Best Trading Platforms for Mac Users in 2021

Plus500 is a popular and highly reputable online trading platform provider headquartered in Israel but with subsidiaries in the UK, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, and Cyprus. It operates feature-rich trading platforms available to both Mac and PC users in easy to use web-trader platform. Here, you get to trade a full range of financial instruments (Forex, Stocks in most major markets, ETFs, Commodities, Cryptocurrencies) in the form of CFDs.

Plus500 is specially designed to suit the needs of the expert trader by integrating both its web and mobile trading platforms with a host of technical analysis tools. In addition, there is a free demo account where one can try and perfect their strategy.

The fee structure of Plus500 is extremely transparent, with no commissions on trades, no deposit and withdrawal fees, variable but highly competitive spreads and a standard suite of fees for overnight positions, guaranteed stop-loss orders, and currency conversion tool in your account.

Opening an account with Plus500 is easy and straightforward, with a process fully online and a low minimum deposit. Mac or PC user, you will be set up to trade in less than a day.

While Plus500 offers little in the way of trader education tools and has fewer customization options than some of its peers, you can easily set up notifications when prices or sentiment (ratio of buyers to sellers) change for instruments on your watchlist. The platform also offers great charting tools & a neat economic calendar to see upcoming macro events.

Libertex is a large Forex and CFD broker based in Cyprus, with over 2 million users around the world. Its trading platform is intuitive and web-based, making it accessible for both Mac and PC users. A well-designed mobile app will also help you keep track of your positions and trade on the go.

Libertex offers CFDs for hundreds of instruments, from popular Stocks, Indices and ETFs to Commodities, popular Cryptocurrencies and a wide range of Forex pairs. The platform allows retail traders to leverage their positions up to 30:1 with varying conditions, and can offer up to 600:1 leverage to professional clients.

Unlike many of its peers, Libertex does not charge spreads, charging commissions instead (ranging from 0.03%–1% for most non-levered trades). Beginners can start trading with a free demo account before deciding to trade with their own money.

Advanced traders and Mac users that installed the MetaTrader 4 platform via an emulator (or that access it from the web) can also benefit from the integrated Libertex tool and access the large amount of customization MT4 provides. While customization on the Libertex platform is limited, it offers useful charting and analysis tools with a useful embedded newsfeed to get trading signals from selected websites.

New Mac traders will greatly benefit from the simplicity of the Libertex platform while more experienced ones will enjoy the powerful integration with MetaTrader 4 for all the customization it offers.

AvaTrade is specialized in Forex trading, CFDs and Cryptocurrencies, offering thousands of instruments (including major currency pairs & cryptocurrencies) to choose from. As one of the oldest online brokerages, AvaTrade today is one of the most regulated platforms (licensed in Europe & UK, Australia, Japan and South Africa) despite not being available in the USA.

Its high growth and popularity among retail traders, PC and Mac users alike, has led it to announce a major partnership with Premier League team Manchester City, a clear sign of its status as one of the most successful online trading platforms.

AvaTrade’s platform is easy to use and accessible online for Mac users, with a mobile app to complement it. AvaTrade also recently developed a tool to integrate it into the popular MetaTrader 4 platform, allowing Mac users with access to MT4 via Wine to trade from their desktops.

AvaTrade’s trading platform offers a wide range of assets with up to 30:1 leverage, a full range of order types (limit, trailing stop, pending orders etc.), a series of powerful charting and analysis tools and a customizable dashboard to create multiple watchlists.

It also boasts an internal mailing system, social features like DupliTrade (a similar tool to eToro’s famous CopyTrade), a trading academy for beginners (SharpTrader) and integrated trading strategies (Fibonacci levels, Moving Average C/D etc.) for more advanced traders.

AvaTrade offers 24/7 cryptocurrency trading, a 24-hour customer service in 15 languages, and endless customization options, including the ability for Mac desktop users to install custom indicators or trading scripts in their AvaTrade terminal on the MT4 platform. Notably, AvaTrade is one of the only large brokers to offer special Islamic finance-compatible accounts, fully compliant with Sharia law provisions on interests.

