JamesIG
-
Posts
2,301 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
26
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Events
Community Tutorials
Store
Blog Comments posted by JamesIG
-
-
Live Q&A today from 10:00 until 13:00 GMT - [now closed]
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
39 minutes ago, Obaid said:I am a new Client.
I have been chasing customer service and help for 3 weeks to withdraw my funds.
None of them reply to me or fix the issue. My card and account is verified.
Why IG have such a poor customer service.
Hi @Obaid - thanks for the question. Unfortunately I am unable to discuss the specific reasons which may have resulted in a delay on your withdrawal request. I can however talk more broadly about the most common reason which may have impacted a withdrawal.
As part of IGs AML policy we have an obligation to make sure we are returning funds to the original source of the deposit. That means if you deposited with a card and you're trying to withdraw to a bank account we may require additional verification documents. Your card issuer, probably VISA or Mastercard, is a different entity to your bank (HSBC etc).
There could of course be other specific reasons which are specific to your account. I've forwarded your account details onto our trading services team who will look into this for you. Please keep and eye out for an email or phone call from us.
-
Live Q&A today from 10:00 until 13:00 GMT - [now closed]
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
1 hour ago, TFFX_ said:Thanks for the update James.
I appreciate the further explanation and the increased capacity comments, but it does feel somewhat counter-intuitive that in order to increase your service and stability, you have had to reduce it by restricting functionality on just two stocks (and relevant CFD/SB).
What happens when these two are no longer flavour of the month and some new stocks come into the spotlight? Do we have to suffer three consecutive days of degraded performance until these stocks are then restricted?
If the markets have taught us anything, it is that this will happen again and putting out spot fires in this scenario is rather self-perpetuating. I had no interest in either of these stocks, but was annoyed when I couldn't access the platform to transact on local markets.
For my interest (and perhaps others), it would be good if you could share metrics of usage – usual vs last week, to understand how ‘extreme’ last weeks activity was.
Hi @TFFX_ - great question - thanks for taking the time out of your day to reach out.
Over the last few days the sudden and significant increase of interest in a few specific equities has been quite phenomenal to watch. As an established trading platform with over 45 years experience we obviously are familiar with periods of volatility, but what makes this event unique is the broader interest it has been given. The coverage in the mainstream media, the narrative of 'main street vs wall street', and the concentration on a few specific stocks has resulted in an unprecedented reaction from many people throughout the world - some of which are taking the opportunity to trade for the very first time.
Whilst its great to see an increased interest in the financial markets, our focus is to provide a stable platform for the hundreds of thousands of clients we already service who are trading on over 17,000 global markets. This, along with striving to offer a transparent, supportive, and helpful customer experience are a couple of our top priorities. To achieve this we sometimes have to make difficult decisions such as the ones we've acted on over the last few days.
We started this last week by increasing technical capacity, increasing the number of client service support staff, reducing and ultimately stopping new applications so we could focus on our existing client base, and prioritizing specific work initiatives to address the volumes.
On Friday the tough decision was make to set GME and AMC to closing only. This means that new positions cannot be opened on those markets, however clients can of course buy or sell to close their open positions. By restricting new positions on those 2 single equities we can reduce the significant and concentrated volumes we are seeing, especially over 14:30 GMT when the US equity main market session opens.
Alongside this we've continued to work hard over the weekend to increase capacity and allocate internal resource to supporting our existing clients.
Whilst I completely understand the frustration that the 'closing only' decision had we believe it was appropriate to prioritise the service we provide to existing clients who have little interest in trading these specific equities (just like yourself).
We shall continue to monitor the situation closely and act accordingly, however as I'm sre you can appreciate, its difficult to speculate on possible actions for future events. The thing that will remain consistent however is prioritising the service we provide to our existing clients, and striving to offer a seamless digital trading experience.
I'm afraid that as a listed FTSE 250 company we are unable to share any information on volumes.
-
Live Q&A today from 10:00 until 13:00 GMT - [now closed]
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
16 minutes ago, lj2301 said:Why don't you guys just have a Reddit channel and forget about this 'Community' blog? It's really difficult to get someone to answer questions and looks outdated in my view.
Hi @lj2301 - thanks for the question. The whole purpose of Community is to connect likeminded clients who want to discuss the underlying financial markets, support each other via the help section, and discuss IG news (from new product developments to events which impact your trading experience like margin changes).
Whilst some of these goals can be achieved with third party sites such as reddit, having our own forum allows for better integration into the IG ecosystem, for example integrating into the dealing platforms 'New and Analysis' section in the left hand flyout, or accessing via mobile. There are smaller advantages as well such as being able to align our brand and also integrate into internal systems and processes.
We continually look at new ways to service clients so I'll make sure to pass your suggestion onto the client facing support team. In the mean time if you have any other questions please feel free to post in the section of Community you think is most relevant.
-
21 minutes ago, Guest Cou said:
Could YouTube please inform one thai web?
Regards
David Granda
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're asking for? Please can you rephrase?
-
10 minutes ago, Guest p1958 said:
Could you please post them before the weekend? Thank you.
We certainly can, however please also note that the Monday figures are always available on the week proceeding. thanks.
