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Anyone noticed if availability of small caps has got better since they started a stock broking service? What percentage of small caps are you able to trade now? I've mostly been trading mid to large caps on there at the moment. Also, when you check the ''info'' on shares on IG, will the info...

My combined profits in my IG CFD account dont seem to add up to my ''equity'' balance. Can someone remind me how to calculate my combined winnings and add them to my cash balance so i can get my total account balance if i were to close my account tomorrow. I dont see any explanation of equity...

Got a dumb question. When you want to calculate how much you are up in total in profit on your IG.com account where do you go to on the platform? ie, say you just want to see how much you are up in your SB & CFD account including both running profit & loss in current positions and the sum of...

Hello, In this statement below from Ocado what does this mean ; ''(the "Directors") were granted an option over shares in the Company with a nil exercise price'' http://www.investegate.co.uk/ocado-group-plc--ocdo-/rns/director-pdmr-shareholding/201405091122157206G/ And does this statement...

Is it ok to Spread bet and use CFD with most of the major SB firms if you are a UK expat living in asia ? Which companies are ok with it ?

Any recommendations for UK expats in aisa ? A regular stock broker for UK and U.S shares that you can also trade small caps and AIM shares ? Thanks

Hello, With IG Markets the interest charged on CFD's is 2.5% above libor. So IB cfd's are 1.5% + the current GBP LIBOR (Overnight Rate) of 0.479% ?? Is that right ? If i wanted to compare IB with IG markets can i just make sure exactly what interest i would have to pay right now for say a cfd...

Thanks for the reply. How are the bond futures better than say the Barclays etf - TLT ? Cheers

Anyone have any experience of the best way to go long U.S treasuries via IG Markets/index ? Cheers

I use Proreal. Great charts. Love it. How do you feel about using Java on the IG platform though considering the recent security issues with Java ?

OK, so what about a share thats very overvalued on a p/e of 30 that suddenly posts a profit warning. Everyone knows its in for a big fall, but its probably one scenario where a stop loss would make sense for the guys who are big in the money already.

Who uses market orders when they can get you in or out at ANY price ? Most people use limit orders as they get you in or out at a price YOU want. What is the ratio of ''scalpers'' to investors/longer term traders ? No contest surely and scalpers wont move the markets an inch on 1c movements...

So basically given a negative news catalyst , if most stop losses are placed around support levels any big selling forcing the share price through to the stop losses would trigger a wave of more selling demand than buying no ?

Trader333, I'm not sure thats true to be honest. Surely support and resistance is just alot of investors agreeing that a security is fairly priced until the next catalyst. Those same support levels are where most investors bought in and would rather sell at break even than a loss. The pro...

Taken from the IG dma trading manual ; ''If you short sell a stock and the underlying share becomes unborrowable, meaning that we are unable to hedge against possible losses, your order will be closed at the market level. A share may either be unborrowable from the outset or our brokers or...