The best trading platforms to auto invest in Australia (2025)
Finding a platform with an automated investing feature is key if you want to dollar cost average into the market.
Only a handful of platforms have an auto-investment option in Australia. So we've scoured through those that do to find the best available to you as of 2025. We looked for platforms that had low trade fees, low minimum investments, fractional shares and were intuitive to use.
Why set up auto trades?
Automating your trades can be a great way to invest passively into the stock market.
By setting up an auto-investment, you can deposit a set amount regularly into your ETF, stock or other asset of choice.
This strategy is called dollar-cost averaging (DCA), where you invest small amounts frequently over a long time period, rather than as one big lump sum.
This can be an especially useful feature when there's a lot of volatility in the market because the regular deposits help to balance out any big price falls.
Auto investing in Australia
Auto investing is still a relatively new feature among trading platforms in Australia.
The first to introduce the feature were micro-investment apps like Raiz Invest and Spaceship, which let you invest very small amounts regularly into ready made stock or ETF portfolios.
Now more online trading platforms are starting to introduce the feature alongside the option to buy and sell stocks and ETFs directly.
Still, you'll notice that most of these platforms only offer auto-investing into US equities. This is partly because Australian stocks are usually chess-sponsored, which means there's typically a $500 minimum into any one company stock or ETF. That's a sizeable barrier for someone wanting to invest smaller amounts more regularly.
Platforms that offer auto-investing into ASX stocks tend to follow the custodial model, such as Superhero, Sharesies and micro-investment platforms like Raiz. Chess-sponsored platforms like Tiger Brokers or CommSec only feature auto-investing for US equities.
What about automated trading?
Automated trading and auto investing are often used interchangeably, however there are some differences.
Auto trading tends to refer more to algorithmic trading, which is where trades are automatically carried out for you based on a complicated set of criteria and instructions.
These tend to be used by experienced investors trading leveraged products such as CFDs, forex and options.
The MetaTrader4 and MetaTrader5 platforms are popular among algorithmic traders as you can build your own algorithms and backtest your strategies using historical data.
You can check out a list of platforms that offer MT4 and MT5 software in our CFD broker guide.
Platforms that have advanced trade orders
Most share trading platforms will offer at least two types of orders — the market order (buying and selling stocks at the current price) and the limit order (buying and selling once prices hit a certain level).
However some share trading platforms let you set up more complicated trade orders, called conditional orders.
These aren't quite as advanced as algorithmic trading, but you can still set in place several criteria in order for a trade to be automatically executed.
For instance, say you want to purchase stocks in company X once prices fall to a certain level. You could set a simple limit order, or you could set a conditional order to buy at the best possibly price within your set parameter.
Conditional order example: Trailing buy order
Say company X is trading for $10 and you want to purchase it once its price drops below $9. You could set up a simple limit order, but in an ideal world, it would be better if prices dropped even lower.
You could in this case set up a trailing buy order, which is where the order is triggered at $9 but the purchase is only executed if the company X stock price starts to rise again by an amount that you set, say $1.
So let's say the Company X stock price falls to $7, but then starts to rise again. Your purchase order would go through at $8. In this way you've bought at a lower price than you would have if you'd simply set a limit order of $9.
According to Finder's latest analysis of Australian share trading platforms, those that offer conditional orders include:
- amscot
- Directshares (Bank of Melbourne and St. George)
- Bell Direct
- Bendigo Invest Direct
- Capital 19
- CMC Markets Invest
- CommSec
- HSBC WorldTrader
- Interactive Brokers
- Totality
- Sequoia Direct Share Trading
- Tiger Brokers
- WeBull
- Westpac Online Investing Account
- Moomoo Share Trading
- eToro
Interactive Brokers, Totality and CommSec offer a long list of more advanced conditional order types.
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