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Majority of retail CFD accounts lose money.

FXCM Vs. NAGA - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Jan 19 2023

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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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Majority of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

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

**The below information is provided based on FXCM EU LTD. For other FXCM entities, please go to the corresponding FXCM website for more information.

TheTradingBible.com is acting in a capacity of marketing affiliate for FXCM EU LTD.

Naga is an international broker belonging to the NAGA Group A.G, a publicly listed company in the Frankfurt stock exchange. Their specialty is social and copy trading of both real stocks and ETFs along with CFDs on all major asset classes.

Best For
  • Professional algorithmic traders looking to benefit from their comprehensive API offering.
  • Beginners looking to explore copy and social trading in detail
  • Passive investors looking to buy real stocks or ETFs
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

2

Other Licenses

2

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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

0

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
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🏛 Financial Regulators
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FCA (United Kingdom)
  • FSCA (South Africa)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
The Good
  • Comprehensive API offering with a variety of conditions and programming languages at no additional cost
  • Proprietary platform (Trading Station)
  • Gamified social trading platform full of features and very responsive
  • Independent services such as cryptocurrency wallet or Naga Pay which provides a debit card and banking functionality
The Bad
  • Lack of asset variety in their offering (over 463+ financial instruments)
  • Costly spreads when compared to similar competitors
  • There is no way to easily understand which is the leverage factor being applied per asset
  • Asset offering is not that comprehensive when compared to similar competitors
  • An overall feeling of playing a game in a fun-app
Status
Operational Operational
Recent News

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Key Data
⌛ Account Opening Time
1 day 1 day
📋 Documents Required
  • 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.

📍 Year Founded
1999 2015
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$50 $250
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • Credit Cards
  • Debit Cards
  • Bank Transfers
  • PayPal
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • PaySafeCard
  • GiroPay
  • EPS
  • Prezelewy24
  • KB
  • Euteller
  • Neosurf
  • MyBank
💵 Account Base Currencies
4 - EUR GBP, USD, CHF. 4 - EUR, GBP, USD, PLN.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

RU, US, CA, JP, SK, BE and more.

US, CA, SY, IR.

📊 STP Account
No No
📊 DMA Account
No Yes
📊 ECN Account
No No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs Hybrid
Total Asset Offering
447 1,580
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 700
📙 Stock CFDs
341 700
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
41 80
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
14 4
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
19 20
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
0 17
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
22 37
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
10 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 22
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
1 Share Unavailable
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
1 Unit Unavailable
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 30
💪 Professional Leverage
400 500
✍ Customisable Leverage
No No
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No Yes
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes Yes
📱 Android App
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 4
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
No Yes
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes No
💻 TradingView Platform
Yes Yes
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes No
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 Copy Trading
Yes Yes
👫 Social Trading
Yes Yes
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
Yes No
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee

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

None
💰 Deposit Fees

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

None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None

Yes, from 0 to $5 depending on your account level.

💰 Commissions
None

Yes depending on asset (Eg: 0.99 € for real stocks in-and-out, $2.5 for Stock CFDs, etc)

Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 1.2 Pips Dynamic - From 1.7 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 58 Pips Dynamic - Market Spread
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 41 Pips Dynamic - From 36 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $1.04 Dynamic - Market Spread
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Dynamic - Market Spread
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $51 Dynamic - From $130
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
Yes No
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
Yes Yes
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No Yes
📡 Webinars
No No