Stockbroking Standard Platform

Platform
quick guide
This concise guide has been put
together to help you quickly familiarise
yourself with the many features and
tools available on the CMC Markets
Stockbroking standard platform.

Learn where to find products to trade or

invest in, access market news, how to
access charts, place different types of
orders, monitor positions and more.

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PLATFORM QUICK GUIDE

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Standard platform
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1. Navigation overview

2. Finding a stock

3. Products

4. Placing a domestic trade

5. Placing an international trade

6. Your account

7. Your Options account

8. Options tab

9. Options order ticket

10. Stock specific market information

11. Watchlists

12. News and research

13. Trading tools

14. Advanced charting

15. Alerts

16. IPO centre

17. Settings

18. Education

19. Live chat

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1. Navigation Overview
a b c d e l n

a f g h i j k m

a. Enter a stock code or name in the ‘search instruments’ field i. Open an existing watchlist or create a new one

b. View messages on trade events, stock alerts and invoices j. Access the latest market news and analysis, economic calendar
and dividends calendar
c. Create and manage alerts
k. Access our sector analysis, technical and fundamental market
d. Manage personal details, market data and trading preferences
analysis, alerts and IPO centre
e. View your account number, holdings and available balance
l. Access education materials, platform videos, additional account
f. Select, search or filter for available products forms and client support information, including live chat

g. Manage your existing positions and orders, view your order history, m. Hide the account details bar
confirmations, statements and run tax and portfolio reports
n. Securely log out of the platform
h. Place a trade
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2. Finding a stock
Access market information or place a trade quickly from the hover menu or from the footer bar on the platform

a. Hover over any stock to bring up the

stock menu to access course of sales,
research, charts and more

b. Enter the company name or stock code

c. Select from either live quote, analysis

or trade options

d. Quickly access up to five recently

viewed stocks

b c d
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3. Products
k

a. Search and filter for all equities available to trade in your selection
a
b. View the current prices and constituents of Indices

c. Search and filter for ETFs & ETPs available to trade. ETFs & ETPs are a b
range of investment funds that hold a collection of assets like shares,
c
commodities and bonds
d
d. Search and filter for unlisted managed funds that can be bought and sold
through the mFund Settlement Service e
e. Filter to see all available Warrants to trade*
f
f. Search and filter for available Exchange Traded Options*
g
g. Search and filter for available Interest Rates Securities to trade*
h
h. Find the latest spot rates, cross rates and bid/ask prices for forex CFDs
i
i. View the prices of Futures

j. See the latest price movements for popular commodities j

k. View saved queries for the selected region

*Only available when Australia is selected as the region

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4. Placing a domestic trade

Hover over any stock code on the platform to launch the order ticket, or select
your order ticket from ‘Trade’ drop down menu

a. Enter the stock you want to trade

b. Click the buy or sell button to change the order type

c. Enter the quantity you wish to buy or sell

d. Select the order instructions – choose between ‘Limit’, ‘At Market’, or ‘Conditional Order’ a
e. Select an expiry for your order – ‘Good Till Cancelled’, ‘Day Only’, or a specific date b
f. Add an optional stop loss order to this position to protect against adverse price
movements c
g. Add an optional take profit order to this position so that you can exit your trade when an d
advantageous price is reached

h. Enter trading PIN to place your order

e

Order instructions:

Limit price- A maximum price on a buy order or a minimum price on a sell order.
f
If the market doesn’t reach the set price, the order won’t be executed
g
At market – An order that you use to specify the direction and size of a trade, but not the price, which will
generally be placed 3 price steps above or below the last sale.
h
Conditional order – An order that sets a ‘trigger’ to execute based on a set of criteria or market conditions

Stop loss -  An option to submit an order to the market to close your position when the price reaches your
specified stop-loss price

Take profit - An option to submit an order to the market to close an open position at a more profitable price
compared to the price when placing the order.

