Updated May 13 2022
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ActivTrades is a global broker founded in Switzerland in 2001 that specialises in providing CFDs on stocks, ETFs, currencies, indices, commodities and cryptocurrencies along with their own proprietary platform and MT4 & 5. |
Markets.com is an international broker that offers share dealing and CFD trading accounts through their own proprietary platform or MT4 and MT5. |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
N/A | N/A |
Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 Day | 1 day |
📋 Documents Required | |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
📍 Year Founded | |
2001 | 2008 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$500 | $, €, £ - 100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
4 - EUR, USD, CHF, GBP. | 11 - USD, EUR, GBP, PLN, SEK, DKK, NOK, ZAR, CZK, CHF, AUD. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA, SY, IR. | US, JP, CA, BE. |
📊 STP Account | |
No | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | No |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
1,000+ | 2,008 CFDs / 7,008 Real Stocks |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
50 | 67 |
📗 Commodities | |
16 | 28 |
📕 Indices | |
30 | 40 |
📔 ETFs | |
500+ | 66 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
11 | 25 |
📒 Bonds | |
N/A | 4 |
📓 Options | |
N/A | NA |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | NA |
📝 Notes: | |
All of ActivTrades’s assets are CFDs. |
Markets.com also offers share dealing account with real stocks from 16 exchanges worldwide. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies per share (Fractional share trading allowed) | 1 Stock |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies per ETF (Fractional ETF trading allowed) | 1 ETF |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | Varies by Crypto (Eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | $1,000 |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | Varies by Commoditty (Eg: 1 Gold Contract) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
N/A | Varies by Bond (Eg: 10 GER10Y Bond contracts) |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:400 | Up to 1:300 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
Yes | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, $10 monthly after 1 year of inactivity. |
Yes, $10 each month after 3 months of inactivity |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
Yes depending on method:
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No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
Yes, only for bank transfer withdrawals (9 GBP each) |
No |
💰 Commissions | |
Yes depending on asset:
Along specific commissions per asset there can be market data fees such as 1€ monthly for New york exchanges or others. |
No comissions on CFDs. For share dealing, the first 3 months are commission free, then the structure is:
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Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
From 0.5 Pips to 0.91 Pips | Dynamic - From 0.7 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
From 23 Pips to 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 100 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
From 98 Pips | Dynamic - From 50 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - From $1.81 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - From $0.31 |
📉 BTC | |
From $55 to $91 | Dynamic - From $104.10 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No, but Investment Strategy Builder is offered |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | No |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | No |