Plus500
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DEGIRO
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Plus500 Vs. DEGIRO - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Dec 22 2022

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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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Investing involves risk of loss.

Overview

Plus500 is an international broker specialised in CFD trading with a big range of assets including CFDs based on American options.

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.

Best For
  • Intermediate traders looking to trade short term
  • Experienced traders looking to speculate using CFDs based on options
  • Investors from all experience levels looking to buy real shares, funds or ETFs for the long term
  • Active traders that look to access the large variety of exchanges offered
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

3

Other Licenses

1

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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

2

Other Licenses

0

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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🏛 Financial Regulators
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FCA (UK)
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • MAS (Singapore)
  • BaFin (Germany)
  • AFM (Netherlands)
The Good
  • CFDs on american options offered
  • Low minimum trade sizes
  • Propietary platform with multi-charting tools
  • No conflicts of interest between DEGIRO and its customers
  • Virtually unlimited asset offering from 50 exchanges across the globe
  • Low fees when compared to traditional banking alternatives
The Bad
  • No ability to remove leverage
  • All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)
  • Credit card deposits are not available
  • Simplistic platforms with not many features
  • Fees are expensive when compared to commission free brokers
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
2008 2008
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$100 0
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Skrill
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
💵 Account Base Currencies
16 - USD, GBP, EUR, CHF, AUD, JPY, PLN, HUF, CZK, CAD, TRY, SEK, NOK, SGD. 3 - USD, GBP, EUR.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA, CU, 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
Yes No
📊 DMA Account
No Yes
📊 ECN Account
No No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs Equities
Total Asset Offering
2,245 292,230
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
2,000 25,000
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
70 5
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
25 0
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
26 25
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
95 6,700
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
14 0
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0 500
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
15 250,000
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 10,000
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed Variable - Fractions Allowed
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed Variable - Fractions Allowed
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Varies by Crypto (Eg: 0.001 BTC) Unavailable
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) Unavailable
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
Varies by Commoditty (Eg: 0.2 Troy ounces of Gold) Unavailable
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Varies by Option (Eg: 5 contracts of Tesla Calls) Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 Unavailable
💪 Professional Leverage
300 Unavailable
✍ Customisable Leverage
No No
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No Yes
🎓 Demo Account
Yes No
📱 IOS App
Yes Yes
📱 Android App
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 4
No No
📺 MetaTrader 5
No No
📺 cTrader
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

$10 every 3 months of inactivity.

None
💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None None
💰 Commissions
None

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 0.8 Pips Unavailable
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 70 Pips Unavailable
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips Unavailable
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $5.2 Dynamic - Market Spread
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Dynamic - From 7 Pips Dynamic - Market Spread
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $136 Unavailable
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
No Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No Yes
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
No No
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes No
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No No
📡 Webinars
No No