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New to IG: +35 318 009 95362
Existing clients: +35 318 009 95364
Email: newaccounts.uk@ig.com
Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. You could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. You could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.
Start trading now
It’s free to open an account and no downloads are required to use our web-based platform.
Platform features
Get the edge with our powerful charts and fast, reliable execution technology.
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Over 100 technical indicators
Access all the indicators you need to drive your technical analysis
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Deal direct from charts
Attach stops and limits, set alerts, and place deals – without moving away from your chart
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Flexible charts for every market
Easily study price trends, with charts you can customise to your needs
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We source the best prices
We visit a large number of venues to make sure we give you the best price we can
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Price improvement technology
We’ll let you know if a better price becomes available as you click to trade
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Fast execution
Our systems are built to handle huge numbers of trades very quickly
Powerful technical charts
IG account holders get free essential charts in our web-based platform; plus mobile charts for analysis on the move.
Analyse
- Access a huge range of technical indicators, like MACD and RSI
- Highlight key trends with customisable annotation tools
- Compare up to six markets on a single chart
Customise
- Zoom, pan and change resolution as you analyse the markets
- Easily change chart style and colour
- Save your preferences for future analysis
Trade
Deal faster with more features available direct on charts:
- Place trades, without the need to open a deal ticket
- Use your chart to attach stops, limits and alerts
Independent technical analysis
Our research offering goes further than just live charts. Get access to technical and trend analysis on forex, shares, and more – completely free of charge.
Signal Centre
The free technical analysis software that helps you identify the right time to trade on forex, indices and commodities markets.
- Get alerted about significant market trends
- Real-time signals, integrated into your platform
- Concise, actionable buy or sell suggestions
- Delivered direct from Autochartist and PIA-First
Watchlists
Keep track of your preferred markets by grouping them together in a watchlist. Monitor prices for related markets, and deal easily on favourites without having to navigate through multiple windows.
Creating and populating a watchlist
1. Select New Watchlist from the bottom of the Finder panel
2. Enter a name for your watchlist and click Submit
3. Click your market’s dropdown menu and select Add to Watchlist
Watchlists
Keep track of your preferred markets by grouping them together in a watchlist. Monitor prices for related markets, and deal easily on favourites without having to navigate through multiple windows.
Creating and populating a watchlist
Desktop IG Trading platform
1. Click Watchlists in the left-hand panel
2. Click the Create watchlist button and name your watchlist
3. Right-click on your market and select Add to watchlist
Desktop Old Trading platform
1. Select New Watchlist from the bottom of the Finder panel
2. Enter a name for your watchlist and click Submit
3. Click your market’s dropdown menu and select Add to Watchlist
iPhone IG Trading app
1. Select Watchlists on the bottom left
2. Tap ‘+’ next to Custom Watchlists, name and create
3. Search for your market, and tap to add
Android IG Trading app
1. Tap the menu icon next to the market you’d like to watch
2. Tap Add to watchlist
3. Either create a new watchlist, or add to an existing one
Watchlists
Keep track of your preferred markets by grouping them together in a watchlist. Monitor prices for related markets, and deal easily on favourites without having to navigate through multiple windows.
Creating and populating a watchlist
iPhone IG Trading app
1. Select Watchlists on the bottom left
2. Tap ‘+’ next to Custom Watchlists, name and create
3. Search for your market, and tap to add
Desktop IG Trading platform
1. Click Watchlists in the left-hand panel
2. Click the Create watchlist button and name your watchlist
3. Right-click on your market and select Add to watchlist
Desktop Old Trading platform
1. Select New Watchlist from the bottom of the Finder panel
2. Enter a name for your watchlist and click Submit
3. Click your market’s dropdown menu and select Add to Watchlist
Watchlists
Keep track of your preferred markets by grouping them together in a watchlist. Monitor prices for related markets, and deal easily on favourites without having to navigate through multiple windows.
Creating and populating a watchlist
Android IG Trading app
1. Tap the menu icon next to the market you’d like to watch
2. Tap Add to watchlist
3. Either create a new watchlist, or add to an existing one
Desktop IG Trading platform
1. Click Watchlists in the left-hand panel
2. Click the Create watchlist button and name your watchlist
3. Right-click on your market and select Add to watchlist
Desktop Old Trading platform
1. Select New Watchlist from the bottom of the Finder panel
2. Enter a name for your watchlist and click Submit
3. Click your market’s dropdown menu and select Add to Watchlist
Open an account to start organising your trading with watchlists in our platform
Advanced trading tools
We also offer a range of advanced execution and charting tools for experienced traders.
