IG Markets Review 2026

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Web platform

As our premium client, you’ll be assigned your own personal premium account manager, enjoy access to our qualified market analysts and receive preferential pricing. An array of exclusive privileges beyond trading awaits you. Higher rebates, exclusive market insights and networking opportunities

A premium service for premium clients

• Exclusive pricing and insights. Access higher rebates, as well as first-in-class trade ideas provided by our market analysts
• Premium trading support. Get expert assistance when you need it most, with priority phone service and a dedicated account manager
• Events and networking opportunities. Attend exclusive events and advanced educational seminars with other like-minded traders

Enjoy great rewards with our Refer-a-friend (RAF) program - one of the best in the market. Receive up to US$10,000 when you successfully refer your friends to IG. Earn US$100 when your friend makes five qualifying trades within three months of opening a live account. On top of that, you and your friend can each earn an additional reward of up to US$1,900 based on the spreads/commissions paid by your friend, bringing the total rewards for one friend to US$2,0002. That's equivalent to US$10,000 when you make five successful referrals.

Benefit from shared knowledge with IG Community, our online space for IG clients to chat with each other and our team.

• Talk strategy and trading tips
• Have questions answered by traders and staff
• Get a sneak peek at upcoming products

Margin

CFDs are leveraged, so you can gain full exposure with just a small deposit, known as margin. This deposit isn’t actually a cost to you, but it can make a big difference to the affordability of your position. Your profit and loss are based on the full value of the position – not just the margin – so leverage magnifies your profits, as well as your losses.

Commission

If you trade shares using CFDs, you’ll be dealing at the real market price. Instead of being charged a spread, you’ll pay a small commission to open and close your position.

Your success is important to us. So we’re on hand to help you achieve your trading goals, right from the moment you join.

Support throughout your journey

• Personal service. To ensure that you’re comfortable with our products during your initial time trading with us, we have a dedicated team on hand to offer one-to-one guidance.
• Friendly, expert team. Get continued support for your trading and platform use as and when you need it from our large, highly skilled trading services team.
• Easy to contact. Get hold of us on phone, email, Twitter or live chat. We’re available 24 hours a day from 8am Saturday to 10pm Friday (GMT).

In-platform support

• When the pressure’s on, make your decision in moments with the powerful tools in our platform.
• Reinforce decisions with buy and sell signals
• React to events with up-to-the-minute Reuters news
• Inform your trading with expert analysis

If you see opportunity in volatility, trade our flexible online options. Speculate on a range of assets, and get the expertise and support of the world’s No.1 CFD provider. Options trading is the act of buying and selling options. These are contracts that give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset at a set price, if it moves beyond that price within a set timeframe. With us, you’ll trade options using CFDs.

Why trade options with us?

• Find an option to suit you. Trade major indices, shares and FX with daily or weekly, monthly and quarterly options.
• Pay zero spread on expiry. Buy and sell options with no closing spread when you hold them until their fixed expiry date
• Discover new opportunities. Develop options trading strategies using a variety of options
• Trade on volatility itself. Take a position on rising, falling and even flat markets all over the world

Ways to trade options with us

Trade options using CFDs on our award-winning trading platform.2

Take advantage of the relationship between long-term interest rates and bond prices.

CFDs are leveraged product, meaning you can gain full exposure to shares while only putting down a small deposit. While this magnifies possible profits, it does the same for losses. They also enable you to buy and sell shares online without ever owning the underlying asset. An additonal benefit is you can trade both rising and falling markets.

Why trade shares with us?

• Trade shares on margin. Gain full exposure for just a small initial deposit with our competitive margins
• Pay lower commission. Enjoy lower commission of 2 cents per US shares, and 0.18% on Hong Kong shares
• Access 17,000+ markets. Get exposure to a wide range of popular Asia, US and international stocks
• Discover unique opportunities. Trade out-of-hours on over 70+ US stocks, exclusively with us

See how much our Shares CFD costs. Compare the average cost of buying, holding and selling shares with our CFD trading account.

Tesla Motors Inc.

Buy 17 shares at $750 with a FX rate of 1.305 (GBP/USD)

Apple Inc.

Buy 42 shares at $308 with a FX rate of 1.305 (GBP/USD)

Indices are a measurement of the performance of a group of shares that are listed on an exchange. Because there is no underlying physical asset to exchange when trading indices, most indices trading is done with financial derivatives like CFDs. More index trading hours, more opportunity.

We offer over 30 more weekly trading hours than our nearest competitor, so you can:

• Open or edit positions when other traders can’t
• Hedge your weekday positions with a weekend one on the same market
• Act on breaking news, macroeconomic events and earnings reports as they happen

Why trade indices with IG?

• Seize exclusive opportunities on more 24-hour indices than any other provider. 
• Benefit from our unique deep liquidity – increasing the chance of your larger trades being accepted
• Get fixed spreads from 1 point on the FTSE 100 and Australia 200, and 0.4 on the US 500
• Trade on our award-winning web platform and mobile trading app
• Go short or long, to capitalise on markets falling as well as rising

Benefits of index trading

• Speculate on a group of shares for less than the cost of trading them individually
• Get exposure to an entire sector or economy at once
• Hedge against a drop in the value of your share portfolio

Take advantage of price volatility in indices, sectors, commodities, bonds or currencies.

As the world’s most-traded financial market, foreign exchange presents a wealth of opportunities for those who can harness its inherent volatility. Open a forex trading account and use our award-winning platforms to take advantage of movements in currency prices. Forex trading is the buying and selling of currencies on the foreign exchange market with the aim of making a profit. Forex is the world’s most-traded financial market, with transactions worth trillions of dollars taking place every day.

Ways to trade forex with IG

Trade more than ten cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether or litecoin without taking ownership of the underlying. Or get broad exposure in a single trade with our Crypto 10 index.

Why trade cryptocurrencies with IG?

• Trade rising and falling prices on leverage to make the most of volatility
• Improved liquidity means there’s more chance of executing your trade at your chosen price
• Preserve your capital with guaranteed stops
• Safely and easily deposit funds. We’re a regulated FTSE 250 company
• Speculate on more than ten major cryptocurrencies and crosses, or get broad exposure with our Crypto 10 index
• Practise trading forex on a demo account, in an environment with reduced risk

Strike while the iron, copper, lead, zinc, nickel or cobalt is hot. Open an account with us to start trading commodities – including metals, energies and agricultural markets. Speculate on the price of raw physical assets, such as gold, silver, oil, wheat and sugar. With us, you won’t have to take ownership of the underlying asset or worry about physical delivery.

Why trade commodities with us?

• Access a wide range of commodity markets. Choose from 35 commodities or a range of commodity stocks and ETFs
• Speculate on continuous prices. Take a position on commodity spot prices with our exclusive undated market offering
• Get the best commodity prices. Keep your costs down with spreads from just 2.8 points on Brent Crude and 0.3 on gold
• Achieve your trading goals. Focus on short-term profits with Contract for differences(CFDs)
• Keep up to date on market movements. See live market updates with our in-platform newsfeed
• Protect your capital. Attach a guaranteed stop to cap your risk – even in the most volatile market conditions