Tickmill
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71% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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

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

Updated Oct 20 2022

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71% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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74-89% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

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

Exness is a Cypriot broker founded in 2008 that specialises on currencies trading via MT4 & 5 along with their proprietary Exness Trader platform.

Best For
  • 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
  • Low volume traders looking to take advantage of their low sized account offerings
  • Off-shore traders looking for high leverage factors
  • High volume traders looking for their professional accounts (assuming they are satisfied with their available assets)
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

4

Provided by
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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

6

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FSA (Seychelles)
  • FCA (UK)
  • FSA (Labuan)
  • FSCA (South Africa)
  • FSA (Seychelles)
  • CBCS (Curaçao)
  • FSC (British Virgin Islands)
  • FSC (Mauritius)
  • FSCA (South Africa)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FCA (UK)
The Good
  • Very low and competitive spreads depending on the account type
  • Leverage can be either removed or customised for the whole account
  • Competitive spreads depending on the account type
  • Low entry barrier for new traders
  • No minimum deposit on standard accounts
The Bad
  • Extremely low asset offering (over 80+ instruments in total)
  • All of Tickmill’s assets are CFDs (users can’t purchase real stocks or ETFs)
  • Most Exness' the financial licenses are from off-shore locations
  • Very low asset offering with less than 200 instruments
  • Despite using TradingView charts, multi-charts layout or fullscreen are not possible
Status
Operational Operational
Recent News

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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
2014 2008
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
$100 From 0 to $3,000
💰 Payment Methods
  • Bank Transfer
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • DotPay
  • Paypal
  • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • USDT (Tether)
  • Bank Transfer
  • BTC (Bitcoin)
  • Perfect Money
  • SticPay
  • USDC (USD Coin)
💵 Account Base Currencies
4 - USD, EUR, GBP, PLN 1 - USD
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA, SY, IR.

US, CA, SY, IR.

📊 STP Account
No No
📊 DMA Account
No No
📊 ECN Account
No No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
CFDs CFDs
Total Asset Offering
87 243
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
0 0
📙 Stock CFDs
0 100
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
62 100
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
4 7
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
14 10
📔 ETFs
0 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
3 26
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
4 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 0
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Unavailable 1 Share
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) 0.01 Lots ($1,000)
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) 0.01 Lots ($1,000)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) 0.01 Lots ($1,000)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 30
💪 Professional Leverage
500 2000
✍ Customisable Leverage
Yes Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
Yes No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes Yes
📱 Android App
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 4
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
Yes Yes
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
No Yes
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes No
👬 Copy Trading
Yes No
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
No No
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee
None None
💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None None
💰 Commissions

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 

Commissions vary as follows:

  • No comissions on Standard account
  • No comissions on Standard Cent account
  • $3.5 per lot side on Raw Spread account
  • $0.2 per lot side on Zero account
  • No commission on Pro account
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic- From 0 to 1.6 Pips 1 Pip
📉 SP500
Dynamic- From 39 Pips From 200 pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic- From 24 Pips From 20 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Unavailable From $0.10
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 BTC
Dynamic - From $128.2 From $20
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No Yes
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
No No
📡 Live Chat Support
No Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
No No
📡 Account Management
No No
📡 Webinars
No No