Plus500 Vs. Freedom Finance - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

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

Freedom Finance is an equities broker founded in 2008 belonging to the parent group Freedom Holding Corp (a publicly traded company on NASDAQ exchange). Their specialty is providing access to more than 1 million stocks, ETFs, bonds, futures and options worldwide along with IPOs.

• Intermediate traders looking to trade short term
• Experienced traders looking to speculate using CFDs based on options

• Real equities traders looking to day-trade stocks, options, futures and ETFs
• Long term investors looking to build a stocks or ETFs portfolio
• Experienced investors that know which assets they are looking for

• CySec (Cyprus)
• FCA (UK)
• ASIC (Australia)
• MAS (Singapore)

• CySec (Cyprus)
• BaFin (Germany)
• SEC (United States)

• CFDs on american options offered
• Low minimum trade sizes
• Propietary platform with multi-charting tools

• Over 1,500,000+ assets from several exchanges worldwide
• All assets are real equities (they do not provide CFDs)
• InvestIdeas section with great analysis on several high potential stocks
• 3% per year in their savings D-account (Daily interest accrual)

• No ability to remove leverage
• All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)

• The use of SMS codes for authentication of basic operations can be an issue for frequent international travellers
• Freedom Finance does not offers currencies, cryptocurrencies or spot commodities
• No stock screener or tools to research and analyse stocks efficiently

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• 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.

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Bank Transfer
• Paypal
• Skrill

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Bank Transfers

US, CA, CU, SY, IR.

SY, IR. 

$10 every 3 months of inactivity.

Yes, 7€ for bank transfers.

Yes, up to 2.5% for credit / debit cards.

Yes and the vary per account:

In their all inclusive USD account they charge,

• 0.5% + $0.012 per share with a minimum  of $1.2 per trade
• $0.65 per USA stock options contract
• 12% for margin lending

In their Smart in EUR account they charge,

• 0.02€ per share with a minimum of 2€ per trade
• $0.65 per USA stock options contract
• 12% for margin lending
• €0.05 for each SMS notification

In their Fix in EUR account, they charge,

• 10€ Monthly account fee
• 0.012€ per share with a minimum of 1.2€ per trade
• $0.65 per USA stock options contract
• 12% for margin lending
• €0.03 for each SMS notification