ACM

About Advanced Currency Markets SA
Residence, regulating, and company management.As written on the site, the ACM company is headquartered in Geneva (Switzerland) and is controlled directly by the Federal Department of Finance. The company was founded in 2002 as mentioned on the homepage. The company has 4 offices, (Geneva (HQ), Dubai and Montevideo and New York), and their addresses are stated. The list of subdivisions of the company its managers are mentioned and there are pictures - together with short profiles/resumes. However, direct contact with the managers is not possible.
Company's Market Position
Going by their site, ACM works with the largest institutional providers of liquidity, though their names are not disclosed for Swiss compliance reasons.
The company provides standard and institutional accounts, their fundamental differences are in the size of initial deposits (to $50 000 standard, above - institutional). There are management services for individual investors, and brokers, offered. There are some partnership programs.
Types Services Offered
The company offers 40 currency pairs, as well as commodity trading, with gold and silver.The financial leverage given is determined by margin size and depends on the size of the trading account: below $1 million margin 1% operates and, accordingly, leverage 100:1, over $1 million a margin is set 2%, which corresponds a leverage of 50:1.
The company does not distinguish between an initial and supporting margin, the size of minimum margin (level of liquidation) corresponds 100% initial.
Full-fledged information about the terms-of-trades is stated on the site. This information is compactly placed (on one page of site), although key moments repeat themselves on other pages.
The limitations, on volume of transactions, are not set. The size of a standard account lot is equal to 100000 units of trading currency; Mini account lots (min deposit 2000 usd) are of 10000 units of trading currency.
Quotations are streamed, as the company notarises change, without any slippage. The size of spreads start at 0.5 pips with an average 2 - 3 pips on major pairs. These spreads are fixed ones. For most courses (exact sizes are mentioned in the conditions of trade). The company keeps an option for the expansion of spreads, in the situations of fatal loss of liquidity (unexpected news, acts of God of etc.).
ACM doesn’t charge any commission or fee.
The transfer of positions, carried over to the next day, is executed according to (SWAP), modified by a company (without delivery). The sizes of SWAP are resulted in the proper table. Other fees and payments are not mentioned.
The relations of the company and clients are validated through the proper and appropriate documents. The forms, of which, are placed on the site.
The procedures of depositing or withdrawing money into and/or from the account are clearly mentioned on the site. Though wire instructions are only available upon the opening of a live account.

Traders Support
There is some short educational-helping material for beginners on the site and educational accounts are offered for up to 30 days. The basic instrument of support for users is the telephone. The telephone numbers and e-mail address of the various departments of the company are mentioned and toll-free system of international calls is in service.
There is a system of ordered (call-back) calls. This special telephone service operates in several world languages.
The site is translated into several languages.
As the site says, the company, independently, is not engaged in analytics, but "co-operates with many companies, specializing in a fundamental and technical analysis." Accordingly, the basic volume of analytics is given. ACM do not charge anything for analytic data, news feeds or other. There are bonus programmes for "active clients."
News is presented on the site and is translated on a trading terminal.
The Trading Platform
The company offers four types of trading platforms – Flash, Java, Html and Wap. All platforms are interconnected and can be used with only one set of login details. Naturally, the executable platform is more powerful and flexible and contains a wide set of analytical tools (types of the charts, indicators, graphic facilities); there are possibilities for the development of user indicators and strategies and their back-testing.
Site Design and Ease of Navigation Comments
The design is pleasant and is not overloaded by illustrations. Information is well structured and important information, although compact is sufficiently full. The main menu is comfortable, with the necessary information easily and quickly and quickly navigable.
Advantages
Wide set of trading currencies
Competitive terms of trades
Clear and full information about term-of-trades
Good and various analytical supports
Multilanguage support of clients
Powerful auction platform
Site done correctly.
Disadvantages
The key partners (supplier's liquidity, calculation bank) are not mentioned due to Swiss regulation.
ACM Forex

Oanda

Residence, regulating and company management.
As written on the site, OANDA was established in 1996 and is headquartered in New York with offices in Zurich and Toronto. It was co-founded by Dr. Michael Stumm, and Dr. Richard Olsen. Communication with the management is organized through the Information Request Form. The company is registered with CFTC as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), and OANDA is a member of the National Futures Association.
Company’s Market Position
The company names itself a 100% online broker, specialized in Forex. As follows from the chart presented on the site, OANDA is ECN in fact. No banks-partners (liquidity suppliers) are mentioned on the site. The company conducts individual accounts, corporate and LLC's, partnerships (Regular, Investment Clubs). Trust services are not offered.
Types Services Offered
OANDA trades 38 currency pairs plus gold and silver. The term-of-trades are different from many other brokers.
There is no minimum deposit, and you can start trading with as little as $1.
There is also no fixed lot in OANDA, the size of a lot begins with $1.
OANDA offers 1.2 pips on EUR/USD under normal market conditions.
Traders can choose account leverage from 10:1 to 50:1 for majors. Marginal requirement for exotic currencies are set in size of 4%. The summary table of marginal requirements is placed on the site and repeated on several pages. There is a detailed description of all margin rules on the site, but the link to it can be found only after browsing FAQ.
OANDA pays interest on long positions and charges interest on short positions, all calculated second by second while the positions are open.
The company gives unlimited streaming quotes with possibility of fully hedge clients' positions.Trading accounts can be opened in USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, or JPY. Depositing an account may be done by paper check, PayPal, or wire transfer.
Opening an account is made from the site only.
Traders Support
There is no page for beginners on OANDA site, but the company offers unlimited in time demo accounts both for spot and option trading with detailed user guide, collection of advices and a bookstore with over 4000 Finance and Investment books
Clients may ask for any kind of support though interactive forms and forum. The FXTrade Statistical Information section may be of a great interest. It contains FXTrade Open Orders, FXTrade Open Positions, Long-Short Ratio and OANDA Interest rates. The company does not conduct it’s own analytics, but clients are offered to use free or subscription analytical sources of other firms.
OANDA offers free news service to both FXTRade and FXGame clients. There is also an Economic Calendar on the site.
The Trading Platform
OANDA offers a Java trading platform. It gives the clients an opportunity to enjoy unlimited streaming quotes, professional tools, including real-time graphs and indicators, professional-strength real-time news and analysis and an economic calendar
Site Design and Ease of Navigation Comments
The design is quite standard and navigation seems comfortable at first. However, finding exact information turned out not to so simple. Despite the fact that the company has an office in Zurich, there is only an English version of the site.
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages of OANDA don’t seem to be obvious.
Above all, it is impossible to estimate the real cost of trade, firstly because of complication in determining a size of spreads and secondly because the information about term-of-trades is rather obscure. Such kind of confusion could have been done on purpose. Moreover, a complete absence of information about the underlying structure and addresses of offices doesn’t make it any better.
The company seems to have the only strong side which is it’s help-analytical support. But there is a weak point even here and this is a very poor technical analysis available for a public view. Although a high-quality technical analysis may be available on a payment basis.

