Optimus Futures vs tastytrade compared

Optimus Futures
tastytrade
Optimus Futures
3.9
tastytrade
4.7
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.
  • Account opening score
    2.5
    /5
  • Markets and products score
    1.5
    /5
  • Overall score
    3.9
    /5
  • Account opening score
    5.0
    /5
  • Markets and products score
    3.3
    /5
  • Overall score
    4.7
    /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
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Basic data of broker

Overall score
3.9

Recommended for Day traders focusing on futures and technical trading

Overall score
4.7

Recommended for Options and futures traders focusing on US markets

Best options trading platform

Country of origin
Broker's country of establishment

USA

Country of origin
Broker's country of establishment

USA

Fees

Fees score
4.8
Fees score
4.3
Fees summary
BrokerChooser's qualitative summary on the broker's prices

Low trading, but high non-trading fees

Fees summary
BrokerChooser's qualitative summary on the broker's prices

Low trading and non-trading fees, no inactivity fee

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
1.1
Deposit and withdrawal score
1.9
Number of base currencies
How many account currencies you can choose from

1

Number of base currencies
How many account currencies you can choose from

1

Deposit type

Withdrawal type

Account opening

Account opening score
2.5
Account opening score
5.0
Account opening fully online
Account opening fully online
Minimum deposit
The minimum amount you have to deposit for using the account
The minimum deposit to open an account depends on the FCM you select. AMP - $500, ADMIS - $10,000, GAIN Capital - $5,000, TradeStation - $5.000, Wedbush - $5.000, Ironbeam - $500
*

$500

*
Minimum deposit
The minimum amount you have to deposit for using the account
No minimum account balance
*

$0

*
Time to open account
BrokerChooser estimation on time needed to access account after all documents are provided by customer

>3 days

Time to open account
BrokerChooser estimation on time needed to access account after all documents are provided by customer

1 day

Required documents
Documents required for opening an account

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

Required documents
Documents required for opening an account

Proof of identity: ID / passport Proof of residency: bank statement / utility bill

Trading platform

Web platform score
-
Web platform score
3.4
Mobile platform score
-
Mobile platform score
4.2
Desktop platform score
3.8
Desktop platform score
3.9

Markets and products

Markets and products score
1.5
Markets and products score
3.3
Stocks
Stocks are available
Stocks
Stocks are available
Only US
*
*
Fractional shares
Fractional shares are available
Fractional shares
Fractional shares are available
$5 is the minimum
*
*
ETFs
ETFs are available
ETFs
ETFs are available
Forex
Forex is available
Forex
Forex is available
Funds
Funds are available
Funds
Funds are available
Bonds
Bonds are available
Bonds
Bonds are available
Options
Options are available
Options on Futures only
*
*
Options
Options are available
Futures
Futures are available
Futures
Futures are available
Crypto
Crypto is available in any form (e.g. as a CFD or ETF)
Futures
*
*
Crypto
Crypto is available in any form (e.g. as a CFD or ETF)
Futures, Hot wallet by Zero Hash
*
*
CFDs
Any CFD is available, e.g. stock CFD or commodity CFD
CFDs
Any CFD is available, e.g. stock CFD or commodity CFD

Research, education

Research score
4.3
Research score
5.0
Charting quality

Great

Charting quality

Great

Education score
4.0
Education score
4.5
Demo account
Demo account

Customer service

Customer service score
5.0
Customer service score
5.0
Phone
You can reach the broker by phone
Phone
You can reach the broker by phone
Live chat
Live chat is available
Live chat
Live chat is available
Email
Email support is available
Email
Email support is available
24/7 availability
At least one customer support channel, i.e. live chat, phone or email, is available even on the weekend
24/7 availability
At least one customer support channel, i.e. live chat, phone or email, is available even on the weekend

Security

Investor protection amount
The protection amount depends on the country where you opened your account. In the US, forex trading and commodity-related contract (e.g. futures or options) are generally not covered.

No investor protection

Investor protection amount
The protection amount depends on the country where you opened your account. In the US, forex trading and commodity-related contract (e.g. futures or options) are generally not covered.

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

Investor protection
Amount of the investor protection provided by the broker

No investor protection

Investor protection
Amount of the investor protection provided by the broker

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

Banking background
Whether the broker has a banking background
Banking background
Whether the broker has a banking background
Listed on stock exchange
The broker is listed on a stock exchange
Listed on stock exchange
The broker is listed on a stock exchange
Foundation date

2005

Foundation date

2017

Country of regulation
Which countries' regulators oversee the broker

USA

Country of regulation
Which countries' regulators oversee the broker

USA

Optimus Futures

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tastytrade

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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.

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

Account opening takes considerably more effort at Optimus Futures compared to tastytrade, deposit and withdrawal processes are somewhat more complicated at Optimus Futures, while customer service quality is similar to tastytrade's.

Our experts rated the trading platform of Optimus Futures as being of the same quality as the platform of tastytrade, found that clients have access to less markets and products with Optimus Futures, while tastytrade provides somewhat better research and education.

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