Charts can be valuable tools when analysing financial markets and future price movements, and our comprehensive charting package offers the perfect partnership to support your CFD trading.
Why use charts?
Charts make it easy to spot the effect of key events on a particular market, whether it's trading near its highs, lows, or in between. Any stock with price data over a period of time can be used to form a chart for analysis. It is commonly said that to trade successfully, it is essential to know important stock chart patterns as you can obtain realistic objectives for later moves.
Autochartist – technical analysis made simple
Autochartist is our free, powerful chart-pattern recognition software package, available to all IG Markets account holders. It frees you from the time-consuming process of scrutinising and analysing charts.
With the help of Autochartist, you can:
- Receive automatic alerts to emerging trends
- Anticipate and react to the elements of support, trend and resistance in chart patterns
- Use emerging patterns to take a proactive approach to trading
- Capitalise on indecision and confusion in the markets by interpreting non-trending patterns
To learn more, visit our Pattern Recognition page, or our online seminar, which will take you through the features of Autochartist.
Advanced Charts
We offer an array of real-time charts and professional-grade charting tools with enhanced trading functionality, and 75 indicators. Access them from both your pc and mobile, including via our popular iPhone app.
Advanced Charts are fully customisable, giving you the ability to:
- Use our 75 indicators with coloured visuals to aid clarity
- Identify trends by creating your own colour zones around indicator lines or prices
- Choose to display the time periods most relevant for your needs; programme your preferred indicators and configure your toolbar to suit you and select optional 3-D visuals
- Use different drawing objects
- Create alerts using the ProScreener and Top Movers windows
On top of this, our DealThru Charts technology gives you the ability to trade directly from the chart.
Using DealThru Charts, you can:
- Open and close positions through the Advanced Charts
- Attach Stops and Limits to your existing positions
- Amend Stops and Limits on working orders
- See Stops and Limits illustrated within the charts
- Drag 'n' drop: drag a market from any list and drop it into a chart, order book, tick-by-tick list or personalised list
How to activate Advanced Charts in PureDeal
Turning on advanced charts is simple. Once you have logged into PureDeal, go to 'My Account', and then the 'Settings' tab. Click on 'Preferences' and then 'Activate Advanced Charts'. DealThru Charts is available to all Trader Account holders when you subscribe to our Advanced Charts package. You can activate advanced charts in the 'My Account' (under 'Settings' and 'Preferences') section of PureDeal. Advanced charts will remain free of charge if you trade regularly with us.
On-demand seminars
We offer a wide range of online seminars on charts and technical analysis to complement our professional package. From a detailed look into our charts offering, to reading patterns and Japanese Candlestick charting, our online seminars can aid you in building effective trading strategies.
If you are not already an IG Markets client and would like to use take advantage of our sophisticated charting package and analysis tools, simply apply online and you could be trading chart trends in minutes!
Updated 01/07/11