MasterForex

Masterforex Brokerage was founded on October 2, 2006. The project www.masterforex.org, comprising professional traders and talented analysts, was created in 2003.
The owner of MasterForex trademark is the company Beaverhead Financial Inc., registered in the Repupblic of Seychelles on the basis of the International Business Companies Act, 1994 (Act 24 of 1994). The company registration number is 028996. Legal address: 306 Victoria House, Victoria, Mahe, Seychells.
The Masterforex trade mark is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with number 78/886380.
The work guidelines of Masterforex dealing center are:
Honest and open relationships with customers;
Experience and qualification of the company managers;
Striving to provide traders with the best service conditions.
Main activities of the company:
Services of customer access to world financial exchange, futures, precious metals and contract for difference markets;
Management of financial assets of major private customers (investment fund for a closed circle of customers).
Our advantages:
Minimum deposit 1$
Forex, CFD, Futures
Islamic accounts
Instant Execution
Spreads from 2 pips
Trading terminal for PDAs and Smartphones
Leverage up to 1:500
Most comfortable ways of account deposit/withdrawal
The best partners conditions on the market
24/5 online customer support
For operation at the Forex currency market we provide our customers with one of the most quality and convenient trading terminals — Metatrader 4. Metatrader 4 will allow you to operate at the Forex market, flexibly control your trading activity and carry out market analysis.
Metatrader 4 means:
Full control of your trading account
Maximum fastest request execution
Ability to hold offsetting positions
Advanced technical analysis tools
Different order execution technologies
Fast acquisition of news information
Ability to computerize your trading strategies
Integrated e-mail

IG Markets

IG Markets Ltd is part of IG Group, which has several operating companies in the UK, offering a variety of speculative products to a retail and professional client base.
IG Markets is a market-maker in financial derivatives, principally Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on shares and indices, as well as a leading dealer in margined foreign exchange. Clients include brokers, fund managers and trading companies as well as private investors.
IG Index and IG Markets are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). IG Markets is a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The Group's Australian operations are regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

FXCM

Forex Capital Markets – FXCM
About the CompanyFXCM is a retail forex broker regulated in the US, the UK, Hong Kong, Australia, France, and Canada. In the US, FXCM is a registered FCM with the CFTC, and is a member of the NFA (ID # 0308179). FXCM provides No Dealing Desk trading execution†, eliminating any conflict of interest between broker and trader, and ensuring that there is no dealer intervention in trades. No Dealing Desk trades are executed back to back with one of the world’s premier banks or financial institutions, which compete to provide FXCM with bid and ask prices, providing spreads as low as 1 pip.* FXCM's discount brokerage division, FXCM Micro, allows traders to experience the excitement of the forex market with as little as $25. FXCM’s top tier product, Active Trader, offers a level II type trading environment with 5 levels of market depth for a liquidity view seen by market makers. Short-term traders have the advantage of seeing actual liquidity available at individual price levels.FXCM offers live support 24-hours-a-day, 7 days a week via phone, IM, and e-mail.
Sign up for a free $50,000 practice account.
Education is another major area of emphasis at FXCM. Over the years, the FXCM Education Department has developed several beginner- to expert-level currency trading courses, and enrolls almost a thousand new traders each month. FXCM recently added 15 free instructional videos to its Web site; they attracted over a quarter-million views in their first six months.
Forex News DailyFX.com, FXCM’s free news website, is one of the world’s leading news and information sources for the currency trading community. With a wide international audience, it attracts over 4 million page views a month. DailyFX analysts produce 10 to 20 articles and reports every day on the latest changes in the currency market, providing timely technical analyses and a close examination of promising chart formations. DailyFX.com also predicts likely market moves, explaining economic, political, and technical factors driving the market. Other Special Features:
Economic Calendar: a complete release schedule of news events coming out of the G-10 countries, with sort and filter capabilities to rank each by their importance and impact on specific currencies.
Forex Forum: The DailyFX.com Forum is a serious online forum that avoids the “market noise” and irrelevant personal commentary that plague many forex blogs and forums. DailyFX continues to keep the DailyFX.com Forum the place where real traders go to talk about serious trading.
Free Forex Charts: free forex charts for beginning, intermediate, and expert traders, complete with live currency quotes
Live Forex Rates: live currency rates around the clock.
Economic Countdown: watch the clock tick down to enter the market and actively trade in fast-moving market conditions. When the countdown reaches zero, the economic announcement will be published on DailyFX.com. Within minutes, DailyFX.com Analysts will release an in-depth examination of the event and how it may affect the currency market.
Products Offered
Self-Trading Forex Accounts
Standard 100K accounts
Micro
Active Trader account – Trade with Level II type market depth
Segregated accounts through FXCM-UK http://www.fxcm.co.uk/open-an-account.jsp
Spread Betting
Through FXCM-UK Important Information: Spread betting is not being offered in any country outside the UK, or to non-UK residents. It is not intended for distribution to, or use by any person in any county or jurisdiction where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation
Automated Trading
Forex System Selector
Non-USD Forex Trading Accounts
Euro
Pound
CAD
JPY
AUD Mini
NZD
Trading From Charts
Placing trades directly from the charts
No Dealing Desk
Transparent and fair execution. Every trade is executed back to back with one of the world's premier banks or financial institutions, which compete to provide FXCM with bid and ask prices. The best spreads available to FXCM are streamed to you with a small markup, which is generally one pip or less for major currency pairs.
Fractional Pip Pricing
FXCM offers prices in tenths of a pip to provide lower spreads for popular currency pairs.
MetaTrader 4
All of the features of MetaTrader 4, plus the benefits of trading with one of the largest and most financially strong Forex Dealer Members.
$50,000 Practice Trading Account
You can test and evaluate trading strategies with no risk. You can access FXCM's Client Services staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
FXCM International Offices Broker Regulation FXCM Group is registered and regulated by 6 international jurisdictions, which all have separate and stringent financial requirements:United States: Registered FCM with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and a member of the National Futures Association (NFA)United Kingdom: Financial Services Association (FSA)Hong Kong: Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)Canada, British Columbia: British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) France: Banque de France (BDF) Australia: Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Contact Information Financial Square 32 Old Slip, 10th Floor New York, NY 10005 USA Phone: + 1 212 897 7660Toll-free (USA): 1 888 50 FOREX (36739)Toll-free (International): Find NumberFax: 212.897.7669E-mail: sales@fxcm.comWebsite: www.fxcm.com Please note FXCM Micro operates on a Dealing Desk platform unlike FXCM standard and mini accounts. For additional information click here: http://www.forexmicrolot.com/mission-statement.jsp ** http://www.fxcm.com/risk-warning.jsp

