Trading.com Forex Review 2026
74% of retail FX and CFD accounts lose money.
Trading.com - At a Glance
- Established
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Coppergate House, 10 Whites Row, Spitalfields, London, E1 7NF.
- International Offices
- United Kingdom, United States, Cyprus, Australia
- Publicly Traded
- No
- Broker Type
- Market Maker
- Regulation
- FCA (United Kingdom), NFA (United States), CySEC (Cyprus), ASIC (Australia)
- Segregated Client Funds
- Yes
- Negative Balance Protection
- Yes
Losses capped at your account balance, including costs and any profits still to be paid in. Trading.com can withhold it if it suspects arbitrage or hedging between accounts, and can take funds from your other accounts to cover the gap.
- Banking License
- No
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese
- Customer Support
- Live Chat, Email, Telephone
- Customer Support Hours
- 24/5
- Demo Account
- Yes
- Swap Free Account
- No
- Joint Account
- Yes
Supported. The client agreement provides for a surviving joint account holder to continue the agreement in their sole name.
- Corporate Account
- Yes
Entities can register but must supply a Legal Entity Identifier.
- Managed Account
- No
- PAMM / MAM Trading
- No
- Social / Copy Trading
- No
- Minimum Deposit
- $50
- Payment Methods
- Bank Transfer, Debit Cards, Credit Cards
- Account Currencies
- GBP, EUR, USD, AUD, HUF, PLN, CHF
- Maximum Leverage
- 1:50 (US), 1:30 (UK), 1:30 (EU), 1:30 (AU)
- Bonuses
- No
- Contests
- No
- Markets & Products
- Forex, CFDs
- Currency Pairs
- 65+ FX pairs
- Minimum Lot Size
- 0.01
- Maximum Lot Size
- 100
- Decimal Pricing
- 5 decimals
- Order Types
- Market and pending orders with stop loss and take profit attachable. Market execution with no requotes or rejections. No trailing stop and no guaranteed stop loss.
- Execution Type
- Market maker
- Margin Call Level
- 100% (retail), 50% (professional)
- Stop Out Level
- 50% (retail), 20% (professional)
- Hedging
- Yes
- Scalping
- Yes
- Spread Type
- Variable
- Spread From
- 0.6 pips
- Commission
- No commission
- Overnight / Swap Fees
- Yes
- Deposit Fee
- No
- Withdrawal Fee
- No
- Currency Conversion Fee
- Yes
- Account Maintenance Fee
- No
- Inactivity Fee
- Yes
GBP 10 a month, or the local equivalent, after a year of no activity on any of your accounts. Holding an open or pending order counts as activity, and the fee cannot take you below zero.
- Custody Fee
- No
- Trading Platforms
- Mobile App, Web Platform, MetaTrader 5 (MT5)
- Mobile App
- Yes
- API Access
- No
- VPS Hosting
- No
- Automated Trading
- Yes
How Trading.com'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 global regulatory oversight.
- Backed by Trading Point Group (same group as XM)
- Wide range of global market access through CFDs.
- Fast and easy account opening.
- Free demo account available for practice trading.
- Low minimum deposit.
- Fast and secure deposit and withdrawal methods.
- Multiple account currency options.
- Negative balance protection.
- User-friendly mobile and web proprietary platforms.
- Supports MetaTrader 5 integration.
- No restrictions on trading strategies.
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- Great customer support service, available 24/7.
Cons
- Product offering limited to forex and CFDs.
- Limited payment methods.
- No TradingView, MetaTrader 4, and cTrader integration.
- Limited advanced tools for professional traders.
- No integrated social, copy, and PAMM trading features.
- Weak and limited educational content.
- Limited research tools.
- Limited leverage flexibility, depending on region.
- An inactivity fee is charged after one year of account inactivity.
