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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.

Reduced minimums

Ready to take the next step on your trading journey? Get reduced minimum trade sizes for a month when you open a live CFD trading account or upgrade from a demo account.

Start trading today. For account opening enquiries call 1800 601 799 between 9am and 6pm (AEDT) weekdays, or email newaccounts.au@ig.com.

What are the benefits of reduced minimums?

Trade in a reduced-risk environment

Start building your confidence trading on live markets for your first 31 days

Speculate with real capital

Unlike a demo account, you’ll have the opportunity to make real profits (or losses)

Choose how you want to trade

Reduced minimum trade sizes

What are reduced minimums?

Reduced minimum trade sizes enable you to take a position at 25% of the size that we normally require. This means they are a great way to start trading, or an ideal next step if you’ve been perfecting your trading skills on our demo account. Although you’ll be trading on live markets, you’ll be able to lessen your exposure, and so reduce your risk.

This offering is available for the entirety of your first 31 days trading from a live CFD account, across all of our markets.

Our prices are already competitive, but our reduced minimum trade sizes will help you keep costs down while you build your confidence trading live.

  • CFDs
Market Standard (after 31 days) Lower minimum bet size (first 31 days)
Australia 200 1 0.25
AUD/USD 1 0.25
Gold 0.5 0.2

Fill in our simple online form

We’ll ask a few questions about your trading experience.

Get swift verification

We can usually verify your ID in just a few seconds.

Fund your account and trade

Or practice on a demo if you’d prefer.

Open a live account today

Fast execution on a huge range of markets

Enjoy flexible access to more than 17,000 global markets, with reliable execution

Deal seamlessly, wherever you are

Trade on the move with our natively designed, award-winning trading app

Feel secure with a trusted provider

With 45 of experience, we’re proud to offer a truly market-leading service

Start trading now

Log in to your account now to access today’s opportunity in a huge range of markets.

Access over 17,000 markets

You can find opportunity in rising and falling markets across a range of asset classes, including:

Forex

Indices

Shares

Commodities

Cryptocurrencies

FAQs

Am I eligible for reduced minimums?

You’ll be eligible for reduced minimum trade sizes if:

  • You’re a new client, who is within the first month of creating their live account, or
  • You’ve been using an IG demo account and are within the first month of upgrading to a live account

How long will I be able to enjoy lower minimums for?

You’ll be able to take advantage of our lower minimums offering for 31 days after you have opened your live account. During this time you can build your confidence trading, ready to start trading our standard trade sizes.

Do I have to be a new client to use reduced minimums?

Yes – or at least, you’ll have to have a new live CFD trading account. If you have already been using our demo account, you can upgrade to a live account and still use reduced minimum trade sizes for the first month.

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