FxPro.com

Residence, Regulation, and Company Management Structure FxPro.com is owned by EuroOrient Securities and Financial Services Ltd, an investment firm regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (license number 078/07). Our company is a member of various professional bodies like CIFSA (Cyprus International Financial Services Association, http://www.cifsa.org/), CCCI (Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, http://www.ccci.org.cy/), CFSFA (Cyprus Financial Services Firms Association, http://www.cfsfa.org.cy/) and our corporate character defines the values and principles inherent in all our everyday dealings.
Company Market Position FxPro.com was created to meet the needs of both individual and institutional investors at FX, Futures, Stocks and Precious Metals markets. FxPro offers institutional-type conditions to every client.
FxPro is a unique online broker, as it delivers a customer focused platform with ground breaking conditions.
Types of Services Offered FxPro.com offers more than 150 instruments to trade – FX currency pairs, Futures, Stocks and Precious Metals. Credit leverage from 1:1 up to 1:500 with only a minimum deposit of $100 required.
Spreads start from 0.5 pips, Minimum marginal requirements are 100% from an initial margin. The transfer of positions the next day is made on principle of SWAP, the values of rates of payments are not indicated.
Traders Support
Webinars
DowJones News Wire
24 Hour multilingual Support Team
All clients of FxPro can access the online information centre, where leading experts give useful advice on how to trade on the largest financial market in the world.
Premier Trading Conditions
Low spreads starting from 0.5 pips
Flexible leverage options from 1:1 up to 1:500
Low minimum initial deposit of $500
No hidden fees and no extra charges
More than 70 currency pairs - 40 CFDs - Futures and Stocks – Precious Metals
You can trade in all instruments live within our MetaTrader 4 platform
1 account – 5 trading platforms
Web site: www.fxpro.com

Prime4x

Prime4x
Is a fast-developing company whose principal business is the operations of financial services company located in Cyprus and was established in 2005. Prime4x offers a secure and reliable online trading environment, and is dedicated to providing the market most competitive trading conditions with exclusive services and advantages.Prime4x Offers a wide range of financial solutions geared towards addressing the needs of large corporations, institutional investors and private clients.Its collection of companies has expertise in brokerage, asset management, corporate finance, and financial IT solutions.
Prime4x vision statement:
Is to become and remain one of the top-performing FOREX companies in the world .Prime4x has a specific structure for achieving that vision within the company.
Prime4xMission statement
The realization of this vision entails delivering profitable growth to our clients and also meets their expectations of:
High quality
Leading technology
Competitive offers
Individual & company accountability
Best in class service and support
Financial stability

Account Types
Account types are designed to satisfy client’s needs and that’s why they are categorized in an order that suits every trader and institution:
1- Demo Account:If you are new to forex then we are giving you the chance to trade VIRTUAL money so you can test your strategies and develop them until you feel that you are ready to start real trading with Real money.2-Live Accounts:
Prime Forex Offers 3 types of live accounts:
Mini account that begins with $100 with a leverage up to 500:1
Standard Accounts that begins with $2,000 with leverage up to 400:1
Institutional Accounts that begins with $100,000 with leverage up to 100:1
3-Partnership Accounts:
Introducing brokers (IB) program
White Label (WL) program
4. Manage Accounts:
Prime Forex is responsible for managing accounts upon client’s request with a net percentage delivered to the client as agreed on with Prime Forex