ProRealTime
You can get access to ProRealTime charts at no extra cost if you transact at least four times in a given month. However, if you don't meet this requirement, or your trading activity is of extremely low value, then a £30 per month fee will apply on the last day of every calendar month.
L2 Dealer
Our downloadable DMA platform provides powerful, flexible DMA access for advanced traders using our Shares DMA and Forex Direct1 services.2
Execution, pricing and technology
Our robust systems are engineered to cope with large volumes of traffic, and designed to get you the best price we can.
How we give you the best price
When dealing on live prices, IG's order management system will never fill you at a level worse than the one you requested. A symmetrical tolerance level is set a certain distance either side of your requested price – if the market stays within this range by the time we receive your order, your order will be executed at the level you requested.
When markets can change in milliseconds, our price improvement technology means if a better price becomes available as you click to trade, we will fill your order there. If the market moves the other way we will reject the order and ask you to re-submit, rather than filling you at a price you didn’t request.
We do these checks to ensure the price your order is filled at is consistent with the current price that is available to our clients.
How we source the best prices
Our forex prices are sourced from top global banks and exchanges. For shares, we use primary exchanges like LSE and our multi-venue technology to source prices from two leading European exchanges, Chi-X and BATS.
This means you get greater liquidity and can access the best prices from around the globe, plus we can continue to quote even if an exchange goes down. For some illiquid shares we use market-maker prices, and we make our own prices for out-of-hours markets.
How we keep our platforms secure
All our platforms use top-level web security, so you can trade with confidence.
We utilise 256-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, which is the industry standard for online financial transactions, from PayPal and eBay to high street banks.
How our technology can help you manage your risk
We offer a range of tools to help you manage your exposure. All our risk management tools are designed to be easy to apply. Properly utilised, they can help safeguard you against the risks of leveraged trading.
Our technology includes free price alerts to notify you of the latest market movements and trailing stops to lock in potential profits without manually monitoring your position. You can also place an absolute limit on potential loss with our guaranteed stops. These are subject to an additional charge if triggered.
Find out more about risk management.
FAQs
Which prices are live and is there a fee for this?
If you haven’t activated exchange data feeds, then your CFD prices will be derived and shown in real time.
You can activate exchange data feeds within the platform to show real-time exchange prices. Activating data feeds incurs a fee from any exchange you subscribe to.
ProRealTime chart prices are also live, and incur a fee of $40 per month if you subscribe. This fee is refunded if at least four trades are transacted in a given month. We reserve the right to charge you for the service if your qualifying trades are of an extremely low value.
Live DMA price feeds are also chargeable.
Do you support technical indicators?
Our charts offer over 100 technical indicators, including Moving Average, Exponential Moving Average, Stochastic and Bollinger Bands.
How do alerts work?
You can create alerts for a range of situations, ranging from an underlying market hitting a certain level, to more complex conditions which combine up to three technical indicators. To set an alert, use the 'alerts' tab at the top of your chosen chart in the platform. Once your criteria are met, notifications will be sent to your inbox or mobile device.
How does DMA pricing technology work?
When you are trading share CFDs and click on one of the prices in our DMA platforms, the smart order routing technology we use immediately routes your order to the relevant venue. By routing your order across multiple order books it's more likely that your order will be filled, but you will only ever be charged one commission per order.
If your requested size and price is not available, your order will be routed to the primary exchange, where the greatest level of liquidity is generally available.
Discover our platforms
Our platforms allow access to charting technology on desktop, tablet
and mobile so you can identify and react to breaking market trends
wherever you are.
1 From 2 July 2018, regulatory interventions mean that certain products are unavailable to retail traders. As a result, we can only offer Forex Direct to professional traders. To find out more about this, and to check whether you are eligible for a professional account, please see our professional account page.
2 L2 Dealer is free to download. However, you may have to pay some exchange's data usage fees. IG will rebate these fees for active traders. Contact us for more information on these costs, plus commission and funding charges.
