“Just like any other rip off companies. It trading against the professionals. You can never win.
No matter what market does. the moment you take the trade it goes against you and you are immediately in a loosing trade, although all indicators and trend and market is going the direction you think it will go but as soon as you take a trade it always goes opposite direction. I never gained. I have been stupid. Be careful you are trading against the machine and professionals, Remember they invested millions in system not for some novice trades like me and you to win but that investment is for them to make money not for you and me.”
“Platform constantly crashes.
Recently when closing a trade, platform crashed and I lost money as a result.
Despite acknowledging the platform failure, IG staff refused to compensate me for the small loss.
Mobile app is very unstable on iOS”
“Focused on new business rather than existing clients. Not the usual approach in a small market like Ireland. Maintaining the business of existing clients should be much more on their agenda.”
“IG its should be spreadbet not binary options, but u guys charging money for pips like one of them. incresing value in each one them in major fx and indecies ove 100%. outrageous”
“ProRealTime charts very good & good value
Prompt trade entry at requested level vast majority of the time
Reasonable spreads but could be better
Trade risk sometimes too high - less than £1/pip would be useful
Overnight charges on the high side”
“Would by good if IG offered a demo account to run along side the main trading account allowing the testing of different trading strategy's without the risk of losing money.
Demo accounts are offered by other company's`”
“Large company with sound financial backing, a major league player in the leveraged markets of CFD's and Spreadbetting. Reasonable quick to pay out from clients accounts to their bank account. Very wide range of instruments to trade from FX, UK, USA and European equities, sectors, commodities etc. IG's standard charts are poor. You can pay extra (£35 month) for advanced charts that are a little better. If you trade regularly they will discount this. Clients must realise that if you use more than 50% of your account balance you run the risk of IG closing out your trades. By comparison City Index allows you to use up to 80% and FXCM almost all of your account. Platform reliability could be improved. Recently their platform for both CFD's an SB has fallen over being down for a few hours preventing clients from opening or closing trades. Their IT seems dated and rickety. Standard charts sometimes show prices differently to the open ticket prices although they sometimes warn you by displaying this on the chart. Just check before accepting the ticket price. There can sometimes be as much as 10 points difference. There data feed can be slow. I've compared IG's spot prices with live streaming prices and they can be up to 20 sec difference, this could be to you advantage or otherwise, you decide. Don't forget all of these SB and CFD companies are your counter parties, that is when you win they lose and vice versa. Read all of the Terms and Conditions before trading even though there up to 50 pages long. Don't overtrade, keep to your stategy. IG is basically a sound company but in my opinion their platform performance compared to their competition is poor.”
“I've been trading for 15 years & have used many brokers and spread betting firms but I find the whole experience of using IG for equities, commodities & currencies the best available on the market.”
