IC Markets
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76.27% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

IC Markets Vs. Blueberry Markets - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Sep 25 2023

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76.27% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

IC Markets is an Australian broker with a global presence specialising in Forex trading. One of their greatest advantages is providing RAW spread accounts with interbank pricing.

Blueberry Markets is a young Australian broker founded in 2015 offering CFDs on all the basic asset classes with competitive low spreads.

Best For
  • Professional traders looking for Interbank rates
  • High volume traders that will save great amounts of costs with their low spreads and commissions
  • Cryptocurrency investors wishing to deposit with USDT to trade CFDs on traditional financial markets
  • Experienced traders interested in trading particular instruments using a big leverage factor
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FSA (Seychelles)
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • SCB (Bahamas)
The Good
  • Customisable leverage per asset before opening trades
  • Interbank rates and low commissions
  • Great platform variety
  • Allows deposits using cryptocurrency USDT (Tether)
  • Leverage of up to 1:500 (for experienced traders)
  • Extremely competitive spreads
The Bad
  • Avaliable assets are limited (Also No ETFs)
  • No ability to purchase real stocks or cryptocurrencies, only CFDs
  • All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)
  • Their available asset offering is very low with less than 350 tradable assets
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
2007 2015
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$200 $100
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Bitcoin
  • Sofort
  • Paypal
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Neteller
  • Paypal
  • Skrill
  • USDT (Tether)
  • DragonPay
💵 Account Base Currencies
10 - USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, CHF, JPY, HKD, CAD, SGD, NZD. 7 - USD, CAD, AUD, EUR, SGD, NZD, GBP.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA, IL.

AF, AS, AZ, BS, BI, CF, CN, CD, CG, CY, ET, ER, GU, IR, IQ, JP, KP, XK, LB, LY, MM, MP, PS, PR, SL, SO, SS, SD, SY, TT, SH, TN, UM, US, VI, VE, VN (can be accepted when referred by a partner), EH, YE, ZW.

📊 STP Account
Yes Yes
📊 DMA Account
No No
📊 ECN Account
Yes No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
1,737 316
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
1,600 250
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
61 45
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
22 5
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
25 11
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
18 5
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
11 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Unavailable 1 Share
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Varies by Cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 - 0.01 Lots $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
$1,000 - 0.01 Lots $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
30 500
💪 Professional Leverage
500 Unavailable
✍ Customisable Leverage
Yes Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes No
📱 Android App
Yes No
📺 MetaTrader 4
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
Yes Yes
📺 cTrader
Yes No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
No No
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 Copy Trading
Yes No
👫 Social Trading
Yes No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
No Yes
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee
None None
💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None None
💰 Commissions

No commissions in standard accounts but rather a 1 Pip spread markup on interbank prices received. For Raw spreads accounts, $7 per lot round turn.

Depending on account type:

  • Standard account has no commissions
  • Direct Account has a commission of $3.5 per lot
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0 to 0.6 Pips Dynamic - From 0.1 Pips to 1 Pip
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 20 to 45 Pips Dynamic - From 50 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips Dynamic - From 10 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - Market Spread Dynamic - From $1
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $8.7 to $42 Dynamic - From $12
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes No
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No No
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
Yes No
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No Yes
📡 Webinars
No No