AMP Futures vs TradeStation compared

AMP Futures
TradeStation
Key differences
We took 8 criteria of our comparison (fee, account opening, customer service, markets&product, research, trading platform, deposit&withdrawal) and listed the angles with the greatest difference here below.
  • Markets and products score
    1.2
    /5
  • Account opening score
    3.2
    /5
  • Customer service score
    5.0
    /5
  • Markets and products score
    3.2
    /5
  • Account opening score
    5.0
    /5
  • Customer service score
    4.0
    /5
Recommended for
  • Investors and traders globally
  • Equity
    4.1
    /5
You can open an account in United States
You can open an account in United States

*Data marked with an asterisk contain additional info, expand the relevant sections below to see details.

Basic data of broker

Overall Score
4.2

Recommended for Active traders focusing on futures

Overall Score
4.7

Recommended for Traders focusing on US markets and buy-and-hold investing

Best crypto broker

Country of origin

USA

Country of origin

USA

Fees

Fees score
4.9
Fees score
4.1
Fees summary

Low trading and average non-trading fees

Fees summary

Low trading fees, average non-trading fees, free stock and ETF trading for US customers

Stock and ETF fees

Forex fees

Fund fees

Bond fees

Options fees

Futures fees

Crypto fees

CFD fees

Non-trading fees

Deposit and withdrawal

Deposit and withdrawal score
3.1
Deposit and withdrawal score
2.2
Number of base currencies

10

Number of base currencies

9

Deposit type

Withdrawal type

Account opening

Account opening score
3.2
Account opening score
5.0
Account opening fully online
Account opening fully online
Minimum deposit
*

$100

*
Minimum deposit
*

$0

*
Time to open account

1-3 days

Time to open account

1 day

Required documents

Proof of identity: national ID / passport / driver's license Proof of residency: bank statement / utility bill / driver's license / credit card statement

Required documents

Proof of identity: ID / passport / driver's license Proof of residency: bank statement / utility bill

Trading platform

Web platform score
-
Web platform score
3.8
Mobile platform score
-
Mobile platform score
4.8
Desktop platform score
3.0
Desktop platform score
2.3

Markets and products

Markets and products score
1.2
Markets and products score
3.2
Stocks
Stocks
*
*
Fractional shares
Fractional shares
ETFs
ETFs
Forex
Forex
Funds
Funds
Bonds
Bonds
*
*
Options
*
*
Options
Futures
Futures
Crypto
Crypto
*
*
CFDs
CFDs

Research, education

Research score
5.0
Research score
4.3
Charting quality

Great

Charting quality

Great

Education score
4.3
Education score
5.0
Demo account
Demo account

Customer service

Customer service score
5.0
Customer service score
4.0
Phone
Phone
Live chat
Live chat
Email
Email
24/7 availability
24/7 availability

Security

Investor protection amount

No protection

Investor protection amount

$500,000 (securities up to $500,000, cash up to $250,000)

Banking background
Banking background
Listed on stock exchange
Listed on stock exchange
Foundation date

2009

Foundation date

1982

Country of regulation

USA

Country of regulation

USA

AMP Futures

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TradeStation

For detailed information and hands-on experience, read our review of this broker.

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Everything you find on BrokerChooser is based on reliable data and unbiased information. We combine our 10+ years finance experience with readers feedback. Read more about our methodology.

AMP Futures's service is slightly weaker than TradeStation's and a comparison of their fees shows that AMP Futures's fees are slightly lower than TradeStation's.

Account opening takes more effort at AMP Futures compared to TradeStation, deposit and withdrawal processes are somewhat easier at AMP Futures, while customer service quality is somewhat better than TradeStation's.

Our experts rated the trading platform of AMP Futures as somewhat worse than the platform of TradeStation, found that clients have access to less markets and products with AMP Futures, while TradeStation provides somewhat lower-quality research and education.

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