Last, on top of its ease of use and many features for advanced traders, AvaTrade does not charge commissions on trades but mainly covers its costs through modest spreads and overnight fees on leverage. Mac users, beginners and sophisticated traders alike, will be delighted with all that AvaTrade has in store.

Investous is a relatively new Forex, Cryptocurrencies & CFDs broker that opened in 2018 and is based in Cyprus. It offers a custom Forex trading platform and integration into the popular MetaTrader 4 platform (and its mobile version) for more advanced users, but does not have its own mobile app. Mac users can use the web interface (through the MT4 WebTrader platforms), and seasoned traders are able to integrate Investous from the MT4 desktop version, available on Mac via Wine or any other emulator.

Over 270 underlying assets are available to trade via CFDs, including Forex, Stocks, Commodities, Indices and Cryptocurrencies, with available leverage as high as 30:1 for risk-seeking traders (up to 400:1 for professional clients).

The Investous WebTrader interface is clean & easy to use and offers a wide range of charting and analysis tools (Fibonacci retracements, arcs, cycle lines, linear regressions etc.), with dozens of indicators for intermediate & advanced traders. Mac users who access Investous via the MT4 desktop platform will have access to an even wider range of tools that will suit traders of all levels.

If you’re new to the world of trading, Investous offers the possibility to start trading with a free demo account until you feel comfortable using your own money. Thereafter, you will choose between 4 different account types (based on the minimum size of your deposit). The larger the deposit, the lower the spreads & fees you will be charged.

More premium accounts also come with advanced trading lessons, monthly webinars, withdrawal fees waivers and much more. All account types can however access Investous’ daily news & signals, a handy economic calendar, and a range of notifications & alerts to monitor their positions.

Last, while some may see Investous as the “new kid on the block”, the platform managed to make a name for itself in its first year on the market by winning the Best Trading Platform and Best Execution Broker from the Forex Awards in 2018.

For Mac and PC users alike, eToro has become one of the most popular online trading platforms in Europe, with over 5 million users and thousands of financial instruments (stocks, ETFs, Cryptocurrencies, Commodities etc.) for you to trade.

eToro has been around in Europe since 2007 and has recently developed its activities in the United States. In the USA however, eToro currently only offers cryptocurrencies, but a much larger offering covering stock trading is planned for 2021.

eToro is very easy to use, with a social media-like interface and a well-designed mobile app. Signing up is fast, customer service is very responsive, and the platform offers the option to sign up for a free demo account to practice paper trading before deciding to use your money.

A unique feature of the eToro experience is the social dimension of the platform, allowing users to follow others and place “CopyTrades” to replicate the future performance of other traders. You can browse the past performance and the risk profile of other traders, decide which (if any) of them you wish to emulate, and use the CopyTrader function to trade alongside them. This feature does not only allow you to follow one or more traders, but also gives you an overview of how other traders in the market are behaving, which can help inform your own trading decisions.

Note that in the USA, CopyTrading is only available for 15 major cryptocurrencies (with new ones being added) & cryptocurrency traders based in the USA.

While CopyTrader can be a way for you to trade without following the markets regularly or to make extra income, don’t forget the two most essential rules of investing: (1) past performance is not indicative of future performance and (2) with higher reward comes higher risk. A trader that had double-digit returns in the past is likely to use high-risk strategies and could lose a lot of money in the future.

eToro does not charge trading commissions, instead deriving its profits from a spread (difference between price to buy & price to sell) and other types of fees (leverage, overnight positions, currency conversion etc.). In line with their excellent user interface, eToro does a great job at making its fees very clear to its clients.

Last, the account verification process is quick and easy, and eToro offers a range of charting, risk management (stop-loss etc.), newsfeed & comparison tools that will perfectly suit the needs of amateur and experienced Mac traders alike!