Leading CFD provider IG Markets has launched a new CFD trading application for the iPhone, allowing existing IG Markets customers to trade on the move with the full range of functionality they expect from their regular trading account.
IG Markets, one of the world’s largest providers of CFD trading services, has today launched its CFD trading app, an iPhone application designed to allow clients to execute trades and orders on the move.
The app allows IG Markets clients to access their trading account directly from their iPhone handset, making CFD trading more …

Leading CFD broker IG Markets has scooped the prestigious Best CFD Provider award, at the Shares Awards 2010, underlining its firm foothold in the increasingly competitive CFD marketplace.
Voted by readers of Shares magazine, the award recognised IG Markets’ innovative, customer-orientated approach to CFD trading, which has led to IG Markets becoming arguably the biggest name in this rapidly expanding sector.
The award comes alongside a victory for IG Index, the spread betting arm of the IG Group, which was acknowledged as Financial Spread Betting Provider of the Year 2010 at the …

Online contracts for difference (CFD) brokerage giant IG Markets has today announced a further reduction in its spreads on CFD prices, which sees the FTSE 100 down to just 1 PIP as it vies to compete with the ever-increasing competition for new accounts.
While the FTSE and some European markets will trade from just one point, US markets have also been reduced, making it more cost effective to trade with the market’s most instantly recognizable brand.
The move comes at a time of heightened competition in the CFD brokerage market off the …

Market leading spread betting and CFD broker IG has remained buoyant off the back of its recent success at the 2010 FX Traders’ Choice Awards, which analysts have forecast could lead to a rise in new regional trading accounts.
The CFD and spread betting giant was awarded the Falcon award in recognition of its customer satisfaction levels in Oceania, in addition to receiving nominations for several accolades at the AFR Smart Investor Blue Ribbon Awards, representing a high profile acknowledgement of superior service from the trading community.
Receiving over a thousand nominations …

The leading spread bet and CFD provider IG Markets has launched some chart recognition software, and it begs the question – is this going to bring more people into charting?
Charting is controversial.  Essentially it is a belief that the near future can be predicted by the near past.  More specifically it is a claim that what’s going to happen in the near future has very little relationship to the fundamental underlying performance or the way in which that wider market works – so the …