This, says TradIndex, part of the European broker Tradition, does away with a laborious sign-up process and the need for extensive credit checks.
Customers can start trading by depositing a minimum of £100 and financial indices can be bought or sold from a £1 a point minimum.
Launched in 2002, the TradIndex.com site only allows trades to be made over the internet and its product range tends to focus only on the most liquid and heavily traded financial markets. Perhaps it can be thought of as a sort of no-frills version of a financial spread betting website.
Even so a wide range of markets are covered.