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Download all margin details for shares CFDs here:
Standard CFD professional margin rate and guaranteed stop premiums (1MB)
Tiered CFD professional margins and guaranteed stop premiums (790KB)
Standard CFD retail margin rate and guaranteed stop premiums (1MB)
Tiered CFD retail margins and guaranteed stop premiums (790KB)
Commission charges
| Share category | Commission per side from |
Minimum charge (online) |
Minimum charge (phone) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK (FTSE 350) | 0.10% | £10 | £15 |
| UK (non-FTSE 350) | 0.35% | £10 | £15 |
| US | 2 cents/share | $15 | $25 |
| Euro1 | 0.10% | €10 | €25 |
| Denmark | 0.10% | DKK100 | DKK250 |
| Norway | 0.10% | NOK100 | NOK250 |
| Sweden | 0.10% | SEK99 | SEK250 |
| Switzerland | 0.10% | CHF10 | CHF25 |
| Greece | 0.475% | €25 | €40 |
| Australia | 0.10% | A$8 | A$8 |
| Singapore | 0.10% | SGD15 | SGD15 |
| Japan | 0.20% | JPY1500 | JPY2500 |
| Hong Kong | 0.25% | HKD100 | HKD100 |
| South Africa | 0.20% | ZAR50 | ZAR50 |
| Canada | 3 cents/share | CAD25 | CAD25 |
| New Zealand | 0.1% | NZ$8 | NZ$8 |
| International Order Book (IOB)2 | 0.15% | $15 | $25 |
1 Euro includes: Austria, Belgium, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain
2 IOB shares are Depository Receipts that trade on the International Order Book on London Stock Exchange
Indices and denominations
We offer constituents of the global indices listed below, and all trades are denominated in their local base currency. Other world markets may be available on request.
- UK
- North America
- Europe
- Australia, SA and Far East
We offer all shares in the FTSE 350 index, and normally all other UK-listed shares with a market capitalisation of over £10 million.
We also offer share options on all shares in the FTSE 100 that have options available on LIFFE (this is usually all 100 companies).
We offer all the constituent shares of the S&P 500 index and the NASDAQ 100 index, as well as sufficiently liquid US shares with a market capitalisation of greater than $500 million.
These contracts are denominated in US dollars, and US dollar interest rates apply. We also offer CFD share trading on the component shares of the TSX60 in Canada; for these shares, trades are denominated in Canadian dollar and Canadian dollar interest rates apply.
We offer all the constituent shares of each country's principal index. These contracts are denominated in euros, and euro interest rates apply; except for Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Swiss shares, which are denominated in Danish kroner, Norwegian kroner, Swedish kronor and Swiss francs.
| European indices | |
|---|---|
| Austria | ATX |
| Belgium | BEL20 |
| Denmark | KFX |
| Finland | HEX |
| France | CAC40 |
| Germany | DAX, HDAX, MDAX |
| Greece | ASE60 |
| Ireland | ISEQ |
| Italy | MIB30, MIBTEL |
| Netherlands | AEX |
| Norway | OBX |
| Portugal | PSI20 |
| Spain | IBEX35 |
| Sweden | OMX Stockholm Benchmark |
| Switzerland | SMI |
We offer constituents of the ASX/S&P 300 index, as well as over 700 other Australian stocks, the JSE Top 40, leading Hong Kong and Japanese shares, and constituents of the Straits Times in Singapore.
Product details and notes
To determine whether a charge applies, call our dealers in advance of trading. The borrowing charge, and your ability to go short, can be changed at short notice.- Commission charges
- Guaranteed stop transactions
- Margin percentage
- Minimum opening value
- Dealing hours
- Funding
- Prices
- Rights issues
Commission charges for CFDs are calculated as a percentage of the transaction value for most markets and as cents per share for the US and Canada. See our charges page (or the table above) for further details.
