Trading 212
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61% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Trading 212 Vs. ForexVox - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Updated Dec 22 2022

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Overview

Trading 212 is a global broker headquartered in the U.K specialising in real stocks and ETFs investing along with CFD trading.

ForexVox is a new trading name from Valutrades, a broker operating since 2012 that offers currencies, indices and commodities under FCA and FSAS regulation.

Best For
  • Passive investors looking to buy stocks or ETFs with their investing account
  • Traders of all levels of experience looking to trade CFDs on shares
  • Experienced traders that look for an ECN account offering with commissions
  • Currency traders
Licenses

Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

2

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

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Financial
Licenses

Regulation

Regulated

Top-tier Licenses

1

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • FCA (UK)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FSC (Bulgaria)
  • FCA (United Kingdom)
  • FSAS (Seychelles)
The Good
  • Broad asset offering in their investing account (more than 10,000 assets)
  • Friendly, smooth and simple proprietary platforms (both web and mobile)
  • Great spreads on stocks and no commissions on investing accounts
  • FCA Regulation and being a trading name of ValuTrades (founded in 2012)
  • Scalping is allowed
  • Ecn account offered
The Bad
  • Despite both platforms being beautiful, they are gamified for engagement. Clicking on the buy button on mobile platform will trigger a random order without asking for confirmation
  • Asides from stocks, their asset offering lacks variety
  • Very high forex spreads (1.4 Pips on EUR/USD)
  • Poor asset offering (less than 100 instruments)
  • Low platform offering (only MT4 and MT5 available)
  • Client area lacks usability
  • Average spreads are high
Status
Operational Operational
Recent News

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Key Data
⌛ Account Opening Time
1 day 1 hour
📋 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
2004 2020
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
From $1 to $10 0
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • iDeal
  • Apple Pay
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • UnionPay
  • USDT (Tether)
  • Bank Transfer
  • SticPay
💵 Account Base Currencies
9 - USD, EUR, GBP, RON, PLN, CHF, SEK, NOK, CZK. 3 - EUR, USD, GBP.
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA.

US, CA, SY, IR.

📊 STP Account
No Yes
📊 DMA Account
Yes No
📊 ECN Account
No Yes
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
Hybrid CFDs
Total Asset Offering
13,615 104
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
10,000 0
📙 Stock CFDs
1,526 0
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
179 74
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
25 3
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
35 15
📔 ETFs
1,800 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
50 0
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
0 5
📒 Bonds
0 0
📒 Bonds CFDs
0 0
📓 Options
0 0
📓 Options CFDs
0 0
📗 Futures
0 0
📗 Futures CFDs
0 7
Trading Experience
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed Unavailable
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed Unavailable
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$500 (0.005 Lots) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.01 Troy ounce of Gold) $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable $1,000 (0.01 Lots)
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 30
💪 Professional Leverage
500 500
✍ Customisable Leverage
No Yes
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
Yes No
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes No
📱 Android App
Yes No
📺 MetaTrader 4
No Yes
📺 MetaTrader 5
No Yes
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes No
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes Yes
👬 Copy Trading
No No
👫 Social Trading
No Yes
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
Yes Yes
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee
None None
💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None None
💰 Commissions
None
  • No commissions on their standard account
  • A $7 per lot round turn commission on their ECN account
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 1.4 Pips Dynamic - From 1 Pip
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 166 Pips Dynamic - From 135 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips Dynamic - From 16 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $0.6 Unavailable
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 BTC
Unavailable Unavailable
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes No
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No Yes
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
Yes Yes
📡 Live Chat Support
No Yes
📡 Video Tutorials
Yes Yes
📡 Account Management
No No
📡 Webinars
No No