Best Low Spreads Stock Brokers

Interactive Brokers offers unrivalled market access and the lowest commissions in the industry for active stock traders. The TWS platform is extremely powerful but has a steep learning curve for beginners.

Saxo Bank offers institutional-grade market access in a polished web platform, making it ideal for sophisticated investors who want access to global stock markets, options, and bonds in a single account.

IC Markets offers Shares CFDs on 2,000+ global stocks via MT5 and IRESS, combining its benchmark ECN infrastructure with direct equity access - a strong complement to its core forex offering for active traders who also need equity exposure.

FP Markets offers direct-access share CFD trading via IRESS alongside standard MT4/MT5/cTrader share CFDs - a differentiated dual-model approach under ASIC and CySEC regulation that suits both ECN forex traders and equity-focused clients.

Pepperstone offers share CFDs on 1,000+ global stocks across MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView under FCA and ASIC regulation - a convenient route to equity CFD exposure for existing Pepperstone traders without switching brokers.

FXPro offers share CFDs on 100+ global stocks across MT4, MT5, cTrader, and its proprietary platform under FCA and CySEC regulation - a four-platform broker with straightforward equity CFD access for existing FXPro multi-asset traders.

BlackBull Markets offers share CFDs on 23,000+ global stocks via MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView, and IRESS under FMA and FSA regulation - one of the widest stock CFD ranges among ECN-adjacent brokers, with genuine DMA access via IRESS.

Axi offers share CFDs on 700+ global stocks via MT4 and Axi One under ASIC and FCA regulation - a straightforward ECN-adjacent broker for existing Axi clients who want to add equity CFD exposure to their multi-asset account.