Expiry definitions:

Good till cancelled – The order will not expire until it is filled or the stock is purged by the ASX

Day Only – This type of order will expire at the end of the day if it has not filled
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5. Placing an international trade

Hover over any stock code on the platform to launch the order ticket,
or select your order ticket from ‘Trade’ drop down menu

a. Enter the international stock you want to trade – check you have
selected the correct market. You can see this next to the stock code a
b. Click the buy or sell button to change the order type
b
c. Enter the quantity you wish to buy or sell
c
d. Select the order instructions – ‘Limit price’

e. Select an expiry for your order – ‘Day Only’ d

f. Estimated Brokerage and fees

g. FX buffer rate – this is applied to buy orders only at the time of

e
placement to protect against currency movements. Any excess buffer
will be unlocked on order execution

h. Enter trading PIN to place your order f

Order instructions:
g
Limit price- A maximum price on a buy order or a minimum price on a sell order.
If the market doesn’t reach the set price, the order won’t be executed

At market – An order that you use to specify the direction and size of a trade, but not the
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price which could be placed 3 price steps above or below the last sale.

Expiry definitions:

Day Only – This type of order will expire at the end of the day if it has not filled
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6. Your account

a
a. Check your account information
b
b. View your current holdings
c
c. View all open orders and download a summary of these trades
d d. View and download past orders

e e. View and download all your order confirmations

f. Check the performance of your holdings

f
g. View and download all account and cash statements within a specified time period
g h. Access free tax & portfolio reporting from Sharesight

h i. Withdraw funds to a linked bank account

j. Request a transfer of issuer sponsored securities to a nominated account

i

j
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7. Your Options account

a
a. View your current Options level, or click through to increase your Options
trading level by selecting cogwheel > ‘Trading Settings’

b. View the strategies available to each Options trading level, and select the
Options quiz level you wish to complete

i. Each Options trading quiz is made up of ten questions and requires 80%
to pass. You have a total of four attempts at each Options quiz level

ii. You do not have to take these quizzes consecutively, you can pick the
level you want to progress to

Options trading levels

You will need to activate your

Options access, it will not be
switched on by default.
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8. Options tab
Hover over any stock code and click on the Options tab in the order ticket,
or select Options from ‘Products’ drop down menu

a. Enter the stock code of the underlying a c d e f i h g k l

Options security

b. Select from the list of available strategies

c. Select the expiry date depending on your

Options
b
d. Filter by American or European Options

e. Select the number of strikes to display j

f. Valuation Volatility – Set the volatility used

for theoretical Option price valuation

g. Strike price is displayed

h. If trading a Buy Write, Collar or Married Put,

the underlying stock will be included in the
order

i. Historical Volatility

j. View ‘Calls’

k. View ‘Puts’

l. Select the relevant strategy by choosing

‘Calls’ or ‘Puts’ and click order ticket to
confirm your order. Your strategy will display
on the order ticket
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9. Options order ticket

e

a. Legs of strategy

b. Click to adjust order quantity

c. View the estimated brokerage, fees and

total cost of the order

d. Select between ‘Payoff’ or ‘Value’ when a

viewing the payoff chart
f
e. View Theoretical price estimate b
f. You can view Option Greeks and adjust the
volatility values to see their impact in the
Greeks

g. Enter trading PIN to place your order c

g
d
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10. Stock specific market information

Review a stock’s performance with access to depth, course of sales, charts, news and research plus much more.
You can access all of this information on any stock’s profile page.

a b c d e f g h i j
a. Get a quick snapshot of the stock’s
company overview

b. See the number of buyers and sellers,

volume and prices of the stock

c. View a summary of all trades that have

taken place throughout the trading day

d. Read the latest stock related news from

Dow Jones and ASX

e. Access omprehensive fundamental research

on value, income, risk profiles and growth
rates

f. Access both basic and advanced charts

for the stock

g. View/download historical prices of the stock

h. See available Options for the stock with the

ability to filter by expiration date and range

i. View available Warrants for the stock

j. View the Interest Rate Securities available

for the stock
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11. Watchlists
Create watchlists containing your favourite domestic and international products for easy access

a. View default watchlists d. Enter a name for the watchlist and click ‘create’

b. Click on ‘Create Watchlist’ to create a new list e. View your list in either Watchlist view or Portfolio view

c. Add stocks to your new list by entering the stock code and separating f. View watchlist in a pop out window, edit or delete the watchlist
them with commas

