
Updated as of 2021.02.18. 11 am GMT
Not all brokers are available globally. This means that most of the US brokers detailed above are not available for EU residents. To tackle this, we have created another table below, listing EU brokers that may have experienced outages or service lags, or suspended retail trading of recently popular stocks such as GME, BB, AMC, etc. The list does not contain all affected brokers from our selection, as we focused on the ones that received the most attention. As with US brokers, we'll try to keep this table updated too, by closely monitoring:
- whether a broker had an outage in the last seven days
- whether a broker had suspended retail trading on popular stocks
Please be aware that trading on margin and other leveraged trading strategies could be extremely risky in times of high market volatility. Sharp price moves could quickly wipe out your invested capital.
As of now, these brokers had issues in the past 7 days:
Broker | Had platform outage? | Are any popular assets restricted right now? |
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Trading 212 | No* | No |
IG | No** | Yes, some volatile assets are not tradeable |
eToro | Yes | Yes, some volatile assets are not tradeable, e.g. short selling is not allowed at GME |
CMC Markets | No | Yes, some volatile assets are not tradeable, e.g. short selling is not allowed at GME |
* Account opening is suspended at the moment
** Australian, and UK clients can't open share accounts
Below these brokers have not experienced any issues between the end of January and mid-February. If you're looking for alternative stockbrokers, feel free to check any of the following:
Broker | Link to broker review | Visit broker |
---|---|---|
TradeStation | Read review | Visit broker |
Chase You Invest | Read review | Visit broker |
SoFi Invest | Read review | Visit broker |
Broker | Link to broker review | Visit broker |
---|---|---|
Saxo Bank | Read review | Visit broker |
TradeStation | Read review | Visit broker |
flatex | Read review | Visit broker |
Fineco Bank | Read review | Visit broker |
Swissquote | Read review | Visit broker |
We have also collected a few alternative CFD brokers in the following table, feel free to check them out as well.
Broker | Link to broker review | Visit broker |
---|---|---|
Capital.com | Read review | Visit broker |
XTB* | Read review | Visit broker |
Plus500* | Read review | Visit broker |
*At XTB and Plus500, you cannot trade GameStop CFDs as of writing, however, you are allowed to trade other recently popular names.