Please note that if the size of your deal is such that it attracts our minimum charge on opening, you will also be required to pay a minimum charge for that deal on closing, even if you close the deal in a bundle with other deals where the aggregate size is above our minimum. Where we offer a CFD on an equity that is dual-listed and fully fungible for settlement on both exchanges, the commission charges applicable to that CFD will be the charges relevant to the country where primary listing is held.
You will be informed in writing of the commission rates and financing rates which apply to their account at the time the account is opened.
When you open a share CFD position with us, it will be aggregated with other IG clients' positions in the same market. We do this to keep our hedging costs down, and to provide you with competitive commission rates. IG’s brokers may also aggregate IG client positions with their other clients’ positions where it is a regulatory requirement for them to so (in the US for example).
By IG aggregating client positions, you may be able to ‘go short’ even when there’s no borrowable stock available in the underlying market. But this means that when your order interacts with the underlying market, its treatment by brokers and/or exchanges will be based on the net aggregate position (ie the aggregate of all client and hedged positions) rather than your own. This also applies in the case where our brokers aggregate IG client positions with their other client positions for regulatory reasons. This also applies in the case where our brokers aggregate IG client positions with their other clients’ positions for regulatory reasons.
In certain situations this may have an impact on the outcome of an order. For example, if the net aggregate position is short in a specific market and you’re closing a long position in the same market, we’ll treat your order as a short-sell. In cases like this, your order will be subject to exchange rules on naked short-selling, uptick rules and short-sale restrictions – please refer to our ‘notes’ section for more information.
Notes:
Naked short-selling occurs when a trader attempts to short without first securing borrowable stock. We generally don’t allow clients to go short when borrowable stock is difficult to obtain. All short positions do, however, carry a risk of recall should borrowable stock later become unavailable
Uptick rules prevent rapid sell-offs, and stipulate that short-selling may only occur once the price of a particular market has ‘ticked up’
Short-sale restrictions promote market stability by prohibiting the short-selling of stocks which have declined by a certain percentage in a trading session
Guaranteed stop transactions are available on certain shares at our discretion.
The guaranteed stop premium for each individual share is given in our share CFDs list (PDF, 500KB) (including UK, US, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Singapore and other world shares). The guaranteed stop premium for South African and IOB shares is 1.0%. For all other shares the premium for a guaranteed stop transaction is normally 0.3% or 0.7%.
Please note that the guaranteed stop premium for all shares may be as much as 3% of the transaction value depending on market conditions and the volatility of the particular share.
The guaranteed stop premium is charged when your stop is triggered.
The Margin Percentage for any particular CFD is calculated as a percentage of the current valuation of the transaction. Please see the share CFDs list (PDF, 500KB) for Margin Percentages of specific shares.
For retail clients, the minimum margin factor for CFDs on all shares is 20% of the share price. Please note that tiered margins apply; this means that more margin may be required for large positions. Please see our margins page for more details.
The margin required for 'buying' a share option is the opening level times the size of the bet. For 'selling' a share option, the margin required is the same as an equivalent equity position. Option CFDs are only available via professional CFD accounts. If you would like to trade option CFDs, you’ll need to see if you are eligible for a professional account. To find out about the features of this type of account and check your eligibility, please see our professional account page.
The Margin Percentage for a guaranteed stop CFD transaction is equal to the amount which would be lost if the stop were triggered.
We reserve the right to alter the Margin Percentage at any time.
Subject to risk reviews, the margin rates may differ for individual clients.
There is no minimum opening contract value for CFDs on individual shares.
Dealing hours are as follows:
UK Shares (LSE): 08.00-16.30 (London time)
American Shares: Typically 09.30 to 16.00 (New York time).
For some US shares, we offer extended trading hours from 04.00 to 20.00 (New York time) on Monday to Thursday and 04.00 to 17.00 (New York time) on Friday. For a full list of affected shares please visit our US Extended Hours page.
European Shares: Market hours for the relevant Exchange. Please ask for current details.
All other shares: Market hours for the relevant Exchange. Please ask for current details.
