Access tools to help you trade – Forex World

We have a range of in-platform tools that can help you trade. These include our price alerts and trading signals, to a whole variety of technical indicators that you can overlay on any price chart with the click of a button. Plus, when you trade on our platform, you’ll get integrated news feeds from our own in-house analysis team as well as social media.

Aside from this, we also offer educational tools like IG Academy, which is loaded with clear and engaging forex trading courses to help you get comfortable with the markets and the nuances to trading.

If you’re still deciding whether forex trading is for you, why not try our free demo account? You’ll get completely risk-free access to $20,000 in virtual funds, so you can try forex trading and build your confidence without being exposed to the risks of the live markets.

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Benefit from tax-efficient products like CFDs

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In some territories, CFDs are exempt from stamp duty but you will pay capital gains tax on your profits. However, you can offset your losses against your profits for your capital gains tax liability, which makes CFDs useful for hedging.1

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Hedge with forex

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Hedging is a technique that can be used to reduce the risk of unwanted moves in the forex market by opening multiple strategic positions. Although volatility is part of what makes forex so exciting, hedging can be a good way of mitigating or limiting your loss to a known amount. There are a variety of…

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Seize forex volatility

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The high volume of currency trades each day translates into billions of dollars every minute, which makes the price movements of some currencies extremely volatile. You can potentially reap large profits by making a prediction on price movements in either direction. But, volatility is a double-edged sword – the market can quickly turn against you,…

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Trade around the clock

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The forex market is open 24 hours a day, five days a week. With us, you can trade forex from 4am Monday to 6am Saturday (UTC +8). These long trading hours are made possible because forex transactions are completed over the counter (OTC), rather than through a central exchange. And, because forex is a truly…

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Make your money go further with leverage

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You can trade forex with us by CFDs. CFD products are leveraged, which can make your money go further. Leverage in forex enables you to open a position on the currency market by paying just a small proportion of the full value of the position up front. For example, opening a CFD position on EUR/GBP might…

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Go long or short

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With us, you’ll trade forex with CFDs. CFDs are financial derivatives, meaning you can go long or short. Going long means that you expect the price of a forex pair to rise, while going short means that you expect the price to fall. You’d go long if you think the base currency will strengthen against…