IG

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Coincidence or "Extremely Unfortunate" as the broker put it on the phone... You decide...

Leading edge Spread Betting platform

Most reliable platform I have used.

Widest selection of markets.

Great execution.

Facilities and features available leading edge and more than other brokers.

Good service & support.

A great easy platform

I have used IGIndex for years now and they have made some chages for the better. There charts are the best and I use their charts for my technical analysis (although you should have a seperate software for in depth analysis like metastock) as the are presented quickly and without crashing or slowing things down. One of the easiest yet complete (not babyish or primative... still looks professional and sophisticated) platforms out there... and one of the bigges and longest running.

Straight Up

IG are absolutely superb, good range of markets, smart platform with good charts and a lot of good research, but most importantly excellent customer service. Any problems I've ever had (including a gross error on rolling a position) have been resolved promptly and without question. Big thumbs up.

Probably best CFD provider ...

If you use L2, know what you are doing, and trade in decent size, IG is the place to be.

You can negotiate commissions - even at small trade size levels (I did).

Largest universe of US stocks for CFD provider.

Decent customer service.

When you trade with IG(DMA) you are trading in the market, buying and selling for their account, but IG is writing you a CFD contract. They are not trading against you as a quote driven provide would be doing(CMC)

A good outfit.

I actually rate IG. I think their platform makes for easy trading, customer service are competent and the spreads - while not the best in the world - do not suffer from requotes.

IG INDEX

The trading platform is very easy to use, I have found it to be 100% reliable. If it has one drawback then it has to be the very limited amount of tick data shown in it's chart. Their quoted prices are pretty much in line with the actual market prices.

Orders are filled very quickly indeed and confirmations come through in an instant. However even if there is a delay of a few seconds the price you get is exactly the price where you pressed buy/sell, there is no re-quoting.

Control risk bets are available and the cost is included into the initial spread, the only drawback is I have not found a method of moving stops to protect profit.

Telephone support is polite, professional and prompt. As for training I have not attended any of their seminars but I intend to in the near future.

Value for money, all charges are taken on the opening position, therefore I know exactly what I must expect my trade to do before I make break eave/profit.

IG Index Spread betting

I've used IG Index for last 6 months. They old trading platform wasn't impressive at all. But they have launched a new java based platform since 7th January. It is very good. Apart from realtime execution, you can have access to DowJones news, a very good charting (unfortunatlly with 15 minutes delay) but it is still very useful for historical charts and for people who do not have access to other chartings like CQG, Reuters graph ...

They spread between popular stocks are very narrow and in a big size trades it is better than trading CFDs or stocks.

I would recomend it to all.