocks included in the FTSE 350, US stocks included in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 and all the major European indices. CFDs on stocks outside these are offered on a prior approval basis.
Risk management: hedge existing holdings
In anticipation of a fall in a share price, a short position can remove or reduce risk on long-term share holdings without loss of voting rights or tax exemptions on PEPs and ISAs.
Tax planning: trade against profitable holdings
Equity CFDs can be sold to lock in a profit on an equity holding without incurring a tax liability.
Anonymity: trade discreetly
Equity CFD trades do not result in transfer of ownership, so the usual stock exchange disclosure rules do not apply, and the trades are not published.
Index CFDs
Blue Index offers a flexible way to trade all the major global stock indices on margin using Index CFDs.
An Index CFD is linked to the performance of a particular stock index. Index CFDs allow you to gain an exposure to a large number of different shares in one single transaction. They are popular with individual investors because they can be used to take positions on the direction of a whole market without taking a view of the prospects for any particular company's shares. A short Index CFD position can also be used as a rough, low-cost, hedge to protect a diversified share portfolio against market falls.
FOREX Trading
At Blue Index we do not charge our customers commission on any Forex trade, regardless of size.
Our spreads are amongst the tightest offered in the Foreign Exchange market, regardless of trade size. Normal dealing spreads on world currencies are only 3-4 pips.
Wide product range
Clients can trade the major currencies 24 hours a day, with over 300 instruments available. We also offer an extensive range of cross currency combinations across all majors, with highly competitive spreads. You can trade multiple product types including Spot FX, Forward Outright FX (Outright or Broken-Date) and OTC FX Options, including Spread-Strategies.
Competitive margins
Our margin rates are highly competitive, with typically margins of 1% of the deal amount, i.e. 100-to-1 leverage.
Online account trading and viewing
As well as phone trading you can also trade online or just track your account online with our user friendly online account system. Immediate execution
Orders are executed immediately with no irritating wait to be filled. If you wish to work an order at a set average price this can be left with your personal trader at Blue Index.
Trading advice and position monitoring
Our experienced FOREX traders can provide you with as much advice and monitoring as you require, including regular market updates, recommendations, order flows and stop/limit order monitoring, as you need them. Once your account is set up you will have a dedicated trader who will be intimate with your account and provide you with round the clock trade support and rapid query response.
Commodity (Commodities) CFDs
Blue Index CFD commodity trading service offers popular instruments to trade such as Oil through to Pork bellies. Commodities are available to trade over the phone or across our award winning commodity trading platform, which also enables you to trade equities, treasuries, indices and FX from a single account.
