RoboForex
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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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LegacyFX
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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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

Updated Oct 20 2022

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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77% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

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

Legacy FX is a cypriot broker founded in 2017 that specialises in CFDs trading via MetaTrader 5 for mobile, web and desktop devices.

Best For
  • Intermediate and Professional traders looking for different account offerings
  • Experienced traders looking for trading platform variety
  • Traders looking for a CySec broker that offers a trading signals service
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

0

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

0

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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🏛 Financial Regulators
  • IFSC (International Financial Services Commission of Belize)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • VFSC (Vanuatu)
The Good
  • 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
  • Proprietary signals channel (untested by us)
  • Fixed spreads (at their discretion subject to change)
The Bad
  • Weak regulatory framework (counting on 1 license from the IFSC)
  • Doesn’t accept clients from the UK, EU and a few other countries
  • High minimum deposits (From $500 to $25,000) for their various account types
  • Extremely high spreads when compared to similar brokers
  • Low asset offering with poor categorisation
  • Subpar regulatory framework
  • Only MT5 platform is offered
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
2009 2017
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$10 From $500 to $25,000
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • JCB
  • AstroPay
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • Perfect Money
  • AdvCash
  • NganLuong Wallet
  • Bank transfers (SEPA, local and several options per country)
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • Klarna
  • iDeal
  • GiroPay
  • Perfect Money
  • AVOPayments
  • eftPay
  • Volt
  • Cash
  • Load
  • Jeton
  • Gigadat
💵 Account Base Currencies
4 - USD, EUR, CNY, GOLD. 11 - USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF, AUD, RUB, PLN, HUF, SGD, ZAR.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

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

US, CA, BE, FR, IL, IR, SY, AF, MM, SO, YE, IQ, SS, SD.

📊 STP Account
Yes No
📊 DMA Account
No No
📊 ECN Account
Yes No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
13,206 292
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
12,000 200
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
40 40
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
100 24
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
50 18
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
1,000 0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
16 10
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) Unavailable
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) Unavailable
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $10,000 (0.1 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) $10,000 (0.1 Lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
2000 30
💪 Professional Leverage
Unavailable 500
✍ Customisable Leverage
Yes No
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
No No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes No
📱 Android App
Yes No
📺 MetaTrader 4
Yes No
📺 MetaTrader 5
Yes Yes
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes No
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 Copy Trading
Yes No
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
Yes No
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee
None

Yes, 10 units of account base currency after 90 days of inactivity.

💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees

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

None
💰 Commissions

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

Yes, ranging from 0.15% to 0.45% of trade value for stocks only.

Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 0 to 1.4 Pips Dynamic - From 1.6 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - Market Spread Dynamic - From 120 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 17 Pips Dynamic - From 63 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - Market Spread Unavailable
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Dynamic - Market Spread Unavailable
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $220 Dynamic - From $505
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No No
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
No No
📡 Live Chat Support
No No
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No Yes
📡 Webinars
No No