Admiral Markets Vs. ThinkMarkets - 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.

ThinkMarkets is a global broker headquartered in Australia that offers real stocks and ETFs along with CFDs on stocks, etfs, commodities, indices and cryptocurrencies accompanied by their proprietary platform: ThinkTrader.

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

• Passive investors looking to buy, hold or transfer real shares or ETFs from ASX
• Active traders looking to exploit their low spreads on CFDs
• MetaTrader 4 & 5 traders looking for a convenient offering

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

• FCA (UK)
• ASIC (Australia)
• FSAS (Seychelles)
• FSCA (South Africa)

• 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

• Possibility to invest in real stocks and ETFs or trade CFDs
• Proprietary platform ThinkTrader is smooth and user friendly
• Spreads are very competitive when compared to similar competitors

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

• Real stocks or ETFs are only from ASX (Australian Securities Exchange)
• Expensive stock trading commissions ($8 flat fee for ASX shares or ETFs)
• While their stock and ETFs offering is great, they lack variety in all other asset classes

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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

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Neteller
• Skrill
• Bank Transfer
• Bitcoin (BTC)
• Ethereum (ETH)
• Tether (USDT)

US, CA.

US, CA, SY, IR.

$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)

• For Standard account there are no commissions
• For Zero account there is a commission of $3.5 per lot round turn

For real stocks and ETFs investing, there is a flat fee of $8 per trade (in-and-out) or if the trade value is above $200,000 then a 0.05% fee per trade.