ActivTrades Forex Review 2026
71% of retail FX and CFD accounts lose money.
ActivTrades - At a Glance
- Established
- 2001
- Headquarters
- The Loom 2.6, 14 Gower's Walk, London, E1 8PY
- International Offices
- United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Bulgaria, Bahamas, Mauritius
- Publicly Traded
- No
- Broker Type
- Market Maker
- Regulation
- FCA (United Kingdom), CMVM (Portugal), CONSOB (Italy), CSSF (Luxembourg), CVM (Brazil), FSC Mauritius (Mauritius), SCB (Bahamas)
- Segregated Client Funds
- Yes
- Negative Balance Protection
- Yes
Offered to all clients on all entities. The Mauritius order execution policy states: "ActivTrades offers all clients negative balance protection. This means that clients will never lose more than their invested capital."
- Banking License
- No
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Russian, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Taiwanese
- Customer Support
- Live Chat, Email, Phone, WhatsApp
- Customer Support Hours
- 24/5
- Demo Account
- Yes
- Swap Free Account
- Yes
- Joint Account
- Yes
- Corporate Account
- Yes
- Managed Account
- Yes
- PAMM / MAM Trading
- Yes
- Social / Copy Trading
- No
- Minimum Deposit
- $10
- Payment Methods
- Bank transfer, Credit Card, Debit Card, Cryptocurrency, Skrill, Paypal, Sofort
- Account Currencies
- GBP, USD, EUR, CHF, SEK
- Maximum Leverage
- 1:400
- Bonuses
- No
- Contests
- No
- Markets & Products
- Forex, CFDs
- Currency Pairs
- 50+ FX pairs
- Minimum Lot Size
- 0.01
- Maximum Lot Size
- 1000
- Decimal Pricing
- 5 decimals
- Order Types
- Market orders plus four pending types: buy limit, sell limit, buy stop, sell stop. Buy stop limit and sell stop limit also available. Stop loss, take profit and trailing stop. Trailing stop runs in the client terminal rather than on the server, so it stops working if the terminal is switched off, and is available only on MT4 and MTS accounts.
- Execution Type
- Market maker (principal), sole execution venue
- Margin Call Level
- Not published. Close-out only
- Stop Out Level
- 50% of required margin (FCA and EU retail entities), 30% (other entities)
- Hedging
- Yes
- Scalping
- Yes
- Spread Type
- Variable
- Spread From
- 0.5 pips target on forex, 0.45 points on CFDs. Commission-free
- Commission
- No commission
- Overnight / Swap Fees
- Yes
- Deposit Fee
- No
Free by card. Bank transfers and e-wallets are normally free too, but ActivTrades can pass on the processing costs if you deposit a lot and trade very little. A 0.5% conversion charge applies in other currencies.
- Withdrawal Fee
- Varies
GBP 9 by bank transfer, free by card or e-wallet. A 0.5% conversion charge applies if you withdraw in a different currency, and bank charges come out of the amount you asked for.
- Currency Conversion Fee
- Yes
- Account Maintenance Fee
- No
- Inactivity Fee
- Yes
EUR 10 or currency equivalent, charged EVERY MONTH once there has been no activity on the account for 18 months.
- Custody Fee
- No
- Trading Platforms
- ActiveTrader Web Platform, ActiveTrader Mobile App, TradingView, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5
- Mobile App
- Yes
- API Access
- Yes
- VPS Hosting
- Yes
- Automated Trading
- Yes
How ActivTrades's costs compare
The marker is the median of every active broker we rate, computed from the same structured data as the reviews. Headline from-spreads are the broker's advertised best case; your account type and instrument change them.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong regulatory oversight
- Fast and easy account opening
- Demo account for practice trading
- Low minimum deposit
- Fast and secure payment methods
- Free deposit and withdrawal
- Negative balance protection
- Low forex fee
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- Low CFD fee
- User-friendly web and mobile platform
- Supports TradingView, MT4, and MT5
- No restrictions on trading styles
- Good customer support service
Cons
- Limited product selection
- An inactivity fee after a year of account inactivity
- Account currency options are limited
- Education offering is fairly basic
- Customer support could be improved
