IG Broker

Introduction
IG being established in 1974 in UK, has grown to world’s substantial CFD brokers in the world.
IG has been licensed to carry investment and digital assets business by Bermuda Monetary
Authority. Over the years, IG has established their sales offices in 17 countries, and serve clients
all over the world. They have satisfied their customers by establishing their business strategies
on client’s side.
CFD Trading
As mentioned earlier, IG is the world’s largest CFD provider in the world, to allure those clients
who want to take advantage of rising and falling markets. In falling markets, traders can
take benefits by “Short Selling”. Furthermore, the benefits of CFD trading are that trader
can process their trades in more than 17000 markets and they can easily free their capital.
Trading Platforms
IG have provided swift and smarter way to trade. IG provides their client by providing them user
friendly platforms. This platform comes up various features like charts, dealing tickets
and signals etc. Their trading platform helps their clients to manage their risks by using
stop loss or take profits opportunities. Furthermore, clients can choose their preferred
currency and keep conversion charges down. Also, they can set alerts on market
movements, which will notify traders about current market situations. Their trading
platform comes innumerous indicators, which helps the trader to perform in depth
analysis of candles. These indicators includes MACD, Stochastic, Moving Averages,
Bollinger Bands and much more. This helps the clients to make money out of rising and
falling markets.
Mobile Application (MT 4)
IG don’t want their clients to be negligent of their work so, it offers mobile application for their
clients. This application is available on both Play Store and App Store. This
application is named as MT 4. It is a newfangled mobile trading application that
provides access to wide range of tools and features that provides astonishing
trading experience to traders. Meta Trader 4 (MT 4), offer demo accounts to
clients on which they can experience real time trading which is similar to actual
live account. MT 4 is a platform on which consumers can trade commodities,
indices, cryptocurrency and the minimum lot size it supports is 0.01 lots and there
is no maximum limit. The basic purpose of supporting 0.01 lots is that clients can
diversify their portfolio and manage their risks.
Clients Education
IG offers different platforms to educate their clients on trading, account opening process and
money withdrawal process. Clients are offered demo accounts which are like their
live accounts. Through this demo account, they allow their clients to execute
 multiple trades in real time experience. Furthermore, they conduct different
webinars and live sessions with their clients and provides them with latest and
recent market news.
Clients are provided with basic education regarding trade and they are also taught on, how to set
your account, how to study candles, what are bullish candles and what are bearish
candles. Technical Terms like head and shoulder, W formation of candles, M
formation and bright stars are taught to them and they are made aware of what
these formations mean.
Executing Trades
It is only IG that allows its clients to execute trade of £1. It permits clients to execute as many
trades as they can. They have established the systems in such a way that clients
can oversee all of their trades on single screen.
As far as margin requirements are concerned consumers have access to latest margin
requirements on their website. These margin requirements vary depending on the
instruments, accounts and trader.
IG offers 3 different types of accounts
 Live Account
 Demo Account
 Mini Account
Demo and Mini accounts are similar to live accounts, the only difference in the demo account
and live accounts is that in demo accounts users only for learning purposes and live account for
making money. In demo accounts user face real time experience of trading and there is no as
such risk of losing money while in live account user have to be careful while making a trade as
he will have to face the consequences of the trade i.e. he could either be profitable in trade or he
would have to face loss as the market is very volatile.
Spreads and Trading Fees
IG offers minimum possible spreads to their clients. Spread means the difference between the bid
and ask price. With the lowest possible spread they are attracting new clients. It
helps them to enhance their business. Also, trading charges are also feasible for
traders. Brokers fee are charges that the broker charges their clients for
conducting trades. The graph below shows the spread offered by IG to their
clients.
Clients Supports
IG has triple AAA support rating, which is the highest level of rating. The reason behind being
rated as AAA is that they support wide range languages including Portuguese,
Spanish etc.
IG provides graphical representation of a particular commodity or currency which helps the
traders to understand current market affairs more effectively and they can forecast
the future on the basis of their understanding.
Safety
IG is safe with which one can execute trade. Clients’ money will be in safe hands as IG has been
regulated by various regulators across the globe. As IG operates all over the world
and every other country has their own regulatory bodies and exchanges. IG has
been listed on the exchanges and helps to protect negative balance. IG being
under the supervision of several regulators, and these regulators check for the
credibility of any institution, hence, it is safe and trust-worthy.
Final Word
IG is one of the largest broker in the world, whose branches lie in multiple nations, and allows
access to almost all the markets of the world. IG is the best for clients, as it
provides education to their clients through different platforms like tutorials,
webinars, and demo accounts. Also, it keeps their clients updated about the new
market news and helps them to understand technicals and fundamentals of the
trade. IG has its own trading platform and also supports MetaTrader 4