Admiral Markets Vs. DEGIRO - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Admiral Markets (now Admirals) is a global broker headquartered in Estonia with a comprehensive asset offering (5000+) in CFDs and real stocks or ETFs along with MetaTrader 4 & 5.

DEGIRO is a European leading stock broker providing access to more than 50 stock exchanges around the world with low commissions per trade and a simple to use platform.

• Beginners looking to get started investing in stocks or ETFs
• Intermediate and advanced traders looking to trade CFDs
• Professional traders and asset managers 

• Investors from all experience levels looking to buy real shares, funds or ETFs for the long term
• Active traders that look to access the large variety of exchanges offered

• ASIC (Australia)
• CySec (Cyprus)
• FCA (United Kingdom)
• JSC (Jordan)

• BaFin (Germany)
• AFM (Netherlands)

• Broad offering of 5000+ assets including CFDs, real stocks and ETFs
• MetaTrader 4 & 5 along their propietary trading app
• Tools for professionals and asset managers

• No conflicts of interest between DEGIRO and its customers
• Virtually unlimited asset offering from 50 exchanges across the globe
• Low fees when compared to traditional banking alternatives

• Costly spreads in some of their assets when compared to similar competitors
• No propietary web trading platform 

• Credit card deposits are not available
• Simplistic platforms with not many features
• Fees are expensive when compared to commission free brokers

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• 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
• Bank Transfer
• Neteller
• Skrill

• Bank Transfer
• Paypal

US, CA.

DEGIRO only provides services to citizens of Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom. The rest of the countries worldwide are not able to use DEGIRO's services.

$10 monthly after 24 months of inactivity.

Depending on account type (eg: Zero MT4 or 5 accounts have a $3 per lot round turn commission, ASX shares have a 0.15% fee, etc)

Yes and varies per asset and exchange, eg: If you were to purchase £2,000 worth of Apple shares at a price of $300 your total commission would have been £0.44.