Our comparison of the best trading platforms rank pricing, market access, customer services, apps and what added value a broker offers.
Forex brokers act as a conduit and counterparty for buying and selling currencies. As forex trading is an OTC (Over-The-Counter) market there is no central order book like the London Stock Exchange for share trading. So forex brokers connect traders to pools of currency liquidity and act as custodian for their positions. When choosing a […]
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Yes, Pepperstone is one of the few brokers that lets you spread bet through TradingView, MT4/MT5 and cTrader. Pepperstone introduced spread betting in early 2021 with a focus on tight pricing for major instruments and automated trading on through trading platforms. Overall, Pepperstone is a good choice for clients that want to spread bet on
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Pepperstone, one of Australia’s largest forex trading platforms, with offices across the globe, is launching dedicated coverage of the forthcoming US elections. Pepperstone will provide clients with a dedicated analysis of the election and key events leading up to it. The next of these is the Vice Presidential debate scheduled for Tuesday, October 1st. When
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Revolut is to launch a new CFD trading platform. Here’s what you need to know. Revolut, one of the world’s largest neobanks, is to launch a regulated, leveraged CFD or Contracts for Difference trading platform across Europe, under a new brand called Revolut Invest. The new platform was showcased in a tweet made by Max
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Yes, you can trade CFDs on eToro (but not if you are in America). As a CFD broker, eToro has a fairly basic offering, but that’s fine because I’d say that eToro is mainly geared towards beginner investors whose CFD trading is not really suitable as it’s a leverage product and you can lose money
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Based on our analysis, eToro is better than Plus500. eToro scores higher overall in all categories. However, there are some aspects of Plus500 that are better than eToro. I’ve been testing each broker for years, for our reviews, and both have come a long way over the past decade. In this guide I’ll tell you
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One of the big advantages of eToro is that the platform allows you to trade stocks in both directions. Not only can you take ‘long’ positions in order to profit from rising share prices, but you can also take ‘short’ positions in order to capitalise on falling share prices. If you are interested in shorting
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What are some of the strongest currencies in the world? Without resorting to the currency strength meters, we know that many strong currencies belong to the advance economies, such as the USD, GBP, EUR or JPY. These economies are stronger than many developing ones and hence are more ‘desirable’. Whilst the USD is not
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Recently Capital.com added the voice box Newsquawk so that traders can hear what is going on the market. The feature blasts out news and analysis when there are sudden market moves like economic indicator announcements. Through an API integration, Newsquawk feeds will be delivered directly via the Capital.com app and web platforms, so that over
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CFD broker Plus500 does not offer spread betting. It only offers CFDs (contracts for difference). So why does the nation’s financial media get it wrong all the time? There are some fairly significant differences between financial spread betting and CFDs. I’m not going to go into them here, but you can watch our video discussion
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