IG Securities Ltd, the Japanese subsidiary of online trading major IG Group, is expanding the list of trading instruments subject to minimum trade size reduction.

In a brief notice on its website, IG says it has added stocks subject to CFD minimum trading size reduction. The new additions are:

• WTI Crude Oil
• Spot gold
• Spot silver
• UK FTSE100
• Germany 30
• Hong Kong HS50
• India 50

The change is made in response to the opinions and requests of more customers. IG has reduced the minimum transaction size of the above-mentioned brands on top of other instruments such as Japan 225 and Wall Street. Now, CFDs on these assets can be traded starting from 0.1 lots.

The change was implemented earlier this week, with the broker promising to continue to enhance trading conditions for its clients.

Speakig of trading conditions, let’s recall that IG Japan has recently added the stock of five more companies to the list of trading instruments that can be traded out-of-hours. These five companies are:

• Palantir
• Plug Power
• Coinbase
• Tilray
• Ocugen

The above-mentioned five stocks can be traded from 5 pm Japan time to 9 am the next day (6 am the next day only on Fridays).

At the same time, IG Japan is shortening the trading period for the two stocks offered, make it normal trading time. These companies are: American International Group (AIG) and Halliburton.