Best trading platforms for day trading
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Day trading sees investors buying and selling shares within short periods of time – typically a day – with the aim to take advantage of share price volatility, and often borrowing from brokers to maximise their returns.
Trading platforms facilitate day trading. The advent of mobile trading apps has made day trading more accessible and popular. Almost two million people became day traders during the pandemic, according to investment company GraniteShares – with more than one-in-five making losses.
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Best trading platforms for day trading
There are many platforms for day trading to choose from, so we’ve taken a look at some key criteria to bring you what we believe are among five of the best.
Methodology
Three main factors determined which trading platforms made it on to our list:
- Are share dealing fees lower than £5 per trade?
- Does the platform offer a range of shares from different markets?
- Is the platform’s TrustPilot score 4.0 or higher?
Outside of these three main factors, we also considered whether each platform offered web and app trading, customer support, trading features such as stop loss and order limits, foreign transaction fees and fractional shares.
We also checked for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation and complaint numbers.
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