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Broker selector
Answer four quick questions about what you want to trade, whether you want to own it, how you will fund your account and whether you need an Islamic account. We'll show you the brokers that match.
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Free UAE trading and investing tools
Choose a broker or use one of five UAE-focused calculators. They use AED by default and show exactly how each result is calculated.
They are educational tools, not investment advice. Broker data matches the figures used in our reviews.
Choosing a broker
Not sure which broker to choose? Complete our broker selector quiz below to get started.
Trading cost and risk
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Spread cost calculator
What a broker's spread costs you per trade and per year, compared across brokers.
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Position size calculator
How big a position to open so that a stopped-out trade loses only what you planned.
Open the position size calculator →Investing and growth
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Compound interest calculator
How a lump sum and monthly contributions grow over time in dirhams.
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S&P 500 return calculator
What a dirham investment in the index would have returned historically, with dividends, conversion and tax shown.
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FIRE calculator
How big an investment pot you need to stop working, and how long it takes to build.
Open the FIRE calculator →How our tools work
Every tool uses a standard formula, written out on its own page so you can check it. Nothing you type is sent to us, and no result changes because a broker is a partner.
Where a figure comes from is labelled on the tool that uses it. The broker selector and the spread cost calculator both read the broker records behind our reviews at build time, so a number here is the number there. The spreads in the spread cost calculator are the brokers' own published indicative figures, labelled indicative wherever they appear rather than presented as measurements: the spreads we measured on funded accounts sit in the reviews, with the date and time of each reading. The S&P 500 return calculator prices the dirham conversion from conversions we measured on our own funded accounts, and prints each of those brokers' records in their own wording beside the result. The compound interest and FIRE calculators carry no broker data at all, and work only on the figures you enter. The position size calculator works on your figures too, but checks its pip arithmetic against an order ticket from our own funded Pepperstone account, and quotes that capture beside the result.
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A calculator sizes a cost. These pages tell you whose account you would be paying it into.
Tools FAQ
Are these tools free?
Yes. None of them asks you to register, hand over an email address or open an account first.
Do the calculators work in dirhams?
Yes. The compound interest, S&P 500 return and FIRE calculators are in AED throughout, and the S&P 500 one shows the conversion into dollars and what it costs rather than hiding it inside the result. The spread cost and position size calculators default to AED and let you switch, because account currency changes what a pip is worth and so what a trade costs.
Does anything I type get sent to you?
No. The calculators run entirely in your browser, and the broker selector keeps your answers in memory only rather than writing them to your device.
Where do the broker spreads in the spread calculator come from?
They are the brokers' own published indicative figures, labelled indicative wherever they appear. We have not measured these five instruments ourselves: the spreads we did measure on funded accounts sit in the reviews, with the date and time of each reading.
Is any of this investment advice?
No. They show what a cost, a risk, a growth assumption or a past return works out to using the numbers you enter. They do not recommend an investment or predict a return. For personal advice, speak to an adviser regulated in your jurisdiction.
Giles Thomas
Executive Director, FOE Global
Giles Thomas is Executive Director at FOE Global, a UAE-based family office and private equity advisory firm. He conducts the platform testing and broker research for OnlineBroker.ae, including funded account testing and regulatory verification.
Written byGiles Thomas
Edited byBraden Chase
Fact-checked byTomislav Turčin
Last reviewed29 September 2026