BDSwiss
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69.2% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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Alvexo
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77.88% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

BDSwiss Vs. Alvexo - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Nov 10 2022

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69.2% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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77.88% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

BDSwiss is a global broker headquartered in Switzerland that holds multiple financial licenses and offers access to over 250 financial instruments through 4 account types according to each trader's needs.

Alvexo is a Cypriot broker founded and regulated in 2014 that specialises in CFDs trading via MT4 and their proprietary trading platform. As of August 3rd 2022, Alvexo's CySec license is partially suspended making them unavailable in French territory.

Best For
  • Beginners looking to learn the basics using the "Cent" account
  • Intermediate traders looking for quality fundamental analysis
  • At the moment, no user category is best served by Alvexo
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

0

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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🏛 Financial Regulators
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • NFA (United States)
  • FSC (Mauritius)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FSAS (Seychelles)
The Good
  • Excellent educational library with analysis published on the daily basis
  • Suitable for traders who are willing to invest time in learning fundamental analysis.
  • Very simple and easy to use proprietary platform along with MT4
  • Trading Singals offered (untested)
The Bad
  • Higher spreads and limited functionality for small accounts
  • Needs $1000 deposit to have access to a personal account manager, or $5,000 for the advantageous Raw account.
  • High minimum deposit without any benefits for the requirement
  • Amongst the highest spreads we have seen for brokers in the same category
  • Asset offering is low (below 500 instruments)
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
2012 2014
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$100 500
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • Sofort
  • iDeal
  • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
  • Bank Transfer
  • Neteller
💵 Account Base Currencies
4 - USD, EUR, GBP, SEK. 3 - EUR, USD, GBP
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

BE, CD ,ER, JP, KP, LY, MU, SC, SO, SD, US.

US, CA, SY, IR.

📊 STP Account
Yes No
📊 DMA Account
No No
📊 ECN Account
Yes No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
1,066 443
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
900 337
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
50 54
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
6 13
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
10 15
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
80 0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
20 22
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0 2
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
1 Share 1 Share
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
1 ETF Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable 1 Bond
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 30
💪 Professional Leverage
500 300
✍ Customisable Leverage
No No
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes Yes
📱 Android App
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 4
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
Yes No
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes Yes
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes No
👬 Copy Trading
Yes No
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
Yes No
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee

10% of account balance after 90 days of inactivity (minimum at €25, maximum at €49.90).

$10 monthly after 3 months of inactivity.

💰 Deposit Fees

€10 flat fee for bank wire withdrawals equal to or less than €100.

None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None None
💰 Commissions

Yes depending on account type (Eg: Raw accounts have a $5 per lot round turn commission while other pay spreads).

None
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0.3 Pips to 1.5 Pips From 2.9 Pips to 14 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 39 Pips From 175 Pips to 100 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 27 Pips From 90 to 50 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $3.30 From $1.91 to $1.41
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
0.10% Unavailable
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $190 From $192.21
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No Yes
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
Yes Yes
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
Yes Yes
📡 Account Management
Yes Yes
📡 Webinars
Yes Yes