This term refers to the fact that spread betting allows the client to buy (or sell) a financial product with substantially less money than the actual full market value of that financial product. So gearing is the correlation between potential profit or loss against initial deposit. A highly geared or leveraged bet involves substantial risk to your money (but also gives the possibility of high returns).


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This is the maximum figure used to automatically allocate a Stop-Loss on newly opened positions. In the event that a client has sufficient funds to cover the CGSL on deposit, the Trading System will assign a stop at a point 80% of the CGSL away from the opening price of the trade. Otherwise, the system will allocate a stop according to funds available in your account.
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A powerful interactive pattern recognition technology is now available at IG Index, the UK’s leading financial spread betting firm, is now offering clients access to technical analysis with online automated pattern recognition technology from Autochartist.

IG Index, the UK’s leading financial spread betting firm, is now offering clients access to technical analysis with online automated pattern recognition technology from Autochartist. IG Index is the first spread betting firm to offer the...
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