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79% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

IG Vs. RoboForex - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Oct 13 2023

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79% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

IG is a global broker established in 1974 that holds 8 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.

RoboForex is an international broker established in 2009 which also owns the brand RoboMarkets and specialises on CFD trading over several asset classes.

Best For
  • Professional traders looking to exploit their customisable platform and broad asset offering
  • High volume traders that can offset their commission costs by trading in larger volumes
  • Intermediate and Professional traders looking for different account offerings
  • Experienced traders looking for trading platform variety
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

8

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

0

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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🏛 Financial Regulators
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • FMA (New Zealand)
  • NFA (United States)
  • DFSA (United Arab Emirates)
  • FINMA (Switzerland)
  • MAS (Singapore)
  • FFAJ (Japan)
  • FSCA (South Africa)
  • BMA (Bermuda)
  • IFSC (International Financial Services Commission of Belize)
The Good
  • Broad platform offering with high customisability and integrated news feeds
  • Comprehensive asset offering with more than 10,000 + CFDs or real stocks and ETFs
  • Comprehensive asset offering with more than 13,000+ instruments
  • Great platform variety (MT4, MT5, cTrader and their own proprietary platforms)
  • Custom account types with spreads from 0 pips
The Bad
  • There are too many small costs such as custody, in-and-out-commissions in some cases, management fees, etc
  • Their standard contracts can be too large some times for low volume traders
  • Weak regulatory framework (counting on 1 license from the IFSC)
  • Doesn’t accept clients from the UK, EU and a few other countries
Status
Operational Operational
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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
1974 2009
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
From $10 to $450. $10
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • JCB
  • AstroPay
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • Perfect Money
  • AdvCash
  • NganLuong Wallet
  • Bank transfers (SEPA, local and several options per country)
💵 Account Base Currencies
6 - AUD, EUR, GBP, HKD, SGD, USD. 4 - USD, EUR, CNY, GOLD.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
Yes No
❌ Restricted Countries

SY, IR.

US, CA, JP, AU, BQ, CW, TL, RU, GQ, FM, MP, SJ, SS, UK, European Union.

📊 STP Account
No Yes
📊 DMA Account
Yes No
📊 ECN Account
Yes Yes
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
Hybrid CFDs
Total Asset Offering
35,227 13,206
Exchange Access
8 0
📙 Real Stocks
15,000 0
📙 Stock CFDs
15,000 12,000
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
80 40
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
37 100
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
76 50
📔 ETFs
2,000 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
2,000 1,000
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
15 16
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
19 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
1,000 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
1/10 of Contract (5,000 Notional) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
1/10 of Contract (5,000 Notional) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
0.01 Contracts $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
1 Contract $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
1 Contract $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
1 Contract Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
1 Contract Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
1 Contract Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 2000
💪 Professional Leverage
250 Unavailable
✍ Customisable Leverage
No Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No No
🎓 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 Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes Yes
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 Copy Trading
No Yes
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
Yes No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
Yes Yes
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee

After 24 months of inactivity, IG charges an $18 monthly fee.

None
💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None

Yes for some methods (eg: Some bank withdrawals can cost up to 1.5% of the amount).

💰 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: for ECN accounts there are commissions up to $20).

Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0.6 Pips Dynamic - From 0 to 1.4 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 40 Pips Dynamic - Market Spread
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips Dynamic - From 17 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - Market Spread Dynamic - Market Spread
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Dynamic - Market Spread Dynamic - Market Spread
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $90 Dynamic - From $220
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
Yes No
📡 Reuters Feed
Yes No
📡 Educational Content
Yes No
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes No
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No No
📡 Webinars
Yes No