The highest account leverage in Forex known today is 500:1 (actually, 3000:1 is the newest leader nowadays!)
Below is the choice of Forex brokers who provide 500:1 and 400:1 leverage options. Let's compare!
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Forex broker |
Leverage |
Minimum Deposit |
Stop Out level, % |
Trading platform |
|
1lotstp |
400:1 |
$100 |
35% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
|
1pipfix |
400:1 |
$100 |
35% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
|
4XDG |
400:1 |
$1000 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
|
4XP |
500:1 |
$100 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| AccentForex |
500:1 |
$10 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
|
Access to Forex |
400:1 |
$100 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), ActTrader |
| ACFX |
500:1 |
$50 |
5% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| ACM Gold |
500:1 |
$250 |
25% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), ACM Platinum |
| ActivTrades |
400:1 |
€250 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Admiral Markets |
500:1 |
$1 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| AFB FX |
500:1 |
$100 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| AFX Capital |
500:1 |
$200 |
90% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| AGM Forex |
500:1 |
$100 |
|
MetaTrader 5 (MT5) |
| Alpari UK |
500:1 |
$200 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| AmigaFX |
400:1 |
$50 |
100% |
OpenBook, Web Trader |
| Arab Financial Brokers (AFB) |
1000:1 |
$50 |
0% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Araxo4x |
400:1 |
$100 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Armada Markets |
500:1 |
$100 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Ava FX |
400:1 |
$100 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), ActTrader |
|
AxiTrader |
400:1 |
$200 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| BeamFX |
400:1 |
$300 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| BMFN Europe |
400:1 |
$200 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), UniTrader, Currenex, LMAX |
| Brokers Star |
400:1 |
$100 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Continental Capital |
400:1 |
$200 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Direct FX |
400:1 |
$500 |
80% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| eToro |
400:1 (non-US) |
$50 |
100% |
eToro platform |
| EuroBroker |
500:1 |
$10 |
20% |
Eurobroker Comfort UTIP |
| EXNESS |
2000:1 |
$100 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Exto Capital |
400:1 |
$1000 |
70% |
extoPRO |
| FBS |
500:1 |
$5 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FCMarket |
500:1 |
$500 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Forex Broker Inc |
500:1 |
$5 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
| Forex Global Market (FXGM) |
400:1 |
$2500 |
100% |
Market Trader |
| Forex-Metal |
500:1 |
$1 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Forex4you |
500:1 |
$1 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| ForexCent |
500:1 |
$1 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| ForexTrading |
500:1 |
$1 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
| Fortune4x |
1000:1 |
$100 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FX direct S.A. |
400:1 |
$10 |
100% |
FXD Trading Terminal |
| FX Services |
400:1 |
$2000 |
- |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), iTrader, Flash Trader |
| FX Solutions UK |
400:1 |
$250 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), GTS Pro |
| FXcast |
500:1 |
$10 |
20% |
MT4 (FXcast PRO™) |
| FXDealer |
400:1 |
$250 |
- |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
|
FxGlory |
3000:1 |
$1 |
30%/ |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FXFlat |
400:1 |
$2000 |
25% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader, FlatTrader |
| FXM Financial Group |
500:1 |
$10 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FxNet |
500:1 |
$5 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), WebTrader, SimpleTrader |
| FXOpen |
500:1 |
$1 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FXOptimax |
1000:1 |
$10 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FXPrice |
400:1 |
$250 |
100% |
GTS Pro |
| FXPRIMUS |
500:1 |
$100 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FXPro |
500:1 |
$100 |
5% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FXSalt |
500:1 |
$100 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| FXVV |
2000:1 |
$10 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), cTrader |
| GAINSY |
500:1 |
$10 |
50% |
GAINSY Platform |
| Gallant Capital Markets (GCMFX) |
400:1 |
$250 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
| Galleass |
500:1 |
$5 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Galleass |
2000:1 |
$5 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| GDMFX |
500:1 |
$100 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), WebTrader |
| Gedamo Investments |
400:1 |
$1000 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Gedamo VT Trader, Currenex |
| GFT UK |
400:1 |
$200 |
25% |
DealBook® 360 |
|
GKFX |
400:1 |
$1 |
90% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Global Clearing Group (2pipsforex) |
1000:1 |
$2000 |
- |
MEGATrader 5 |
