Best CFD brokers

What each of the top ten is good at

One line each, expanded into a full profile further down.

1. IC Markets - Six asset classes. Competitive raw pricing. MT4, MT5, cTrader and TradingView.
2. TabTrade - Six asset classes. 1,173 instruments. Tight pricing and fast execution.
3. FxPro - Six asset classes. Thousands of instruments. Execution under 8ms.
4. AvaTrade - Six asset classes. Strong global regulation. Extensive platform selection.
5. FXTM - Six asset classes. Competitive account structures. MT4 and MT5.
6. easyMarkets - Six asset classes. Fixed and variable spreads. Proprietary risk tools.
7. IG - Seven asset classes. More than 17,000 markets. Trading since 1974.
8. Plus500 - Six asset classes. More than 2,800 instruments. Straightforward proprietary platform.

Asset classes and instruments are different questions

Every broker here covers at least six CFD asset classes, and IG covers seven. That is the entry requirement for this page rather than a distinction between them.

The distinction is what sits inside those classes. easyMarkets lists a little over 200 instruments; IG lists more than 17,000. Both are genuine multi-asset CFD brokers by any reasonable definition, and one has eighty-five times the market catalogue of the other.

Which matters depends entirely on what you trade. If you want EUR/USD, gold, the Nasdaq and Apple, every broker on this page has them and the difference is price and execution. If you want a mid-cap German industrial or a specific bond future, the catalogue is the whole question.

What each broker covers

What each broker covers

Broker	Instruments	FX pairs	Shares	Indices	Commodities	Crypto	ETFs	Options	Futures	Bonds
IC Markets9.5	2,250+	61	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
TabTrade9.3	1,173	81	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
FxPro9.1	2,100+	70+	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
AvaTrade8.9	1,250+	50+	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
FXTM8.6	1,000+	60+	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
easyMarkets8.3	200+	65	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
IG7.9	17,000+	80+	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Plus5007.8	2,800+	60+	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

From our broker records. Asset-class ticks are read from each broker's published market list; brokers group futures, bonds, ETFs and specialist products differently, so the boundaries are theirs rather than ours.

The tick columns show where the six-class rule is actually satisfied, and they are not identical. IC Markets covers bonds and futures but not ETFs; AvaTrade covers ETFs, bonds and FX options; Plus500 covers options where most of this group does not. The label "multi-asset" hides more variety than it suggests.

The instrument column is where the real spread lies: IG at 17,000+, eToro 7,000+, ThinkMarkets 4,000+, Plus500 2,800+, IC Markets 2,250+, FxPro 2,100+, AvaTrade 1,250+, TabTrade 1,173, FXTM 1,000+ and easyMarkets 200+.

Why the biggest catalogue comes last

IG has more CFD markets than the other nine brokers on this page put together, the longest history of any broker we rate - trading since 1974 - and the only perfect regulation score on our table, backed by ten licences including the FCA, BaFin and FINMA.

It ranks tenth here, because our overall rating weighs six things and IG scores lowest of this group on one of them: cost. Its forex CFDs start at 0.6 pips with no commission, which is respectable, but the cost score that feeds its rating sits at 66 where most of this page is in the eighties and nineties.

That is a judgement worth disagreeing with, and it is easier to disagree with when it is visible. If market depth is what you are buying, IG is the answer on this page and the ranking is telling you about something else. The rating column beside each broker is the number that produced the order, and IG's is the lowest here.

One more thing the full list below will show you: IG does not have the largest catalogue we rate. Saxo Bank sits just outside this top ten with more than 71,000 instruments, four times IG's count, and is ranked eleventh for the same reason IG is ranked tenth. Depth is abundant at the top of this market; it is rarely the thing in short supply.

What CFD trading actually costs

Three charges: the spread, sometimes a commission, and overnight financing when a leveraged position is held past the close.

The important thing about CFD costs is that they are not one number. A broker can be excellent on forex and expensive on shares, because a share CFD is priced with a market spread plus a per-share or percentage commission while a currency pair is priced in pips. An index is quoted in points, gold in cents, and crypto with a spread several times wider than anything else on the platform.

So "spreads from 0.0 pips" describes one instrument on one account, and tells you nothing about the other five asset classes the same broker sells you.

Forex CFD pricing

Forex CFD pricing

Broker	Spread from	Commission	All-in EUR/USD	Spread type	Overnight financing
IC Markets9.5	0.0 pips	$3.50 per side / $7 round turn (Raw Spread MetaTrader)	Approx. 0.8 pips	Variable	Both: swaps charged; swap-free accounts available
TabTrade9.3	0.0 pips	$3.50 per side / $7 round turn (Edge)	Approx. 0.73 pips	Variable	Both: swaps charged/credited; swap-free account available
FxPro9.1	0.0 pips	$3.50 per side / $7 round turn	Approx. 1.13 pips	Variable	Both: overnight swaps apply; Islamic/swap-free accounts available
AvaTrade8.9	0.9 pips	$0	0.9 pips	Variable	Both: overnight funding applies; Islamic/swap-free accounts available
FXTM8.6	0.0 pips	$3.50 per side / $7 round turn, Advantage	Approx. 0.8 pips	Variable	Both: swaps charged/credited; swap-free accounts available
easyMarkets8.3	0.6 pips	$0	0.6 pips	Fixed on Web/App and MT4; variable on MT5	Both: overnight financing applies; swap-free accounts available
IG7.9	0.6 pips	$0 on standard forex CFDs	0.85 pips	Variable	Both: overnight funding charged/credited
Plus5007.8	0.6 pips	$0	Approx. 0.6 pips	Variable	Both: overnight funding applies; swap-free accounts available in eligible regions

From our broker records. These figures describe forex, which is the one asset class comparable across every broker here - share, index and crypto pricing works differently at each of them.

On forex the group splits the usual way. IC Markets, TabTrade, FxPro, FXTM and ThinkMarkets run raw accounts from 0.0 pips with about $7 per round turn; AvaTrade, Plus500, eToro, easyMarkets and IG price through the spread with no commission.

Once commission is added the all-in figures converge on roughly 0.8 pips for most of them, with eToro cheapest at about 0.5 and easyMarkets quoting a fixed 0.6 - unusual, and genuinely useful if you want to know the cost before you trade rather than after.

Overnight financing is what makes CFDs a trading product

Hold a leveraged CFD past the daily rollover and the broker applies a financing adjustment, set by the underlying asset, the direction of the position, prevailing interest rates and the broker's own markup. Every broker here charges it, and long and short positions are charged differently.

For a position opened and closed inside a day it is irrelevant. For one held for six months it can quietly exceed the price move you were trading. A share CFD held for a year is a far more expensive way to own exposure to a company than owning the share.

That single fact is why CFDs suit short-term trading, swing trading, hedging and short selling, and do not suit buying something and forgetting about it.

A CFD or the asset itself

Neither is better. They are built for different jobs, and the financing line is what separates them: it is the price of not having paid for the asset.

Leverage, and why the headline number misleads

Leverage is the defining feature of a CFD. At 1:100, $1,000 of margin carries a $100,000 position - and a 1% move against you takes the whole margin.

Two things are worth knowing before reading any broker's advertised maximum. The first is that it almost always applies to major forex pairs and nothing else: the same account will offer far less on individual shares, and less again on crypto, because the underlying is more volatile.

The second is that your regulator decides, not your broker. Retail clients in Australia, the UK and the European Union are capped at 1:30 on major pairs and lower on everything else, whatever figure the marketing carries. Higher limits exist under international entities, and whether you can be onboarded to one depends on where you live.

Typical leverage by asset class

Indicative, and the exact figures differ by broker and instrument. The shape is the point: the maximum a broker advertises is the best case on the least volatile market it offers, and the margin on the CFD you actually want to trade is the number to look up.

Platforms and execution

CFD traders split three ways on platforms, and this top ten covers all three: MetaTrader for anyone running Expert Advisors, TradingView for anyone who charts seriously, and proprietary platforms for everyone who would rather the broker made those decisions.

Platforms

Platforms

Broker	MT4	MT5	cTrader	TradingView	Own platform	All platforms
IC Markets9.5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView
TabTrade9.3	No	Yes	No	No	No	MetaTrader 5
FxPro9.1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView, FxPro Trading Platform
AvaTrade8.9	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, AvaTrade WebTrader, AvaTrade App, AvaOptions
FXTM8.6	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, FXTM App
easyMarkets8.3	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	easyMarkets Web/App, TradingView, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5
IG7.9	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	IG Trading Platform, MetaTrader 4, ProRealTime, TradingView
Plus5007.8	No	No	No	No	Yes	Plus500 WebTrader, Plus500 mobile and desktop platforms

IC Markets and FxPro carry the widest third-party choice, both running MetaTrader 4 and 5 alongside cTrader and TradingView. ThinkMarkets pairs MetaTrader with TradingView and its own ThinkTrader, and IG runs its own platform with MetaTrader 4, ProRealTime and TradingView beside it.

At the other end, TabTrade is MetaTrader 5 only, and Plus500 and eToro run their own platforms exclusively - simpler to start on, with no route to automation later.

Execution and automation

Execution and automation

Broker	Execution model	Typical speed	Servers	Expert Advisors	API	Copy trading
IC Markets9.5	Market execution	Approx. 35ms on forex	Equinix NY4, New York; Equinix LD5, London	Yes	Yes	Yes
TabTrade9.3	Market execution / ECN-style institutional execution	Under 30ms	Equinix LD5, London	Yes	Yes	Yes
FxPro9.1	No dealing desk intervention / market execution	Under 8ms	Equinix LD4, London	Yes	Yes	Yes
AvaTrade8.9	Market maker	Instant execution, typically under 1 second	Global data-centre infrastructure	Yes	Yes	Yes
FXTM8.6	Market execution	82ms	Global financial data-centre infrastructure	Yes	Yes	Yes
easyMarkets8.3	Market maker	Under 1 second	Global data-centre infrastructure	Yes	No	Yes
IG7.9	Market maker / principal with DMA available on selected markets	Approx. 10ms	London and global financial data centres	Yes	Yes	No
Plus5007.8	Market maker	Under 1 second	Global cloud/data-centre infrastructure	No	No	No

From our broker records. Brokers measure execution differently and publish under favourable conditions, so treat these as an order of magnitude rather than a stopwatch.

FxPro is fastest at under 8 milliseconds from Equinix LD4, with IG close behind at about 10ms - notable for a broker whose reputation is built on breadth rather than speed, and it offers direct market access on selected markets. TabTrade averages under 30ms from Equinix LD5, ThinkMarkets about 50ms and FXTM about 82ms, the slowest here.

Speed matters to scalpers, algorithmic strategies and anyone trading a release. For a position held for days it is noise, and slippage, rejection rates and fill quality matter more than the headline millisecond figure at any speed.

Risk controls, and the one that is missing

Every broker here offers stop-loss, take-profit and trailing-stop orders, margin alerts and automatic close-out. Some add guaranteed stops on selected products, which cap the loss even through a gap, for a fee.

The control that matters most is negative balance protection, which stops a leveraged account going below zero when a market gaps through your stop. It is mandatory for retail clients under the FCA, ASIC and CySEC, and it is not universal: on our record TabTrade does not provide it, which on a leveraged multi-asset product is a difference worth making a decision about rather than discovering.

