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. |
Trading 212 is a global broker headquartered in the U.K specialising in real stocks and ETFs investing along with CFD trading. |
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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 | 2004 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$100 | 1 to 10 €, £ |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
6 - GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, JPY, CHF. | 9 - USD, EUR, GBP, RON, PLN, CHF, SEK, NOK, CZK. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
Yes | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
None | US, CA. |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
4,500+ | 10,000+ Real stocks / 1,526 CFDs |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
93 | 179 |
📗 Commodities | |
35 | 25 |
📕 Indices | |
24 | 35 |
📔 ETFs | |
700+ | 1,800 Real ETFs / 50 CFDs |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
5 | N/A |
📒 Bonds | |
14 | N/A |
📓 Options | |
N/A | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
All of Forex.com’s assets are CFDs. |
Trading 212 provides 2 different accounts: Stock investing where users can buy real stocks or ETFs and CFD accounts. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies per share (eg: 0.3 AMZN shares) | Fractional Share trading - 0.1 Units of a share |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies per ETF (eg: 5 contracts of XLK) | Fractional ETF trading - 0.1 Units of an ETF |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies per Cryptocurrency (eg: 0.01 BTC) | N/A |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | $500 |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies per commodity (eg: 1 contract of Gold) | Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.01 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 (Investing Account) |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | No |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | No |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
Yes | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, $15 monthly after 1 year of inactivity. |
No |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Commissions | |
Yes depending on account type.
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No | Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips | Dynamic - From 1.4 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
From 60 Pips | Dynamic - From 166 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
From 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 30 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - Dynamic - From $0.6 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | N/A |
📉 BTC | |
From $120 | N/A | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | No |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |