LegacyFX
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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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AAATrade
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69.23% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

LegacyFX Vs. AAATrade - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Dec 19 2022

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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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69.23% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

Legacy FX is a cypriot broker founded in 2017 that specialises in CFDs trading via MetaTrader 5 for mobile, web and desktop devices.

AAATrade is a Cyprus based broker established in 2013, that offers a variety of financial instruments including contracts for difference (CFDs), forex, stock, commodities, cryptocurrencies and others.

Best For
  • Traders looking for a CySec broker that offers a trading signals service
  • Beginner traders looking for a simple web and mobile platform to get started
  • Passive investors looking for real equity
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

0

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

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • VFSC (Vanuatu)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
The Good
  • Proprietary signals channel (untested by us)
  • Fixed spreads (at their discretion subject to change)
  • Simple and friendly proprietary trading platform
  • Intuitive overview of account analytics
  • Wide variety of CFDs and real equities
The Bad
  • High minimum deposits (From $500 to $25,000) for their various account types
  • Extremely high spreads when compared to similar brokers
  • Low asset offering with poor categorisation
  • Subpar regulatory framework
  • Only MT5 platform is offered
  • Above-average FX spreads
  • High fees (depending on the deposit / withdrawal methods)
  • High deposit requirements for advanced services ($25,000 , $100,000)
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
2017 2013
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
From $500 to $25,000 $500
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • Klarna
  • iDeal
  • GiroPay
  • Perfect Money
  • AVOPayments
  • eftPay
  • Volt
  • Cash
  • Load
  • Jeton
  • Gigadat
  • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
  • Wire Transfer
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • FasaPay
  • UnionPay
  • Giropay
  • QIWI
  • Cryptocurrencies
💵 Account Base Currencies
11 - USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF, AUD, RUB, PLN, HUF, SGD, ZAR. 3 - EUR, USD, GBP.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA, BE, FR, IL, IR, SY, AF, MM, SO, YE, IQ, SS, SD.

US, AS, AI, BB, FJ, GU, PW, PA, WS, SC, TT, VU, AL, BS, BW, KH, GH, JM, MU, MM, NI, PK, UG, SY, YE, ZW, IR, KR, AF, IQ, MN.

📊 STP Account
No Yes
📊 DMA Account
No Yes
📊 ECN Account
No No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
292 2,162
Exchange Access
0 25
📙 Real Stocks
0 1,000
📙 Stock CFDs
200 1,000
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
40 80
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
24 4
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
18 12
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
0 5
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
10 50
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0 4
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 7
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Unavailable 1 share
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Unavailable 1 ETF
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Unavailable Varies per Cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$10,000 (0.1 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
$10,000 (0.1 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable 100 units
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable $1,000 (0.01 lots)
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 30
💪 Professional Leverage
500 500
✍ Customisable Leverage
No Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No Yes
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
No Yes
📱 Android App
No Yes
📺 MetaTrader 4
No No
📺 MetaTrader 5
Yes Yes
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
No Yes
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 Copy Trading
No No
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
No No
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee

Yes, 10 units of account base currency after 90 days of inactivity.

€15 after 3 months of inactivity.

💰 Deposit Fees
None

From 0.2% for cryptocurrency, credit and debit cards up to 5% for alternative payments. Direct wire transfers have a fee of €10.

💰 Withdrawal Fees
None

Wire transfers have a €10 fee.

💰 Commissions

Yes, ranging from 0.15% to 0.45% of trade value for stocks only.

  • No commissions on novice accounts.
  • Commission free trading for stock ETFs on Experienced accounts
  • FX commissions are $4-$8 per lot depending whether the pair is major, minor or exotic.
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 1.6 Pips Dynamic - From 2 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 120 Pips Dynamic - From 50 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 63 Pips Dynamic - From 95 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Unavailable Dynamic - From $0.21
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Dynamic - From $0.01
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $505 Dynamic - From $511
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No Yes
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No Yes
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
No Yes
📡 Live Chat Support
No No
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
Yes Yes
📡 Webinars
No No