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

Tickmill is an international CFD broker headquartered in Cyprus that specialises in currency trading paired with MetaTrader 4 and 5 platforms.

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.

• Professional currency traders looking to exploit their account offering with low spreads
• Traders familiar with both MetaTrader 4 or 5 platforms with the intent to trade currencies

• 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

• CySec (Cyprus)
• FSA (Seychelles)
• FCA (UK)
• FSA (Labuan)
• FSCA (South Africa)

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

• Very low and competitive spreads depending on the account type
• Leverage can be either removed or customised for the whole account

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

• Extremely low asset offering (over 80+ instruments in total)
• All of Tickmill’s assets are CFDs (users can’t purchase real stocks or ETFs)

• 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.

• Bank Transfer
• Visa
• Mastercard
• Skrill
• Neteller
• DotPay
• Paypal

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

US, CA, SY, IR.

US, CA, SY, IR.

$10 monthly after 1 year of inactivity.

Yes depending on method:

• Credit and Debit cards have a 1.5% fee

Only for bank transfer withdrawals (9 GBP each)

Depending on account type:

• Classic account has no commissions
• Pro account has a commission of 2 units of your base currency round turn per lot
• VIP account has a commission of 1 unit of your base currency round turn per lot 

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.