What are IG's shares and ETFs CFD product details?

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Standard shares CFD retail margin rate and guaranteed stop premiums (Retail)

Tiered shares CFD retail margins and guaranteed stop premiums (Retail)

Standard CFD Pro margin rate and guaranteed stop premiums (Pro)

Tiered CFD Pro margins and guaranteed stop premiums (Pro)

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1 Euro includes: Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain

We offer constituents of the global indices listed below, and all trades are denominated in their local base currency. Other world markets may be available on request.

We offer all shares in the FTSE 350 index, and normally all other UK-listed shares with a market capitalisation of over £10 million.

We also offer share options on all shares in the FTSE 100 that have options available on LIFFE (this is usually all 100 companies).

To determine whether a charge applies, you should call our dealers in advance of trading. The borrowing charge, and your ability to go short, can be changed at short notice.

Commission charges for CFDs are calculated as a percentage of the transaction value for most markets and as cents per share for the US and Canada. See our charges page (or the table above) for further details. Where we offer a CFD on an equity that is dual-listed and fully fungible for settlement on both exchanges, the commission charges applicable to that CFD will be the charges relevant to the country where primary listing is held.

Commissions are charged per trade executed, per day by IG. Hence, orders like good-till-cancelled (GTC), which may be filled across several trading sessions, could result in multiple lots of commission being charged.

Clients will be informed in writing of the commission rates and financing rates which apply to their account at the time the account is opened.

When you open a share CFD position with us, it will be aggregated with other IG clients' positions in the same market. We do this to keep our hedging costs down, and to provide you with competitive commission rates. IG’s brokers may also aggregate IG client positions with their other clients’ positions where it is a regulatory requirement for them to do so (in the US for example).

By IG aggregating its client positions, you may be able to ‘go short’ even when there’s no borrowable stock available in the underlying market. But this means that when your order interacts with the underlying market, its treatment by brokers and/or exchanges will be based on the net aggregate position (i.e. the aggregate of all client and hedged positions) rather than your own. This also applies in the case where our brokers aggregate IG client positions with their other clients’ positions for regulatory reasons.

In certain situations, this may have an impact on the outcome of an order. For example, if the net aggregate position is short in a specific market and you’re closing a long position in the same market, we’ll treat your order as a short sell. Your order would then be subject to exchange rules on naked short-selling, uptick rules and short-sell restrictions – please refer to our ‘notes’ section for more information.

Notes:

Naked short-selling occurs when a trader attempts to short without first securing borrowable stock. We generally don’t allow clients to go short when borrowable stock is difficult to obtain. All short positions do, however, carry a risk of recall should borrowable stock later become unavailable

Uptick rules prevent rapid sell-offs, and stipulate that short-selling may only occur once the price of a particular market has ‘ticked up’

Short-sale restrictions promote market stability by prohibiting the short-selling of stocks which have declined by a certain percentage in a trading session

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