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Find the perfect combination of platforms to suit your trading strategy.

IG platforms

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Online platform

Choose our award-winning¹ online platform for a seamless trading experience.

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Mobile app

All the features you need, whenever and wherever you need them.

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Third-party platforms

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TradingView

Chart, trade, and connect with traders using real-time data and technical tools.

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MetaTrader 4

Trade with customisable charts and automated strategies.

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ProRealTime

Analyse markets with advanced charting, custom tools and professional insights.

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Explore L2 Dealer

Access direct market trading with full order book transparency.

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Key features of the IG platform

  • Deal ticket
  • Charts
  • News and analysis
  • IG Live
  • Alerts
  • Signals
  • Customisation

Take full control over each trade with just a few clicks, in our easy-to-use deal ticket:

  • Get an instant overview of market prices, spread, and margin with our simple, clean design
  • Reduce risk and protect your profits with our stops and limits – including guaranteed stops for watertight protection2
  • Choose your preferred currency to keep conversion charges down.
  • Trade automatically by setting orders to open at your chosen level, then choose their expiry date or close manually
  • Set alerts to trigger when a market moves an amount, hits a price level or meets your technical conditions
  • Find dealing specs in the ‘information’ tab – minimum stop distances and trade sizes, margin factors and more

Get right to the heart of price action and make the most of opportunity with our fast, clear, smart charts.

  • Track performance across timeframes ranging from tick-by-tick to monthly
  • Compare up to four timeframes on a single chart
  • Perform in-depth analysis with 28 indicators (including MACD, RSI and Bollinger Bands) and 19 drawings
  • Experience modern trading technology, supported by HTML5 technology, on any browser
  • Deal in an instant, direct from charts – open, close and edit positions in a couple of clicks
  • Get integrated access to ProRealTime, the leading web-based charting package for advanced traders

Keep up with financial announcements, and stay ahead of market movements, with a news and analysis package built into our online trading platform.

  • Twitter | Facebook | Instagram: Follow our curated feeds for real-time updates from financial news outlets, analysts and institutions
  • Reuters: Read breaking news tailored to you, through feeds from the world-leading news organisation
  • In-house analysts: Find what you need to make an informed trade, with fundamental and technical analysis from IG and DailyFX analysts

Get inspired by live and on-demand shows from our in-house TV channel.

  • Watch shows with our experts three times a day, Monday to Friday. Discover markets to track, find key levels with live technical analysis, and plan ahead with a look at tomorrow’s likely events.
  • Get exclusive coverage of major events, like monetary policy announcements from the Federal Reserve and Bank of England

Price moves. Economic events. Technical patterns. Set up automatic alerts and be the first to know about them - on any device.

  • Price level alerts trigger when your market hits your chosen price
  • Price change alerts trigger when a market moves your chosen amount
  • Technical indicator alerts let you know when a market meets your technical conditions
  • Economic calendar alerts inform you ahead of important market events

Get help identifying opportunities to trade on forex, indices and commodities markets. Have buy and sell signals, based on analysis from two expert third parties, delivered to your mobile or desktop:

  • Take the guesswork out of chart pattern recognition
  • Reinforce your own market research and analysis
  • Be alerted to significant trends and patterns
  • Decide whether to react to potential opportunities

Tweak our trading platform so it works, looks and feels just how you need it to.

  • Set up multiple workspaces for different markets and goals
  • Switch between light and dark modes
  • Group favourite or related markets in watchlists for quick access
  • Personalise your balance bar, for a detailed or at-a-glance view
  • Seize opportunity even quicker by turning on one-click dealing
  • Add or remove columns to tailor the info you see
  • Save space - tab your panels in one place for faster access
  • Save space and get quick access to panels by tabbing them in one place

Integration options

Direct market access

Interact directly with the market order books.

Algorithmic trading

Use algorithms to automate your trading strategy. 

APIs

Build custom trading applications, tools or algorithms.

Laptop und Smartphone mit Handelsplattform, die Charts und Marktpreise anzeigt.


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