Shares Spread Betting | Shares Betting | Online Share Betting

Shares spread betting allows you to go long or short a stock without owning the physical shares. At IG Index, we offer low deposits on thousands of individual shares, plus highly competitive spreads.

We offer prices in all FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 shares, in addition to other liquid UK shares with a market capitalisation of over £10 million and thousands more international shares. See our full Shares List.

Unique technology, tighter spreads

Our multi-venue technology is unique among financial spread betting companies. We combine the best bid and offer prices from a share's primary exchange (such as the London Stock Exchange) with those quoted on Europe's leading Multilateral Trading Facilities (Chi-X and Turquoise), to derive consolidated market bid-offer prices.

These market spreads will never be wider than those on the primary exchange and could be narrower. Therefore, when we add our dealing spread it will often be tighter on over 1450 UK and European equities.

Find out more about our tighter spreads.

Guaranteed Stops on over 7000 shares

IG Index offers guaranteed risk protection on over 7000 individual shares - the most comprehensive Guaranteed Stop shares list of all UK spread betting firms.

Low deposit requirements

We have introduced a new system of Tiered Deposits, which enables us to offer lower spread betting deposit requirements - starting from only 5%.

Find out more about our low deposit requirements.

Small minimum bets

You don't have to make large bets. The minimum deal size for some UK shares is only £1/point (the equivalent of 100 shares).

Remember that financial spread betting is a leveraged product and can result in losses that exceed your initial deposit. Spread betting may not be suitable for everyone, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved.