DEMO TRADING STOPPED BY IG

• 07/18/2017 at 11:33 AM #40949
  RDHEXTON

  Just had an email from IG that they are stopping my demo cfd account and need to place my automatic trading systems to live account – anybody else experienced this from IG?

  

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  07/18/2017 at 12:44 PM #40954
  GraHal

  How long you been running IG Demo only?  Were you aware that it is / was a trial?

  My understanding is that after 1 month (?) you need to open a Live account in order to continue running a linked Demo Account?

  

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  07/18/2017 at 1:21 PM #40964
  RDHEXTON

  About 2.5 months have set up live account but not traded – My auto trading systems show 92% in backtesting with 4 point spread to cover out of hours but when trading with IG realtime demo fall to 33 – 50%!! Hence still trying to find a system that works in real time!!

  

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  07/18/2017 at 5:57 PM #41022
  GraHal

  50% winning trades is still good provided it’s a respectable ‘gain to loss ratio’ ?

  Have you funded your live account, but haven’t traded Live yet? I’m just trying to suss out what criteria IG have used to pick on you?

  

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  07/19/2017 at 8:11 AM #41046
  RDHEXTON

  Yes funded my account but not traded it possibly running demo for too long a period 2.5 months But wanted to try achieve at least 65% hit rate Best results are from my longer time frame of WEEKLY hence wanted to run demo for a longer time period as only 4 trades per month Thanks for your comment

  

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  07/19/2017 at 2:27 PM #41083
  Eric

  as i understand it

  you need to trade each month with IG manually or using proorder to have prorealtime for free

  did they not specify the conditions in the mail?

   

  

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