Traccr.com is an online credit default swap (CDS) derivatives broker
Access to the CDS Market
The market for credit default swaps (CDS) has traditionally been available only to high-volume traders. Traccr.com makes the credit derivatives market available to private, high net worth individuals and professional traders who want to trade CDS in their personal accounts.
Traccr.com makes CDS trading easy and convenient, with live online trading and CDS news in real time, to help traders decide which CDS trends to trade on.
The firm offers both listed and over-the-counter credit derivatives in a variety of deal sizes. Clients can trade a number of different CDS products, all from a single account.
You can learn to trade CDS online with Traccr.com's CDS trading simulator and supporting educational material, before you actually start trading.
How CDS Trading Works
Trading credit default swaps is a versatile, cost-effective way to gain exposure to bonds and credit indices.
Traders need only put up a fraction of the trade’s value. You "buy" credit protection if bond prices are moving down (or credit spreads are rising), and "sell" credit protection if bond prices are up (or credit spreads are falling). You never actually own the instrument you are trading.
Given the activity and developments around the CDS market, professional traders have become more aware of credit derivatives and how it can be applied to hedge their corporate bond positions, or to take a view on synthetic credit indices.Farooq Jaffrey, founder of Traccr
Over the counter credit derivatives are among the fastest growing products worldwide. Listed credit derivatives are expected to grow rapidly over the next several years and are recognized as an emerging asset class.
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As a leveraged derivative product, CDS is not regulated on any exchange.
Traccr advises that a CDS can result in higher losses than the original deposit and, therefore, may not be a suitable option for all traders.
Learn CDS Trading on Traccr's Simulator
Traccr provides a CDS Education Module and Trading Simulator and video tour to help clients educate themselves.
The CDS trading simulator will let you practice trading more than 150 single-name CDS products and indices before starting a live trade. In the practice account, traders can buy and sell CDS products, measure and chart trade performance, calculate capital gains and losses, and more.
Traccr's educational video offers screencasts to support use of the the CDS simulator.
Online CDS Trading Course
Traccr requires traders to have have sufficient CDS trading experience, ample financial resources to meet trading obligations, and a mechanical understanding of the trading instruments.
Professional traders can enroll in Traccr’s online 30-day CDS simulator course for £25. Traders who complete a live trade with Traccr within three months of taking the course will receive a rebate of the course fee.
Contact Traccr
- Tel: +44 (0) 207 022 4800
- Dealing desk (9.00am – 5.30pm Mon-Fri)
- Traccr welcomes your feedback about its services.
Address
- Studio One, Utopia Village
- 7 Chalcot Road
- London NW1 8LH
- United Kingdom
Additional Information
Traccr Ltd. is a registered broker regulated by the Financial Services Authority. FSA Register number 493597.
