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Vantage: Trade Smarter

Latest release: 3.0.3 ( 1st November 2022 ) 🔍 Last analysed 1st November 2021 . Can't send or receive bitcoins
4.5 ★★★★★
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6th July 2019

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The Analysis 

App description:

The Vantage FX app offers traders easy, yet powerful mobile access to hundreds of FX Pairs, Commodities, Indices, Share CFDs and more! Available for both iOS and Android devices, the Vantage FX trading app is equipped with a suite of trading and investing tools so you can trade global markets anywhere, anytime! Trade your way anywhere, anytime, with the Vantage FX app.

There was no mention of BTC or any other cryptocurrency in their Playstore description.

On their website’s help center, Vantage mentions that crypto assets “are offered in the form of CFD.”

Kindly note that Crypto assets are offered in the form of CFD. As CFD markets are closed over the weekend crypto trading is not available either.

CFD trading entails that users do not actually own the assets and as a result, cannot send or receive bitcoin.

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Verdict Explained

The product can't send or receive BTC.

As part of our Methodology, we ask:

No send/receive!

Can it send and receive bitcoins?

If the answer is "no", we mark it as "Can't send or receive bitcoins".

If it is for holding BTC but you can’t actually send or receive them with this product then it doesn’t function like a wallet for BTC but you might still be using it to hold your bitcoins with the intention to convert back to fiat when you “cash out”.

All products in this category are custodial and thus funds are at the mercy of the provider.

The product cannot be independently verified. If the provider puts your funds at risk on purpose or by accident, you will probably not know about the issue before people start losing money. If the provider is more criminally inclined he might have collected all the backups of all the wallets, ready to be emptied at the press of a button. The product might have a formidable track record but out of distress or change in management turns out to be evil from some point on, with nobody outside ever knowing before it is too late.