RoboForex Vs. ThinkMarkets - 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.

ThinkMarkets is a global broker headquartered in Australia that offers real stocks and ETFs along with CFDs on stocks, etfs, commodities, indices and cryptocurrencies accompanied by their proprietary platform: ThinkTrader.

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

• Passive investors looking to buy, hold or transfer real shares or ETFs from ASX
• Active traders looking to exploit their low spreads on CFDs
• MetaTrader 4 & 5 traders looking for a convenient offering

• IFSC (International Financial Services Commission of Belize)

• FCA (UK)
• ASIC (Australia)
• FSAS (Seychelles)
• FSCA (South Africa)

• 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

• Possibility to invest in real stocks and ETFs or trade CFDs
• Proprietary platform ThinkTrader is smooth and user friendly
• Spreads are very competitive when compared to similar competitors

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

• Real stocks or ETFs are only from ASX (Australian Securities Exchange)
• Expensive stock trading commissions ($8 flat fee for ASX shares or ETFs)
• While their stock and ETFs offering is great, they lack variety in all other asset classes

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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
• Bank Transfer
• Bitcoin (BTC)
• Ethereum (ETH)
• Tether (USDT)

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

US, CA, SY, IR.

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

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

• For Standard account there are no commissions
• For Zero account there is a commission of $3.5 per lot round turn

For real stocks and ETFs investing, there is a flat fee of $8 per trade (in-and-out) or if the trade value is above $200,000 then a 0.05% fee per trade.