Pepperstone vs ActivTrades

ActivTrades features its innovative proprietary trading platform, offering manual traders market sentiment, hedging, and quality trading charts. Algorithmic and copy traders get the core MT4/MT5 trading platforms upgraded through seven quality plugins. ActivTrades also allows API trading, granting advanced traders with proprietary solutions access to its superb technology infrastructure.

Pepperstone provides Autochartist and the Smart Trader Tools upgrade package for MT4/MT5, consisting of 28 plugins. It creates one of the most competitive environments. It added Capitalise AI, a code-free environment to automate trading strategies, and cTrader is also available. Besides the embedded copy trading services available in all its trading platforms, Pepperstone offers Myfxbook Autotrade and DupliTrade.

We have conducted an in-depth review of ActivTrades and Pepperstone to determine which presents the better overall choice and which traders will benefit the most at either broker.

• Features and Platforms
• Available Markets
• Typical Spreads and Fees
• Security and Trust
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Features and Platforms

Features & Platforms	ActivTrades (visit site)	Pepperstone (visit site)
Headquarter:	UK	Australia
Established :	2001	2010
Retail Loss Rate:	81.00%	81.18%
Regulation:
Minimum Deposit:	$10	$200
Demo Account:
Managed Account:
Islamic Account:
Inactivity Fee	£10 monthly after one year	No
Deposit Fee:	Yes + Third-Party	Third-Party
Withdrawal Fee	Yes + Third-Party	Third-Party
Funding Methods:	6	9
MT4:
MT5:
cTrader:
Proprietary Platform:
Automated Trading:
Social / Copy Trading:
MT4/MT5 Add-ons:
Guaranteed Stop Loss:
Negative Balance Protection:
Bonuses and Promotions:
Unique Feature One:	Superb technology infrastructure	Excellent MT4 upgrade with 28 plugins
Unique Feature Two:	Excellent education	VPS, Autochartist, and TradingView
Broker Offers:	See what ActivTrades offers	See what Pepperstone offers

Noteworthy:

ActivTrades provides one-on-one training sessions, and a dedicated institutional division confirms deep liquidity pools. Pepperstone added the active TradingView community, featuring 30M+ traders.

Available Markets

The asset selection at ActivTrades and Pepperstone is similar, but Pepperstone maintains an edge with 1,200+ trading instruments versus 1,000+ at ActivTrades. Forex traders get a broader choice of currency pairs with 60+, three currency indices, and notably more cryptocurrency pairs. Both brokers allow cross-asset diversification, but Pepperstone adds more quantity and therefore opportunities.

Typical Spreads and Fees

Both brokers offer competitive trading costs. ActivTrades has lower minimum fees, while Pepperstone maintains cheaper average trading costs. Commission rebates exist at ActivTrades and Pepperstone, where minimum Forex costs at Pepperstone drop to as low as $3.00 per lot. Equity commissions are also lower at Pepperstone than at ActivTrades.