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I, like Popped took the gamble as was interested in seeing if this cfd trading really worked as am a bit of a gambler and just wanted to avoid the hassle of doing trading myself.  Had the spiel done which went for over an hour, but they did make it quite clear that there was a chance that I could lose money, even though their results for the previous 10 years showed a minimum of 10% return and up to 65%.  I was aware however that cfd trading is very high risk.  Within a couple of weeks showed a profit of $1500.  Didn't last long, in the next 4 days proceeded to lose 8K.  Tried to withdraw some funds but IG were asking for hard copy of bank accounts before they would release the funds (that's their policy they claimed) as they were concerned someone hacked my account.  After several 'not so friendly' phone calls with the customer service team (credit department refused to speak to me), was able to release a small amount of funds without supply of any hard copies. Have since withdrawn several more funds without a glitch.  All up I have now lost 13K in the space of 3 months (5K fee+ 8K through trading).  From my experience probably a good one to avoid if you can't afford the losses.  Might let it run another month or two to see if they can make a profit(I highly doubt) before pulling the plug.  I don't think the so called 'professional traders' as they like to refer to themselves as aren't any more capable of investing and making money than any mug off the street.