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We are clear about our charges, so you always know what
fees you will incur when you trade with us
You pay a spread on every non-share CFD and you pay commission on every share CFD trade.
Region |
Commission |
Min charge |
Min charge (phone) |
---|---|---|---|
Switzerland Blue Chip | 0.10% | 10 CHF | CHF25 |
US | 2 cents per share | US$15 | $25 |
Euro1 | 0.10% | €10 | €25 |
UK | 0.10% | £10 | £15 |
1 Euro includes: Belgium, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain
With share CFDs you trade at the real market price, so we don't attach our own spread. Instead, we take a small commission when you open the position, and again when you close it. In each instance, a minimum charge applies.
Market name |
Value |
Min spread |
Margin required |
---|---|---|---|
CHF10 | 2 | 1.5% | |
Spot USD/JPY | Y1000 | 0.7 | 0.5% |
Spot EUR/USD | US$10 | 0.6 | 0.5% |
Spot GBP/USD | US$10 | 0.9 | 1% |
The spread is the difference between our Sell and Buy prices. We derive these prices based on the underlying market’s value.
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Market name |
Value of one contract |
Best available spread |
Margin per contract |
---|---|---|---|
Switzerland Blue Chip 24 hours |
CHF10 | 2 |
0.75% |
Wall Street |
US$10 | 1.6 | 0.5% |
FTSE 100 24 hours |
£10 | 1 | 0.5% |
Germany 30 24 hours |
€25 | 1 | 0.5% |
The spread is the difference between our Sell and Buy prices. We derive these prices based on the underlying market’s value.
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Market name |
Value of one contract |
Spread |
Margin per contract |
---|---|---|---|
Spot Gold | US$100 | 0.3 | 0.7% |
US$50 | 2 | 2% | |
Oil - US Crude | US$10 | 2.8 | 1.5% |
Oil - Brent Crude | US$10 | 2.8 | 1.5% |
The spread is the difference between our Sell and Buy prices. We derive these prices based on the underlying market’s value.
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If you keep a position open overnight we make an interest adjustment to your account, including our fee of 2.5%.* We debit your account if your position is long, and credit your account for a short position – if the interbank rate is greater than 2.5%.*
When trading forex, the funding cost is calculated differently. See the table below.
Long positions |
Short positions |
Forex positions |
---|---|---|
We charge 2.5% above the relevant interbank rate.* Eg. If the relevant interbank 1-month rate is 0.5%, you would be charged 3.00% (annualised). |
You receive the relevant interbank rate, minus 2.5%.* If the interbank rate is greater than 2.5%,* we credit your account; if the interbank rate is less than 2.5%,* your account is debited. Eg. If the relevant interbank 1-month rate is 0.5%, you would be charged 2.00% (annualised). |
For forex positions, we charge funding based on the current tom-next rate. Tom-next shows, in points, the difference between the interest paid to borrow the currency that is being notionally sold, and the interest received from holding the currency. |
* 3% on mini and micro CFD contracts.
We offer futures for fixed-expiry trades on stock indices and commodities. We build the overnight funding charges into the spread, so that everything is included. This makes it easier to identify your break-even level on your trade.
Stock index |
Futures spread |
Commodity |
Futures spread |
---|---|---|---|
Switzerland Blue Chip | 4 | Spot Gold | 0.6 |
Wall Street | 6 | Spot Silver | 3 |
Germany 30 | 6 | Oil - US Crude | 6 |
More indices | More commodities |
Our margins are among the lowest in the CFD industry. Through a system of tiered margining we can offer lower rates for the majority of positions.
Margin trading gives you full exposure to a market using only a fraction of the capital you’d normally need.
Margin is the amount of money you need to open a position, defined by the margin rate.
CFD are leveraged product, you don’t need to pay the full value of your exposure in order to trade. Instead, you’ll only need to put up a fraction of your total exposure to open your position.
There are two types of margin to consider:
The initial margin is the minimum amount you’ll need to put up to open a position. It is sometimes called the deposit margin, or just the deposit.
The maintenance margin, also known as variation margin, is extra money that we might need to request from you if your position moves against you. Its purpose is to ensure you have enough money in your account to fund the present value of the position at all times – covering any running losses.
At IG we offer competitive margins across our full range of markets.
We operate a tiered margining policay on all our markets, excluding digital 100s.
Smaller trade sizes generally benefit from better market liquidity and these positions attract our lowest margin rates.
For shares CFD trading there are some extra services that we charge for.
Service |
Charge |
---|---|
Direct Market Access (DMA) | There’s no charge for using DMA to trade CFDs on forex and shares, though in order to access live DMA prices for some shares you’ll need to pay a monthly exchange fee. |
Live price data feeds | Obtaining live share prices from an exchange to trade share CFDs will incur a monthly fee. |
ProRealTime Charts | Subscribing to real-time charts costs 45 CHF per month. This is refunded if you place four or more trades a month. We reserve the right to charge you for the service if your qualifying trades are of an extremely low value. |
Inactivity fee | We charge a 18 CHF fee on the first of every month, if no trading activity has occurred for two years or more. |
Account documentation fee | We charge a $50 fee on accounts which have not supplied a mandatory W-8 or W-9 form prior to the dividend ex-date of a qualifying trade on a US-incorporated stock. We do not apply this fee to accounts with up-to-date documentation or accounts which have not entered into qualifying trades. We will notify you if you have entered into a qualifying trade and need to complete a form. |
It’s free to open an account and there’s no obligation to fund or trade.
Tiered margining enables us to set margin rates that reflect and best fit the size of your aggregate position* in a particular market. The majority of positions will attract our lowest margin rates, reflecting the liquidity of the market at smaller deal sizes. The largest positions may require greater margin, as it is more difficult to trade out of these positions quickly.
We will determine your initial margin using a table of four incremental tiers. The margin rate will increase progressively as your aggregate position moves up from one tier to the next. However, only the portion of your position that falls into a higher tier will be subject to its increased margin rate.
The range of the four tiers differs for every market.
See our tiered margining list for share CFDs. For our tiered margining levels on other markets, please use Get Info inside our trading platform.
* For the purposes of tiered margining, your aggregate position includes your non-limited-risk open positions and orders to open.
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