FINAM | 77% |
ATON | 72% |
CentroCredit | 70% |
NPBFX | 67% |
TeleTrade | 65% |
Freedom Finance | 62% |
Opening Broker | 56% |
Octane-Broker | 55% |
VTB | 54% |
Ricom-Trust | 47% |
Kapital | 46% |
Russ-Invest | 46% |
KIT Finance | 45% |
TradersHome | 44% |
Sberbank CIB | 43% |
Uralsib Capital | 41% |
Solid | 40% |
All brokers
Rating of Brokers and Investment Companies 2021 is a visual, functional and convenient tool for a trader to choose a stock broker. The main purpose of the rating is to compare brokers and select the best investment companies and brokers based on user voting. Every visitor to the site, regardless of whether he is a novice trader or a professional, is invited to vote for the best brokerage company from his point of view. The broker rating allows you to determine the winning broker and more objectively reflect the change in the opinions of voters during each month. We also recommend that you familiarize yourself with our ratings of Forex Brokers.
The essence of the investment business
An investment platform is an information system that allows you to conclude agreements between investors and owners of any business. These are intermediary platforms that help people from different parts of the world find each other in order to bring a common idea to life.
Investment business on the Internet is somewhat different from similar activities in offline life. Let's list the main features:
- the conclusion of contracts and transactions does not require the personal presence of participants;
- no time, national or other restrictions;
- You don’t have to monitor every second the movement of funds in your account;
- investing and withdrawing money is carried out remotely online;
- you can start with small investments (an excellent option for those who want to experiment and try their hand at investing).
All this can be attributed to the advantages of investing business on the Internet. However, there are also disadvantages. Before you invest money in something, you need to carefully study the object of investment, the terms of cooperation and the life story of the person behind it.
I’ll say right away that if you are promised a profit of 100% or more, then there is a high probability that you have stumbled upon a scammer. Now let’s take a closer look at the signs of a scam, and then move on to a review of proven TOP investment platforms.
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Rating 2021
Place | Company | Market capitalization (billions of US dollars, January 19, 2018) |
1 | JP Morgan | 392.1 |
2 | Bank of America | 330.9 |
3 | Wells Fargo | 316.2 |
4 | HSBC Holdings | 221.4 |
5 | Citigroup | 207.0 |
6 | Royal Bank of Canada | 125.2 |
7 | Morgan Stanley | 103.9 |
8 | BNP Paribas | 102.4 |
9 | Goldman Sachs | 100.3 |
10 | UBS Group | 77.7 |
11 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group | 67.9 |
12 | Mizuho Financial Group | 49.6 |
13 | Credit Suisse | 48.7 |
14 | Barclays | 47.5 |
15 | Deutsche Bank | 38.8 |
Data for 2021 is presented at the link.
Signs of a fraudulent project
Signs of a scam, a financial pyramid, or a fraudulent project in the world of investments:
- Strictly defined income similar to interest in a bank. You need to understand that investments always involve risk and instability. You can calculate the approximate profitability; there is no need to talk about a permanently fixed amount or percentage here. Projects that promise a lifetime fixed income look especially suspicious.
- Obsessiveness. If everything on the site is covered with banners like “Bonus”, “Hurry up”, “Limited in time”, “Unique offer”, etc., then there is a high probability that this is a scam. All this is done in the hope that people, succumbing to emotions, will quickly invest money. In proven projects, no one is in a hurry and no one imposes anything.
- Damages are not discussed. This is discussed first in the investment business, because this will certainly happen. If the company does not say anything about this and the division of responsibility, then this is suspicious. Can be equated to the first point - the promise of golden mountains.
- There are no clearly defined terms of cooperation and rules. A reliable investment project has a transparent entire system. It is enough to read the agreement once to understand everything. Also pay attention to this. Although we said that there is no complete stability in the investment business, the words “possibly”, “approximately”, “about”, etc. should not be in the contract or on the website pages. All terms and income must be expressed in percentages, rubles or other currencies. At least a clear range from and to is indicated.
- Platform leaders put their lives on display. This is a classic of all financial pyramids. Indeed, those at the top of the pyramid live well, but new victims are unlikely to come. In adequate investment projects, administrators, owners, and directors do not boast of their income or material wealth. Why? Because it has nothing to do with the essence of the matter. Why do scammers do this? Why are they rushing for the same thing? Seeing the beautiful life of someone, the future victim thinks: “I want that too.” And he happily gives away his honestly earned money to scammers.
In addition, scammers like to use “Hype” templates for websites. These are ready-made themes that look like this:
Also, scam sites often contain errors and typos, and crooked layout (for example, images cover part of the text or are crooked). There are still contradictions. For example, on the main page it is written that a profit of 100% awaits you, and on another page the figure of 70% is already indicated.
Well, last but not least – check the legal entity for authenticity. The platform website must contain legal information. You can check their accuracy through the website of the Federal Tax Service.
All organizations are entered into the Unified State Register. Data on them is publicly available.
TOP investment platforms
You can invest from a computer or phone, that is, among investment platforms there are both websites and applications. We will look at both. But let's start with preparing for investing.
What to do before investing in anything:
- Read several books about investments, for example, you can refer to the works of the same Kiyosaki. Regularly watch interviews, lectures, webinars of financial experts and follow economic news.
