How to Trade Part-Time With a Mobile Trading App

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01 Jun, 2012, 06:00 GMT

LONDON, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

For investors looking to trade part-time, could a mobile trading app be the answer to staying on top of the latest developments in the financial markets?

More and more, we are seeing investors combine their full-time work and home life with part-time trading.

Through financial spread betting, investors can not only take a position on over 12,000 financial instruments; but trade from virtually anywhere, at any time either at their desk, online or through a mobile trading app.

Financial Spread Betting Part-Time

As a part-time investor, financial spread betting offers a level of access and flexibility that cannot be gained through more traditional forms of trading.

Through spread betting provider City Index, you can access your account and trading platform 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.

This enables you to trade on markets such as the UK 100, even when the underlying financial instrument is closed for trading.

Below, we look at how a mobile trading app could mean the difference between a profitable trade; and a losing one.

Trade from your Mobile

City Index has seen key developments in how their clients trade the financial markets in recent years.

In October 2009, less than 2% of their clients placed trades through their mobile devices; skip forward to 2012, and the total volume of trades placed through a mobile device total around 20% of their active clients - with close to 85% of those being through an iPhone trading app.

With one in three clients trading on-the-move this makes for more opportunities for investors both new and experienced.

Focus On: City Trading™ App from City Index

The award-winning City Trading App has since been developed with the aim of providing City Index spread betting and CFD trading account holders with the ultimate mobile trading experience.

Since its launch in 2009, the app has been named Money AM's 'Best Mobile Trading Platform' for 2010 and 2011, Financial Times and Investors Chronicle's 'Innovation of the Year (Mobile)' 2010 and, Shares Magazine's 'Best Online Trading Application' Award for 2011.

To find out more about trading on-the-move with the City Trading App, go to City Index: http://www.cityindex.co.uk

Read More Free Spread Betting Articles

If you found this article helpful, you can access more just like this through the free spread betting articles section on the City Index website.

In addition, if you'd like to find out more about how to spread bet, please refer to the Learn to Trade and Trading Platform areas of the website.

About City Index:

Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a City Index trading platform.

As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month in over 50 countries. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, CFDs and, in the UK, financial spread betting.

We constantly look to improve the performance of our platforms and expand our range of services. The result is our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer support. Visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/ for details.