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Spread Betting: IG Index, World Leaders in Financial Spread Betting

IG Index is the UK's largest and longest-running spread betting firm. We offer a huge range of markets, available to trade around-the-clock using our award-winning PureDeal platform.

Summary

Whatever your view on the world's financial markets, spread betting gives you a simple tax-free* way to profit from rising or falling prices 24 hours a day.

  • Extra-low daily spreads: 0.1% per side on major shares
  • Over 7400 shares, plus indices, forex, commodities and more
  • Deal anytime, anywhere, with round-the-clock support

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PureDeal provides all the equipment you need for spread betting success, including professional tools and cutting edge dealing functions.

Professional real-time charting

By opening an account with us you gain free access to our market-leading chart software – a standalone package delivering super-fast intraday and historical charting on every market we offer. Here are the advantages:

Huge range of tools and indicators

Choose from dozens of indicators including Aroon, RSI, CCI, Pivot Points and many more. In addition the powerful Backtest feature allows you to develop your own trading strategies – and trial them on past data.

True real-time

Our charts update in sync with our markets – you can even run a parallel window showing new tick quotes coming in. Both intraday and historic data available for every instrument.

Portfolio facility

Build and monitor a portfolio of instruments, setting alerts at price targets or fill levels. Also, create customised lists of stocks for quick access to your favourite charts.

Full user control

Take charge of fonts and colours across the interface; easily adjust the scale of your charts; change the time zone; re-size windows, etc. Meanwhile annotate and save your charts with an array of drawings and channels, as well as your own notes.

Top movers

See a list of top-moving stocks broken down by market, direction of price movement, and time period.

Easy to use

Hover the mouse over any function to summon an instant contextual help box. A complete help manual is also available.

TradeSense

TradeSense is our dedicated trader education resource for anyone wanting to learn more about spread betting.

The trading course runs for a period of six weeks and is designed to guide you through your first steps in spread betting, from learning about the markets to placing your first trade online.

We provide members with the TradeSense ring-bound folder and each fortnight we send out the latest installment of the programme. By the time of your 'graduation' from trader education, you will have received all six modules creating an indispensable 100+ page guide to the world of spread betting.

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