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Compare trading platforms
Compare the differences between our intuitive web trading platform and app, as well as a range of advanced third-party platforms.
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Compare our core and specialist trading platforms below. Each platform can help you achieve different trading goals – so you might want to use more than one.
- Online trading platform
- Mobile trading app
- Progressive web app
- IG tastytrade platform
- ProRealTime
- MetaTrader 4
- L2 Dealer
Our web trading platform is available online for all users who are interested in CFD trading. You can manage your account, register cards, make payments, withdraw your funds and more. This platform also offers browser-based research tools such as streaming news, economic calendar and signals.
Trade CFDs using our mobile trading app – available on iOS and Android devices. You’ll have access to the same research and monitoring tools as the web-based platform, and you can view our mobile charts and open or close positions on the go.
Discover our progressive web app (PWA), which offers you a seamless trading platform on any device – without having to visit a third-party app store. The PWA is optimised to help you receive critical trading updates quickly and effortlessly, avoiding delays inherent in traditional app store review processes.
Trade on an award-winning options and futures platform. Take your position on pure-form US stocks, equity and ETF options, futures as well as futures options using mobile or web.
Trade derivatives using ProRealTime (PRT) – the leading advanced charting package on the web, offering powerful monitoring tools, flexible access and advanced analysis resources. PRT is suitable for technical chart users, and free if you trade CFDs at least four times a month.
Download MetaTrader 4 (MT4) for free and access advanced analysis and automated trading tools with MetaTrader 4 – a popular third-party platform for CFD trading. Plus, you’ll receive a range of free add-ons from us.
Get direct market access (DMA) and helpful monitoring tools including watchlists, price alerts and algorithmic orders with L2 Dealer – our DMA platform for share or forex CFD trading.
Our trading platforms comparison
| Online trading platform | Mobile trading app | Progressive web app | US options and futures platform | |
| Accessibility | Browser-based | Download | Browser-based with mobile shortcut | Web and mobile |
| Suitability | All users | All users | All users | All users |
| Platform costs | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Exchange fees | Monthly fees for certain exchanges and level 2 shares data for CFD accounts | Monthly fees for certain exchanges and level 2 shares data for CFD accounts | Monthly fees for certain exchanges and level 2 shares data for CFD accounts | Applicable exchange, clearing, and regulatory fees can apply to all opening and closing trades |
| Available products | CFDs | CFDs | CFDs | US-listed stocks, equity and ETF options, futures and futures options |
| Tradeable markets | All | All | All | Depends on account type (futures are only available on margin accounts) |
| Research tools | In-platform newsfeeds from our expert team and Reuters, economic calendar access, signals | In-platform newsfeeds from our expert team and Reuters, economic calendar, signals | None | Research tab with fundamental stock information, balance sheets, income statements and statements of cash flows. Analyse companies, revenue, net income, liabilities and assets |
| Monitoring tools | Watchlists, price alerts, orders, Autochartist | Watchlists, price alerts, orders | Watchlists, orders | Watchlists, price alerts, orders |
| Charts | IG charts, ProRealTime access, Autochartist | IG mobile charts | IG mobile charts | tastytrade charts |
| Trade from charts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Price improvement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Direct market access (DMA) | No | Available on iOS | No | No |
| Order types | Limits, stops, guaranteed stops, trailing stops, market orders | Limits, stops, guaranteed stops, trailing stops, market orders | Limits, stops, guaranteed stops, trailing stops, market orders | Market orders, stop orders, limit orders, bracket orders |
| Automated trading strategies | No | No | No | Strategy selector only |
| Account management | Use My IG, our account management area, to register cards, make payments, withdraw funds, view history and manage settings | Register cards, make payments, withdraw funds, bank transfers, PayPal, view history, manage settings | Use My IG to register cards, make payments and manage settings | Use My IG to make payments and manage settings |
Compare specialist platforms
| ProRealTime | MetaTrader4 | L2 Dealer | |
| Desktop accessibility | Download | Download | Download |
| Mobile accessibility | No | Yes, through app | No |
| Suitability | Technical chart users | Forex specialists | Advanced shares traders |
| Platform costs | Free if you transact at least four times in a month. If not, a $40 per month fee will apply | Free | Free (minimum $2000 balance required) |
| Exchange fees | Monthly fees for certain exchange stock feeds on a CFD account | None | Monthly fees for shares data and level 2 prices |
| Available products | CFDs | CFDs | CFDs |
| Tradeable markets | All markets (apart from DMA and sprints) | Forex, indices, oil and major metals | DMA forex* and shares OTC forex, shares, indices and commodities |
| Streaming Reuters news | No | No | Yes |
| Monitoring tools | ProScreener, Alerts, TopMovers, Lists, ProRealTrend and Automated trading | Automated trading | Algorithmic orders, watchlists and customisable alerts |
| Charts | Advanced ProRealTime charts | Advanced MT4 charts | ProRealTime access |
| Trade from charts | Yes | Yes | Yes (through ProRealTime, OTC only) |
| Price improvement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Direct market access (DMA) | No | No | Yes. Forex and shares CFDs only. |
| Order types | Market orders, limits, stops, trailing stops, market if touched | Market orders, limits, stops, stop-loss, take profit | Algo trades, limits, market orders, tranche orders, fill or kill, execute and eliminate, date, day, good for auction, good till cancel, at the auction, at the open, at the close, at best |
| Automated trading strategies | Yes | Yes | No |
| Account management | Register cards, withdraw funds, view history, manage settings | Handled through the web-based platform | Register cards, make payments, withdraw funds, view history, manage settings |
| Add-ons | Import indicators | A range of free add-ons from us, plus access to Autochartist | Bloomberg, FIX API |
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