General Information & Regulation of Saxo
Founded in 1992, the company launched its first online trading platform in 1998, providing traders with professional-grade tools and access to multi-asset markets. Saxo Group serves clients in over 120 countries, manages $16 billion in assets, and processes over 125,000 trades per day to date. The headquarter of Saxo Bank is located in Copenhagen while an organization operating in financial centers around the world including London, Paris, Zurich, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and Saxo Bank is licensed by several regulators globally.
Saxo Market Instruments
The company offers a wide range and a number of financial products, mainly divided into leveraged instruments and investment products. Leveraged products include CFD products, Futures, Commodities, and listed options, while investment products include stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, and managed portfolios.
Minimum Deposit
Saxo Markets has three main account levels, namely Personal, Institutional and Professional. Individual accounts are divided into Classic, Platinum, and VIP accounts. Classic accounts have a minimum deposit of $2,000. The minimum deposit for a Platinum account is $200,000, which allows investors to get smaller spreads and lower commissions, while the minimum deposit for a VIP account is now $1, 000,000. Saxo Markets' corporate account contains the same three accout types too, with the minimum deposit for the classic account up to $10,000, $200,000 for the platinum account , and the minimum deposit for VIP account is $1000,000. Investors will be reclassified as Professional clients if they meet any two of the three conditions: having a financial portfolio of more than 500,00 EUR; having made at least 10 relevant transactions of significant size in the last four quarters; working in the financial sector, or having worked for at least one year.
Saxo Leverage
With regard to trading leverage, professional clients are entitled to leverage of 1:40 for the primary index, 1:33 for the secondary index, 1:33 for gold, 1:10 for equities, and 1:25 for commodities. Retail clients are entitled to leverage of 1:20 for the primary index, 1:10 for the secondary index, 1:20 for gold, 1:5 for equities and 1:10 for commodities.
Spreads & Commissions
Spreads on CFD products are as low as 0.4. Go long or short more than 9,000 products, and enjoy low spreads and credits. Commissions start at $3 per share for equities, as low as $0.85 per lot for commodities, and $3 per share for ETFs. Futures commissions start as low as $0.85 per lot, bonds commissions start at 0.05%, listed options commissions start as low as $1.25 per lot, and mutual funds commissions are $0 for custody and platform fees.
Trading Platform
Saxo uses the best-in-class trading platform SaxoTraderGO, a powerful trading tool with enhanced trading instruments, innovative risk management features including account shields (which act as stop-loss levels for the entire account value and close out the entire position in case of a penalty), stop-loss orders, cancel all orders, margin usage details, margin alerts, and fast position closing features. In addition, Saxo Group also offers SaxoLite (mobile trading platform for Hong Kong and US stocks) for investors.
Deposit & Withdrawal
Saxo Bank supports several deposit and withdrawal methods, including Visa, MasterCard, Visa Debit, Visa Electron, MasterCard Debit, Maestro (for UK residents), Visa Dankort (for Denmark residents), Carte Bleue (for France residents). The company does not charge any fees for withdrawals, but if an investor makes a withdrawal request via manual withdrawal, a processing fee of 40 EUR will be charged.