For CFDs on individual shares, adjustments to reflect the effect of interest and dividends are calculated daily and posted to the client's account daily.
i) A daily interest adjustment is calculated, as follows, for any position that is kept open through the official close of business:
D = n x C x i / 365
Where:
D = daily interest adjustment
n = number of shares
C = official closing share price
i = applicable annual interest rate
Note: The formula uses a 365-day divisor for UK, Singapore and South African shares and a 360-day divisor for shares in other markets.
The applicable annual interest rate is based on prevailing interest rates and our funding adjustment, usually 2.5% per annum. Interest on long positions is debited from a client's account; on short positions, there may be a credit or a debit.
ii) A dividend adjustment is applied when a share passes its ex-dividend date (including the ex-date of any special dividend) in the underlying stock market. In the case of long positions, the dividend adjustment is credited to the client's account. In the case of short positions, the dividend adjustment is debited from the client's account. In the case of UK shares, the dividend adjustment is equal to the amount of the net dividend. The dividend adjustment for shares in other markets varies depending on local tax arrangements; please ask our dealers for current details.
For CFDs, a cash adjustment may be made to the client's account to reflect the effect of a bonus share issue, scrip or rights issue affecting the underlying share. For Share CFDs in a company which is under offer in a takeover situation, IG may not be able to communicate any wish to subscribe to the takeover offer (i.e. 'assent stock').
Where you open a short share CFD position, you will incur a borrow charge. The borrow charge will be accounted for in a daily cash adjustment applied to the account. The charge varies according to the share, is notified to us by our brokers or agents and includes a 0.5% administration fee. The borrow charge, and the ability to hold a short position, can be changed at short notice. To determine whether a borrow charge applies and if so, what the charge is, call our dealers in advance of trading.
There are four different types of price feed offered on equity markets across the platform: delayed, derived, level 1 and level 2.
In most cases, the delayed price feed is delayed by 15mins, although in some cases it may be 20 mins. The length of the delay is indicated by a small icon containing the number 15 or 20 next to the update time for that instrument. The delayed price feed is free, and is the default offering across all equity instruments unless a real-time free option is available - such as pricing from multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) or derived prices. Markets that show a delayed price will display a ‘start live data’ button in their deal tickets. Clicking this button will change the visible price to a live price for up to ten price updates, before reverting to a 15 or 20 minute delayed price.
Derived prices are real-time prices created from the underlying exchange price. Derived prices have been adjusted in such a way which makes them non-reverse-engineerable, an exchange requirement which allows IG to distribute real-time data without having to charge clients. The adjustment is purely for display purposes and does not affect the execution of trades placed on markets which display derived prices.
Level 1 data is the real-time feed of the top level of the exchange order book. Level 1 data can only be viewed if non-free data is activated in the ‘data feeds’ section of the platform. A monthly fee is charged if activated.
Level 2 data is the real-time feed of the top five levels of the exchange order book. Level 2 data also requires activation, incurs a higher charge than Level 1 data.
For more information please log in to the platform and go to ‘help and support’ in the top-right corner. In the support portal, enter 'derived prices' in the search box.
Please note, our help and support portal is not available on the new IG Trading Platform.
If you have an open guaranteed stop share CFD position where the underlying share is subject to a rights issue or open offer and the subscription price is (a) in or at the money at the closing price of the underlying share on the last trading day for that share immediately before the ex-date, we will treat the rights issue or open offer as being successful and accordingly increase the size of your CFD position to reflect the effect of the rights issue or open offer or (b) out of the money at the closing price of the underlying share on the last trading day for that share immediately before the ex-date, we will treat the rights issue or open offer as not being successful and accordingly leave your CFD position unchanged. This treatment will apply regardless of whether a rights issue or open offer becomes successful after being out of the money at the closing price of the underlying share on the last trading day for that share immediately before the ex-date or is not successful after being in or at the money at the closing price of the underlying share on the last trading day for that share immediately before the ex-date. Importantly, in both situations, we will alter the level of your stop such that the maximum amount you are risking under this open share CFD position remains the same before and after any adjustment is made for the rights issue or open offer.
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