Financial Directory
MF Global Australia Limited (MFGA) is one of Australasia’s premier brokers providing a full range of financial products and services. The products offered include exchange traded futures, options and futures on options, foreign exchange (Margin FX), Contracts For Difference (CFDs) and equities.
IG Markets, part of IG Group, was the first company to offer CFDs in Australia, expanding their UK-based operations to the Australian market in 2002. The Australian operations now account for around 10 per cent of the group’s turnover. IG Markets has at least 10,000 private customers in Australia and 75,000 active clients worldwide making more than 1 million transactions a month, over 95% of them online. IG Index is Britain's leading financial spread betting firm, offering prices in a huge range of indices, currencies, commodities and options, as well as thousands of individual shares.
GFT are self-proclaimed worldwide leaders in online trading, offers comprehensive solutions for CFD and spot forex traders, regardless of knowledge level or experience. Find trading opportunities in GFT’s selection of nearly 3,000 markets while taking advantage of intuitive risk-management orders, dynamic charting, free news and award-winning trading software and tools.
Get Financial is Australia's most prominent provider of online share trading, CFD trading, forex and futures, Global Stocks, Australian shares, Gold and Silver. GET Financial offers a free simulation account, advice on buying and selling Australian shares, CFD Trading, forex and futures plus free education. GET FINANCIAL is the trading name for Global Electronic Trading Pty Ltd AFS Licence: 222629. GET Financial is a Trademark of Global Electronic Trading Pty Ltd. The Company was also referred to as “GET Futures” until very recently.
First Prudential Markets, commonly known as "FPM" or "FPMarkets" is an Australian based investment company offering over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange traded derivative products including direct market access (DMA) Contracts-For-Difference (CFDs), foreign exchange (Forex) and global futures contracts to its retail and professional client base. First Prudential Markets is a market leading DMA CFD and Forex provider.
Go Markets is an Australian registered company offering a wide range of financial products to an extensive client base both here in Australia and overseas. Go Markets is an ASIC registered company (AFSL licence number 254963) that is regulated to offer financial services including Securities, Derivatives (including CFDs) and Margin FX. GoMarkets uses the MetaTrader 4 software for their online forex trading platform.
City Index provides retail CFD trading services in Australia. City Index was first established in 1983 as one of the UK’s first spread betting providers. In 2001, CityIndex launched their CFD financial product in the UK. In 2006, they opened an office in Sydney Australia. As a Group, City Index executes over 1.5 million trades per month on behalf of their clients, making them one of the largest providers of derivatives trading to the retail market. City Index is part of IPGL: a privately owned company with a substantial shareholding in the world's leading derivatives broker ICAP plc.
E Trade Australia began as a subsidiary of E*Trade Group. The E*TRADE Group pioneered online trading in the USA, and in 1998, ETRADE Australia Securities Limited (”E*TRADE”) With E*TRADE you can place Buy and Sell orders for any CHESS eligible securities listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Limited (“ASX”). Since E Trade introduced fully automated Straight Through Processing in Australia, our customers have been able to trade with confidence knowing their orders are among the first to market.
CommSec or Comsec and also known as Commonwealth Securities is Australia’s largest discount stockbroking company owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia. As a discount broker, the company has been highly successful in attracting “mum and dad investors”. The majority of its stockbroking business is done through its internet trading platform, while they also operate a telephone brokerage service and broker advisory service.
CommSec Services
- How to Trade Forex and Gold Options
- How to Trade the Gold Price and Profit!
- Forex Trading the EUR/USD Pair € EURO and $ US Dollar
- How to Trade Stock Market Indices S&P500
- How to Trade Crude Oil
- Forex Trading Psychology
- What Are Broker Recommendations?
- Free Tickets to Trading & Investing Seminar & Expo ($18) Brisbane 2013
- Stock Calc App
- All About Warrants
- Introduction to Exchange Traded Funds
- Introduction to Exchange Traded Funds: Features
- Introduction to Exchange Traded Funds: Domestic ETFs
- Introduction to Exchange Traded Funds: International ETFs
- Exchange Traded Commodities
- Australian Stock Scan
- Australian Online Share Trading
- List of Trading Books
- Interesting Thoughts about the Australian Dollar
- What's the Meaning of Hawkish?
- Do You Know How To Use the P/E Ratio
- Trading, Religion and Politics - Do They Have Anything in Common?
- Shares that are Volatile that Double and Half in the Short Term
- Telstra (TLS) T3
- Margin Call by E-mail
- The Cost of Holding a Position
- Lack of Disclosure: Compensation from ASX Listed Company
- Unrealistic Returns and Benchmarks
- CMC Markets Down
- Quality versus Quantity Forex Trading
- Woolworths 1H Sales $30.7bn up 3.2%
Date added 31-01-2013 - ASIC Fines CommBank's CommSec
Date added 25-09-2012 - Industry Super Network Calls to Ban High Frequency Trading (HFT)
Date added 22-09-2012 - NAB Launches Online Share Trading Platform
Date added 19-09-2012 - Reserve Bank of Australia Says 23 Countries Holding AUD
Date added 18-09-2012 - Australia Post Digital Mailbox
Date added 10-09-2012 - Winners and Losers of Trading for Week 2
Date added 16-01-2012 - 2012's First Week of the Best and Worst Traded Stocks
Date added 09-01-2012 - 2011's Last Best and Worst Traded Stocks
Date added 05-01-2012 - Best and Worst Pre-Christmas Traded Stocks
Date added 30-12-2011 - Trading Winners and Losers for Dec. 12-16
Date added 19-12-2011 - Best and Worst Traded Stocks for Dec. 5-9
Date added 13-12-2011 - Top 3 Best and Worst Traded Stocks
Date added 05-12-2011 - ASX Glitch Trading Halt
Date added 27-10-2011 - Worst Trade Stocks (and the Best)
Date added 06-08-2011
Top 150 Public Companies Listed on the Australian Stockmarket as at 29/05/2009
- BHP Billiton
- Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC)
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
- National Australia Bank (NAB)
- Telstra (TLS)
- ANZ
- News Corporation (NWS)
- Woolworths Limited(WOW)
- Woodside Petroleum Limited (WPL)
- Rio Tinto
- Westfield Group (WDC)
- Westfarmers Limited (WES)
- QBE Insurance
- CSL
- Newcrest Mining Limited (NCM)
- Origin Energy Limited (ORG)
- Santos Limited (STO)
- AMP Limited (AMP)
- Macquarie Group (MQG)
- Foster’s Group Limited (FGL)