dbFX

dbFX is Deutsche Bank's online foreign exchange trading platform for individuals and small institutions. As the No. 1 FX Bank in the world, Deutsche Bank brings the benefits of the forex market to you.
Spreads from as Low as 2 Pips
Trade directly with the FX Market's No. 1 Price Provider
Privileged Access to Deutsche Bank's Research and Charts
World-Class Trading Execution in All Market Conditions
Live Streaming Quotes 24 Hours a Day
34 Currency Pairs
Margin Trading with up to 100:1 Leverage
Open an Account with as little as $5,000 or £2,500

eToro

About eToro
eToro is an innovative Forex trading platform that enables novice traders to easily enter the exciting arena of currency trading, through a friendly interface. The platform is based on visual representation of financial transactions, allowing users an intuitive approach to Forex trading, while combining special features such as a community chat and championships with prizes.
eToro solves the biggest hurdle faced by competing financial platforms, which is how to appeal to non professional traders. eToro accomplishes its goal to enable non professionals and people interested in learning and practicing trading, by easing the way into this world through a user friendly environment. The trades are represented in a clear graphical visualization, coupled with online tutorials, live support and the embracing community communication through the in-platform chat and the forum.
eToro revolutionized the Forex trading arena with a novel approach that broke through the old bank-like interface and brought it straight into the web2.0 style interface and community, allowing everyone to participate in the biggest and most exiting market of currency trading.
Established in order to provide services to the growing retail sector of the Forex community, eToro created a visual trading platform that is easy to understand and easy to use. The overall offering that eToro introduces to its users is the most inclusive trading experience available to both novice and experienced traders, so they can experiment, further learn, and polish their trading skills.
eToro Offerings:
eToro makes it faster and easier than ever to execute trades, watch your trading activity, share, and enjoy financial information - using real or virtual money.
View your trades interactively: Trades are visually represented so you can watch your trades run marathons, rise and fall between countries and more.
Practice: Apply your trading skills with real-market rates on virtual money.
Compete with other traders: Various free-to-enter championships are held so you can get a chance to win top prizes and become the top trader.
Chat: Interact with friends and fellow traders either privately or publicly.
Trade: Trade for real money with real-time trade execution.
Low Spreads: eToro is offering some of the lowest spreads on the market, starting with 2 pips spreads.
Download eToro for FREE and become a part of eToro’s ever-growing community.

Admiral Markets

Admiral Markets (Admiral Investments & Securities Ltd ) holding with offices in 15 countries was launched in 2000. as leading online foreign exchange trading firm dedicated to providing superior customer service and powerful technology to retail traders, hedge funds and money managers. Admiral Marketsoffers 24-hour forex trading Meta Trader.
The AdmiralMarkets Auto platform allows traders to trade from a broad range of strategies in one portfolio by selecting the best performing currency pairs. Admiral Markets provides true interbank pricing; no-interest accounts; fully-automated execution; 100:1 leverage for regular accounts and 400:1 leverage for small accounts; narrow bid-to-ask spreads (1-2-wide on most majors); and commission-free forex trading.
We offer to our clients ability to trade on Forex market and CFD on futures, stocks, metals, oil, wheat, natural gas and many others, with the best conditions.
Open an account in 5 minutes in Trader's Room
The minimum amount to open an account is only $10 US or 10 EURO
Start Trading in Minutes
Establish A Trading Account with as Little as $10
Fixed small Spreads in All Markets, All the Time
Continuous Quoting, with No Price Freezes
No Slippage on Market, Limit, and Stop Orders
Unlimited volume of a lot
Guaranteed fulfilment of all deals and orders
Micro Lots – minimum contract size 1000 (0,01)
Traders Support:
Full support is provided to clients.
24H Dow Jones FOREX and STOCKS News feed
Demo accounts, they are not limited in time and it adds to their appeal for customers.
Full support on MetaTrader 4 is provided, MetaTrader for Pocket PC’s is also provided.
Free demo account, they are not limited in time and it adds to their appeal for customers.
Live Chat Support and telephone support.
Mission: Target to long-term cooperation with clients and partners, using the most modern solutions in internet-trading and service.
Open an account in 5 minutes in Trader's Room
With the growth of the firm the prizes for competitions are growing as well. Participation in competitions is open both to new and old clients. There is no entry fee this year.

CMS Forex

About CMS Forex
CMS Forex was founded by professional Forex traders, Forex brokers, and software developers, and as a result has been able to identify traders’ needs from the very beginning. Since 1999, CMS Forex’s mission has been to provide the most powerful currency trading technology combined with quality execution, competitive services, and dependable customer service. Over the past seven years, CMS Forex has quickly become one of the world’s leading online retail currency trading institutions, providing secure, user-friendly Forex trading software.
CMS Forex is positioned as an industry leader in the Forex marketplace and continues its growth while striving to provide its clients the best trading environment. Based out of New York, CMS Forex and its affiliates now have offices in Boston, Tokyo, Bermuda, Saint Petersburg, and Shanghai. Bermuda’s Capital Market Services International and CMS Japan were created to strengthen global reach and better cater to our international clients.
CMS Forex strives to serve both the retail and institutional segment of the Forex community. Its commitment to providing innovative currency trading technology, fair dealing practices, and excellent customer service establishes CMS Forex as a major force that traders look to for advanced Forex charting, up-to-date Forex news, and informative Forex education.
CMS Forex’s affiliates in New York, Saint Petersburg, and Shanghai are dedicated to going above and beyond to meet clients’ needs, by creating and constantly improving upon the already sophisticated and user-friendly trading software, VT Trader™. These attributes, plus many others, prove that CMS Forex has built from the ground up a service that truly stands on its own.
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Advantages of trading with CMS Forex include:
Fixed spreads as low as 2 pips
Real-time trade execution
Trade mini or standard lots on one account
Low minimum deposit
Over 100+ Technical Indicators
Access to Fundamental Analysis tools
Rollover interest
Interest of unused margin
Up to 400:1 leverage†
Hedge your trades
Quality customer service
Forex education

