Home to key stocks including AstraZeneca, Shell and Tesco, the FTSE 100 is the UK's premier stock index. Discover how the benchmark is calculated and find out how you can get exposure via trading or investing in the UK’s largest companies by market capitalisation.
With minimum sizes at 1p per point you can open trades on major markets such as FTSE 100, Nasdaq, GBP/USD with as little as £5.
For a limited time, we’re scrapping the IG spread on all FTSE 100 share trades2. That means you’ll only pay the market spread, giving you the chance to truly make the most of every market move. All spread betting profits are tax and stamp duty free.
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1 For CFDs, Based on revenue (published financial statements, 2022); number of active UK financial spread betting accounts (Investment Trends UK Leveraged Trading Report October 2016); for forex based on number of primary relationships with FX traders (Investment Trends UK Leveraged Trading Report October 2016).
2 IG will not apply its spread charges on spread bets placed in Tier 1 on FTSE 100 stocks during all trading sessions from 5 September 2025 until further notice. All other applicable costs and charges, including market spread, will be charged as normal on such spread bets regardless of the notional value of the spread bet.