About IG Index
IG Index is Britain's leading financial spread betting firm, offering prices in a huge range of indices, currencies, commodities and options, as well as thousands of individual shares. Financial spread betting has grown exponentially in the last decade because it offers traders and investors a unique combination of flexibility, speed of execution and tax-free profits. IG Index plc is part of IG Group, which has several operating companies offering a variety of speculative products to a retail and professional client base. IG Index provides competitive spreads on shares, indices, forex, commodities and more. With IG Index you are able to make your financial bet online or by phone, right around the clock.


Dealing Platform
IG index account holder will be provided with a spread betting software called PureDeal, a dealing platform to perform their transactions. PureDeal provides all the equipment needed for spread betting, including professional tools and cutting edge dealing functions. Several notable features of PureDeals are:
1) Price improvement technology enables you to get a better price during execution of your deal.
2) Do not need a deal ticket as IG Index one click dealing option allow you to see the price you want and click to bet.
3) Find your market with ease using PureDeal searching feature.
4) There are four notable resources provided by PureDeal which will help you in making decision on choosing profitable trades.
a. Charts – fast technical charting on all IG Index markets.
b. Equity Fundamentals - an overview of the stock, along with all key financials. You will
also get consensus estimates, per-share data, valuation ratios and more.
c. Reuter News – IG Index have teamed up with Reuters to provide an integrated news
service covering all markets.
d. Research – access to technical analysis from independent experts Trading Central
which is updated throughout the day.

We are going to discuss more detail about PureDeal resources in the coming post.

Mobile Dealing Software
As an IG Index account holder you get free access to our mobile dealing software, allowing you to trade all our markets on the move. Mobile dealing software offer all the same markets as on main platform. You can trade as usual by just selecting the market you want. You are able to keep tabs on your portfolio wherever you are with full access to your Open Positions and Orders to Open. Mobile dealing allows you to Place Stops and Limits as you would in normally trading, with the Orders to Open feature. Overall, navigating is easy, with the main menu divided into six main functions: Watchlists, Open Positions, Orders to Open, Finder, Finance/Sports and Log off.