Dukascopy

The broker house of Dukascopy Suisse is a Swiss on-line broker operating on the Forex market, with an office in Geneva.
Residence, Regulation, and Company Management Structure Dukascopy Suisse is a company resident of Switzerland. The company is incorporated in the national regulative organisation – ARIF, reference to the license is mentioned. The address of the office is stated, there is even a map. Managers of the company on the site are not, however, mentioned
Company’s Market Position
The company obviously names itself an ECN broker; on the site it is possible to find mentions of banking-partners.The company offers basic brokerage services – of trading accounts, and managed accounts. There are the also well-developed partner programmes. For example, granting a trading platform, with the right to create one’s own structure of spreads and commissions.
Types Services Offered
The company trades 10th basic currencies and their cross-courses.
Information about terms of trades is presented on one branch of the site. The company positions itself as a large broker Therefore, the minimum deposit of trading accounts is $25 thousand, the size of a lot is made up as an equivalent of $1000000. Limitations on volume of transactions are not present.
Credit leverage is specified by the client, while opening an account, and can be varied; depending on trading instruments and trade volume. The maximum size of credit leverage is: 100:1.
The company requires the absolute observance of the required margin rules; positions without which, such means are immediately closed. A minimum spread (EUR/USD 1 pt.) is promised on the site, but information about the sizes of spreads and overnights is not mentioned.
Information about the auction parameters (special purpose spreads, commissions), and also about overnights is possible to find in the menu "Spreads & Commissions” in DDS trade station. Except for spreads and overnights, Dukascopy Suisse takes a commission $30 after $1, 000, 000 circulation – depending on the monthly circulation of client the commission drops down (up to $10).
On the site there is a well-developed service for VIP of clients, which is mentioned: individual bank servicing, acceptance of bank guarantees, possibility of a mortgage and (or) using the credit line, exclusive analytical support, development of the special applications, individual adaptation of trading platform etc.
Deposit\withdrawal of money on an account / from account is only possible through a standard bank order, though.
The relationship of the client and the company are verified as an agreement which can be sent in to the company by mail.
Traders Support
Dukascopy Suisse is oriented towards the more financially, competent, type of client. Therefore, information for novices is not given.
A demo-version of trading platform is present, but is limited to only one week – in order to become acquainted with the site’s platform only. Support of users is various: via telephone, chat, separate e-mail addresses for different thematic sections.
Eight languages are supported, and the site automatically, if possible, determines the language of client and switches to it. The site, therefore, is not simply translated thus, but it is created on different language foundations.
Free, fundamental, support, is presented by an automatically renewed table of quotations of basic currencies, world indexes, basic commodities, American and European events, by the tunable window of the chart, tunable text reviews of world markets. Tunable news, plus a very detailed economic calendar and a lot of other useful information is given.
The Trading platform
Dukascopy Suisse offers two variants of trading platform: installed JAVA and web-based. According to their description, the platforms can execute basic informative servicesAs well as adapt to flexible tuning. There is an export of quotations in client applications.
The Site
Done neatly, the design is accurate and restrained. Information is structured carefully and reasonably, and the necessary information can be found easily. All of the materials placed are very detailed; a lot of interesting additional services (for example, calculators) are present.
Advantages
The company is resident in Switzerland and ARIF is regulated. There is front-office, address is indicated.
Dukascopy Suisse is a broker for the wealthier and financially competent type of client and offers a wide set of services, including different partner programmes.
Many various and high-quality fundamental support is provided.
A perfectly done site with detailed information all at hand.
Disadvantages
A surprising absence of information about key term-of-trades on the site – spreads, overnights, commissions.
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Forex Club

Residence, Regulation, and Management Structure
Forex Club Financial Company, Inc. is a US Forex brokerage company. It is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA). The company has an office in the New York, USA. Its address, phone numbers and emails are clearly mentioned on their website. The name of the company’s president (Michael Felice) is also clearly mentioned.
Market Position
Forex Club is one of the world’s leading brokers. Its presence is strongest in Eurasia where it occupies leading positions in a number of important markets. In addition, it is among the five top brokers in North America and one of the three leading brokers in Asia. Although its spreads are not necessarily the best, the company has competitive trading terms with unique features (see margin policy below). It is known for its low initial deposit requirements – probably the lowest in the industry (just $10) and superb online education resources (rated the best in the industry). In addition, the company refrains from using generic trading platforms such as MT4. Instead, it uses its own platform refined in a process of interaction with its customers. Their most powerful platform (Rumus2) offers the most advanced charting among free trading platforms. Consequently, it is highly respected among technical traders worldwide. The company offers guaranteed fixed spreads and fills on stops/limits during normal market conditions, services individual and corporate accounts and organizes one of the most interesting trader’s contests found in the Internet (“Lose2Win”).
Margin policy
The company does not have margin calls – there are no forced liquidations of positions until a zero balance is reached. Forex Club closes a position if current losses equal the amount in the trading account. Maximum leverage size is 100:1 (50:1 for accounts from $100,000 to 200,000 and 20:1 for accounts over $200,000). Forex Club offers leverage in the base currency. Simply this means that each dollar in your trading account allows you to purchase up to 100 units of any currency. For example, if you have $1,000 in your account, you can buy 100,000 GBP/USD or 100,000 EUR/USD. Moreover, current P/L has no effect available margin. For example, when you sell 100,000 EUR/USD, the margin required to maintain this position will be $1,000. Suppose you have $2,000 on your deposit and open such position. Then, the remaining margin available for new positions will be $1,000 regardless of P/L of the first position.
Forex Club allows its customers to reverse a position (long/short) without having to close it and fixing current P/L. For example, an intraday trader with an aggressive trading strategy and a deposit of $5,000 opens the following position: Buy 500,000 GBP/USD (LONG). A few moments later he decides to reverse his position (to go SHORT) in the same currency pair and for the same amount. Forex Club will allow him to sell double the amount of a current position (1,000,000 GBP/USD) to change the position to Sell 500,000 GBP/USD (SHORT). The opening rate of this altered position will be calculated in accordance to spread charges and any P/L the original position made. All of this done while not taking a realized profit or loss.
The company offers 19 currency pairs - most popular are USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF, CAD, and AUD. Spreads on majors are from 3 to 5 pips.
Support and account services
The company is renowned for its educational resources. It offers professionally-made online video courses, unlimited-use 100K demo-accounts, it runs its own traders forum and provides real-time market news and analysis. Its customer support services and web resources are available in three languages which correspond to their customer base. Forex Club has one of the best account services in the industry, including dedicated managers, free communications with their office anywhere from the world, swift financial transactions including credit cards and PayPal.

