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71% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

AvaTrade Vs. Blueberry Markets - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Oct 20 2022

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71% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

AvaTrade is a top-tier multinational broker with more than 7 financial regulators specialising in FX and options trading with their own proprietary platforms.

Blueberry Markets is a young Australian broker founded in 2015 offering CFDs on all the basic asset classes with competitive low spreads.

Best For
  • New traders looking for a more advanced forex and options platform
  • Experienced traders looking to take advantage of their fixed spreads
  • Experienced traders looking to trade FX options
  • Cryptocurrency investors wishing to deposit with USDT to trade CFDs on traditional financial markets
  • Experienced traders interested in trading particular instruments using a big leverage factor
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

6

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • FFAJ (Japan)
  • CBI (Ireland)
  • IIROC (Canada)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FSCA (South Africa)
  • ADGM (United Arab Emirates)
  • ISA (Israel)
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • SCB (Bahamas)
The Good
  • AvaProtect feature for negative trades payback
  • Great variety of platforms (proprietary ones, MT4 & MT5)
  • Smooth platform experiences and easy account management
  • Custom Options trading platform
  • Allows deposits using cryptocurrency USDT (Tether)
  • Leverage of up to 1:500 (for experienced traders)
  • Extremely competitive spreads
The Bad
  • Lack of variety in stocks, ETFs and bonds
  • Expensive inactivity fees
  • No multi-chart tools
  • High trade minimums in all assets except forex
  • All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)
  • Their available asset offering is very low with less than 350 tradable assets
Status
Operational Operational
Recent News

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Key Data
⌛ Account Opening Time
1 day 1 day
📋 Documents Required
  • 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.

📍 Year Founded
2006 2015
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$100 $100
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Neteller
  • Paypal
  • Skrill
  • USDT (Tether)
  • DragonPay
💵 Account Base Currencies
4 - USD, GBP, EUR, CHF. 7 - USD, CAD, AUD, EUR, SGD, NZD, GBP.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, BE, IR. 

AF, AS, AZ, BS, BI, CF, CN, CD, CG, CY, ET, ER, GU, IR, IQ, JP, KP, XK, LB, LY, MM, MP, PS, PR, SL, SO, SS, SD, SY, TT, SH, TN, UM, US, VI, VE, VN (can be accepted when referred by a partner), EH, YE, ZW.

📊 STP Account
No Yes
📊 DMA Account
No No
📊 ECN Account
No No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
863 316
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
626 250
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
55 45
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
27 5
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
33 11
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
59 0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
17 5
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
2 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
44 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Variable - From 1 to 100 units 1 Share
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Variable - From 1 to 100 units Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Variable (eg: BTC 0.01, ETH 0.1) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
Variable (eg: 1 ounce of gold) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
10 units Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
10,000 FX Option contracts Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 500
💪 Professional Leverage
500 Unavailable
✍ Customisable Leverage
No Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes No
📱 Android App
Yes No
📺 MetaTrader 4
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
Yes Yes
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes No
📊 Multi-chart Tools
No Yes
👬 Copy Trading
No No
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
No Yes
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee

$50 per quarter after 3 months of inactivity.

None
💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None None
💰 Commissions
None

Depending on account type:

  • Standard account has no commissions
  • Direct Account has a commission of $3.5 per lot
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0.9 Pips Dynamic - From 0.1 Pips to 1 Pip
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 50 Pips Dynamic - From 50 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 34 Pips Dynamic - From 10 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $1.92 Dynamic - From $1
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $137.31 Dynamic - From $12
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes No
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No No
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
Yes No
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No Yes
📡 Webinars
No No