Archive for January 15th, 2009

Hi all,

In my point of view Ig Index is the leading spread betting platform on the market. They just offer the best choices.

I like:
Many products, all the shares in major markets, trading with options, tight spread, easy to use, advanced stop loss technique.

I don’t like:
Awful design, No promotional offers

To place a bet or an order it is quite easy and you get used to it quite quickly. In my experience IG Index platform offers the best tools to create an order or ticket as you like. This means you can set up a stop loss, a guarantee stop loss (which is very helpful with shares), limit your profit and trailing stop loss. On top of that you can easily see how much deposit is required which is quite handy.

They have a powerful search engine and it is very easy to find shares. It is also easy to find a product like binary betting or options. They have standard charts but also advanced charts where you can add indicators and set up alerts according to them. So for example you can set an alert to send you SMS when the RSI on the FTSE is below 20. Very good. In fact their alert system is impressive. It is so easy to set one and then when it triggered, get it on your mobile, email or just on the screen with a beep.

It is very easy to manage your account and add or withdraw funds. Their support is excellent and they do offer lots of curses and seminars. I went to one of them and it was good. Very good (yes the food as well).

What I don’t like is the design of the platform. It is quite depressing to sit in front of it for more than 10 minutes. It is plain light blue that compared with that Windows XP looks glamorous. On the technical part sometimes there are errors on Firefox. In fact I can’t make it works on my FF on Vista. So I am using Safari which works fine. It works fine on IE7 as well.

I would also love to see some promotional offers like their competitors but I guess as the market leader they don’t need one.

The last thing that I would like to see is the underlay data which for me is quite important.

Without any question this is the best platform on the net. Well done (just change the design please).