-
Heikin-Ashi candles on IG charts: how to turn on HA candles
A group blog by IG in General
thanks for the feedback - I'll make sure to pass it on to the charts team. Whilst we don't have the SD Channel option, we do have the regular SD indicator which may be of interest.
- 1
-
On 13/08/2019 at 19:12, willian said:
the video explain clearly what happend with an index trade in regard to a divident.
do the same happen with a share trade ?
Yes that's correct - it'll be the same.
-
Sorry for the late posting. This is now available in the following location...
-
Turkish lira - surge in swap rates & the impact for overnight funding
in Market News
A group blog by IG in General
@Leewin - the IG administrative charge is a fixed percentage of 0.3% for CFD main lots (or 0.8% for CFD mini or spread betting trades). The majority of this swap 'cost' comes directly from the underlying market.
You can read more about that in the notes to tables: https://www.ig.com/uk/help-and-support/spread-betting-and-cfds/fees-and-charges/what-are-igs-forex-spread-bet-product-details
Also worth noting that swap rates continue to fluctuate.
-
5 minutes ago, Guest maka said:
have u got the 1April week one as i cant find in market news for this week?
-
Further to the point above about Brexit, I thought the following article was quite good on the Financial Times.
Source: FT
- 1
-
UK economy; could this be the worst year since the financial crisis? - EMEA Brief 08 Feb
in Market News
A group blog by IG in General
-
Hi all - we have a Brexit round table today (Friday 8th Feb) which unfortunately won't be live, but we will be able to publish the video afterwards. This will be with Simon French from Panmure Gordon, and Robert Oulds from Bruges Group. It should be a great discussion, and if you have any questions you wanted to put to the panel please add a comment and make sure to tag me with the @ symbol.
-
UK economy; could this be the worst year since the financial crisis? - EMEA Brief 08 Feb
in Market News
A group blog by IG in General
Hi all - we have a Brexit round table today which unfortunately won't be live, but we will be able to publish the video afterwards. This will be with Simon French from Panmure Gordon, and Robert Oulds from Bruges Group. It should be a great discussion, and if you have any questions you wanted to put to the panel please add a comment and make sure to tag me with the @ symbol.
-
#IGEMChat - an Emerging Markets live broadcast - submit your questions
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
28 minutes ago, TrendFollower said:Thanks for the reminder. Will have a look this evening as will not be able to see the live broadcast. I assume it will be available this evening for all to see?
absolutely.
-
#IGEMChat - an Emerging Markets live broadcast - submit your questions
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
Thanks all for your questions - they have been uploaded to our IGTV teleprompter. Don't forget this will go live today at 13.00pm GMT.
-
#IGEMChat - an Emerging Markets live broadcast - submit your questions
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
Will try and remember to notify the Community @TrendFollower - may set up the banner ads now. In regards to longer term EM investing I could always ask questions relating to long term holdings in EM ETF's etc? That sort of thing? The most financially efficient way to do it etc?
-
LIVE video at 1pm - #IGCommodityChat: Oil
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
-
LIVE video at 1pm - #IGCommodityChat: Oil
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
Hi all - apologies about the earlier issue @nightingale @Caseynotes @Whiterose @sanjayish and anyone else who may have been watching. You can now watch the video back using the link below, or updated video in the main blog.
-
For those following this chat, please see the video link below.
-
LIVE video at 1pm - #IGCommodityChat: Oil
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
-
LIVE video at 1pm - #IGCommodityChat: Oil
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
UPDATE at 13.07: Hi all - unfortunately we are having issues pushing to YouTube. This is now Live on the platform only. We'll push the recorded video to Community afterwards. Apologies about this - our two live shows this morning didn't have issues so we'll need to investigate.
-
Hi @Gabo - as caseynotes said, your MT4 platform should of course update in real time. Please open a new forum thread with specifics if you would like further assistance and we can continue the discussion there.
-
18 hours ago, PSGBMT11 said:
What time do dividend adjustments pay out - say JPN 225 when will its dividend pay out ?
that would be at the market close, 7am BST at the moment.
Live Q&A today from 10:00 until 13:00 GMT - [now closed]
in IG Community Blog
A group blog by IG Moderators in General
Posted
Hi @Lavendertrader thanks for the question. For clarity 'closing only' is a status which can be applied to any market, not just GME and AMC. The purpose of this blog post was to highlight the specific action taken to improve our service to clients, which by extension resulting in highlighting the 'closing only' status applied in this instance.
Whilst I can't discuss your specific trades or account on an open public forum we can talk about PNPL more broadly. Looking at this ticker it seems to be a UK listed SPAC with a market cap of around £7 million (and only 2 weeks ago would have been less than half that).
Given the tiny market cap we are unable to offer this on a leverage account, however you can trade it directly on a regular share dealing account (in the regions where we offer this product offering - for example the UK or Australia). The reason for this is based in all the regular reasons for trading small illiquid markets via leverage - easy to build a sizable % ownership very quickly in an illiquid market (i.e. you'd only need 70 people using £1000 margin on 5:1 leverage for a significant 5% stake in the company / SPAC assuming all trades are hedged).
I hope that has helped clarify things for you.