Experienced trader
If you see opportunity where others don’t, we’ll help you seize it around the clock . Choose a market leader with best-in-class platforms built around your needs.
Experienced trader
If you see opportunity where others don’t, we’ll help you seize it around the clock . Choose a market leader with best-in-class platforms built around your needs.
Start trading today. For account opening enquiries call 1800 601 799 between 9am and 6pm (AEST) weekdays, or email newaccounts.au@ig.com.
Contact us: 1800 601 799
Start trading today. For account opening enquiries call 1800 601 799 between 9am and 6pm (AEST) weekdays, or email newaccounts.au@ig.com.
Contact us: 1800 601 799
Discover a world of opportunity
Low spreads and margins
Discover how your capital could go further with our competitive rates
Unrivalled choice
Trade on over 17,000 markets, with more 24-hour indices than any other provider plus exclusive out-of-hours US shares
Expert-led analysis
Get inspiration and find trading ideas with commentary and insight from our top analysts
Committed to execution
Have your trades executed exactly the way you want – our intelligent technology is built to offer fair prices, even in volatile markets
Easy to contact
Talk to us by phone, email or Twitter – 24 hours a day from 6pm Saturday to 8am the following Saturday (AEDT).
Weekend markets
Trade our unmatched weekend offering – GBP/USD, EUR/USD, USD/JPY, global indices and a range of cryptos.
Online trading platform features
- Deal ticket
- Charts
- Trade analytics tool
- News and analysis
- Alerts
- Signals
- Algorithmic trading
Take full control over each trade with just a few clicks in our easy-to-use deal ticket:
- Get an instant overview of market prices, spread, and margin with our simple, clean design
- Reduce risk and protect your profits with stops and limits – including guaranteed stops for watertight protection1
- Choose your preferred currency to keep conversion charges down
- Trade automatically by setting orders to open at your chosen level, then choose their expiry date or close manually
- Set alerts to trigger when a market moves an amount, hits a price level or meets your technical conditions
- Find dealing specs in the ‘information’ tab – minimum stop distances and trade sizes, margin factors and more
Get to the heart of price action and seize your opportunity with our fast, clear, smart charts.
- Track performance across timeframes, from tick-by-tick to monthly
- Compare up to four timeframes on a single chart
- Perform in-depth analysis with 28 indicators (including MACD, RSI and Bollinger Bands) and 19 drawings
- Experience stable and effortless dealing supported by HTML5 technology, on any browser
- Deal in an instant, direct from charts – open, close and edit your positions in a couple of clicks
- Get free integrated access to ProRealTime, the leading web-based charting package for advanced traders
Explore your trading data, track your trades and analyse your performance directly in My IG. The trade analytics tool will help you identify how to minimise mistakes and build on successes.
- Get an overview of your trading history and a deeper insight into your winning and losing trade
- View a transparent summary of the total returns from your closed positions, including all fees and adjustments
- Identify your trading mistakes and learn how to avoid them
- Watch educational and strategic videos to help optimise your trading, directly in the tool
Keep up with financial announcements and stay ahead of market movements, with news and analysis built into our online trading platform.
- Twitter: follow our curated feed for real-time updates from financial news outlets, analysts, traders and institutions
- Reuters: read breaking news tailored to you, through an always-updated feed from the world-leading news organisation
- In-house analysts: find what you need to make an informed trade, with fundamental and technical analysis from IG and DailyFX analysts
Price moves. Economic events. Technical patterns. Set up automatic alerts and be the first to know about them – on any device:
- Price level alerts trigger when your market hits your chosen price
- Price change alerts trigger when a market moves your chosen amount
- Technical indicator alerts let you know when a market meets your technical conditions
- Economic calendar alerts inform you ahead of important market events
Get help identifying the right time to trade on forex, indices and commodities markets. Have buy and sell signals, based on analysis from two expert third parties, delivered to your mobile or desktop:
- Take the guesswork out of chart pattern recognition
- Reinforce your own market research and analysis
- Be alerted to significant trends and patterns
- Decide whether to react to potential opportunities
Trade around the clock and never miss an opportunity with algorithmic trading, now available on a range of platforms when you choose Australia's No.1 CFD provider1. Create and refine your own trading algorithms, or use off-the-shelf solutions, to speculate on our offering of over 17,000 markets.
