Updated Oct 20 2022
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Overview | |
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. |
Interactive Brokers is a global brokerage founded in 1978 that holds 11+ high tier financial licenses and provides discounted electronic trading services in nearly all the globe with access to more than 100,000+ financial instruments. |
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Financial Regulation Regulated Top-tier Licenses 2 Other Licenses 2 Provided by |
Financial Regulation Regulated Top-tier Licenses 10 Other Licenses 1 Provided by |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
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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 | 1978 |
💳 Minimum Deposit Range | |
$100 | 0 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
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💵 Account Base Currencies | |
10 -EUR, GBP, USD, CHF, BGN, CZK, HRK, HUF, PLN, RON. | 23 - USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, CHF, CNY, CZK, DK, HKD, HUF, INR, ILS, JPY, MXN, NZD, NOK, PLN, RUB, SGD, ZAR, KRW, SEK. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | Yes |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA. |
AF, SY, SO, SD, LY, NG, BI. |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | Yes |
Banking License | |
No | No |
Debit Card | |
Yes | Yes | Assets |
📚 Assets Type | |
Hybrid | Hybrid |
Total Asset Offering | |
4,559 | 173,105 |
Exchange Access | |
1 | 78 |
📙 Real Stocks | |
0 | 100,000 |
📙 Stock CFDs | |
3,254 | 0 |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
0 | 105 |
📘 Currency Pair CFDs | |
40 | 0 |
📗 Commodities | |
0 | 0 |
📗 Commodities CFDs | |
28 | 0 |
📕 Indices | |
0 | 0 |
📕 Indices CFDs | |
43 | 0 |
📔 ETFs | |
778 | 13,000 |
📔 ETFs CFDs | |
372 | 0 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
0 | 0 |
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs | |
42 | 0 |
📒 Bonds | |
0 | 60,000 |
📒 Bonds CFDs | |
2 | 0 |
📓 Options | |
0 | 0 |
📓 Options CFDs | |
0 | 0 |
📗 Futures | |
0 | 0 |
📗 Futures CFDs | |
0 | 0 | Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Variable - Fractions Allowed | Variable - Fractions Allowed |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Unavailable | Variable - Fractions Allowed |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies by cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC) | Unavailable |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1000 (0.01 Lots) | $25,000 (0.25 lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) | Varies per commodity (eg: 1 Ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
Unavailable | $1,000 for corporate/muni bonds, $1 million for treasury bonds |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
Unavailable | 1 Contract |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
Unavailable | 1 Contract |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
30 | Unavailable |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
500 | Unavailable |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | No |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | No |
📺 cTrader | |
No | No |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
No | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
Yes | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
Yes | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
No | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
$10 monthly after 24 months of inactivity. |
None |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
None | None |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
None | One free withdrawal per month, subsequent are $10 per withdrawal or equivalent |
💰 Commissions | |
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) |
Commissions depend on market and residency:
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📈 EUR/USD | |
From 0.8 Pips | Dynamic - From 0.1 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
From 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 01 Pip |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 20 Pips | Unavailable |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $1.45 | Dynamic - From $0.50 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - From 2 Pips | Unavailable |
📉 BTC | |
Variable - From $208 | Unavailable | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | Yes |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Educational Content | |
Yes | No |
📡 Live Chat Support | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Video Tutorials | |
No | No |
📡 Account Management | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Webinars | |
Yes | No |