Updated May 27 2022
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Trading 212 is a global broker headquartered in the U.K specialising in real stocks and ETFs investing along with CFD trading. |
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. |
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Licenses | |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
N/A | N/A |
Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 Day | 1 Day |
📋 Documents Required | |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
📍 Year Founded | |
2004 | 2010 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
1 to 10 €, £ | 0 for Standard Account / $500 for Zero account |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
9 - USD, EUR, GBP, RON, PLN, CHF, SEK, NOK, CZK. | 6 - EUR, AUD, CHF, GBP, JPY, USD. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA. | US, CA, SY, IR. |
📊 STP Account | |
No | No |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
10,000+ Real stocks / 1,526 CFDs | 3,100+ real shares (ASX) / 1246 CFDs |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
179 | 47 |
📗 Commodities | |
25 | 11 |
📕 Indices | |
35 | 27 |
📔 ETFs | |
1,800 Real ETFs / 50 CFDs | 103 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
N/A | 21 |
📒 Bonds | |
N/A | N/A |
📓 Options | |
N/A | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
Trading 212 provides 2 different accounts: Stock investing where users can buy real stocks or ETFs and CFD accounts. |
ThinkMarkets offers both real stocks & ETFs along with CFDs on several asset classes. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Fractional Share trading - 0.1 Units of a share | Fractional share trading - From 0.1 Shares |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Fractional ETF trading - 0.1 Units of an ETF | Fractional ETF trading - From 0.1 ETFs |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
N/A | Varies per cryptocurrency (eg: from 0.01 units of BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$500 | $1,000 (0.01 Lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.01 Troy ounce of Gold) | Varies per commodity (eg: 1 ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | Up to 1:500 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes (Investing Account) | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
No | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Only for MT4 and MT5. |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes (Only for Standard Account) |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | Yes |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | Yes |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
No | No |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Commissions | |
No |
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. |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 1.4 Pips | From 0.4 Pips to 1 Pip |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 166 Pips | From 40 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 30 Pips | From 20 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $0.6 | From 20 Pips |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
N/A | Dynamic - From $0.01 |
📉 BTC | |
N/A | Dynamic - From $30 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | No |