FP Markets Vs. ActivTrader - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

FP Markets is a leading Australian broker with a 10,000+ asset offering accompanied by a great variety of tech options such as deploying your own VPS and accessing ENC / DMA pricing.

ActivTrades is a global broker founded in Switzerland in 2001 that specialises in providing CFDs on stocks, ETFs, currencies, indices, commodities and cryptocurrencies along with their own proprietary platform and MT4 & 5.

• Professional traders looking for DMA pricing on their stocks
• Professional traders looking to set up a dedicated VPS
• High volume share traders that benefit from DMA pricing

• Beginner and intermediate traders looking for a simple and powerful platform
• Experienced currency traders looking to exploit the tight spreads
• CFD traders looking for an de-leveraged option to trade

• ASIC (Australia)
• CySec (Cyprus)
• FSA (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

• FCA (UK)
• SCB (Bahamas)
• CSSF (Luxembourg)

• Competitive spreads From 0 pips
• MT4 and MT5 offered
• Over 10,000 + shares

• Great and intuitive proprietary platform
• MT4 and MT5 offered
• Low currency spreads

• No ETFs are offered
• Stock trading commissions are expensive when compared to similar brokers
• Website is slow and confusing
• Fees for the majority of deposit and withdrawal methods

• Asset offering is small when compared to similar competitors
• Commissions are charged
• Cryptocurrency trading is disabled during weekends

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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.

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Bank Transfer
• Paypal
• Neteller
• Skrill
• FasaPay
• PayTrust
• China Union Pay
• Bpay
• Broker to broker
• Sticpay
• Plusdebit
• Rupee Payments
• Dragonpay
• Perfect Money
• Paylivre
• Rapyd
• Finrax
• Fairpay

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Neteller
• Skrill
• Sofort
• Bank Transfer

US, JP, BE, NZ, SY.

US, CA, SY, IR.

$10 monthly after 1 year of inactivity.

Yes depending on method:

• Credit and Debit cards have a 1.5% fee

Yes, $5 for card withdrawals and $20 for international bank transfer withdrawals.

Only for bank transfer withdrawals (9 GBP each)

• No commission on their Standard Account
• $3 per side (lot) commission on their RAW Account

Yes depending on asset:

• For European shares (excluding London) there are fees of 0.05% of the transaction value (minimum 1€) or 0.01% of the transaction value (minimum 5€)
• For London shares there are commissions of 0.10% of transaction value (minimum 1£)
• For New york and other international shares there are commissions of $0.02 per share (minimum $1)

Along specific commissions per asset there can be market data fees such as 1€ monthly for New york exchanges or others.