Updated May 13 2022
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Interactive Brokers is a global brokerage founded in 1978 that holds 11+ high tier financial licenses and provides discounted electronic trading services in nearly all the globe with access to more than 100,000+ financial instruments. |
BDSwiss is a global broker headquartered in Switzerland that holds multiple financial licenses and offers access to over 250 financial instruments through 4 account types according to each trader's needs. |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
N/A | N/A |
Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 - 3 Days | 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 | |
1978 | 2012 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$ - 0 | $, €, £ - 100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
23 - USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, CHF, CNY, CZK, DK, HKD, HUF, INR, ILS, JPY, MXN, NZD, NOK, PLN, RUB, SGD, ZAR, KRW, SEK | 4 - USD, EUR, GBP, SEK |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
Yes | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
AF, SY, SO, SD, LY, NG, BI. | BE, CD ,ER, JP, KP, LY, MU, SC, SO, SD, US |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | No |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | Yes | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
78 markets | 140 CFDs / 900+ on MT5 Platform |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
105 | 50+ |
📗 Commodities | |
35 markets | 6 |
📕 Indices | |
13 | 10 |
📔 ETFs | |
13,000+ | 80 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
4 | 20 |
📒 Bonds | |
60,000+ | N/A |
📓 Options | |
33 markets | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
32 markets | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
Interactive brokers provides real assets (equities) from more than 100+ markets (exchanges) across the world and also provides CFDs (in allowed regions). |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
From 1 share - except for exchanges that allow fractional trading (US stock exchanges) |
1 share |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
N/A for EU Citizens | 1 contract |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
No minimum, but minimum fee is $1.75 per order |
0.01 Lots |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$25,000 (0.25 lots) | $1,000 (0.01 lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies per commodity (eg: 1 Ounce of Gold) | 0.01 Lots |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
$1,000 for corporate/muni bonds, $1 million for treasury bonds | N/A |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
1 contract | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
1 contract | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
N/A | Up to 1:500 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes | No |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
No | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | Yes |
💻 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 | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
No | 10% of account balance after 90 days of inactivity (minimum at €25, maximum at €49.90) |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
One free withdrawal per month, subsequent are $10 per withdrawal or equivalent |
€10 flat fee for bank wire withdrawals equal to or less than €100 |
💰 Commissions | |
Commissions depend on market and residency:
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Yes depending on account type (Eg: Raw accounts have a $5 per lot round turn commission while other pay spreads) |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.1 pips | Dynamic - From 0.3 Pips (Raw Account) |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 1 Pip | Dynamic - From 39 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
N/A | Dynamic - From 27 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $0.50 | Dynamic - From $3.30 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
N/A | 0.10% |
📉 BTC | |
N/A | Dynamic - From $190 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
Yes | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | No |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |