Our comparison of the best trading platforms rank pricing, market access, customer services, apps and what added value a broker offers.
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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Interactive Brokers has expanded its overnight trading offering to include Contracts for Differences, or CFDs on US stocks and ETFs. Interactive Brokers’ clients can now trade CFDs on US stocks and ETFs around the clock, five days a week. The new service specifically allows them to deal during overnight trading hours, which run between 8:00
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Trading platforms that accept PayPal are now more common than ever. Here’s a list of stock brokers that let you buy stocks with PayPal & accept deposits & withdrawals from PayPal. Compare brokers that accept PayPal payments. If you prefer to trade by making payments and send money online without compromising any of your sensitive
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IG has introduced Limits and Limit orders to its OTC, or over-the-counter options trading, which will be available to both CFD and spread betting clients using IG’s desktop platforms or the firm’s mobile trading apps. A limit can be thought of as the maximum or minimum price you are prepared to accept to achieve the
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DEGIRO has told us that they are accepting clients from the UK again after the UK subsidiary of Pan-European low-cost stock broker FlatexDegiro has stopped onboarding new client accounts last year. Back in May 2023 GEGIRO wrote to its marketing affiliates and partners saying that it was pausing UK acquisition campaigns and client onboarding for
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