RoboForex Vs. ActivTrader - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

RoboForex is an international broker established in 2009 which also owns the brand RoboMarkets and specialises on CFD trading over several asset classes.

ActivTrades is a global broker founded in Switzerland in 2001 that specialises in providing CFDs on stocks, ETFs, currencies, indices, commodities and cryptocurrencies along with their own proprietary platform and MT4 & 5.

• Intermediate and Professional traders looking for different account offerings
• Experienced traders looking for trading platform variety

• Beginner and intermediate traders looking for a simple and powerful platform
• Experienced currency traders looking to exploit the tight spreads
• CFD traders looking for an de-leveraged option to trade

• IFSC (International Financial Services Commission of Belize)

• FCA (UK)
• SCB (Bahamas)
• CSSF (Luxembourg)

• Comprehensive asset offering with more than 13,000+ instruments
• Great platform variety (MT4, MT5, cTrader and their own proprietary platforms)
• Custom account types with spreads from 0 pips

• Great and intuitive proprietary platform
• MT4 and MT5 offered
• Low currency spreads

• Weak regulatory framework (counting on 1 license from the IFSC)
• Doesn’t accept clients from the UK, EU and a few other countries

• Asset offering is small when compared to similar competitors
• Commissions are charged
• Cryptocurrency trading is disabled during weekends

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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
• JCB
• AstroPay
• Skrill
• Neteller
• Perfect Money
• AdvCash
• NganLuong Wallet
• Bank transfers (SEPA, local and several options per country)

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Neteller
• Skrill
• Sofort
• Bank Transfer

US, CA, JP, AU, BQ, CW, TL, RU, GQ, FM, MP, SJ, SS, UK, European Union.

US, CA, SY, IR.

$10 monthly after 1 year of inactivity.

Yes depending on method:

• Credit and Debit cards have a 1.5% fee

Yes for some methods (eg: Some bank withdrawals can cost up to 1.5% of the amount).

Only for bank transfer withdrawals (9 GBP each)

Yes depending on account type (eg: for ECN accounts there are commissions up to $20).

Yes depending on asset:

• For European shares (excluding London) there are fees of 0.05% of the transaction value (minimum 1€) or 0.01% of the transaction value (minimum 5€)
• For London shares there are commissions of 0.10% of transaction value (minimum 1£)
• For New york and other international shares there are commissions of $0.02 per share (minimum $1)

Along specific commissions per asset there can be market data fees such as 1€ monthly for New york exchanges or others.