Trust metrics

Trust metrics

Broker	Regulators	Founded	Client money segregated	Negative balance protection	Compensation scheme
IC Markets9.5	ASICCySECFSA (Seychelles)+2	2007	Yes	Yes	ICF up to €20,000 for eligible EU clients; Raw Trading Ltd insolvency insurance up to US$1,000,000
TabTrade9.3	FSC (Mauritius)	2026	Yes	No	No statutory investor compensation scheme
FxPro9.1	FCACySECFSCA (South Africa)+2	1999	Yes	Yes	FSCS up to £85,000 for eligible UK clients; ICF up to €20,000 for eligible CySEC clients
AvaTrade8.9	Central Bank of IrelandASICFSA (Japan)+7	2006	Yes	Yes	Irish Investor Compensation Scheme for eligible EU clients; no compensation scheme under several international entities
FXTM8.6	FSC (Mauritius)FSCA (South Africa)CMA (Kenya)	2011	Yes	Yes	No statutory investor compensation scheme
easyMarkets8.3	CySECASICFSA (Seychelles)+2	2001	Yes	Yes	ICF up to €20,000 for eligible CySEC clients
IG7.9	FCAASICBaFin+7	1974	Yes	Yes	FSCS up to £85,000 for eligible UK clients; statutory schemes vary by regulated entity
Plus5007.8	FCAASICCySEC+12	2008	Yes	Yes	FSCS up to £85,000 for eligible UK clients; ICF up to €20,000 for eligible Cyprus clients

From our broker records. Negative balance protection and compensation schemes depend on the entity you are onboarded to and your client classification.

IG has traded since 1974 and TabTrade since 2026 - fifty-two years apart, on the same page. Age is not a substitute for regulation or for pricing, but surviving several market cycles is evidence of something, and it is the kind of evidence a two-year-old firm cannot produce at any price.

Non-trading fees

Non-trading fees

Broker	Inactivity fee	Currency conversion	Min. withdrawal	Withdrawal time
IC Markets9.5	None on Global; EU: 10 account-currency units/month after 6 months inactivity	Conversion at applicable exchange rate/charges; no fixed percentage published	No minimum	Same-day processing before cutoff; cards typically 3-5 business days; international wire up to 14 days
TabTrade9.3	No inactivity fee	Conversion rate may include a currency conversion fee	No minimum	Typically 1 business day processing; cards 1-3 business days; Skrill/Neteller 1-2 business days; bank transfer 2-5 business days
FxPro9.1	Not on record	Currency conversion applies where funding/account currencies differ	No minimum	Processed 24/5; typically within 1 business day, plus payment-provider processing time
AvaTrade8.9	$50 after 3 consecutive months inactivity; $100 administration fee after 12 months where permitted	Currency conversion spread/markup applies where account and instrument currencies differ	$100	AvaTrade processing within 24 business hours; arrival depends on payment method
FXTM8.6	$10/€10/£10 per month after 3 months inactivity	Conversion at applicable exchange rate/charges	$5	Typically processed within 24 hours; arrival depends on payment method
easyMarkets8.3	$25/month after 12 months inactivity	No separate fixed conversion fee; conversion applies where currencies differ	$10	Typically within 24 hours for cards/e-wallets; bank transfer typically 3-10 business days
IG7.9	Not on record	0.5%	$0	Typically 1-3 business days
Plus5007.8	Up to $10/month after 3 months without logging in	Up to 0.7%	$50 PayPal/Skrill; $100 bank transfer/cards	1-3 business days processing plus payment-provider processing time

From our broker records. Banks, card issuers and payment providers can charge on top of anything the broker does or does not charge.

The top 8, one by one

#1

IC Markets

9.5/10

Recommended for active traders who want competitive pricing across several asset classes at once.

Overall rating

9.5 / 10

Markets rating

9.4 / 10

Minimum deposit

$200

Minimum trade

0.01 lots

Spread from

0.0 pips

Commission

$3.50 per side / $7 round turn (Raw Spread MetaTrader)

All-in cost, EUR/USD

Approx. 0.8 pips

Maximum leverage

1:30

Platforms

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView

Demo account

Yes, expires after 30 days of inactivity

Copy trading

IC Social; cTrader Copy; ZuluTrade; Myfxbook AutoTrade; Signal Start

Support

24/7

Founded

2007

Regulation

ASICCySECFSA (Seychelles)SCB (Bahamas)+1

IC Markets is the highest-rated broker on our table and the balance is what earns it: 2,250+ instruments across six asset classes, raw forex pricing from 0.0 pips with $3.50 per side, and the joint-widest platform choice here.

Its coverage runs to forex, commodities, shares, indices, bonds, crypto and futures - bonds and futures being two classes most of this group does not carry, though it does not list ETFs.

Execution averages about 35 milliseconds with MetaTrader at Equinix NY4 and cTrader in London, and it supports Expert Advisors, cBots, low-latency VPS and a FIX API. For a multi-asset trader running automation, that combination is the reason it ranks where it does.

The $200 minimum deposit is the highest in this ten, and EU clients pay a monthly fee after six dormant months where the Global entity charges nothing.

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#2

TabTrade

9.3/10

Recommended for traders who want tight multi-asset pricing and can weigh a new broker's risks.

Overall rating

9.3 / 10

Markets rating

9.6 / 10

Minimum deposit

$0

Minimum trade

0.01 lots

Spread from

0.0 pips

Commission

$3.50 per side / $7 round turn (Edge)

All-in cost, EUR/USD

Approx. 0.73 pips

Maximum leverage

1:1000

Platforms

MetaTrader 5

Demo account

Yes

Copy trading

Yes, TabTrade Social

Support

24/7

Founded

2026

Regulation

FSC (Mauritius)

TabTrade covers six asset classes across 1,173 instruments, and the shape of that catalogue is unusual: 1,009 of them are share CFDs, alongside 81 forex instruments, 15 indices, 14 commodities and 35 cryptocurrencies.

Pricing is the other draw. Its Edge account records 0.03 pips on EUR/USD with $3.50 per side - about 0.73 pips all in - and execution averages under 30 milliseconds from MetaTrader 5 at Equinix LD5.

Everything runs through MetaTrader 5 alone, with Expert Advisors, API access and its own social trading.

Two things belong in any decision about it. It launched in 2026, so there is no record to examine, and on ours it provides no negative balance protection - which on a leveraged multi-asset account is the one risk control worth refusing to trade without.

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#3

FxPro

9.1/10

Recommended for traders who want the fastest execution here and every major platform.

Overall rating

9.1 / 10

Markets rating

9.1 / 10

Minimum deposit

$0

Minimum trade

0.01 lots

Spread from

0.0 pips

Commission

$3.50 per side / $7 round turn

All-in cost, EUR/USD

Approx. 1.13 pips

Maximum leverage

1:30

Platforms

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView, FxPro Trading Platform

Demo account

Yes, 180-day lifespan

Copy trading

Yes, cTrader Copy

Support

24/5

Founded

1999

Regulation

FCACySECFSCA (South Africa)SCB (Bahamas)+1

FxPro executes in under 8 milliseconds from Equinix LD4 - the fastest figure on this page, and about four times quicker than most of the group.

Its 2,100+ instruments span forex, metals, indices, futures, energy, shares, ETFs and crypto, and it runs MetaTrader 4 and 5, cTrader, TradingView and its own platform, with cTrader Copy and a FIX API.

Trading since 1999, it is the second-oldest firm here after IG, and holds FCA and CySEC licences among others. There is no minimum deposit on the Standard account.

The cost is the trade-off. Its raw account advertises 0.0 pips but works out around 1.13 pips all in on EUR/USD once the $7 round turn is counted - the most expensive forex pricing in this ten. You are buying execution and platform breadth, not cheapness.

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#4

AvaTrade

8.9/10

Recommended for traders who want serious regulation and a real choice of platforms.

Overall rating

8.9 / 10

Markets rating

9.3 / 10

Minimum deposit

$100

Minimum trade

0.01 lots

Spread from

0.9 pips

Commission

$0

All-in cost, EUR/USD

0.9 pips

Maximum leverage

1:30

Platforms

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, AvaTrade WebTrader, AvaTrade App, AvaOptions

Demo account

Yes, unlimited

Copy trading

AvaSocial; DupliTrade

Support

Monday-Friday, 05:00-21:00 GMT for English support

Founded

2006

Regulation

Central Bank of IrelandASICFSA (Japan)FSRA (ADGM)+6

AvaTrade covers 1,250+ instruments across forex, stocks, indices, commodities, ETFs, bonds, crypto and FX options - the widest class coverage in this ten after IG, including two that most of this group lacks.

AvaOptions is the genuinely unusual piece: vanilla FX options rather than only spot-style CFDs, which very few retail brokers offer at all.

Platform choice runs from MetaTrader 4 and 5 to its own WebTrader and app, with AvaSocial and DupliTrade for copying. Founded in 2006, it holds licences in Ireland, Australia, Japan, South Africa and elsewhere - the broadest spread of tier-one regulation here.

Pricing is spread-only at 0.9 pips on EUR/USD with no commission, and its inactivity terms are the steepest in this ten: $50 after three consecutive dormant months plus $100 after twelve.

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#5

FXTM

8.6/10

Recommended for MetaTrader traders who want several pricing structures to choose between.

Overall rating

8.6 / 10

Markets rating

8.5 / 10

Minimum deposit

$30

Minimum trade

0.01 lots

Spread from

0.0 pips

Commission

$3.50 per side / $7 round turn, Advantage

All-in cost, EUR/USD

Approx. 0.8 pips

Maximum leverage

1:3000

Platforms

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, FXTM App

Demo account

Yes

Copy trading

Yes, FXTM Invest

Support

Monday-Friday 03:00-20:00 UTC; Saturday-Sunday 07:00-11:00 UTC

Founded

2011

Regulation

FSC (Mauritius)FSCA (South Africa)CMA (Kenya)

FXTM covers six asset classes across 1,000+ instruments on MetaTrader 4 and 5, with a choice between commission-free spread pricing and its Advantage account at 0.0 pips with $3.50 per side - about 0.8 pips all in.

The account opens from $30, and it offers some genuinely unusual products, including cross-market contracts that trade the relative performance of two underlying markets rather than either one.

Founded in 2011 and regulated in Mauritius, South Africa and Kenya, it scores 90 for regulation - higher than its overall rating suggests, and higher than several better-known names here.

Two figures to weigh. Its execution averages about 82 milliseconds, the slowest in this ten, which matters if you scalp and not otherwise. And its advertised leverage runs to 1:3000 on eligible international accounts - a number that lowers margin requirements and raises the speed at which an account can be emptied.

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#6

easyMarkets

8.3/10

Recommended for traders who want the cost of the trade fixed before they place it.

Overall rating

8.3 / 10

Markets rating

8.2 / 10

Minimum deposit

$25

Minimum trade

0.05 lots / 5,000 units on EUR/USD

Spread from

0.6 pips

Commission

$0

All-in cost, EUR/USD

0.6 pips

Maximum leverage

1:30

Platforms

easyMarkets Web/App, TradingView, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5

Demo account

Yes

Copy trading

Yes, through third-party/platform integrations

Support

24/5

Founded

2001

Regulation

CySECASICFSA (Seychelles)FSC (BVI)+1

easyMarkets is the only broker on this page quoting fixed spreads - 0.6 pips on EUR/USD through its own platform and MetaTrader 4, variable on MetaTrader 5. On a leveraged multi-asset product, knowing the spread in advance, including through a news release, removes a category of surprise the rest of this list cannot.

Its risk tools follow the same idea: guaranteed stop-loss orders, dealCancellation and Freeze Rate, which cap what a position can do before you have learned to cap it yourself.

The catalogue is the smallest here by a wide margin - just over 200 instruments across six asset classes, against 17,000 at IG. It covers the markets most people trade and very little beyond them.