a c

f
e

c
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12. News and research

a. Live news and analysis to keep you up to date with
the latest market information

b. Get a snapshot of corporate action dates, easily filtered

by events and sectors

a c. View upcoming dividends for all ASX-listed companies, including

ex-dividend and pay dates, cents per share and franking percentage

b
c
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13. Trading tools

a. Find the current stocks based on your investment criteria. For example,
Market cap, P/E ratio and more

b. Compare key metrics like earnings per share, dividends per share and
dividend yield, across sectors and sub-sectors to view the top 300 ASX
stocks
a
c. View star-rated reports from theScreener

d. View under/over valued stocks including fair value and liquidity ratings b
e. View/edit your alerts

f. View and bid on current Australian IPOs with OnMarket Bookbuild c

f
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14. Advanced charting

 Launch our advanced charts from the Charts tab for any stock
b c d e f g h i

a. Access a large suite of drawing tools – trend lines; Fibonacci & many more f. Add studies like moving averages or RSI

b. Change the time frame covered by each candlestick/bar or the amount of g. Change the look of your chart via multiple settings
history shown on the chart
h. Save your drawings and studies then scroll through different scenarios
c. Select your preferred chart type – candlesticks, bar charts & more using presets

d. Compare the performance of different stocks on a single chart i. Click through stocks of interest by setting up watchlists then clicking to
bring up charts with saved drawings and pre-set studies
e. Search for chart patterns
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15. Alerts
Manage your alerts by simply hovering over the tools menu and selecting ‘Alerts’.

b c e f g

a d

a. Enter the stock code e. Shows the delivery mode selected for a particular alert

b. View your history of alerts f. View how many times this alert has been triggered

c. Top up your credits to add more alerts g. Edit the alert settings

d. Select from price, news, status or volume alert and click ‘ Add Alert’
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16. IPO centre

Browse the range of OnMarket offers available on our IPO Centre, simply register with the OnMarket portal and provide
your HIN to place your bid. Your holdings will seamlessly be added to your designated portfolio once the offer is
successfully closed.

b
a. You can access our IPO centre by hovering over the ‘Tools’ menu and selecting
‘IPO Centre’. Click ‘Bid now’ to learn more about an available IPO

b. Get an overview of the selected IPO including important dates, share price,
minimum bid and the size of the offer

c. Click on ‘Bid’ to access the CMC Markets OnMarket portal and place your bid

Note: If you wish to bid on the OnMarket platform, you will need to register with
your Holder Identification Number (HIN). This can be found by selecting ‘Account
Information’ from the ‘Account’ menu on the platform and will be displayed under
c your account name.
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17. Settings
Configure your account and platform to suit your individual needs
by using the inbuilt preferences and settings. a

a. Access your platform preferences by hovering over the

cogwheel in the top left hand corner. Select from:

i Personal Details – change your username,

password, trading PIN or other personal details.
You can also manage your email communications
and site preferences here.
b
ii Trading Settings – update your order ticket style,
enable or disable your trading PIN and manage
your Options trading levels and international
market access

iii Market Data Subscriptions

b. Set your preferred default order ticket style (Full Page

Ticket or Quick Ticket) and enable or disable a trading
PIN on your account. We recommend the use of a
trading PIN for additional security. Trading Settings is
also where you can see your Options trading level and
set your international markets
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18. Education
Expand and test your knowledge of the Australian share market with the Investing IQ modules available directly on
the platform. This free program is designed to provide you with the fundamentals to help you take control of your
trading and investment decisions.

a. Access Investing IQ from the support menu in the top right hand corner of your screen

b. Using the platform and demo videos

c. Learn important strategies to help support your trading

d. Access forms for additional account requests

a e. Chat instantly to our client services team from Monday morning to Saturday morning

b f. View our contact details for any enquiries

c g. Choose from a range of topics to complete from the modules menu

g

f
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19. Live chat

Available from Monday morning to Saturday morning to coincide with world market opening hours.
Easily accessible by clicking on the ‘chat now’ button found in the bottom right hand corner of the platform or
from the ‘Support’ drop down menu.
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