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CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Please ensure you fully understand the risks involved. CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

Chris Beauchamp

Chris Beauchamp

Chief Market Analyst

London

Chris has been Chief Market Analyst at IG since 2019, and has worked at IG since 2010. He has a wealth of experience talking and writing about markets. He appears on major news programmes to explain the impact of events on financial markets.

Can cover a host of topics, including:

Spread betting, contract for difference (CFD) trading, futures, forex and commodities pricing, margin policies, fundamental analysis, technical analysis and equities.

With IG since: 2010

Trading since: 2008

Preferred trading style: Swing trading.

Most memorable trade: Being long silver over a weekend of high volatility & newsflow – huge gains made when the price reopened.

Favourite financial book: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.

BA in War Studies from King’s College London.