Plus500 Trading

What the Plus500 Trading app is for

Plus500 Trading is a platform for trading contracts for difference, or CFDs, rather than buying the underlying assets outright. The listing describes the app as a way to trade a wide range of markets from one place, using leverage.

The app is aimed at people who want to speculate on price moves across several markets and are comfortable with the risk. The listing states plainly that CFDs are complex, that leverage can make losses come quickly, and that 81% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. A figure of 82% of retail traders losing money also appears in the listing's opening line.

A free demo account is included, and the listing says it is unlimited. That gives a way to try the app's order types and charts without using real money.

Which markets you can trade

The listing groups the instruments into six areas. Stocks come with examples such as SpaceX, NVIDIA and Tesla. Indices include NASDAQ, Germany 40 and FTSE 100. Commodities named are gold, oil, natural gas and silver.

Crypto covers Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital assets the listing calls top. Forex covers major pairs such as EUR/USD and GBP/USD. Options and ETFs are also listed, across a range of instruments.

Availability of some instruments depends on jurisdiction, according to a footnote in the listing. The listing also says the stock and ETF lineup is shown as an investing option, but these are traded through CFDs in the app.

Trading costs and how deposits work

The listing advertises zero commission on trades, zero platform fees, low trading commissions and no fees for deposits and withdrawals. The zero commission claim carries a footnote saying other fees apply, so the headline figure is not the full cost picture.

Deposits can be made by debit or credit card, by bank transfer and by other methods the listing mentions without naming. Customer service is listed as available around the clock.

Because CFD trading uses leverage, a position can lose more quickly than an unleveraged holding would. The listing's own warning is the place to start when working out what a trade could cost.

Stop orders for limiting losses

The app offers three order types for managing risk: Stop Loss, Trailing Stop and Guaranteed Stop. The listing names them and does not describe in detail how each one behaves when a price moves quickly, so check the order screen in the app before relying on any of them.

A Stop Loss is set at a price you choose. A Trailing Stop is the same idea but set as a distance from the market price, so it can move as the price moves. The Guaranteed Stop is the third option listed.

Charts, alerts and research tools

Detailed charts sit alongside customisable watchlists and price alerts. Watchlists let you keep a set of instruments in one view, and alerts notify you when a price reaches a level you set.

AI Bites gives short snapshots of market news and technical analysis. AI-powered search is for finding instruments, markets and opportunities by typing what you are after.

Insights shows live sentiment drawn from millions of Plus500 traders, according to the listing. It is a way to see which way other users of the platform are leaning on a given market.

Regulation and company details

The listing says the Plus500 group operates through subsidiaries regulated by more than 15 financial authorities. Three are named in the listing: Plus500SEY Ltd, regulated by the Seychelles FSA; Plus500BHS Ltd, licensed by the SCB in the Bahamas; and Plus500EE AS, regulated by the Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority.

The company says it is listed on the London Stock Exchange in the FTSE 250, and that the platform uses SSL encryption for data. The listing also gives an office address in Limassol, Cyprus, for Plus500CY Ltd.

The listing reports an award as Best CFD Trading App at the Invest in the Web awards 2026.