Updated May 26 2022
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Plus500 is an international broker specialised in CFD trading with a big range of assets including CFDs based on American options |
Oanda is an international Forex broker founded in 1996 with headquarters in the United States. Oanda specialises exclusively in currency trading solutions for all trader levels. Their greatest selling points are their strong regulatory framework and robust proprietary platforms. |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
N/A | N/A |
Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 day | 1 day minimum (may take longer) |
📋 Documents Required | |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. *There is no document verification needed for gross account deposits below US$9,000. |
📍 Year Founded | |
2008 | 1996 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$, €, £ - 100 | $, €, £, - 0. |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
16 - USD, GBP, EUR, CHF, AUD, JPY, PLN, HUF, CZK, CAD, TRY, SEK, NOK, SGD. | 9 - USD, EUR, GBP, SGD, CHF, JPY, AUD, CAD, HKD. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | Yes |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA, CU, SY, IR. | AF, AL, BS, BB, BW, BF, BI, KH, KY, CF, TD, CD, CG, CU, ER, ET, GH, IR, IQ, JM, KP, LY, MU, MN, MA, MM, NI, NG, PK, PS, PA, SN, SL, SO, SS, SD, SY, TT, TN, UG, VU, YE, ZW. |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | No |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | Yes | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
2,000+ | N/A |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
70 | 68 |
📗 Commodities | |
25 | 13 |
📕 Indices | |
26 | 16 |
📔 ETFs | |
95 | N/A |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
14 | 4 |
📒 Bonds | |
N/A | 6 |
📓 Options | |
Option CFDs (Calls and Puts) on: Alphabet, Facebook, Apple, Deutsche Bank, Snap, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Tesla and NIO along with major indices and EUR/USD. |
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📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
All of Plus500's assets are CFDs. |
All Oanda's assets are CFDs. In the case of commodities, they only have 13, but each commodity has various trading pairs against several different currencies, eg: GOLD/EUR, GOLD/CHF, etc. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies by Stock (Eg: 0.05 units of Tesla) | N/A |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies by ETF (Eg: 0.5 units of XLK) | N/A |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies by Crypto (Eg: 0.001 BTC) | Varies by crypto (Eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 | 1 unit of any currency pair (Eg: 1 Euro, 1 Usd, 1 GBP, etc) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies by Commoditty (Eg: 0.2 Troy ounces of Gold) | Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
N/A | 1 unit of any Bond contract |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
Varies by Option (Eg: 5 contracts of Tesla Calls) | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:300 | Up to 1:100 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | Yes |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
No | No |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
No | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | Yes |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, $10 every 3 months | Yes, $10 after 1 year of inactivity |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | Credit and Debit cards are free, when it comes to Bank transfer depends on the account's base currency (eg: the first withdrawal costs $, €, £ 20 and any subsequent ones 35). In the case of SGD, there are no fees. |
💰 Commissions | |
No | No, but they do charge currency conversion fees. If your account base currency is GBP and you trade the EUR/USD pair, you'll be paying a conversion fee. |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips | Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 70 Pips | Dynamic - From 30 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 30 Pips | Dynamic - From 26 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $5.2 | N/A |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - From 7 Pips | N/A |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $136 | Dynamic - From $100 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
No, only allows setting an individual favourites list | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | No |