CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 71% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Shares trading

Trade CFDs on 4,000+ global shares with competitive pricing and superior order execution. Speculate on some of the world’s largest companies including Amazon, Facebook and Google, while still benefitting from dividends payments.

Live shares price ticker

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What are shares?

LCG has an extensive equities offering, giving clients access to thousands of shares in some of the world's most important and influential corporations, including Apple, Facebook, Amazon, BP plc and Google.

The share price of the world’s largest companies are widely followed with 24-hour news coverage. The use of shares in modern pension plans adds to the level of interest from the public.

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Opportunity to invest in major companies
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Often included in pension plans
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24-hour news coverage of prices
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Accessible to all traders

Why trade shares with LCG

Trade international shares

Trade all the best-known companies from global stock markets, including US tech stocks like Apple and Facebook from one account.

Benefit from low spreads

LCG’s competitive pricing and low spreads allows you to take advantage of more stock trading opportunities.

Use leverage to trade

Trading with leverage means that not as much capital is needed to trade. This gives shares traders the opportunity to increase position size, amplifying potential gains and losses.

Advanced LCG Trader platform

Trade stocks and shares wherever you are and on any device using our professional online trading platform.

Additional benefits to stock trading with LCG

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Guaranteed stop‑loss

With a guaranteed stop-loss order, you can protect share trades against significant market fluctuations.

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Advanced orders

With advanced orders you can set multiple profit targets or move your stop loss to breakeven automatically.

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Partial-position closing

Close a percentage of your share position to guarantee an outcome while leaving the remaining portion open to experience market fluctuations.

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No need to own any shares

Take a position on whether a share price will go up or down without having to own the underlying company shares.

A superior trading experience on all of your devices

LCG Trader

LCG Trader

Trade popular shares directly from your browser on any device with our powerful web-based trading platform. LCG Trader offers a fast, reliable trading experience and a world-class charting package.

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MT4

MT4

Trade with LCG's price improvement technologies for company stocks and shares on the world's most popular trading platform, available for desktop, mobile and tablet.

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Analysis and education

Our team of experts have developed in-depth analysis and education material for all levels of traders. From beginners wanting to learn the basics, such as how to buy shares and how to invest in the share market, to the experienced trader wishing to discuss the performance of popular shares our analysts have you covered. Our team host weekly economic outlooks where the latest share markets trends are discussed and you have the opportunity to ask questions, from how to invest in shares and share dealing techniques.

Whether it is breaking news that could affect the share markets you trade, technical analysis, upcoming economic indicators or general market discussion, our team of analysts have you covered with insightful commentary and opinions on everything going on in the world of stocks and shares trading. Visit our research and analysis portal for your daily dose of market commentary or alternatively sign up for our newsletter and have the latest stock trading news delivered to your inbox.

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