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30 Aug 2026

Risk warning: CFDs and leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly. Investments can fall in value. Past performance is not an indicator of future results.

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How the ranking is set: by our overall score from 10 weighted criteria — the heaviest are fees (22%), safety & regulation (20%) and trading platform (14%). Affiliate commissions are not an input; sponsored placements are labelled separately. Our methodology

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Rank 1

Charles Schwab

The full-service US giant that also owns thinkorswim, a professional-grade trading platform.

  • US long-term investors
  • Options and futures traders
Stocks (per order)
Free
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
1 %
StocksETFsOptionsFutures+5
  • Pros: USD 0 commission on every online listed US stock and ETF order, with no share cap and no proprietary-fund restrictions
  • Cons: No spot cryptocurrency trading — only ETFs, futures and crypto-adjacent equities, which puts Schwab behind Fidelity and well behind Robinhood
Group index 93/100
SECFINRA, FDIC
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

The research-and-education benchmark for US investors, with the cheapest funds in the industry attached.

  • US long-term investors
  • Index fund and ETF buyers
Stocks (per order)
Free
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
1 %
StocksETFsOptionsCrypto+3
  • Pros: USD 0 online US stock and ETF commissions, and Fidelity does not accept payment for order flow on equity orders
  • Cons: No futures, no futures options and no retail forex — a hard stop for macro and commodity traders
Group index 73/100
SECFINRA, FDIC
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 3IG logo

IG

The most complete leveraged-trading operation in Europe — and it prices like it knows that.

  • Experienced CFD and spread bet traders
  • Multi-asset traders who want one account

Volume rebate — CFD volume rebate at the Bermuda entity

Stocks (per order)
Free
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
0.8 %
StocksETFsOptionsFutures+9
  • Pros: Around 17,000 tradable markets in a single account — shares, indices, FX, commodities, bonds, ETFs, turbo warrants and crypto CFDs, subject to regional restrictions
  • Cons: The 0.8% currency conversion mark-up on foreign-currency CFD and spread bet trades is where much of the real cost hides — on a USD position round-trip it comfortably exceeds the spread
Group index 100/100
FCABaFin, FINMA, ASIC, MAS, JFSA, DFSA
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

The cheapest serious route to almost every market on earth — if you can live with the learning curve.

  • Active and professional traders
  • Multi-currency investors

Up to USD 1,000 in stock — Referral programme with share credit

Note: this button leads to the Interactive Brokers home page and is not a referral link. The share credit is only available if you open the account through an invitation from an existing Interactive Brokers client.

Stocks (per order)
0.05 %
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
0 %
StocksETFsOptionsFutures+8
  • Pros: US stocks from USD 0.0035 per share on the Tiered plan, minimum USD 0.35 per order and capped at 1% of trade value
  • Cons: Customer support is the most common complaint: many requests go through the ticket system, and public reviews (e.g. on Trustpilot) often cite slow replies and template answers
Group index 90/100
SECFCA, CBI, ASIC, MAS
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 5CMC Markets logo

CMC Markets

One of the best charting packages in retail CFD trading, wrapped around a narrower product range than the market count suggests.

  • Technical and chart-driven traders
  • UK and Irish spread betting
Stocks (per order)
Free (CFD)
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
0.7 %
StocksETFsOptionsForex+6
  • Pros: Next Generation is one of the strongest charting suites bundled with a retail CFD account —115+ indicators, 70 chart patterns, 12 chart types and pattern-recognition scanners, at no extra cost
  • Cons: None of CMC's derivatives is exchange-traded: the options it quotes are OTC and cash-settled, and there are no cleared futures at all, so CMC is the counterparty on every derivative contract and no clearing house stands behind it
Group index 94/100
FCAASIC, BaFin, MAS
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 6

Pepperstone

Raw spreads and five platforms for traders who care about execution cost, not about owning the asset.

  • Active FX traders
  • Scalping and day trading

From 0.0 pips — Raw spreads from 0.0 pips with commission

Stocks (per order)
0.1 % (CFD)
Minimum deposit
US$10
FX conversion
n/a
StocksETFsForexCFDs+5
  • Pros: Razor all-in EUR/USD cost of about 0.8 pips - a 0.0 to 0.1 pip raw spread plus USD 3.50 per lot per side
  • Cons: Everything is a CFD. You never own the share or ETF, so there are no voting rights, no transferable holdings and no dividend tax reclaim
Group index 82/100
FCAASIC, BaFin, CySEC, DFSA, SCB, CMA
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 7Saxo logo

Saxo

A Danish bank that trades like a professional platform — broad, polished, and no longer expensive.

