Updated May 26 2022
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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. |
Freedom Finance is an equities broker founded in 2008 belonging to the parent group Freedom Holding Corp (a publicly traded company on NASDAQ exchange). Their specialty is providing access to more than 1 million stocks, ETFs, bonds, futures and options worldwide along with IPOs. |
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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 | |
2007 | 2008 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$200 | 0 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
10 - USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, CHF, JPY, HKD, CAD, SGD, NZD. | 3 - EUR, USD, GBP. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | Yes |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA, IL. | SY, IR. |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
1,600 + | 58,571 |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
61 | N/A |
📗 Commodities | |
22 | N/A |
📕 Indices | |
25 | N/A |
📔 ETFs | |
N/A | 1,500 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
18 | N/A |
📒 Bonds | |
11 | 191,959 |
📓 Options | |
N/A | 1,153,234 |
📗 Futures | |
4 | 6,020 |
📝 Notes: | |
All ICMarkets assets are CFDs. | All of Freedom Finance’s assets are real equities, they do not provide CFDs. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies by Stock | 1 Share |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
N/A | 1 ETF |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies by Cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC) | N/A |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 - 0.01 Lots | N/A |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.01 Troy ounces of Gold) | N/A |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
Varies by Bond | 1 Contract |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
Varies by Future | 1 Contract |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | 1 Contract |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:3 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | N/A |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
Yes | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
No | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | No |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | No |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | No |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
No | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | No |
👬 Copy Trading | |
Yes | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
Yes | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
No | No |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | Yes, up to 2.5% for credit / debit cards. |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | Yes, 7€ for bank transfers. |
💰 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. |
Yes and the vary per account: In their all inclusive USD account they charge,
In their Smart in EUR account they charge,
In their Fix in EUR account, they charge,
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Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0 to 0.6 Pips | N/A |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 20 to 45 Pips | N/A |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 30 Pips | N/A |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
N/A | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $8.7 to $42 | N/A | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | No |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | No |