IG Markets.... :-/

Technically Fundamental

Technically Fundamental

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First - Advanced charts changed to the same ones used in IG index
Second - platform was changed a little, for the worse
Now - £30 per month for "advanced" charts

What the hell? Is this just my account?
 
They only charge for the adv. charts if you do less than 2 trades a month, it's to stop people opening an account with them for the charts then dealig through someone else
 
I havent traded for a month thats why they want to charge me.

I just read the ts + cs

F-it ill open a demo and use my charts from there ;)
 
If you do 2 FTSE £2 trades and close immediately it will cost you £8 and not £30. You're the accountant work it out
 
If you do 2 FTSE £2 trades and close immediately it will cost you £8 and not £30. You're the accountant work it out
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Why not do two EUR/USD trades at 50p each then it would only be £2 ?


Paul
 
Well they're within their rights to charge me but I stick by my view that new charts are a nightmare. I need to check it on another computer before I slag them off but on my tower and laptop the dialog box pops up whenever you roll the cursor over a tool and it stays there making other tools inacessable. It's quite annoying.

Dont understand why it needed changing at all tbh.
 
Dont understand why it needed changing at all tbh.
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It is to stop people using their platform with no benefit to IG. I also suspect that in some cases there were programmers who were using automated scripts to log in and just pull data to be used in other ways and doing this makes it more difficult. It is not that long ago that you had to pay for data anyway so things have moved on since then.


Paul
 
HaloTrader said:
If you make 2 trades per month, then you don't have to pay the £30...
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Actually that's not true. If you read their T&C's you have to pay the £30 regardless of the number of trades you make.

However if in that subsequent month you make 2 trades then they give it back to you at the end of the month - and then take out another £30 at the start of the next month.

So you are always £30 down.
 
Hoggums said:
Actually that's not true. If you read their T&C's you have to pay the £30 regardless of the number of trades you make.

However if in that subsequent month you make 2 trades then they give it back to you at the end of the month - and then take out another £30 at the start of the next month.

So you are always £30 down.
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U sure on that? I'm not going to count up my IG trades in May, but it was considerable. They didn't debit me 30 quid at the start of June, how I read it the payment is retrospective...
 
Black Swan said:
U sure on that? I'm not going to count up my IG trades in May, but it was considerable. They didn't debit me 30 quid at the start of June, how I read it the payment is retrospective...
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yeh I they give it back at the end of the month

i'll just keep using the demo chart anyway...
 
Hoggums said:
Actually that's not true. If you read their T&C's you have to pay the £30 regardless of the number of trades you make.

However if in that subsequent month you make 2 trades then they give it back to you at the end of the month - and then take out another £30 at the start of the next month.

So you are always £30 down.
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No thats not true , if u make 2 bets at MAY , they will not charge u 30 pounds next month ...
 
I use the basic IG charts. There's no fees for them trading or no trading and they are quite OK and quick to open.
The advanced ones always seemed to jam up or freeze one way or another anyway.
 
rikrok said:
I use the basic IG charts. There's no fees for them trading or no trading and they are quite OK and quick to open.
The advanced ones always seemed to jam up or freeze one way or another anyway.
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I just don't think they show enough information. How the hell you supposed to see the hourly PA at a prev swing or major res if it was 6 months ago?
 
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