Updated Jul 12 2022
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City Index is a global broker founded in 1983 that holds 4 financial licenses and offers advanced trading platforms, mobile apps, diverse market research tools and an extensive range of markets. |
Oanda is an international Forex broker founded in 1996 with headquarters in the United States. Oanda specialises exclusively in currency trading solutions for all trader levels. Their greatest selling points are their strong regulatory framework and robust proprietary platforms. |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
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Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 Day | 1 day minimum (may take longer) |
📋 Documents Required | |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. *There is no document verification needed for gross account deposits below US$9,000. |
📍 Year Founded | |
1983 | 1996 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$, €, £ - 100 | $, €, £, - 0. |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
8 - GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, JPY, PLN, HUF, CHF. | 9 - USD, EUR, GBP, SGD, CHF, JPY, AUD, CAD, HKD. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | Yes |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA, SY, IR. | AF, AL, BS, BB, BW, BF, BI, KH, KY, CF, TD, CD, CG, CU, ER, ET, GH, IR, IQ, JM, KP, LY, MU, MN, MA, MM, NI, NG, PK, PS, PA, SN, SL, SO, SS, SD, SY, TT, TN, UG, VU, YE, ZW. |
📊 STP Account | |
No | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | No |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | Yes | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
4,500+ | N/A |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
84 | 68 |
📗 Commodities | |
30 | 13 |
📕 Indices | |
25 | 16 |
📔 ETFs | |
740 | N/A |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
5 | 4 |
📒 Bonds | |
11 | 6 |
📓 Options | |
Yes, option chains over 17 different products | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
City index offers both CFDs and spread betting.< |
All Oanda's assets are CFDs. In the case of commodities, they only have 13, but each commodity has various trading pairs against several different currencies, eg: GOLD/EUR, GOLD/CHF, etc. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies per share starting from fractional share trading (eg: 0.1 shares) | N/A |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies per ETFs starting from fractional ETFs trading (eg: 0.1 ETFs) | N/A |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies per cryptocurrency - (eg: 0.01 BTC, 1 LTC) | Varies by crypto (Eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | 1 unit of any currency pair (Eg: 1 Euro, 1 Usd, 1 GBP, etc) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies per commodity | Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
Varies per bond | 1 unit of any Bond contract |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
Varies per option | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | Up to 1:100 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | Yes |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
No | No |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | Yes |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, 12£ monthly after 1 year of inactivity |
Yes, $10 after 1 year of inactivity |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | Credit and Debit cards are free, when it comes to Bank transfer depends on the account's base currency (eg: the first withdrawal costs $, €, £ 20 and any subsequent ones 35). In the case of SGD, there are no fees. |
💰 Commissions | |
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No, but they do charge currency conversion fees. If your account base currency is GBP and you trade the EUR/USD pair, you'll be paying a conversion fee. |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips | Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 60 Pips | Dynamic - From 30 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
From 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 26 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | N/A |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | N/A |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $120 | Dynamic - From $100 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |