What are IG's cryptocurrencies MT4 product details?

Notes to table

1. Markets close at 10pm on Friday night (UK time), then reopen on Saturday at 8am (UK time). Please note that your account can go on margin call during the weekends as the cryptocurrencies market is open.

2. Please note that in times of high volatility, our minimum spreads can increase significantly.

3. Professional clients are exempt from regulatory limits on leverage in place for retail clients, and are able to trade on lower margins as a result. You can find out more, and check your eligibility, on our professional trading page.

4. Margin requirements represent a percentage of the overall position value.

Overnight funding charges

• If you are long, for Bitcoin you will pay a daily overnight funding charge of 0.0694% (25% per Annum) for positions held at 10pm UK time. For Ether/Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash/Bitcoin and Crypto 10 you will pay 0.0625% (22.5% per annum). For all other cryptocurrency positions you will pay 0.0764% (27.5% per-annum).
• If you are short, for Bitcoin you will receive a daily overnight funding charge of 0.0139% (5% per Annum) for positions held at 10pm UK time. For Ether/Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin you will pay 0.0208% (7.5% per annum). For Crypto 10 you will receive 0.0208% (7.5% per annum) and for all other cryptocurrencies you will receive 0.0347% (12.5% per-annum).
• Please note that for any position held through 10pm (London time), we’ll make a daily interest credit or debit adjustment Monday to Sunday. Adjustments to the number of days charged will be made in advance of the Christmas and New Year holidays, to cover settlement of trades over these bank holidays

We review our overnight funding charges frequently, and keep our website and contract details updated with the latest rates.

See below overnight funding calculations for bitcoin as an example.

Who can trade cryptocurrency?

Under FCA rules, only professional traders can trade cryptocurrency with derivatives like spread bets and CFDs. Learn more about professional trading and check your eligibility on our professional account page.

IG policy on blockchain forks

We base the price of our cryptocurrency products on the underlying market, made available to us by the exchanges and market-makers with which we trade.

There is currently one accepted decentralised ledger which records all cryptocurrencies transactions – as well as an equivalent for ether – called the blockchain. When the software of different miners becomes misaligned, a split – or 'fork' – in the blockchain may occur. This results in the existence of two different blockchains.

Generally, cryptocurrency users quickly agree which version to continue to use, causing minimal disruption. The old version of the blockchain is then discontinued.

In the event that one version isn't discontinued – known as a hard fork – we will generally follow the blockchain that has the majority consensus of cryptocurrency users, and will therefore use this as the basis for our prices. We reserve the right to determine which blockchain and cryptocurrency unit have the majority consensus behind them.

If the hard fork results in a viable second cryptocurrency, we may create an equivalent position on client accounts to reflect this. However this action is at our absolute discretion, and we will have no obligation to do so. If, and when, the second cryptocurrency is tradeable on a major exchange, we will endeavour to represent that value. We’ll do this either by making the product available to close based on the valuation on that venue, or by booking a cash adjustment on client accounts. If, within a reasonable timeframe, the second currency does not become tradeable on major exchanges or is otherwise deemed not to be viable as a currency (for example, it is not mined), we may delete any positions that had previously been created at no value on client accounts. We will take steps to notify you when we have taken this action.

When a hard fork occurs, there may be substantial price volatility around the event, and we may suspend trading throughout if we do not have reliable prices from the underlying market.

We will endeavour to notify you of potential blockchain forks, however it is your responsibility to make yourself aware of the forks that could occur.

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