Updated May 13 2022
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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. |
Admiral Markets (now Admirals) is a global broker headquartered in Estonia with a comprehensive asset offering (5000+) in CFDs and real stocks or ETFs along with MetaTrader 4 & 5. |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
N/A | N/A |
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 | |
2001 | 2001 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$100 | €, £, $ - 100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
6 - GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, JPY, CHF. | 10 -EUR, GBP, USD, CHF, BGN, CZK, HRK, HUF, PLN, RON. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
Yes | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
None | US, CA. |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
4,500+ | 778 Real Stocks / 3,254 CFDs |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
93 | 40 |
📗 Commodities | |
35 | 28 |
📕 Indices | |
24 | 43 |
📔 ETFs | |
700+ | 372 ETFs CFDs / 192 Real ETFs |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
5 | 42 |
📒 Bonds | |
14 | 2 |
📓 Options | |
N/A | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
All of Forex.com’s assets are CFDs. |
Admiral Markets provides the option to trade either CFDs or real stocks and ETFs with their direct market access offering. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies per share (eg: 0.3 AMZN shares) | Varies by share (Fractional share trading) |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies per ETF (eg: 5 contracts of XLK) | N/A |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies per Cryptocurrency (eg: 0.01 BTC) | Varies by cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | $1000 (0.01 Lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies per commodity (eg: 1 contract of Gold) | Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
Varies per Bond (eg: 1 contract of Euro Bobl) | N/A |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | Up to 1:500 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
Yes | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes (Only on mobile) |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | Yes |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | Yes |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, $15 monthly after 1 year of inactivity. |
$10 monthly after 24 months of inactivity |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Commissions | |
Yes depending on account type.
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Yes depending on account type (Eg: Zero MT4 or 5 accounts have a $3 per lot round turn commission, ASX shares have a 0.15% fee, etc) |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips | From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
From 60 Pips | From 50 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
From 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 20 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - From $1.45 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - From 2 Pips |
📉 BTC | |
From $120 | Variable - From $208 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | No |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |