Forex Broker Reviews
Searching For The Perfect Forex Broker
Finding the right forex broker can be an arduous task. However, you can dramatically cut the time taken to search for the right forex broker by firstly writing down what you NEED, read our reviews to see which broker best serves those needs, and then sample for yourself the forex broker’s demo platform.
The reviews that we provide are from brokers that we have tested. Please note that we do not receive any benefits of any kind from any forex broker for providing a review of their products and/or service(s). The opinions and ratings that we give are solely our own.
Other brokers that we have not yet reviewed are further below and only contain small snippets of information that we came across while demo trading their platform. If time permits we will fully review them in due time.
Again, please note that we do not have an axe to grind with any broker, nor do we receive any benefits from endorsing one over the other, we are forex traders who are providing our opinion on the top forex brokers available today. As suggested at the top of this page: we recommend everyone test the platforms out for themselves as everybody’s needs are different.
Which Broker Did We Find The Best?
In summary of the reviews conducted, our favorite platform was Oanda although they are by no means perfect.
If you agree with our views on improving Oanda you can help add you vote by going to Oanda’s Feedback Form and requesting that they include:
- Trailing stops
- Better news ticker
- Market depth
- 100:1 leverage
Our Forex Broker Reviews:
Click the broker’s hyperlink to read a more descriptive review (all marks are out of 10).
IFX Commerce Bank Review: Trade with a bank not a broker
Our rating: 4
FXCM Review: Has one of the largest clientele
Our rating: 1
Capital Market Services Review: Auto trade your own system
Our rating: 4
Oanda Review: 1.5 pip spreads on EUR/USD
Our rating: 7.5
ACM Review: 3 pip spreads on majors
Our rating: 2.5
Gain Capital Review: Trailing stops
Our rating: 4.5
HotSpot FX Review: Market Depth
Our rating: 4
MG Forex: Dynamic News Feed Inside Trading Platform
Our rating: 1
OTHER FOREX BROKERS NOT YET REVIEWED:
REALTIME FOREX AG Swiss based
REFCO FX Similar to FXCM
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May 16th, 2005 at 1:18 am
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May 18th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
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June 26th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
Who is trustworthy that offers a mini account and traids in the USD/PHP pairs???
November 23rd, 2005 at 3:36 am
OANDA IS THE BEST AROUND SECOND TO NONE ,VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND THE BEST SPREADS IN THE BUSINEES, I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD TRADE WITH “OANDA”
November 25th, 2005 at 5:15 am
I personaly think Easy-Forex is the best in terms of that.
That is why I put them up first on my site:
http://www.onlinetrading-fx
Others just have a cumbersome approval process.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:13 am
Hi,
It will be interesting having reviews about http://www.rjofx.com and http://www.gftforex.com, brokers using not Java but more stable Windows based platforms, and about 3 big brokers – http://www.FOREX.com, http://www.CMSfx.com and http://www.MANdirect.com
Have a good trading.
Gene
March 4th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Gene,
I currently trade with GFT. They have one of the best free charts that I know. It runs in their Dealbook FX2 program that you can download on your computer. It has all the charting tools you dream of including 100 indicators, Heikin Ashi, downloadeble history charts, and reviewing such a period in history “bar after bar” so that you can backtest your “holy grale” in a random period in the past.
Is that than the dream solution? GFT has a few cons too:
1) An inactivity fee, of some 75$ I think, is aplicable if you don’t trade. I sometimes stop trading for a wile and this requires “parking” your account every time.
2) My friend in Belgium has no complanes about stability at all, but I live in Cairo Egypt and the platform relogs in every 10 minutes. Charting modifications requires several relog ins after each other. A real problem! Sometimes trades are not executed due to this port conflict at log in. With the MG financial platforms there was not such a problem, but their charting softwear was to basic.
3) The history charts are to combersome to open. The normal chart does not go back more than 15 days in a 30 minute chart. (Do I sound to spoiled now?) The back testing and opening of previous periodes in time should be made more user friendly and covering longer periods. Back testing should be improved.
For the rest no complanes at all. Good customer suport, 1/10 lots, the normal small spreads of 3 pips at eur/usd, no slipige, free great softwear (if you park your account in case of no trading, to avoid inactivity fee) etc. I should give them (if you live in a country with good internet connection) an 8/10
March 21st, 2006 at 7:06 pm
forex is a good investment and also a beautifull art , ithink your rule should be stable low prophits ,if you you mange to reach that you will reach 10 % easliy monthly as profit ,and about the brokers i recomend ubs , oanda , man finincial .
May 1st, 2006 at 5:15 am
How often is this site updated? Why hasn’t anyone review gftforex.com? We are larger than some of the other companies listed.
Warm regards,
Tim
May 26th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Hi
I would like to get also review for http://www.realtimeforextrading.com
and for http://www.swissnetbroker.com
Any comments?
May 26th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Who tried managed account services
from http://www.invest2forex.com
July 14th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Again, http://www.forexbastards.com has an EXTENSIVE list of broker reviews and forex education reviews. Great resource for any beginner or expert trader.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
I believe that Easy-Forex is one of the best brokers out there.
I found them at http://www.forexbids.com.
September 8th, 2006 at 12:42 am
its not all about what broker we have just for the credibility of the company.
the most important is the experienced and the trading capacity of the trader..
email axl_359@yahoo.com
November 5th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Charting tools and other gimicks are just that. You should not choose a broker because it has “live training” or nice charting tools. I think non-dealing desk brokers are more transparent and the way to go.
Regards,
Jo
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:30 am
I think fxsolutions is good.
January 12th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Does anybody out there have a rating on EasyForex? Their website is:
http://www.easy-forex.com
January 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I think Oanda and FX Solutions are good forex brokers.
February 5th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
> Does anybody out there have a rating on EasyForex? Their website is:
http://www.easy-forex.com
Try http://www.forexadvisor.us. Found it when I tried to search for marketiva. Btw, who knows about marketiva?
March 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
I think all easy-forex comments above are spam ;(
April 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
For those who think Oanda is good:
http://www.forexrealm.com/brokers-reviews/
Most of other brokers are SCAM too!
June 6th, 2007 at 12:48 am
I am in Japan. I have opened an account with http://www.fxcm.co.jp that is a fellow corp. of fxcm. It’s true fxcm trading station has restriction on entry order price. I am not exactly clear about what the warning message mean. What I most dislike is the trading station doesn’t have 4 fours chart. and It also can’t provide hedge order. The spread on cross currency is too high. I am still a newbie on forex market. fxcm is my first forex broker. So I can’t give my rates but fact.
July 8th, 2007 at 3:19 am
easy-forex are by no means anywhere near as good as the comments in this site tend to suggest.
I have traded with easy-forex and still have an account with them, but I trade only VERY small trades with them.
i have had numerous trades closed without explanation, the spreads change without warning and, apart from the Australian staff, the whole lot of them downright unhelpful.
The ONLY advantage with easy-forex is that you can depost money and trade quickly without too much trouble – but that is the ONLY advantage of easy-forex.
August 19th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Why are there so many wanting to bash easy-forex? My friend started her Forex career with them. When I talked to her about it she told me she’s happy and so far has not needed to try anyone else.
Anyway, I also found a very positve review of Easy-Forex here:
http://www.forexbusinessreviews.info/easy-forex-review.html
i have opened my account and talked with them on the phone. I plan to start trading with them on monday. I will keep you guys posted with my results…
September 11th, 2007 at 5:33 am
hi been reading all the reviews and feed backs from this site and others, but now even more confused. come out of army have a £1000 to play with (lose) its got to last about 12 weeks confined to a computer and wheel chair while getting better. iv been using the charts having some fun on demo accounts, although the charts have reacted very strangley just as i exit or jump in sometimes, almost as though being watched. Basically want to trade shares ft commodities and forex from one platform. any ideas or just a good chat site to join/learn would be really usefull. any paras out there trading im bored to tears.
cheers Chris
September 16th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
PLS CAN ANYBODY TELL ME AND PROVE TO ME WHY CROWN FOREX SA IS SAID TO BE A FAKE
September 16th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
PLS CAN ANYBODY TELL ME AND PROVE TO ME WHY CROWN FOREX SA IS SAID TO BE A FAKE, Scam Or NOT PLS SOME HELP ME OUT HERE
October 18th, 2007 at 3:04 am
we also had our fill of bad brokers – there is no perfect one out there – you can be glad if you don’t get ripped off too much.
We work with a perfect scalper who managed to find a broker who allows his style of very successful scalping.
check http://www.managed-forex-accounts.info
December 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Try this link for tons of reviews http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/
I still haven’t found any that received unanimous reviews.
Any suggestions ?
December 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Another new site for comparing online forex brokers -
http://www.BestOnlineForexBrokers.com
January 1st, 2008 at 7:14 am
Has anyone tried a managed account? Any advice?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
There is no better review site out there like:
http://www.ForexJustice.com
We rate forex brokers, forex signal providers, have a free forex guide. The best part, the site is free with absolutely no product or service offerings. A high tech review site.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I created a new forex review site to help balance out the abuse of other forex review sites. the new site is called http://www.forexscamcheck.com
March 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
If you’re new to forex trading I’d recommend going with someone like Marketiva, Easy Forex or FXClub, but once you’ve got some experience and a bigger trading capital, I’d go with one of the larger well-established brokers like Oanda.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
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April 17th, 2008 at 12:29 am
There is a good forex broker review guide available for free from Traders Choice FX.
http://www.currencysecrets.com/2005/05/14/forex-broker-reviews/
April 17th, 2008 at 12:32 am
There is a good forex broker review guide available for free from Traders Choice FX.
worth a read:
http://www.currencysecrets.com/2005/05/14/forex-broker-reviews/
July 5th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Today is the 4th of July and they closed the trading platform with no advanced warning to their clients, they just closed on client’s opened trades. They also had spreads widen 6 pips today with no economic news. Yes all of the horrid reviews you read about IBFX is true, they are the crooks that you read about. Stay away, even if you are a seasoned trader like me. New traders definitely stay away, or they will skin you alive and rob you blind in plan sight with all kind of platform crashes, especially if you have a trade that is really going in your favor in a big way, then your platform will mysteriously repair in self when your trade is going against you. If you open a trade with them and it is going your way, please for your sakes do a trailing stop to lock in your profits of have a TP level, and if it is a really big trade, they still may not close it once your TP is hit. I have had to close my TP’s manually on quite a few occasions. Also their re-quotes are ungodly. Just watch them
July 16th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
If you are looking for a broker review and rating go to
http://www.forexexplore.com
It compares forex brokers, gives detailed reviews. By the way, it also lists the first deposit bonuses for almost every broker.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
HY Markets is pretty good too. Got all the necessary tools on their trading platform, userfriendly, great support in English, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Support is very important, we all know that by now! Minimum deposit is $50 and spread is as low as 3 pips on major currencies.
Here is their full review: http://www.forexexplore.com/broker-of-the-month/36-brokers-reviews/154-forex-broker-review-hy-markets-broker-review-forexexplorecom.html
August 13th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
If your looking for a better broker then you should check out non-moderated review sites that are not edited and filtered and manipulated a good site to find a forex broker on is: http://www.forexscamcheck.com/forex-brokers-f93.html
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Do HY Markets, i have found they are really good and easy to use they are regulated by the FSA and something else i cant remember but anyways i use them and they are very helpful, also i can trade more that just forex i trade stocks, oil, indices etc using 2 of the trading platforums they have availiable.
anyways my account i opened with $50 to test out the site and anyways it works very good.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
It is funny but I have never taken the time to review brokers. I have had issues with some and decided to Google all the brokers. I reached the conclusion that on average everyone had a comment good and bad. I questioned why Kathy and Boris would leave xxx for xxx. I respect them greatly but I objected to a Bloomberg article that was surrounded with xxx ads. Interestingly Bloomberg agreed and made changes.
Of all the sites this one appears to be free from the influence of Broker influence support.
I do not wish to either promote or degrade brokers. I resorted to using Alexa.com
Alexa measures visits and can be influenced by the level of Broker visits.
I noticed that xxxx Micro had the largest increase. What troubled me was no advice or suppot. Open an account for $25.00 and no limit on the number of times that you could add funds an unlimited number of times each day. That spells to me they know $25.00 is suicide. I am not endorsing the program and my favorite Broker is hard to find. If this site wishes to name them that is OK with me. Here is a hint they are not prominent in the US, operate from Switzerland, the majority of their clientele is from Japan, only offer accounts of 50k plus. Both brokers have advantages and cater to segmemted markets.
I do not know if it is prejudicial or not.
Incidentally trading has just been halted in Russian markets 09/007/2008 as I write Turkish rebels are causing problems, the VIX is over 50 and the UK has just injected over 40 billion pounds and the ECB has done the same in Euros.
Any ideas and comments are appreciated
Alex Findlay
November 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Hi
Your forex broker reviews can play a very important role in finding the right forex broker.
Thanks
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December 14th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Nice looking blog with some great reviews of the different forex brokers. It seems like there are many scams out there and people really need good review sites.
Cheers
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I currently trade with WSD. They are based in New Zealand. I’ve been trading with them for a couple of months now. They offer both micro and mini lots trading with spreads as low as 0.5 on EURUSD. I first opened a DEMO account with them and eventually signed up for the Live account. They offer a wide range of options services and have a professional staff for any queries.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 am
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June 29th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
fapturbo, you might wanna try leaderforex for trading robots and scalping…also I can say that many firms have slippage on market, limit and stop orders but this forex firm hasn’t caused any problems to me over the past few months. (http://leaderforex.com)
Thanx for the forex company reviews above.
July 11th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Try this company
Is a Swedish serius trading house and forex asset manager.
http://www.gedamoforex.com
July 27th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
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August 10th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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InovaTrade® has quickly become a leader in the Forex marketplace because of our philosophy is: “Provide the most advanced, easy-to-use currency Trading Technology with fast, reliable execution and world-class Customer Support.” This belief has led to a loyal customer base that continues to grow. Based in Panama, land of confidentiality, InovaTrade® places great importance on individual’s rights and therefore applies strict professional ethics.
September 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 am
Hey Aron, thanx for the suggestion. Leaderforex seems like a nice broker, found some great reviews about them. Good thing is that they are regulated and licensed. (http://www.leaderforex.com/about-us/regulation/)
Opened a supermini account today just to try. If everything goes ok, i’ll let you all know soon.