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Professional collateral service
Make your investments work harder. Use up to 95% of the value of your IG stock trading account as collateral to cover your leveraged trades.
Professional collateral service
Make your investments work harder. Use up to 95% of the value of your IG stock trading account as collateral to cover your leveraged trades.
Start trading today. Call +971 (0) 4 5592108 or email sales.ae@ig.com. Our sales team is available from 8:00am to 6:00pm (Dubai time), Monday to Friday.
Contact us: +971 (0) 4 5592108
Start trading today. Call +971 (0) 4 5592108 or email sales.ae@ig.com. Our sales team is available from 8:00am to 6:00pm (Dubai time), Monday to Friday.
Contact us: +971 (0) 4 5592108
What is collateral?
Our collateral service enables you to use a percentage of the value of your IG stock trading account, instead of cash, to cover margin requirements on one of your IG CFD accounts.
Your shareholdings remain intact and retain their full value, you simply use a percentage of their worth as collateral to fund shorter-term trades.
Could I lose my shares?
If your trades start to realise losses, we’ll give you plenty of opportunity to cover them with cash.
If you don’t, and your account equity drops to -50% of your collateral value, we’ll follow our normal process: closing the trade and letting you know that your account is in debit.
For example, if you’ve linked collateral worth $500, your positions will be closed when your account reaches negative equity of $250.
We’ll only take control of your shares if your account remains in debit after we’ve gone through this process. Please ensure you have enough cash in your CFD account, or transferable cash, to cover any losses.
How do I qualify for IG’s professional collateral service?
Firstly, you need to be eligible for an IG professional account.
You’ll also need an IG stock trading account, and a CFD trading account with us.
Applying to be treated as a professional
No IG account yet?
Applying to be treated as a professional
No IG account yet?
Apply for a CFD account with our simple online form
Log in to your newly created account, go to ‘settings’ > ‘client and account status’ on desktop, or ‘accounts’ in-app
Complete the professional application form
Keep an eye on your emails once you’ve applied. Here’s a reminder of the requirements for becoming a pro trader.
Applying to be treated as a professional
No IG account yet?
Applying to be treated a professional
No IG account yet?
Apply for a CFD account with our simple online form
Log in to your newly created account, go to ‘settings’ > ‘client and account status’ on desktop, or ‘accounts’ in-app
Complete the professional application form
Keep an eye on your emails once you’ve applied. Here’s a reminder of the requirements for becoming a pro trader.
Applying to be treated a professional
Trading with us already?
Applying to be treated a professional
Trading with us already?
Log in to My IG or the IG Trading app
Go to ‘settings’ > ‘client and account status’ on desktop, or ‘accounts’ in-app
Complete the professional application form
Keep an eye on your emails once you’ve applied. Here’s a reminder of the requirements for becoming a pro trader.
How do I set up the collateral service?
First, you’ll need to link your IG stock trading account to your IG CFD account:
Create your accounts if you don’t yet have them – you need a stock trading account, and a CFD account.
Log in and apply to be treated as a professional trader – find out how below.
Once you’ve been classified as a professional, log in to My IG, go to ‘live accounts’ and then ‘set up collateral’.
Once your accounts are linked, you can use up to 95% of the value of your share portfolio to cover the margin on your CFDs.
You can only use the value of your shares to cover the margin on your leveraged trades. Running losses need to be covered by cash in your leveraged account.
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FAQs
Is collateral available on non-professional IG accounts?
No, only professional traders can use our collateral service.
Why? Well, our collateral service enables pro traders to open CFD trades with margin requirements that exceed the cash on their account. This is useful, because it gives them freedom to put the value of their shareholdings to work and use the capital elsewhere. However, this also means that a professional trader could lose more than the cash on their account.
Retail traders, on the other hand, can’t lose more than what’s on their account due to regulatory protection. We can therefore only offer our collateral services to Professional Clients.
Can I transfer existing shareholdings to IG?
Yes. If you have an IG stock trading account, transfer your existing shareholdings to IG. You can open an IG stock trading account for free and fill out the form here.
Does collateral cover running losses?
No. Collateral can only be used on your CFD account to cover deposit requirements for open positions. Collateral cannot be used to cover running losses, so you will need to ensure that there are sufficient funds in your account to cover any such losses to avoid bringing your account into margin call.
Is the ‘collateral available’ figure real-time?
Yes, the 'collateral available' will be real-time. This means the value of the assets in your stock trading account that will be available to you, the ‘collateral available’, will fluctuate according to the price movement(s) of the stock(s) held in your stock trading account.
Is collateral available on corporate accounts
Yes, we do offer collateral for professional corporate accounts.
Can I move cash or stock on the stock trading account?
If you hold cash in your stock trading account and it is being used to maintain open positions on your margin trading account, you will not be able to withdraw these funds until this cash is no longer being utilised as collateral.
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