With IG, algorithmic trading is made possible through partnerships with cutting-edge platforms such as ProRealTime and MetaTrader 4 (MT4), as well as with our native APIs. We also offer advanced technical analysis and charting tools to make algorithmic trading easy for you, whether you want to build and fully customise your own algorithms or use off-the-shelf solutions.
- Remove human error and avoid letting emotions get in the way of your trades
- Set your algorithms up and let them trade around your schedule, 24 hours, day or night
- Choose or create an algorithm according to your strategy, and maximise your exposure to opportunities in the underlying market
- Use algorithms to finely tune risk management in your trading strategy, implementing stops and limits
Third-party trading platforms
Take greater control over your dealing with built-in access to a range of advanced third-party platforms.
Ways to trade with us
Share trading
Trade international shares commission-free*, and Australian shares from $52, using our award-winning platform3.
CFD Trading
A flexible way to trade the financial markets, and trade with Australia's No.1 CFD provider1.
Open an account now
Open an account now
Fast execution on a huge range of markets
Enjoy flexible access to more than 17,000 global markets, with reliable execution
Trade seamlessly, wherever you are
Trade on the move with our natively designed, award-winning trading app
Feel secure with a trusted provider
With 45 years of experience, we’re proud to offer a truly market-leading service
Open an account now
Open an account now
Fast execution on a huge range of markets
Enjoy flexible access to more than 17,000 global markets, with reliable execution
Trade seamlessly, wherever you are
Trade on the move with our natively designed, award-winning trading app
Feel secure with a trusted provider
With 45 years of experience, we’re proud to offer a truly market-leading service
Why IG?
We’ve been making financial markets accessible for over 45 years. We’re a FTSE 250 member, authorised and regulated by the FCA, with 239,000 clients across the globe.
We believe in building long-term relationships, so our business is built around wanting you to succeed. We hope you’ll be happy enough with our service to recommend us to your peers – you’ll earn rewards for every friend that starts trading with us.4
We take every measure to ensure your funds are secure – and with a market cap of 2.83 billion, we’re not going anywhere.5
Why IG?
We’ve been making financial markets accessible for over 45 years. More traders trust us with their money than anyone else, making us Australia's No.1 choice for CFD trading1, We are authorised and regulated by the ASIC, with 239,000 clients across the globe.
We believe in building long-term relationships, so our business is built around wanting you to succeed. We hope you’ll be happy enough with our service to recommend us to your peers – you’ll earn rewards for every friend that starts trading with us.5
We take every measure to ensure your funds.
Award-winning provider
Choose the world's No. 1 spread betting provider
Why open a trading account with anyone but the best spread betting provider? With 45 years of experience, we're proud to offer a truly market-leading service.
Choose the world's No. 1 spread betting provider
Why open a trading account with anyone but the best spread betting provider? With 45 years of experience, we're proud to offer a truly market-leading service.
Choose the world's No. 1 spread betting provider
Why open a trading account with anyone but the best spread betting provider? With 45 years of experience, we're proud to offer a truly market-leading service.
Choose the world's No. 1 spread betting provider
Why open a trading account with anyone but the best spread betting provider? With 45 years of experience, we're proud to offer a truly market-leading service.
Choose the world's No. 1 spread betting provider
Why open a trading account with anyone but the best spread betting provider? With 45 years of experiance, we're proud to offer a truly market-leading service.
Choose the world's No. 1 spread betting provider
Why open a trading account with anyone but the best spread betting provider? With 45 years of experiance, we're proud to offer a truly market-leading service.
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1Number 1 in Australia by primary relationships, CFDs & FX, Investment Trends November 2021 Leveraged Trading Report CFDs & FX, Investment Trends December 2020 Leveraged Trading Report.
2Place three trades in the previous month to qualify.
3Winner of ‘Best Multi-Platform Provider’ at ADVFN International Finance Awards 2019. Winner of ‘Best Trading App’ at the Investors Chronicle,Financial Times Investment and at the Professional Trader Awards 2019.
4Must trade 5 opening trades of 1 mini contract or equivalent within 6 months to be considered to have started CFD trading.
5Client number and market capitalisation figures correct as of May 2020.
*Other fees and charges may apply.
