Plus500
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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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Moneta Markets
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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Plus500 Vs. Moneta Markets - 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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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

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

Moneta Markets is an international broker that specialises in CFDs trading via MetaTrader 4 and their proprietary platform ProTrader powered by TradingView.

Best For
  • Intermediate traders looking to trade short term
  • Experienced traders looking to speculate using CFDs based on options
  • Scalpers looking to take advantage of the spreads and commissions on ECN account
  • International traders looking for an off-shore high leverage broker.
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

3

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

3

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FCA (UK)
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • MAS (Singapore)
  • ASIC (Australia)
  • FSCA (South Africa)
  • FSA (Seychelles)
  • SVGFSA (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
The Good
  • CFDs on american options offered
  • Low minimum trade sizes
  • Propietary platform with multi-charting tools
  • ProTrader platform powered by TradingView
  • Competitive commissions on ECN account
  • Moneta Markets is part of the Vantage group which holds an ASIC license
The Bad
  • No ability to remove leverage
  • All instruments are CFDs, you can't buy underlying assets (real stocks or cryptocurrencies)
  • Demo accounts only last 30 days
  • Asset offering is extremely low (below 300 instruments)
  • Weak regulatory framework with only 1 license
  • STP account spreads are really high for industry standards
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 2019
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$100 $50
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Skrill
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • FasaPay
  • JCB
  • SticPay
  • Bank Transfer
💵 Account Base Currencies
16 - USD, GBP, EUR, CHF, AUD, JPY, PLN, HUF, CZK, CAD, TRY, SEK, NOK, SGD. 9 - AUD, USD, GBP, EUR, SGD, CAD, NZD, JPY, HKD.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA, CU, SY, IR.

AF, AS, AL, AU, BY, BE, BM, BA, BG, BI, CA, CF, HR, CU, CY, CD, ER, FR, GU, IR, IQ, IT, JP, LB, LR, LY, MK, ML, ME, MM, KP, PR, GN, GW, RO, SL, RS, SG, SI, SO, SS, SD, ES, SY, US, UK, VI, VE, YE, ZW. 

📊 STP Account
Yes Yes
📊 DMA Account
No No
📊 ECN Account
No Yes
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
2,245 769
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
2,000 640
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
70 45
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
25 15
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
26 16
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
95 40
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
14 6
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0 7
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
15 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed 1 Share
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Varies by Crypto (Eg: 0.001 BTC) Unavailable
📉 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 1000
💪 Professional Leverage
300 Unavailable
✍ 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 Yes
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes No
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 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

Commission structure varies as follows:

  • No commissions on Direct STP account
  • $3 per lot per side commission on Prime ECN account
  • $1 per lot per side commission on Ultra ECN account
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips Dynamic - From 0.1 to 1.2 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 70 Pips Dynamic - From 300 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips Dynamic - From 10 to 130 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $5.2 Dynamic - From $0.22
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Dynamic - From 7 Pips Dynamic - From $0.02
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $136 Unavailable
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 Yes
📡 Live Chat Support
Yes Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
No Yes
📡 Account Management
No No
📡 Webinars
No Yes