ActivTrader Vs. Trading 212 - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

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.

Trading 212 is a global broker headquartered in the U.K specialising in real stocks and ETFs investing along with CFD trading.

• Beginner and intermediate traders looking for a simple and powerful platform
• Experienced currency traders looking to exploit the tight spreads
• CFD traders looking for an de-leveraged option to trade

• Passive investors looking to buy stocks or ETFs with their investing account
• Traders of all levels of experience looking to trade CFDs on shares

• FCA (UK)
• SCB (Bahamas)
• CSSF (Luxembourg)

• FCA (UK)
• CySec (Cyprus)
• FSC (Bulgaria)

• Great and intuitive proprietary platform
• MT4 and MT5 offered
• Low currency spreads

• Broad asset offering in their investing account (more than 10,000 assets)
• Friendly, smooth and simple proprietary platforms (both web and mobile)
• Great spreads on stocks and no commissions on investing accounts

• Asset offering is small when compared to similar competitors
• Commissions are charged
• Cryptocurrency trading is disabled during weekends

• Despite both platforms being beautiful, they are gamified for engagement. Clicking on the buy button on mobile platform will trigger a random order without asking for confirmation
• Asides from stocks, their asset offering lacks variety
• Very high forex spreads (1.4 Pips on EUR/USD)

No fresh news at the moment. Check again soon!

No fresh news at the moment. Check again soon!

• Valid identity document (Passport, ID Card, etc)
• Valid proof of residence document (Bank statement, utility bills)

All documents must be under the account holder's name.

• Valid identity document (Passport, ID Card, etc)
• Valid proof of residence document (Bank statement, utility bills)

All documents must be under the account holder's name.

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Neteller
• Skrill
• Sofort
• Bank Transfer

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Bank Transfer
• Paypal
• Neteller
• Skrill
• iDeal
• Apple Pay

US, CA, SY, IR.

US, CA.

$10 monthly after 1 year of inactivity.

Yes depending on method:

• Credit and Debit cards have a 1.5% fee

Only for bank transfer withdrawals (9 GBP each)

Yes depending on asset:

• For European shares (excluding London) there are fees of 0.05% of the transaction value (minimum 1€) or 0.01% of the transaction value (minimum 5€)
• For London shares there are commissions of 0.10% of transaction value (minimum 1£)
• For New york and other international shares there are commissions of $0.02 per share (minimum $1)

Along specific commissions per asset there can be market data fees such as 1€ monthly for New york exchanges or others.