AvaTrade Forex Review 2026

Name: AvaTrade Forex Review 2026
Item: AvaTrade
Rating: 4
Author: Adam Peters

Our Ratings

4.0

out of 5

Safety & Regulation

4.3

Fees & Costs

3.4

Markets & Products

3.4

Platforms & Execution

4.2

Deposit & Withdrawal

4.4

Trading Tools & Research

4.0

Account Opening

4.3

Customer Service

4.6

Education

4.5

Key Facts

Regulation

ASIC, CySEC, CIRO, JFSA, ISA, FSRA, CBI, BVI FSC, FSCA, SFC Colombia

Broker Type

Market Maker

Min. Deposit

$100

Platforms

AvaTrade Mobile App, AvaTrade Web Platform, MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MetaTrader 5 (MT5)

Negative Balance Protection

Yes

Max Leverage

1:30 (EU, CySEC, CBI and ASIC retail), up to 1:400 (professional and non-EU entities). Crypto 2:1 EU retail, up to 25:1 non-EU

Demo Account

Yes

Spreads From

0.9 pips

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AvaTrade - At a Glance

Company & Overview

Established: 2006
Headquarters: Dockline, Mayor Street, Dublin 1, D01K8N7, Ireland
International Offices: Ireland, Australia, Chile, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Poland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates
Publicly Traded: No
Broker Type: Market Maker
Regulation: ASIC (Australia), CySEC (Cyprus), CIRO (Canada), JFSA (Japan), ISA (Israel), FSRA (UAE), CBI (Ireland), BVI FSC (British Virgin Islands), FSCA (South Africa), SFC Colombia (Colombia)
Segregated Client Funds: Yes
Negative Balance Protection: Yes
Covers forex, CFDs, options and spread betting for retail clients, so losses cannot exceed your equity. Professional accounts and futures are excluded, and there you can lose more than you deposited.
Banking License: No
Languages: English, Turkish, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, French, Finnish, Spanish, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Russian, Malaysian, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Kazakh, Arabic
Customer Support: Live Chat, Email, Phone, WhatsApp
Customer Support Hours: 24/5

Account Types

Demo Account: Yes
Swap Free Account: Yes
Joint Account: No
Corporate Account: Yes
Managed Account: Yes
PAMM / MAM Trading: Yes
Social / Copy Trading: Yes

Account Conditions

Minimum Deposit: $100
Payment Methods: Bank Transfer, Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Paypal, Perfect Money, Skrill, Neteller, UnionPay, Sofort Banking, Klarna, Boleto, Giropay, POLi, Pix
Account Currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, AUD, ZAR, JPY
Maximum Leverage: 1:30 (EU, CySEC, CBI and ASIC retail), up to 1:400 (professional and non-EU entities). Crypto 2:1 EU retail, up to 25:1 non-EU
Bonuses: Yes
Offshore entities only. AvaTrade excludes clients in European countries, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, ADGM and UAE, plus India, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and others. In practice bonuses are unavailable to clients of every Tier-1 regulated entity, since CySEC, CBI, ASIC and JFSA rules prohibit them.
Contests: No

Trading Conditions

Markets & Products: Forex, CFDs
Currency Pairs: 44+ FX pairs
Minimum Lot Size: 0.01
Maximum Lot Size: 200
Decimal Pricing: 5 decimals
Order Types: Market execution with pending orders on MetaTrader 4 and 5: buy limit, sell limit, buy stop, sell stop, plus buy stop limit and sell stop limit on MT5. Stop loss, take profit and trailing stop on all platforms. AvaOptions adds vanilla call and put options with multi-leg strategies. AvaProtect is a paid loss-protection contract rather than an order type.
Execution Type: Market maker, fixed and variable spreads
Margin Call Level: 50% (retail), 10% (professional and EU)
Stop Out Level: 50% of margin (retail clients), 20% (professional and non-EU clients)
Hedging: Yes
Scalping: Yes

Fees & Costs

Spread Type: Fixed, Variable
Spread From: 0.9 pips typical on EUR/USD (Standard), 0.6 pips (Professional)
Commission: No Commission
Overnight / Swap Fees: Yes
Deposit Fee: No
Withdrawal Fee: No
Currency Conversion Fee: Yes
Account Maintenance Fee: No
Inactivity Fee: Yes
USD 50 after three months of non-use, then every quarter, plus USD 100 a year after twelve months. Among the steepest here, and AvaTrade does not say whether logging in counts as use.
Custody Fee: No

Platforms & Tools

Trading Platforms: AvaTrade Mobile App, AvaTrade Web Platform, MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MetaTrader 5 (MT5)
Mobile App: Yes
API Access: Yes
VPS Hosting: Yes
Automated Trading: Yes

How AvaTrade's costs compare

Spread from (major pairs)0.9 pips

Catalogue median: 0.8 pips across 49 brokers · lower is cheaper

Minimum deposit$100

Catalogue median: $10 across 49 brokers · lower is more accessible

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.