Updated May 26 2022
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IG is a global broker established in 1974 that holds 10 reputable financial licenses and provides CFD trading on stocks, commodities, ETFs, indices, cryptocurrencies, bonds, futures, options along with real stocks through their share dealing account. |
Admiral Markets (now Admirals) is a global broker headquartered in Estonia with a comprehensive asset offering (5000+) in CFDs and real stocks or ETFs along with MetaTrader 4 & 5. |
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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 | |
1974 | 2001 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
0 for Bank Transfers, 300 € for Paypal and Debit / Credit cards. |
€, £, $ - 100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
6 - AUD, EUR, GBP, HKD, SGD, USD. | 10 -EUR, GBP, USD, CHF, BGN, CZK, HRK, HUF, PLN, RON. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
Yes (excluding CFDs) | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
SY, IR. | US, CA. |
📊 STP Account | |
No | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
10,000+ CFDs / Offering from 8 exchanges worldwide for real stocks |
778 Real Stocks / 3,254 CFDs |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
210 | 40 |
📗 Commodities | |
37 | 28 |
📕 Indices | |
76 | 43 |
📔 ETFs | |
2,000 + both CFDs and real ETFs | 372 ETFs CFDs / 192 Real ETFs |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
15 | 42 |
📒 Bonds | |
19 | 2 |
📓 Options | |
Availability only for select countries. | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
Several contracts in commodities and indices with various expiration dates. |
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📝 Notes: | |
IG provides both CFD trading and real equity. US traders cannot trade CFDs. |
Admiral Markets provides the option to trade either CFDs or real stocks and ETFs with their direct market access offering. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
1 Share | Varies by share (Fractional share trading) |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
1 ETF | N/A |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
0.01 Contracts (IG Provides a standard contract containing a particular quantity of an asset, for example, ADA’s contract has 100 ADA coins) |
Varies by cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
1 Contract (IG Provides a standard contract containing a particular quantity of an asset, for example, 1 EUR / USD standard contract has 10,000 units) |
$1000 (0.01 Lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
1 Contract | Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
1 Contract | N/A |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
1 Contract | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
Varies per option (usually 1 contract) | 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 | |
No | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes (Only on mobile) |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | Yes |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
After 24 months of inactivity, IG charges an $18 monthly fee. |
$10 monthly after 24 months of inactivity |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Commissions | |
Yes, they charge depending on the client’s account base currency and exchange location of the shares being traded. For example, for some clients US shares can have a minimum charge of $10 in-and-out. |
Yes depending on account type (Eg: Zero MT4 or 5 accounts have a $3 per lot round turn commission, ASX shares have a 0.15% fee, etc) |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.9 Pips | From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 150 Pips | From 50 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 20 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $1.03 | Dynamic - From $1.45 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - From 0 Pips | Dynamic - From 2 Pips |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $140 | Variable - From $208 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | No |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |