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Hey IG folks! Would it be possible to remove (or provide a filter) to remove the massive spam from law firms on the news tab? This is an example from PDD taken today. There's only 1 piece of news in the whole noise in there. The same happens in many other stocks that had a big down movement at some point (CRWD is another one).

The cash in your account should be protected by the FSCS up to 85k for your company. The assets you buy should be safe if the EFT provider (or IG) goes under unless there was fraud anywhere in the chain, and usually when financial companies go down is due to fraud. For example you might have bought an EFT, but someone cashed the money, bought a yatch and had a wonderful holiday in the mediterranean. This is extremely rare with the big providers, but it is a possibility (never forget Bernie Maddof). If something like this happens you'll probable get a few pennies after 10 years. This is also why one shouldn't go with providers in regions that are not highly regulated.

This should be done automatically. I can see that nvidia, microstrategy and chipotle have been adjusted, but sometimes this doesn't happen automatically, or there are weird glitches, for example when the price has been adjusted, but there's a single tick at the old price which makes the chart render it as a huge candle. I wonder if the problem is that IG needs to run an offline process to adjust the historical prices and it can only be run during once a month during the maintenance period. It would be amazing if this could be done quickly after a split.

The price you see on the charts include the spreads. I would give IG a call or email the CS team to understand why this happened. You might be able to see a bit more information in My IG. If you open it in a broser, go to Live Accounts (menu bar at the top), then go to History (on the left menu bar). On that screen, click on the the Past Activity tab and choose a time range that includes the closing of the trade. On the line of the stop (channel should be System) you can see the opening level, the level at what the trade was closed and the stop level you set. City group is very liquid, so any slippage should be minimal. I would recommend to check the stop was set correctly. I had one situations in the past in which I though I had updated the stop loss, but for some reason I didn't press enter/accept/whatnot and got burn a bit. Now I always check that the stop loss has been set!

Hey IG team, I have a few requests related to the US Options and futures accounts: Allow access to the Tasty desktop application: The desktop app has some really nice features that the web app lacks. Linked to the above: Allow to follow tasty live traders in the desktop app. This would be very handy for those of us learning about options (and even more when the UK tasty live sections starts in the next few weeks). And allow personal/retail users to trade crypto and crypto derivatives available on Tasty (maybe allow it only on request like with futures). You guys are supposed to be the one stop shop for all trading related products! . And one question: will IG provide a tax certificate at the end of the financial year to present to HMRC? Thank you folks!!

Are you 100% sure you have a margin account with IG Options & Futures and not a cash account? I just checked again the page I mentioned in my post and I can see a button to enable futures. And are you able to navigate to the page I mentioned (Trading Preferences)?

Hi IG team! I'm wondering if your team of analysts could share/publish some scenarios for holding spread bets positions for a long time. For example, given the increase in some commodities (like precious metals) and most major indices, it would be interesting to know what would be the return of opening a 1 point spread bet on different markets and see the return and fees. For example, if I opened a £1/point long position in the US 500 index on the 1st of Jan 2018, what would be current PnL? What would have been the highest unrealised loss and margin requirement during that period? Extra kudos if they could provide an excel sheet or similar so we can see how other markets would have fared. And to the community in general, if you have something like this, could you share it? Thank you!

I can see the option to enable futures here: Open the TastyTrade platform. Go to Manage (at the top of the screen, next to Trading) On the left menu, select My Accounts -> Trading Preferences. There you can enable margin and futures. Futures are only available on Margin accounts!

Another issue: while the US Options account is being reviewed I cannot transfer funds between my accounts. The pop up is the onfido message: I reckon the pop up to upload the id might show if I tried to move funds while the account is pending.

Reading the product description with a bit more detail, it looks like the margin account allows covered options. And looking at some of the videos that IG has posted on youtube it seems one can also buy/sell shares. I hope to have my account opened soon so I can investigate a bit more.

Hey IG Support! I was in the process of opening a US Options & futures account, I had applied for it, but still had to do the quiz and upload my id. When I tried to add funds to my spread betting account, but got a message saying that I had to re-upload my ID. This made me expedite the application for the US Options account, good thing in the end. After I finished the onboarding on that account, I was able to add funds again to the SB account. Raising this as it might create an extra stressful situation if it would've happened during a margin call. TA

Hi @gezmond! Thanks a lot! Out of curiosity, how did you find that out? Was it on one of the IG documents? Or goverment website?

That could be. I did register to the waiting list a few days ago: https://www.ig.com/uk/listed-options-futures

Hey IG, I cannot find much information about if trades on the leveraged or cash account would fall under CGT in the UK. I assume that trades in the cash account would have CGT, while the leveraged one won't, but I would like to know for sure! -Thanks!

I do see the option to open a US options & futures account both on the website and on the Android app (v24.5.4). Maybe you have an old version of the app? On Android go to Account -> manage account -> Add an account -> US options and futures