Trading costs
XM or HFM: the two with the lowest entry thresholds
XM pays more on every product but HFM starts from a tighter spread. And HFM publishes rebate figures for only…
Choosing a broker
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Trading costs
Exness or Vantage: licences, entry thresholds and net cost
Vantage opens an ECN account at $50 where Exness asks $1,000. Both pay the rebate daily, straight into the trading…
Trading costs
Exness or XM: the figures side by side, not a ranking
XM pays more on all six products, in places three times as much. But the starting spread is 1.6 pips…
Fundamentals
Which broker has the lowest minimum deposit - and why it barely matters
HFM from $0, XM from $5, Exness from $10, Vantage from $50. But the deposit threshold does not reduce risk…
Trading costs
Which HFM account to choose - and one inconsistency in the published data
HFM has three account types with a $0 minimum. But the summary quotes up to $18/lot while the account-type table…
Regulation & markets
Is Exness trustworthy? Three licences and what to check
Exness publishes CySEC, FCA and Seychelles FSA licences. But the right question is not whether the broker is trustworthy -…
Regulation & markets
Where to look up a broker's licence: a regulator directory
Eight regulators with where to search each, and a four-step verification. The last step — matching the permitted scope of…
Regulation & markets
Licences at eight brokers: the full comparison
Every licence the eight brokers publish, with numbers so you can verify them yourself. The key point: the FCA licence…
Regulation & markets
Checking a broker's licence: five steps, ten minutes
Look the licence number up on the regulator's own register, not the broker's site, and match the legal entity against…