DEGIRO Vs. FXCM - Compare and Choose the Right One

DEGIRO is a European leading stock broker providing access to more than 50 stock exchanges around the world with low commissions per trade and a simple to use platform.

FXCM is a global brokerage headquartered in the U.K that specialises in both retail and institutional trading with a comprehensive API offering.

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• Investors from all experience levels looking to buy real shares, funds or ETFs for the long term
• Active traders that look to access the large variety of exchanges offered

• Professional algorithmic traders looking to benefit from their comprehensive API offering 

• BaFin (Germany)
• AFM (Netherlands)

• ASIC (Australia)
• CySec (Cyprus)
• FCA (United Kingdom)
• FSCA (South Africa)

• No conflicts of interest between DEGIRO and its customers
• Virtually unlimited asset offering from 50 exchanges across the globe
• Low fees when compared to traditional banking alternatives

• Comprehensive API offering with a variety of conditions and programming languages at no additional cost
• Proprietary platform (Trading Station)

• Credit card deposits are not available
• Simplistic platforms with not many features
• Fees are expensive when compared to commission free brokers

• Lack of asset variety in their offering (over 300+ financial instruments)
• Costly spreads when compared to similar competitors

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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.

• Bank Transfer
• Paypal

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Bank Transfer
• Neteller
• Skrill

Skrill and Neteller are not available to FXCM EU clients at the moment

DEGIRO only provides services to citizens of Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom. The rest of the countries worldwide are not able to use DEGIRO's services.

Real stocks, ETFs, bonds and options.

CFDs on stocks, currencies, commodities, cryptocurrencies and indices

DEGIRO is a traditional DMA broker, which means you buy or sell real shares upon availability from stock exchanges across the globe. Their asset offering is virtually unlimited as it depends on exchange's availability.

50 units of the account's base currency yearly after 1 year of inactivity.

Yes on bank transfer withdrawals depending on location (from $10 to $40 on local currency).

Yes and varies per asset and exchange, eg: If you were to purchase £2,000 worth of Apple shares at a price of $300 your total commission would have been £0.44.