Greater London, England -- (SBWire) -- 04/15/2011 -- Financial spread betting and CFD trading seminars are an excellent way to learn how to trade the financial markets. City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk) offers a range of free spread betting and CFD trading webinars designed to help you hone your financial trading skills from the comfort of your own home or office.

The company, which was named ‘Best Online CFD Provider’ as well as ‘Best Mobile Trading Platform’ at the 2010 Money AM Online Finance Awards, covers spread betting, CFD trading and forex trading in the online video seminars.

Introduction to Spread Betting
This webinar concentrates on the basics of financial spread betting, using example spread bets to demonstrate how it works. The animated video also discusses stop losses, limit orders and the way in which your profits and losses are magnified as a result of spread betting leverage.

Introduction to CFD Trading
CFD trading is the focus of this tutorial, which talks about the advantages of contracts for difference over standard trading and explores the use of CFDs as a hedging tool. In addition to examples of CFD trades, the webinar also explains leverage in CFD trading and how you can use it to your advantage.

Introduction to Forex Trading
Watch and learn about the most liquid market in the world with this educational webinar, an introductory guide to forex trading. The main features of foreign exchange trading - such as methodology, margins and currency pairs - are summarised as part of this animated video.

The advantage of these webinars over spread betting seminars is that they give you the freedom to start, stop, rewind and fast forward your learning at the touch of a button. Your own tailored CFD trading, FX and spread betting education is quite literally at your fingertips.

For free spread betting, CFD trading and forex trading webinars, simply visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/learn-to-trade/webinars.aspx.

Spread betting and CFD trading are leveraged products which can result in losses greater than your initial deposit. Ensure you fully understand the risks.

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 for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access to a wide range of instruments including margined foreign exchange, CFDs and, in the UK, spread betting.

We constantly look to improve the performance of our platforms and expand the range of services we provide. The result is that our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer service and support. For more information, visit http://www.cityindex.co.uk/.