DEGIRO Vs. Plus500 - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

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.

Plus500 is an international broker specialised in CFD trading with a big range of assets including CFDs based on American options.

• 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

• Intermediate traders looking to trade short term
• Experienced traders looking to speculate using CFDs based on options

• BaFin (Germany)
• AFM (Netherlands)

• CySec (Cyprus)
• FCA (UK)
• ASIC (Australia)
• MAS (Singapore)

• 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

• CFDs on american options offered
• Low minimum trade sizes
• Propietary platform with multi-charting tools

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

• No ability to remove leverage
• All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)

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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
• Paypal
• Skrill

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.

US, CA, CU, SY, IR.

$10 every 3 months of inactivity.

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.