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Joo

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  1. Hello, Today I deposited funds to my account using a debit card, after a few deposits my card got blocked and I called my bank. They told me it was not allowed to transact with IG as per bank policy... I asked them if I could receive a "refund" to my card (for the withdrawal of my funds from IG) and they said probably not as IG is now blocked in their system... How can this be ? Now I'm getting really worried that these funds will get stuck forever on IG if my bank refuse the transfers of funds back. My question is, in the case that the bank clearly refuse the funds back to the original method of payment, can the funds be sent by wire transfer instead ? If not how to recover those funds in the future ? My account also has a verified bank account with the same bank from which I also sent wire transfers in the past exceeding the initial deposited amount if that helps. Thanks.
  2. There is a lot of demand for trading accounts since last year. It takes more time to get activated.
  3. That is normal because there is no volume in the market. You need to account for it when you buy a position on margin. Never go all in and always have plenty of margin available.
  4. This is completely untrue. I've been trading with IG for over a year as a top trader here on the platform and I have no issues. You can see your profit/loss and a chart from day one. The only thing you won't see on the platform while you trade a specific trade is the commissions and cost of borrowing, but those are quite easy to calculate yourself. For example, if you buy 1000 shares of AAPL at 100 and sell at 120 you need to account for $20 each way of commissions and the cost of borrowing before being able to calculate your profit. Those are separate fees, if you trade pennies of course you will end up with a loss because of the fee even if you closed the trade green on the platform. This is normal and I like it better than having your average cost moving up every single day !
  5. Forced closing for clients who came up with 100% margin is ridiculous. They will force us to take losses on positions that would turn green a couple months later. But let's not forget that IG is NOT a broker, IG is a casino, we are trading CFDs, not stocks. Once the CFD turns against IG they want out of the position and it doesn't matter who is hurting, they just want out. I guess they haven't found anyone to "buy back" the CFDs from them to let us keep our positions, there is nobody willing to take the other side of the trade on our CFDs because our win ratio is too good.
  6. I clicked buy at 32, 3 min later it was at 42 and my target was around 40. So for me it's lost money as that trade was going to be a really big win. I consider it a lost. You consider it whatever you want, for me if I clicked the trade was made, it was refused by IG but I did the trade, it wasn't just an idea.
  7. We all have the same issue, they removed a lot of good stocks, not just meme stocks. This is going to be very costly. And the worst thing you can't even know until it's too late if you can trade or not some stocks. The other day I tried to buy CCIV which was NOT in the list and my order was refused, which cost me a ton of money in gains I would have made. IG thinks only of their own bottom line, not ours.
  8. These kind of public companies are audited often, not sure how often.
  9. IG is a public company, I don't think that they are going bust.
  10. CFD. But let's say you buy a stock with 10x leverage, IG has to buy that stock with 10 times more money than what you have. That money has to come from somewhere. If you hold for a long time they are just blocking money waiting for you to close the position. Retailers have started to hold positions for much longer periods of time now.
  11. That list that was removed was basically everything I was trading. It seems like they tied too much capital for "low" returns on their end. They are using the pareto principle, concentrating on the 20% of products that make 80% of their money. But for me, without those stocks I'm not going to be profitable. Which means I will just stop trading on IG. I think I'm one of those who spend the most on fees on IG, for this year alone I spent more than 10K on fees. The real issue here is retailers (us) we are buying tons of stocks and holding them for too long, which means the capital is blocked and they don't make fees.
  12. Refresh, that could mean the position is already closed but you still see it.
  13. IG doesn't care about 150 pounds, I made a quarter million in one day the other day and I closed the trade in deep profit. Your trade ticket says buy to open, which means the system thinks you are trying to BUY a stock you don't have. Close with a stop loss.
  14. Why can't you close ? Closing has never been restricted. When the thing is not working I close with a stop loss.
  15. I'm forced on all my other positions ! Now that stock is at 42, I sent my order at 32, 15000 shares ! That's a ton of money lost because of restrictions that were not here last week.
  16. They didn't let me buy it and it's up now, which means I lost the money I was supposed to make. This same stock I traded last week on which I made a quarter million is now not tradable. They removed the good stocks but they are still visible on the interface, which means we can't know what we can trade or not, I was just waiting to click the button at the right time on that one.
  17. I just tried to buy a stock for 15000 shares at 32, now it's trading for 38 ! That's a lot of money lost for me ! This stock that I was trading just last week ! I'm moving to another broker. What's the point in having stocks in your interface if I can't buy them ??
  18. As I already said to my account manager, if I'm forced out of any positions I'm leaving. It doesn't matter if the decision comes from the CEO or not, this is my personal choice. I want to be doing business with a company that has my interests at heart too, not just theirs. To ask me to close out my positions while I still have the money in my account doesn't make any sense at all. If IG doesn't have the money to hedge just issue senior notes or a common offering to raise funds. It's very easy to come up with funds. At least leave us the choice to transform the CFD to a common stock, this choice is not available to me. Why ? You should give us more time than just 30 days, at least 6 months to close our positions. 30 days will force many of us to close trades at very unfavorable prices, booking losses.
  19. You should consider instead thinking in account size and risk level instead of "per trade risk". I can take 100 positions and lose 100% in one of those positions, that's completely fine, I still lose 1%.
  20. IG will force close all those positions after 30 days, it's not just a margin requirement thing, they will not allow us to keep our positions even if we have the margin. Doesn't make any sense at all.
  21. I too was contacted about the 100% margin change and the force close of positions after 30 days. This is not a rumor but a fact. It's happening.
  22. Basically they reserve the right to close at the current price, if you are winning you can keep your gains but you can't gain any more. The only way to keep our positions is to go to another broker and buy the real stock, not a CFD.
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