Founded in 2001 and regulated by CySEC, ASIC and the FSCA among others. Note the minimum trade of 0.05 lots, five times most of this group, which makes the smallest position it will take correspondingly larger.

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#7

IG

7.9/10

Recommended for traders who need markets the rest of this list simply does not carry.

Overall rating

7.9 / 10

Markets rating

8.0 / 10

Minimum deposit

$0

Minimum trade

0.01 lots equivalent / instrument-dependent

Spread from

0.6 pips

Commission

$0 on standard forex CFDs

All-in cost, EUR/USD

0.85 pips

Maximum leverage

1:30

Platforms

IG Trading Platform, MetaTrader 4, ProRealTime, TradingView

Demo account

Yes

Copy trading

No

Support

24/5

Founded

1974

Regulation

FCAASICBaFinFINMA+6

IG lists more than 17,000 CFD markets - more than the other nine brokers on this page combined - including over 11,000 share CFDs, 80+ currency pairs, dozens of indices and commodities, ETFs, crypto and bonds. It is the only broker here covering seven asset classes rather than six.

It is also the most trustworthy firm on our entire table by our own scoring: 100 for regulation, the only perfect score we award, on ten licences including the FCA, ASIC, BaFin and FINMA, and a history going back to 1974.

Execution is about 10 milliseconds, second only to FxPro here, with direct market access on selected markets - which is not what most people expect from a broker known for breadth.

It comes tenth because it scores 66 for costs, the lowest in this group: forex from 0.6 pips with no commission is fine, but share CFDs carry a market spread plus commission and the overall cost picture is the most expensive here. If the markets you want exist nowhere else on this page, that is a price worth paying and the ranking is answering a different question.

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#8

Plus500

7.8/10

Recommended for traders who want a large CFD catalogue on one simple platform.

Overall rating

7.8 / 10

Markets rating

8.2 / 10

Minimum deposit

$100

Minimum trade

Instrument-dependent; generally from micro-position sizes

Spread from

0.6 pips

Commission

$0

All-in cost, EUR/USD

Approx. 0.6 pips

Maximum leverage

1:30

Platforms

Plus500 WebTrader, Plus500 mobile and desktop platforms

Demo account

Yes, unlimited

Copy trading

No

Support

24/7

Founded

2008

Regulation

FCAASICCySECFMA (New Zealand)+11

Plus500 carries 2,800+ instruments across forex, shares, indices, commodities, ETFs, options and crypto - the third-largest catalogue here, and it includes options, which most of this group does not.

Everything happens in its own web, desktop and mobile platform. There is no MetaTrader, no cTrader and no automation of any kind: less to learn at the start, and no route to Expert Advisors later without changing broker.

Forex is spread-only from 0.6 pips with no commission, about 0.6 pips all in, which makes it one of the cheaper accounts here for anyone who does not want to think about commission.

It is the most heavily regulated firm in this ten after IG, with the FCA, ASIC, CySEC, MAS and others on record and FSCS cover up to £85,000 for eligible UK clients. It charges up to $10 a month after three months without a login.

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How we chose these brokers

This list covers brokers offering at least six asset classes - forex plus five of shares, indices, commodities, crypto, options and futures - ordered by our overall rating, which is printed beside every broker. What we weigh:

• How many asset classes are genuinely covered, not how many are advertised
• The depth of instruments inside each class, which varies far more than the class count
• Forex spreads and commissions, the one cost comparable across every broker
• Share, index, commodity and crypto pricing, which each work differently
• Overnight financing, the cost that decides whether a CFD suits your holding period
• Platforms: MetaTrader, cTrader, TradingView and proprietary
• Execution model, measured speed and automation support
• Risk controls, and whether negative balance protection actually applies to you
• Leverage limits by asset class rather than the advertised maximum
• The regulator, the entity holding your account, and client-money arrangements

We do not rank the broker with the most markets first. IG has more CFD markets than the other nine combined and comes tenth, because breadth is one input among six and it is the most expensive broker in this group. If breadth is what you are buying, read the ranking as information rather than instruction.