Trading 212
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Majority of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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iFOREX Europe
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89.13% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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

Updated Dec 22 2022

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Majority of retail CFD accounts lose money.

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89.13% of retail CFD accounts lose money.

Overview

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

iFOREX Europe (formerly Vestle) is the Europe brand part of the global iForex Group that specialises in CFD trading and offers over 600 instruments over currencies, commodities, indices, shares, ETFs and cryptocurrencies.

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
  • Beginner traders with little to no experience looking to test a simple platform
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

0

Other Licenses

1

Provided by
TheTradingBible.com

Learn More
🏛 Financial Regulators
  • FCA (UK)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
  • FSC (Bulgaria)
  • CySec (Cyprus)
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
  • Extremely simple platform designed for beginners with little needs
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)
  • High spreads on all of their instruments
  • Web and mobile platforms are slow and lack tools
  • Their FAQ database doesn’t effectively answer the most common questions any trader could have
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
2004 2018
💳 Minimum Deposit Range
From $1 to $10 $200
💰 Payment Methods
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Bank Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Neteller
  • Skrill
  • iDeal
  • Apple Pay
  • Bank Transfer
  • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
💵 Account Base Currencies
9 - USD, EUR, GBP, RON, PLN, CHF, SEK, NOK, CZK. 1 - EUR
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens
No No
❌ Restricted Countries

US, CA.

US, CA, SY, IR, JP.

📊 STP Account
No Yes
📊 DMA Account
Yes No
📊 ECN Account
No No
Banking License
No No
Debit Card
No No
Assets
📚 Assets Type
Hybrid CFDs
Total Asset Offering
13,615 584
Exchange Access
0 0
📙 Real Stocks
10,000 0
📙 Stock CFDs
1,526 400
📘 Currency Pairs
0 0
📘 Currency Pair CFDs
179 50
📗 Commodities
0 0
📗 Commodities CFDs
25 19
📕 Indices
0 0
📕 Indices CFDs
35 32
📔 ETFs
1,800 0
📔 ETFs CFDs
50 42
💸 Cryptocurrencies
0 0
💸 Cryptocurrency CFDs
0 41
📒 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
Variable - Fractions Allowed $2,500 in trade value
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size
Variable - Fractions Allowed $2,500 in trade value
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size
Unavailable $2,500 in trade value
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size
$500 (0.005 Lots) $2,500 in trade value
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.01 Troy ounce of Gold) $2,500 in trade value
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size
Unavailable Unavailable
💪 Retail Leverage
30 30
💪 Professional Leverage
500 500
✍ Customisable Leverage
No No
🎲 Deleveraged Trading
Yes Yes
🎓 Demo Account
Yes Yes
📱 IOS App
Yes Yes
📱 Android App
Yes Yes
📺 MetaTrader 4
No No
📺 MetaTrader 5
No No
📺 cTrader
No No
💻 Web trader
Yes Yes
💻 TradingView Platform
No No
💻 Proprietary Platform
Yes Yes
📊 Multi-chart Tools
Yes No
👬 Copy Trading
No No
👫 Social Trading
No No
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss
No No
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss
Yes No
Fees
💰 Inactivity Fee
None

iFOREX Europe charges an inactivity fee of $15 for every quarter of inactivity.

💰 Deposit Fees
None None
💰 Withdrawal Fees
None

No for credit cards but yes for bank wires (up to $20).

💰 Commissions
None None
Spreads
📈 EUR/USD
Dynamic - From 1.4 Pips Dynamic - From 0.7 Pips
📉 SP500
Dynamic - From 166 Pips Dynamic - From 90 Pips
📈 GOLD
Dynamic - From 30 Pips Dynamic - From 35 Pips
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD)
Dynamic - From $0.6 Dynamic - From $3
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD)
Unavailable Dynamic - From 30 Pips
📉 BTC
Unavailable Dynamic - From $120
Research and Analysis
⭐ Watchlists
Yes Yes
🔭 Stock Screener
No No
🗓 Economic Calendar
Yes Yes
📜 Integrated Newsfeed
No No
📡 Reuters Feed
No No
📡 Educational Content
Yes No
📡 Live Chat Support
No No
📡 Video Tutorials
Yes No
📡 Account Management
No Yes
📡 Webinars
No Yes