IG Markets IG Markets is the broker that specialises in financial derivatives, mostly Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on stocks and indices, as well

IG Markets has an extensive industry experience. IG Markets is a subsidiary of IG Group which is active since 1974 in the UK market. It is also a UK FTSE 250 member.

IG Markets Overview

In May 2005, the IG Holdings plc went onto the main list of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)and is one of the top 250 companies (FTSE 250) in Britain. IG Markets UK is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (British regulatory body for financial services companies), its US subsidiary is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), a member of the National Futures Association (NFA), and is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), german office is regulated by the Federal Agency for Financial Supervision and in Australia by the Securities and Investments Commission.

The IG Group serves individual investors and institutional clients in more than 70 countries. IG Markets has offices in London, Paris, Madrid, Melbourne, Chicago, Singapore, Tokyo and Dusseldorf. The company offers its clients real-time trading software, multilingual back-office and access to charts and market analysis. IG Markets is one of the world’s leading company in real-time derivatives trading. IG Markets guarantees market rates at individual stock CFDs, with low capital investment and low commissions. IG Markets is the only CFD vendor to offer its customers for stock CFDs via DMA (Direct Market Access) and market depth via a browser-based trading platform to trade directly on original stock market prices in the order book. As a control measure, e.g. trailing stops and guaranteed stops are offered to retail traders and investors to ensure they act with good risk management features.

IG Markets offers CFD trading since 1999 including stocks and indices, commodities, bonds and currency trading for all major currency pairs at the interbank rates. There are more than 8,000 instruments from 25 stock exchanges available. Level 2 for professional stock CFDs trading is available at any time as well as the exact depth of the market shares.

Trading platforms

PureDeal and L2 trading platforms allow access to the key global markets such as NYSE, LSE, XETRA DAX, Euro, etc. You will be able to trade from CFDs on options and binary options to ETFs, ETCs, Bonds, Forex, and commoditirs. It is all, with a single trading platform.

Account Info
Minimum deposit: $400
Max leverage: 1:400
Account funding: Bank wire, ACH
Withdrawal: Bank wire, check ACH
Spreads for EUR/USD: from 0.1-0.8 pips
The broker is US-based so traders from USA are welcome.

STP (Straight Through Processing) technology allows our traders to place orders matching the best price offered by liquidity providers at increments as low as 1/10th of a pip, without interacting with a dealing desk. Customers can also interact with each other serving as liquidity providers, eliminating the need to fill orders only against MBT providers quotes.

Its client base includes private investors (possibility to trade mini-lots) and institutional clients. The broker provide a wide array of services to institutional traders such as API and FIX support and managed account tools for money managers and more.

MB Trading provides high-quality trading technology to their clients as well as a great live 24-hour customer support via phone, e-mail, live online chat and Skype. The broker also offers online education with the launch of its MBT University.

Trading Platforms

MBT Desktop
MB Trading’s original award-winning Desktop software now includes integrated charting, advanced options analysis and trade entry, daily research. Though it may seem a little complicated from the start later it’s easy to manage your trades and perform basic analysis.

MBT Desktop Pro
MBT Desktop Pro includes a powerful charting application that is highly customizable and includes over 100 indicators. Multiple chart windows can be opened at once.

MBT WEB
MBT WEB platform allows you to trade from your browser using the functionality of components present at MBT Desktop platform.

MBT Metatrader 4
A very popular Metatrader (MT4) platform was adapted to accommodate the non-dealing desk model so that traders could have STP/ECN access enabled while trading utilizing all the features of the Metatrader platform including running their Expert Advisors for easy automated trading. As you have true ECN spreads and ECN access in Non-Dealing Desk (NDD) environment – scalping is allowed.

MBT Mobile
With MB Trading’s mobile platform you will be able to trade from your iPhone. Other phones and tablets will be supported in awhile. For now – only iPhone is supported

EU Licensed and Regulated – Hellenic Capital Markets Committee (Greece)
Headquarters:Cyprus
Account Info
Minimum account size: $300
Leverage: 1:200

The primary feature of ZuluTrade is that AAAFx is the preferred partnered forex broker of Zulutrade. Zulutrade is the world’s biggest autotrading platform with which AAAFx is directly integrated. This means no commission fees for using Zulutrade platform with AAAFx for you.
So far there are positive experiences trading with them. The execution model is claimed to be NDD. The trading platform is Metatrader 4. The big attraction of this broker is the really low spreads (1.5 pips for EUR/USD). The execution has been quite fast as well.

Features list

Direct integration with ZuluTrade Platform
no ZuluTrade commission fee
10% Initial Deposit Bonus
No Slippage
News Trading – allowed
Low Spreads
Scalping allowed
MT4 compatible
9 languages, 24/5 customer support
Up to 200:1 Leverage
Islamic Accounts Available

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