Stock Indices Spread Betting
Stock indices are the most popular market for spread betting. The huge range of indices around the world allow you to take short- or long-term positions on market movements across the globe.
- New to Stock Indices?
- Find out everything you need to know to start spread betting on stock indices
- Stock Indices Examples
- Examples of both 'buying' and 'selling' stock indices, as well as ways to manage risk
- Stock Indices Resources
- Our suite of useful tools includes advanced charts, Market Updates and Technical Analysis
- Dealing Spreads
- We offer highly-competitive spreads on our fast and reliable spread betting platform
Spread betting on stock indices with IG Index gives you a simple way to back your predictions about stock market movements.
Value for money on our full range of indices
With IG Index you can gain exposure to a vast selection of global stock indices, including the FTSE 100, Wall Street, Japan 225, Germany 30, France 40 and many more. Our tight spreads start from just 2 points for Daily FTSE, plus you benefit from our advanced but easy-to-use PureDeal platform.
PureDeal gives you access to streaming prices in tandem with ultra-fast execution and one-click dealing. PureDeal also comes with our unique Price Improvement technology – if we have a better price available when your deal is executed, we give it to you.
Take a position 24 hours a day
We quote prices on 15 of the the most popular stock index futures even when the underlying markets are closed. You can now spread bet on the FTSE, Wall Street, Germany 30, France 40, Australia 200, Hong Kong HS42, Italy 40, Japan 225, Portugal 20, Spain 35, Sweden 30, Singapore Blue-Chip, US SPX 500 and US Tech 100 24-hours a day, wherever you are, between Sunday night and Friday night.
Take advantage of 24-hour dealing with our free mobile dealing software, and spread bet on the move. Find out more about mobile dealing, plus our iPhone dealing service.
You can find details of market opening hours in our Dealing Handbook.
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