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. |
DEGIRO is a European leading stock broker providing access to more than 50 stock exchanges around the world with low commissions per trade and a simple to use platform. |
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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 | |
1974 | 2008 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
0 for Bank Transfers, 300 € for Paypal and Debit / Credit cards. |
0 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
6 - AUD, EUR, GBP, HKD, SGD, USD. | 3 - USD, GBP, EUR. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
Yes (excluding CFDs) | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
SY, IR. | DEGIRO only provides services to citizens of Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom. The rest of the countries worldwide are not able to use DEGIRO's services. |
📊 STP Account | |
No | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
10,000+ CFDs / Offering from 8 exchanges worldwide for real stocks |
25,000+ |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
210 | 5 |
📗 Commodities | |
37 | N/A |
📕 Indices | |
76 | 25 |
📔 ETFs | |
2,000 + both CFDs and real ETFs | 6,700 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
15 | N/A |
📒 Bonds | |
19 | 500+ |
📓 Options | |
Availability only for select countries. | 250,000+ |
📗 Futures | |
Several contracts in commodities and indices with various expiration dates. |
10,000+ |
📝 Notes: | |
IG provides both CFD trading and real equity. US traders cannot trade CFDs. |
DEGIRO is a traditional DMA broker, which means you buy or sell real shares upon availability from stock exchanges across the globe. Their asset offering is virtually unlimited as it depends on exchange's availability. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
1 Share | N/A |
📉 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) |
N/A |
📉 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) |
N/A |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
1 Contract | N/A |
📉 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 | N/A |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | N/A |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | N/A |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
No | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | No |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | No |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | No |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | No |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
Yes | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
After 24 months of inactivity, IG charges an $18 monthly fee. |
No |
💰 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 and varies per asset and exchange, eg: If you were to purchase £2,000 worth of Apple shares at a price of $300 your total commission would have been £0.44. |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.9 Pips | N/A |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 150 Pips | N/A |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 50 Pips | N/A |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $1.03 | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - From 0 Pips | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $140 | N/A | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |