Updated Nov 10 2022
Visit 69.2% of retail CFD accounts lose money. |
Visit 67.6% 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. |
Forex.com is a global broker headquartered in the U.S and part of StoneX (publicly traded company on NASDAQ) that specialises in offering CFDs based on commodities, currencies, indices, stocks, ETFs, shares, bonds and cryptocurrencies. |
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Financial Regulation Regulated Top-tier Licenses 1 Other Licenses 2 Provided by |
Financial Regulation Regulated Top-tier Licenses 4 Other Licenses 2 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 | |
2012 | 2001 |
💳 Minimum Deposit Range | |
$100 | $100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
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💵 Account Base Currencies | |
4 - USD, EUR, GBP, SEK. | 6 - GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, JPY, CHF. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | Yes |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
BE, CD ,ER, JP, KP, LY, MU, SC, SO, SD, US. |
None |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | Yes |
Banking License | |
No | No |
Debit Card | |
No | No | Assets |
📚 Assets Type | |
CFDs | CFDs |
Total Asset Offering | |
1,066 | 5,371 |
Exchange Access | |
0 | 0 |
📙 Real Stocks | |
0 | 0 |
📙 Stock CFDs | |
900 | 4,500 |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
0 | 0 |
📘 Currency Pair CFDs | |
50 | 93 |
📗 Commodities | |
0 | 0 |
📗 Commodities CFDs | |
6 | 35 |
📕 Indices | |
0 | 0 |
📕 Indices CFDs | |
10 | 24 |
📔 ETFs | |
0 | 0 |
📔 ETFs CFDs | |
80 | 700 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
0 | 0 |
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs | |
20 | 5 |
📒 Bonds | |
0 | 0 |
📒 Bonds CFDs | |
0 | 14 |
📓 Options | |
0 | 0 |
📓 Options CFDs | |
0 | 0 |
📗 Futures | |
0 | 0 |
📗 Futures CFDs | |
0 | 0 | Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
1 Share | Varies per share (eg: 0.3 AMZN shares) |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
1 ETF | Varies per ETF (eg: 5 contracts of XLK) |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | Varies per Cryptocurrency (eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | $1,000 (0.01 Lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | Varies per commodity (eg: 1 contract of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
Unavailable | Unavailable |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
Unavailable | Unavailable |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
Unavailable | Unavailable |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
30 | 30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
500 | 500 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
No | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 cTrader | |
No | No |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | Yes |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
Yes | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
10% of account balance after 90 days of inactivity (minimum at €25, maximum at €49.90). |
$15 monthly after 1 year 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). |
Depending on account type.
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Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.3 Pips to 1.5 Pips | Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 39 Pips | Dynamic - From 60 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 27 Pips | Dynamic - From 50 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $3.30 | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
0.10% | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $190 | Dynamic - From $120 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Educational Content | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Live Chat Support | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Video Tutorials | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Account Management | |
Yes | No |
📡 Webinars | |
Yes | No |