Plus500 Vs. Fusion Markets - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy


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Overview
Plus500 is an international broker specialised in CFD trading with a big range of assets including CFDs based on American options.	Fusion Markets is an Australian broker founded in 2010 that specialises in low-cost currency trading via MT4 and MT5 platforms and holds 2 financial licenses from ASIC and VFSC.
Best For
Intermediate traders looking to trade short term Experienced traders looking to speculate using CFDs based on options	New traders looking to get started in currency trading Intermediate and professional traders looking for low spreads with a custom account offering
Licenses
Financial Licenses Regulation Regulated Top-tier Licenses 3 Other Licenses 1 Provided by TheTradingBible.com Learn More	Financial Licenses Regulation Regulated Top-tier Licenses 1 Other Licenses 1 Provided by TheTradingBible.com Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
CySec (Cyprus) FCA (UK) ASIC (Australia) MAS (Singapore)	ASIC (Australia) VFSC (Vanuatu)
The Good
CFDs on american options offered Low minimum trade sizes Propietary platform with multi-charting tools	Extremely competitive account offering with either 0 spreads and a commission of AUD $4.5 or low spreads with no commissions Tight spreads on most of their instruments
The Bad
No ability to remove leverage All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)	Asset offering is poor (over 100+ instruments) Platform variety is not great (only MT4 or MT5 offered)
Status
Operational	Operational
Recent News
No fresh news at the moment. Check again soon!	No fresh news at the moment. Check again soon!
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	2010
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$100	0
💰 Payment Methods
Visa Mastercard Bank Transfer Paypal Skrill	Visa Mastercard Bank Transfer Neteller PerfectMoney Jeton
💵 Account Base Currencies
16 - USD, GBP, EUR, CHF, AUD, JPY, PLN, HUF, CZK, CAD, TRY, SEK, NOK, SGD.	7 - AUD, EUR, USD, GBP, JPY, SGD, THB.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No	No
❌ Restricted Countries
US, CA, CU, SY, IR.	US, CA, IR, SY, NZ.
📊 STP Account
Yes	No
📊 DMA Account
No	No
📊 ECN Account
No	Yes
Banking License
No	No
Debit Card
No	No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs	CFDs
Total Asset Offering
2,245	175
Exchange Access
0	0
📙 Real Stocks
0	0
📙 Stock CFDs
2,000	50
📘 Currency Pairs
0	0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
70	90
📗 Commodities
0	0
📗 Commodities CFDs
25	17
📕 Indices
0	0
📕 Indices CFDs
26	10
📔 ETFs
0	0
📔 ETFs CFDs
95	0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0	0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
14	8
📒 Bonds
0	0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0	0
📓 Options
0	0
📓 Options CFDs
15	0
📗 Futures
0	0
📗 Futures CFDs
0	0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed	$1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed	Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Varies by Crypto (Eg: 0.001 BTC)	$1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots)	$1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
Varies by Commoditty (Eg: 0.2 Troy ounces of Gold)	$1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 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	30
💪 Professional Leverage
300	500
✍ Customisable Leverage
No	Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No	No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes	Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes	No
📱 Android App
Yes	No
📺 MetaTrader 4
No	Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
No	Yes
📺 cTrader
No	No
💻 Web trader
Yes	Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No	No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes	No
📊 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
$10 every 3 months of inactivity.	None
💰 Deposit Fees
None	None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None	No for most payment methods except international bank transfers which have a cost of 20 AUD.
💰 Commissions
None	No commissions on classic accounts. AUD $4.5 per lot round turn for ZERO accounts with spreads starting from 0.
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips	Dynamic - From 0 to 0.8 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 70 Pips	Dynamic - From 30 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips	Dynamic - From 9 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $5.2	Dynamic - From $0.01
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Dynamic - From 7 Pips	Unavailable
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $136	Dynamic - From $31
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
No	Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No	No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes	Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No	No
📡 Reuters Feed
No	No
📡 Educational Content
No	No
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes	Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
No	No
📡 Account Management
No	Yes
📡 Webinars
No	No