Easy Forex

Residence, Regulation, and Company Management Structure
The central office of Easy-ForexTM is located on Cyprus, but there are also offices in Israel, Switzerland, Australia and Phillipines. It is stated on the site, that the company's work is regulated by Swiss legislative organs. The company's residence is not stated directly. No managers of the company are mentioned.

Company's Market Position
The company is probably a broker, but it doesn't name it's status.
It's liquidity partners are UBS (Switzerland) and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) banks.
There is no mentioning of types of accounts the company offers on the site.
The company trades spot-course currencies, currency forwards and options, gold and silver.
The minimum size of a trading deposit is $25.
Types of Services Offered
Easy forex trades 12 currencies and their crosses, including Israeli shekel and Polish zloty, gold and silver.
The size of lots is variable from 2500 to 100000 of traded currency.
Sizes of spreads depend upon size and status of an account. For VIP basic spread totals 3 pt., for mini accounts - 10 pt. What a "basic spread" is, whether it used for all currencies or not and whether exotics require another spread is not mentioned on the site.
Marginal requirements are not stated on the site.
Transfer of positions to the next day is charged a tax of 0.03% (0.01% for positions of more than $50k).
An opportunity to trade without opening a standard trading account right from a card-account is a very interesting invention of the company.
Traders Support
The site has an section, which contains educational and reference information about Forex market.
Opening a demo-account is offered.
Fundamental traders support is represented by analytical reviews, news summary by Reuters News, financial calendar, diagrams. It was impossible to evaluate these diagrams because they are available only to registered users.
Clients support is done by email and telephone line. The site has a chat, but only VIP clients have access to it.
Trading Platform
The trading platform is JAVA-based, there is no detailed description of it on the site. The company offers for those who want to learn how to work with the platform. demonstrates the most simple actions which can be done with this trading platform. Analytical potential of the platform are not described.
Site Design and Ease of Navigation Comments
The design is simple and unpretentious. It works only with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.X, other browsers are not supported. Informational filling of different sections is uneven. Some minor questions are fully described, but the pages which are devoted to the services the company offers and terms of trade are filled with general statements which do not contain any exact information.
Conclusion
While surfing the site it's impossible to indicate the company's advantages and how it is different from other brokers.
It looks like the founders of the site didn't want to give the visitor full information about the company, it's services and terms of trade, but wanted to persuade the visitor to consult the support-team on the issues which must be clearly stated.

Alpari

Why Choose Alpari
Alpari (UK)’s mission is to provide innovative currency trading technology combined with quality execution, competitive spreads and margins, and helpful customer service.
We have a very professional team that is committed to providing our customers with high quality services. We are not conservative and always try to implement new ideas and technologies. Our customers’ feedback is our inspiration for improvement.
Our advantages
Micro and mini FOREX
Floating leverage: up to 1:500
Segregation of funds
No commission
Real-time market analysis
Helpful Client Services Team
Continually expanding products base
Tight spreads: from 1.8 pips in EURUSD
Competitive pricing format with 5 decimal places
MetaTrader 4 trading platform for PC, PDA and mobile phone
Eligibility for Financial Services Compensation Scheme for retail clients
Minimum deposit $ 200 (or equivalent in EUR, GBP, CHF or JPY)
Trading accounts in USD, EUR, GBP, CHF and JPY Stable and reliable dealing software
Trading platform - MetaTrader 4
Complete technical analysis package: wide range of in-built indicators and charting tools, the possibility to create various custom indicators, different time periods (from minutes to months)
Automatic trading with Expert Advisors written in MetaQuotes Language 4 (MQL 4) which can be tested and optimised with historical data
Free MetaTrader for PDAs and for mobile phones
MetaTrader 4 MultiTerminal
Hedging capabilities
Click and Trade Technology Regulation
Alpari (UK) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (United Kingdom).
For more details you may refer to the FSA website, using the following firm reference number: 448002, or firm name: Alpari (UK) Ltd.
All firms regulated by the FSA are required to meet strict financial standards, including capital adequacy requirements. On a regular basis, firms are required to submit financial reports to the regulator. These standards are enforced by the FSA, which has the right to fine firms and/or terminate a firm's regulatory status for violations.
Among other things the regulations require that our firm:
Maintain sufficient liquid capital in excess of the amount required to cover all client deposits, potential fluctuations in the firm’s currency positions and outstanding expenses;
Does not include any debt outstanding to the firm as part of this capital;
Undergo scrutinizing annual audit performed by an independent financial auditor. Our annual financial reports are audited by a leading financial auditor in the United Kingdom - Smith & Williamson.
Furthermore, Alpari (UK) Limited holds all deposits with only highly reputable financial institutions. Getting started
Download MetaTrader 4
Open Free Demo
Market Analysis Guide Open a Live Account
If you are considering opening a live account, we will be happy to help you with this. On the “Open a Live Account” webpage you will find a complete, step by step guide of the account opening procedure.
It is very important for us to know that all our customers are happy with our services and we strive to do our best to provide good execution and helpful customer support.

FXDD

Residence, Regulation, and Company Management Structure
FXDirectDealer, LLC () is a subsidiary of Compagnie Financire Tradition.
Postal address of an office in New York is stated on the site, but there is no information about the registration of the company. There isn't any information about managers or structure of the company either.
Company's Market Position
The company names itself a broker and it is actually ECN.
No liquidity suppliers are mentioned.
The company offers a traditional set of accounts: individual, guided, for Introducing Brokers, White Label. Trust services are not offered.
There is some general information about insurance guarantee for trading accounts, but neither the insurance company, nor the sum is stated.
Moreover, it is said, that the guarantee was closed in July 2006, but the firm will renew it . Information about insurance is mentioned only on the Russian version of the site, but nothing is said in the English one.
Types Services Offered
The company trades 20 currency pairs quoted by stream method for the volumes of transactions not more than $3 millions. Standard (100000 units of base currency, minimum deposit $5000) and mini (10000 ed., minimum deposit $500) trading accounts are offered, marginal requirements make according to 1% and 0.5%. There is no information on whether it's possible to combine standard and mini accounts or not.
For institutional clients, trading in gold and silver is offered through dealing service.
In the FAQ section on the site it is stated that the level of liquidation margin is 80% from initial. Judging by the example, illustrating marginal requirements in a section , it is possible to expect a liquidation level of 40%. Thus, it is possible to learn this important factor only through a demo-account.
Standard spread of 2 pt is made for EUR/USD and USD/JPY., for other majors - 3 pt., size of spreads for other courses is not mantioned on the site. The company specifies, that spreads depend on market conditions, and no guarantees of their stability can be given.
The transfer of the opened positions to the next trading day is described on the site in accordance with the traditional rules of SWAP, the rates of payments are stated only on the English version of the site.
Thus, it impossible to define the cost of trading judging by the information given on the site.
Opening an account is possible directly from the site or through sending some completed forms.
Depositing an account is made by a bank order, by check or through the system.
Traders Support
There is a small reference book and FAQ in the section, educational information is wan't found. Demo-accounts are offered, but you may use a demo-account only for 90 days.
The site has three versions in different languages - in English, Russian and Chinese. Russian and English variants are different in many important aspects. Unfolded and detailed analyses are given only in Russian, but a calendar of the expected events quite limited, by the way) was found only in English.
Interactive support of users is conducted by phone and e-mail.
The Trading Platform
The company offers three trading platforms to the clients: FXDD Trader, Meta Trader and Power Trader for institutional clients. All of them are workable, and, judging by the short descriptions, are approximately equivalent in respect of functionality.
Site Design and Ease of Navigation Comments
The site, apparently, is done off-hand. It's not overloaded by information. The structure of the site is simple, navigation is primitive. The design seems to be a bit careless, e.g, there are transfers from one language to another, or unexpected transfers on the home page. The table of contents is different in different languages.
Advantages
3 different but equally workable trading platforms, which satisfy the needs of all sorts of clients.
Disadvantages
Unexpected transers from one language to another and to the home page.
The information on the site varies according to the language.
Strange situation with the insurance.
The information about the company's structure and managers isn't complete enough.

MIG Investments

MIG Investments is a Swiss regulated FX broker, offering highly competitive trading conditions and unique advantages to private and institutional clients, including tight spreads, excellent liquidity, unique margining conditions, best customer service, technological innovation and access to a world class research department. The company also features a wide range of trading software solutions, customizable business partnership solutions for banks and financial intermediaries, with multiple income-sharing options.MIG is a member of ARIF, a Swiss self- regulatory body that controls and supervises financial intermediaries on behalf of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance (SFDF) in conformity with Swiss anti-money laundering laws. MIG’s Swiss location means client receive the advantages associated with the Swiss financial sector.The company works with top Tier rated banks and has a client base spanning 100 countries, providing exclusive, individualized service with professional, multilingual support in over 20 languages.
Powerful trading platformPacked with charting and indicator features, automated trading possibilities and risk management options, this MT4 platform is available in 23 languages and provides real-time prices without a request for quote in up to 20 million. Clients also receive premium market research and analysis from our in-house financial experts directly onto the platform and live streaming news headlines from Dow Jones Newswires. Download and test the M I G Trading Station today with your free 30 Day Demo Account.
World class researchMIG provides clients premium research and analysis covering Forex and other asset classes from a team of industry experts regularly appearing on leading financial channels such as CNBC and Bloomberg TV, as well as in major financial global publications. The team is accessible to high net worth clients for direct discussions on the market.
Partnership programsMIG partnership solutions for White Labels, IB’s and Asset Managers, offers customized solutions for financial institutions and trading professionals to offer a world class Forex solution to their client.
Advantages: MIG is open 24-hours a day, 5 days a week from Sunday 23:00 through Friday 23:00 CET. Our key offerings are:
Over 30 currency pairs. We regularly add new currencies in response to client demand.
Market’s most competitive spreads: Institutional spreads from just 1 pip!
Commission free trading
No maintenance margin and no margin calls*
Leverage up to 200:1
Mini-lot trading
Streaming, real-time prices –no request for quote (RFQ) up to 200 lots
Multicurrency account denomination
Multilingual customer support – Our staff speaks 20 languages
Powerful and user-friendly trading platforms
Multi-account trading /automated trading/ strategy programming services/ 90 day demo
Mobile trading software
Access to premium research by leading analysts
Team of experts with over 80 years of combined market experience
Exclusive research portal and analytical tools
Strategic Business Partnership programs
Swiss company
- Regulated by the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, no taxes on capital gains, Swiss financial security and secrecy
* For accounts with deposits of up to US $ 1million

E*Trade

Residence, Regulation, and Company Management Structure
E-trade financial corp. is registered in the UK, and is registered with the FSA; the office address is on the site although the management of the company is not.
Company’s Market Position
It is impossible to understand from the site, whether a company is an ECN or a market maker.
The partners of the company are not mentioned, and other trading instruments, apparently, are hatched on the back the LSE.
The company offers a very wide spectrum of instruments: a large set of exchange rates, CFD’s on actions and indexes, and futures. However, it is difficult to draw a conclusion from materials, on the site, whether a full spectrum of instruments can be traded from a single account, or if it is necessary to open different accounts to work on the different markets.
Information about the terms of trades is listed in a comfortable table, but some details have to be thought out. Nothing is said about any limits on the volume of trade, the size (or method of its calculation) of lots are not indicated.
There are streaming quotations. However, it's not clear how the futures and CFD's are quoted.
Payment for the transfer of next day positions is not obviously described.
For depositing/withdrawing of money into/from an account there are some methods offered: traditional bank order, debiting cards, cashier's check. The company’s bank details are not mentioned on the site, and any questions can only solved only through explanations by e-mail or by phone.
As far as it is possible to determine from their site, the signing of a hard contract by a client; on the opening of trading account is not required. Accounts are predominantly opened over the Internet.
Types Services Offered
Although there is no beginner's page, on the site, the company does offer a 20 day free trial account.Any fundamental support, for traders, on the site is practically absent. A 10-day trial subscription (on pre-market reports), is offered – within the framework of the trial-account, an example of which can be got only after signing.
A site supports several languages, including Estonian. However, the switch of languages appears only on the pages of an account’s opening, the main and information pages are in English only.
The Trading platform
The platform is a downloadable, executable, programme. The platform, is certainly, is certainly able to execute basic, informative, services such as: the translation of quotes, exposure/ execution of orders, watching of the state of positions and account. The availability of graphic and technical analysis is not mentioned.
The Site
The site is one of maximum brevity. The contents of pages are mainly advertisements, with much important information are left out – apparently, in order that an interested client will call or write a letter with a question.
Often there are mutual references between pages and there is the impression that the primary purpose of the site is to urge on a client to the quickest opening of trial account, because finding out substantial information by any other method is impossible.
Advantages
The company is UK registered and is FSA regulated and there is front-office.
The enormous set of trading tools is really striking.
There is clear information on marginal requirements on most instruments.Disadvantages
The absence of any fundamental and analytical support on the site.
Selective and incomplete support of foreign languages.
The absence much important information concerning real trading details.

ECN Forex

ECN Advantages
Low spreads
True account three points spresds
High leverage - 400 times the maximum choice leverage
Stable platform - companies to use the most advanced in the industry is also being recognized and most companies choose the MT4.0 platform.
Financial security - ECN company accounts and funds from customer accounts, strict monitoring is the most trusted foreign exchange companies.

FBS

FBS is an international brokerage company that provides its clients with competitive trading conditions and perfect customer service.
Main activity of the company is providing customers with access to world financial exchange, futures, commodities and CFD markets.Powerful trading platform FBS Trader 4 on the basis of MT4 that means:
Confidentiality of all trading operations
Full control of your trading account
Advanced technical analysis tools
Working with securities of Forex, Futures and CFD markets
Support of various timeframes (from minutes up to months)
Unlimited charts quantity
This convenient system allows to carry out transactions and to carry out high-grade technical analysis thanks to a large quantity of built-in indicators and linear instruments. The platform is suitable for Internet trading and for development of your own trading strategy.
FBS advantages:
The Customer service works on 5 languages 24-hours a day, 01:00, Monday to 00:00, Saturday (GSM+3).
The services are presented in a clear and comfortable tariff set that meet interests and requirements of different traders' groups. Having such choice you are able to follow your own trading strategy using the instruments that you need.
There are 5 tariffs that have been created with the assistance of the "FBS" clients:
“Take run” – deposit from $100
“Launch” – deposit from $50
“Standard” – deposit from $1000
“Optimal portfolio” – deposit from $5000
“All included” – deposit from $10000
Analytics concerning financial markets.
Comfort and variety in depositing and withdrawing funds from the account.
Multilingual web-site.
Multilingual forum for traders that are interested in information mutual exchange.
Multilingual customer support: English, Chinese, Hindi, and Urdu - this list is permanently widens.
Comfortable and user-friendly trading platforms.
Contact information:191002, Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Vladimirsky pr.23, Business-center "Regent-hall", office 704. support@f-b-s.com. Tel: +7 (812) 324-48-11

CitiFX Pro

Trade with a market marker with over 100 years of FX experience
If you're going to trade foreign exchange, why not deal with the financial institution that has been a leading market maker for decades? With CitiFX Pro, you can trade with the name that corporations, investment managers, and governments rely on for their FX transactions.
Trade with the name the whole world trusts
Make sure your margin deposit is in the hands of a global financial institution that’s trusted by clients the world over.
A global market requires a truly global trading partner
With an on-the-ground presence in over 100 countries, our FX capability benefits from a wide breadth of local knowledge and market experience.
Best-in-class trading platform
CitiFX Pro features state-of-the-art technology and a wealth of features and options, based on award-winning technology custom-developed by Saxo Bank for Citi.
Key advantages of CitiFX Pro
Backed by a leading global financial institution
Fair, transparent pricing
State-of-the-art technology
Dedicated real-time client service
Streaming 24-hour news