Updated Jul 12 2022
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Forex.com is a global broker headquartered in the U.S and part of StoneX (publicly traded company on NASDAQ) that specialises in offering CFDs based on commodities, currencies, indices, stocks, ETFs, shares, bonds and cryptocurrencies. |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
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Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 Day | 1 day minimum (may take longer) |
📋 Documents Required | |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
📍 Year Founded | |
2001 | 2007 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$100 | From $5 to $200 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
6 - GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, JPY, CHF. | 1 - USD |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
Yes | Only for crypto Trading |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
None | AF, AL, BS, BB, BY, BA, BW, BN, BI, KH, CA, TD, CD, CG, ET, FJ, GH, GN, GW, GY, IR, IQ, JM, JP, LA, LY, ML, MU, MN, ME, MM, NA, NI, KP, MK, PK, PW, WS, RS, SO, LK, SD, SY, TT, TN, TR, UG, VU, YE, ZM |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
Yes | No |
📊 ECN Account | |
Yes | Yes | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
4,500+ | 2,000+ Real Stocks / 2,000+ CFDs |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
93 | 47 |
📗 Commodities | |
35 | 14 |
📕 Indices | |
24 | 13 |
📔 ETFs | |
700+ | 145 |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
5 | 26 |
📒 Bonds | |
14 | N/A |
📓 Options | |
N/A | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
All of Forex.com’s assets are CFDs. |
Real stocks are offered without leverage, all the rest of the assets are CFDs. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies per share (eg: 0.3 AMZN shares) | $50 |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies per ETF (eg: 5 contracts of XLK) | $50 |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies per Cryptocurrency (eg: 0.01 BTC) | $25 |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 (0.01 Lots) | $1,000 |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies per commodity (eg: 1 contract of Gold) | $1,000 |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
Varies per Bond (eg: 1 contract of Euro Bobl) | N/A |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | Varies |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
No | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | No |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
Yes | No |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
Yes | No |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
Yes | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | Yes |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | Yes |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
No | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
Yes | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
Yes, $15 monthly after 1 year of inactivity. |
After 12 months of inactivity, a $10 monthly inactivity fee will be charged. |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | $5 |
💰 Commissions | |
Yes depending on account type.
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No | Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips | Dynamic - From 1 Pip |
📉 SP500 | |
From 60 Pips | Dynamic - From 75 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
From 50 Pips | Dynamic - From 45 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - From 0.09% |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - Market Spread | Dynamic - From 0.09% |
📉 BTC | |
From $120 | Dynamic - From 0.75% | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
No | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
Yes | No |