  • Multi-asset portfolios
  • Bond investors

Tiered — Improved pricing at higher account tiers

Stocks (per order)
0.08 %
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
0.25 %
StocksETFsOptionsFutures+7
  • Pros: Full Danish banking licence (Finanstilsynet licence 1149) and SIFI designation — a stronger structural safeguard than a broker-only permission
  • Cons: Currency conversion costs 0.25% over mid-market for EU and Swiss clients, and up to 0.60% at the UK entity's Classic tier — the single largest hidden cost for cross-currency investors
Group index 96/100
DFSAFCA, FINMA, MAS, JFSA
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 8Capital.com logo

Capital.com

A polished retail CFD platform in Europe, provided you accept that CFDs are the whole product.

  • Active CFD traders
  • Forex day trading
Stocks (per order)
in the spread
Minimum deposit
US$20
FX conversion
0.7 %
StocksETFsForexCFDs+4
  • Pros: No commission on any CFD and no inactivity fee whatsoever — unusual in the CySEC/FCA CFD segment
  • Cons: 0.7% currency conversion markup on every trade settled outside your base currency — the single largest hidden cost here
Group index 77/100
FCAASIC, CySEC
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 9

moomoo

One of the most data-rich free trading platforms on the market — if you happen to live in one of the seven countries it serves.

  • Data-driven active traders
  • US options traders
Stocks (per order)
Free
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
n/a
StocksETFsOptionsFutures+3
  • Pros: Free Nasdaq TotalView Level 2 depth on the US platform — Webull charges USD 3.99 per month for comparable data
  • Cons: Available to residents of only seven countries — the United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Malaysia and New Zealand — with no EU, UK or DACH entity
Group index 86/100
FINRAMAS, ASIC, CIRO, SC
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 10XTB logo

XTB

One of the strongest trading platforms in the commission-free bracket - xStation 5 is a professional workspace attached to a zero-commission share account.

  • Serious charting on a budget
  • Commission-free European stocks

0% — 0% commission on stocks and ETFs up to the monthly volume cap

Stocks (per order)
Free
Minimum deposit
None
FX conversion
0.5 %
StocksETFsOptionsForex+4
  • Pros: xStation 5 is one of the strongest platforms in the commission-free bracket - a real screener, market heat map, sentiment data, economic calendar and news in one workspace, on web, desktop and mobile with near-identical features.
  • Cons: The 0.5% currency conversion charge (0.8% at weekends and on public holidays) applies whenever the instrument currency differs from your account currency. For a EUR investor buying US stocks it is charged on the way in and again on the way out, and it dwarfs the commission it replaces.
Group index 72/100
FCAKNF, CySEC, CNMV, DFSA, FSCA, FSC
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 11CapTrader logo

CapTrader

Interactive Brokers' market access wrapped in German regulation, German support and a German phone number.

  • German-speaking options and futures traders
  • Active traders who want IBKR pricing with German support
Stocks (per order)
0.1 %
Minimum deposit
€2,000
FX conversion
0 %
StocksETFsOptionsFutures+7
  • Pros: BaFin-supervised German investment firm (institution number 10156708) with a Düsseldorf address, German contract law and a free German hotline until 20:00
  • Cons: No Abgeltungsteuer is withheld. German investors gain a compounding advantage but must declare everything themselves via Anlage KAP, and a Freistellungsauftrag is not possible — for many people that alone rules CapTrader out
Group index 81/100
BaFinCBI, FCA
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Rank 12

IC Markets

One of the cheapest routes to raw institutional FX pricing - as long as you check which entity you are signing with.

  • Algorithmic and EA traders
  • Scalping and high-frequency FX
Stocks (per order)
0.1 % (CFD)
Minimum deposit
€200
FX conversion
n/a
StocksFuturesForexCFDs+5
  • Pros: All-in EUR/USD cost of roughly 0.6 to 0.8 pips on Raw Spread - a 0.0 to 0.1 pip raw spread plus USD 3.50 per lot per side
  • Cons: Most non-EU, non-Australian clients contract with Raw Trading Ltd under Seychelles licence SD018 - an offshore regulator with no investor compensation scheme behind it
Group index 70/100
ASICCySEC, FSCA, FSA, SCB, CMA
Protection depends on your legal entity

Risk warning: CFDs and other leveraged products are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how these products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.