Updated Jul 12 2022
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XM is an international broker headquartered in Cyprus which offers MetaTrader 4 & 5 and over 1500 + tradable assets. |
Admiral Markets (now Admirals) is a global broker headquartered in Estonia with a comprehensive asset offering (5000+) in CFDs and real stocks or ETFs along with MetaTrader 4 & 5. |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
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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 | |
2009 | 2001 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
€, £, $ - 5 | €, £, $ - 100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
11 - USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF, AUD, HUF, PLN, RUB, SGD, ZAR. | 10 -EUR, GBP, USD, CHF, BGN, CZK, HRK, HUF, PLN, RON. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | No |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, CA. | US, CA. |
📊 STP Account | |
No | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | No | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
1286 | 778 Real Stocks / 3,254 CFDs |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
57 | 40 |
📗 Commodities | |
15 | 28 |
📕 Indices | |
14 | 43 |
📔 ETFs | |
N/A | 372 ETFs CFDs / 192 Real ETFs |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
N/A | 42 |
📒 Bonds | |
N/A | 2 |
📓 Options | |
N/A | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
10 | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
All of XM's assets are CFDs. | Admiral Markets provides the option to trade either CFDs or real stocks and ETFs with their direct market access offering. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Fractional Share trading - Varies per stock (Eg: 0.1/16 of ADBE shares) | Varies by share (Fractional share trading) |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
N/A | Varies by cryptocurrency (Eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$100 (0.001 Lots) | $1000 (0.01 Lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.01 Troy ounce of Gold) | Varies by Commodity (Eg: 1 Troy ounce of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
All of XM's futures are commodities, same rules apply. | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
N/A | Up to 1:500 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
Yes | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
No | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
No | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
No | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
No | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
No | Yes (Only on mobile) |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
Yes | Yes |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | Yes |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | No | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, $15 one time payment after 1 year of inactivity and then $5 monthly. |
$10 monthly after 24 months of inactivity |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Commissions | |
Yes on Zero accounts ($7 per lot round turn). |
Yes depending on account type (Eg: Zero MT4 or 5 accounts have a $3 per lot round turn commission, ASX shares have a 0.15% fee, etc) |
Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 1.7 Pips | From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 40 Pips | From 50 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 35 Pips | Dynamic - From 20 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $9.4 | Dynamic - From $1.45 |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
N/A | Dynamic - From 2 Pips |
📉 BTC | |
N/A | Variable - From $208 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
No | No |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | No |