- Prepare for losses and gains. Both are stress. Both will happen and require enormous endurance.
- Study the TOP projects in detail and choose the best or several best for yourself.
Now let's move on to reviews of investment platforms. Each of them opens access to the international and Russian market, allows you to trade different elements: stocks, currencies, bonds and more.
Websites
Let's look at two popular platforms in a little more detail.
ATAS
An excellent option for beginners. Firstly, the service has a free trial period of 14 days without functionality limitations. Secondly, there are a lot of graphs and diagrams inside the service, which make the situation on the market clear even for a beginner and someone who doesn’t understand anything about investing.
That is, you can see what investment leaders are investing in, and also get acquainted with the forecast for the development of a particular business. The service is famous for the accuracy of its forecasts.
To register, you will need to enter your email, name and phone number. In the future, if you like the site, you will need to connect to one of the paid tariffs.
On the system blog you can get all the information important for investing for free:
Mirror Trader
This system is loved for its reliable and detailed analysis of TOP investment projects. Another option for beginners. This service is considered as an automated investment platform.
The point is that you connect to one of the TOP traders, and then the system itself copies his transactions in your profile. This is called autofollowing. To work, you need an account on another exchange - Bitmex.
There are options for paid and free participation. You can disconnect from a trader at any time if cooperation with him no longer suits you.
Quik app
This system is called a trading terminal. New customers are given a free 30-day trial.
You can also participate for free provided that the total value of all your assets exceeds 30,000 rubles per month. Or, provided that the brokerage commission exceeds 300 rubles per month. If the sum of all assets is less than 5,000 rubles, then you will be excluded from the system.
You can download the application on the official BCS website. By the way, on the same site in the “Learn” section you can find a lot of useful information about how to invest correctly and where to start. The database contains both free and paid materials.
The terminal provides access to trading on various exchanges and platforms. For example:
- Moscow Exchange,
- St. Petersburg Stock Exchange,
- CME Group,
- Thomson Reuters Spot Matching,
- Eurex,
- CBOE,
- ICE,
- NASDAQ
- NYSE.
The system has proven itself to be reliable in terms of storing client data and fast in terms of processing information and applications. In addition, users are attracted by the ability to customize the interface to suit their needs.
That is, you can set the items yourself, which are reflected in the worksheet. I can’t say that everything here is simple and clear. It will be difficult for beginners to understand, but it is real.
Other investment platforms
Let’s list a few more popular and reliable sites in Russia for investment:
- Townmoney,
- Starttrack,
- Investor.potok,
- Indiegog.
In addition, you can invest through relief funds. These are also investment platforms, but only here they present not young and promising companies, but those enterprises that are on the verge of collapse, but seem very promising to people.
In general, you invest not only in their development, but also in their preservation:
- Accel.itmo,
- www.s-advisors,
- Ingria-startup.
The point of these platforms is that small business owners are here to seek help from investors. That is, we are not talking about international trading in currencies, stocks or anything else. Here you can invest in something more understandable, for example, in the production of cosmetics or food.
Examples of businesses for investment from one of the investment platforms:
In addition, you can invest in proven hype projects. Yes, I know, we have already said that there are many scammers among them, but these sites have been verified:
- Wisedeposit,
- Yoda-x,
- Yoda-x,
- Yacht-company,
- Winstar.capital,
- Hightwolf.
These services are considered highly profitable. One project here is implemented over a couple of weeks or months. That is, you can quickly make a profit. It also requires minimal investment.
However, it is important to understand that the risks of going broke are higher here. Therefore, carefully study the history of the projects in which you want to invest.
What are they and why are they needed?
Investment platforms are online platforms where startups and investors meet.
Therefore, we can say that investment platforms are needed for investing in different sectors of the economy. This could be, for example, food production or a cafe. In addition, the administration of investment platforms provides information on where it is better to invest, which industry is capable of growing soon. In general, they make life easier for ordinary investors in every possible way. It’s hard to imagine investing in the modern world without investment platforms.
Reviews about making money on investments
Reviews about making money on the Internet from investments are contradictory:
- Nelly notes that she did not have a good relationship with hype platforms. The girl tried herself in three projects, but only lost money.
- But Maryline notes that she was able to make money on investments (response to Nelly’s appeal). At first, he too was expected to lose (although we are talking here about completely different methods of making money on the Internet). However, then he earned a small amount on axle boxes (exactly what we were talking about) and began investing this money. Please note that this took several years, and still the user reads, studies, and learns the art of investing a lot.
- Vladislav also invested in hype and was dissatisfied with the cooperation. The user decided to give up making money on investments and turn to other methods of creating passive income on the Internet, for example, promoting his public on VK.
- Ekaterina believes that you can make money on hype projects. According to the girl, it is better to invest in real estate.
What conclusion can be drawn based on these reviews? It is better to invest in long-term projects, since in the case of hype projects there is a higher risk of running into scammers or making a mistake in choosing a project.
However, it is important to remember that each person's experience is individual and unique. If someone did not succeed, this does not mean that you cannot develop the right and profitable strategy.
Note! I recommend that before you start collaborating with a particular platform, you read reviews about it. Moreover, pay attention to reviews from third-party resources, and not from the website of the site itself.