| GO Markets |
500:1 |
$500 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Goldboro |
1000:1 |
$50 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Goldstein Brokers |
400:1 |
$500 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Grand Capital |
500:1 |
$1 |
40% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
| GreenFX traders |
400:1 |
$500 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| GTL Forex |
400:1 |
$500 |
100% |
MT4, GTL Direct, GTL Online, GTL FX Pro |
| HotForex |
1000:1 |
$5 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| IamFX |
400:1 |
$100 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| IBFX |
400:1 |
$1 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| IC Markets |
400:1 |
$1000 |
150% |
MetaTrader 4 (100:1), eToro (400:1) |
| ICM Capital |
400:1 |
$1 |
0% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| iForex |
400:1 |
$100 |
- |
iFOREX, FXnet |
| IFC Markets |
400:1 |
$1 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), NetTradeX |
| IHI - Investment House International |
400:1 |
$500 |
- |
VERTEX FX |
| IKOfx |
500:1 |
$1 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| IKON Markets |
500:1 |
$100 |
- |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Prodigy |
| InstaForex |
1000:1 |
$1 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
| Investorseurope |
400:1 |
$250 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Currenex Viking |
| InvestTechFX |
500:1 |
$100 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| IronFX |
500:1 |
$500 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), WebTrader |
| JFX |
500:1 |
$100 |
110% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Liquid Markets |
500:1 |
$2000 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), cTrader |
| LiteForex |
1000:1 |
$1 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
|
Loyal Forex |
400:1 |
$50 |
35% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| MasterForex |
500:1 |
$1 |
60% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| MAYZUS |
500:1 |
$25 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5, WebTrader |
| MVP Financial |
400:1 |
$250 |
100% |
GTS Pro |
| MyTrade Markets |
500:1 |
$50 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Nano4x |
1000:1 |
$100 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| NordFX |
500:1 |
$5 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
| Nova Tradex |
1000:1 |
$100 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| OctaFX |
500:1 |
$5 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Pacific Financial Derivatives (PFD-NZ) |
500:1 |
$1 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Kiwi Trader |
| PaxForex |
500:1 |
$5 |
5% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
|
Pepperstone |
400:1 |
$200 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
| Persepolis Capital Management |
500:1 |
$500 |
50% |
TWS, Currenex Classic, Currenex Viking, Strategy Runner |
| PipFixed |
400:1 |
$100 |
0% |
MT4, WebTrader |
| Profiforex |
500:1 |
$1 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Real Trade Group |
500:1 |
$20 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Retail FX |
400:1 |
$50 |
100% |
eToro platform |
|
RFXT |
400:1 |
$500 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| RoboForex |
500:1 |
$10 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| RobustFX |
500:1 |
$1000 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Shaw Markets |
400:1 |
$500 |
10% |
Infinite Live |
| SmartTradeForex |
1000:1 |
$500 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| SpartanFX |
400:1 |
$500 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), AdVantage Trader |
| STRATO Markets |
400:1 |
$300 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Synergy FX |
500:1 |
$500 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| TFIFX |
500:1 |
$50 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
|
ThinkForex |
400:1 |
$250 |
|
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| TradeFort |
1000:1 |
$5 |
25% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Trader's Way |
1000:1 |
$1 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
| Traders Pulse |
500:1 |
$50 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), UniTrader |
| Traders Trust |
500:1 |
$100 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Tradeview |
400:1 |
$100 |
100% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| United Forex |
500:1 |
$100 |
15% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| UpFX |
500:1 |
$250 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| UPME Group |
1000:1 |
$1 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| Vantage FX |
500:1 |
$500 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5 |
| Vantage FX UK |
500:1 |
£350 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| WFX Markets |
1000:1 |
$10 |
20% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
| Windsor Brokers |
500:1 |
$100 |
50% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) |
| WorldPro FX |
400:1 |
$250 |
30% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Sirix |
| XEMarkets |
888:1 |
$5 |
5% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
| XenonFx |
400:1 |
$100 |
- |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Web Trader |
| XForex |
400:1 |
$100 |
10% |
XForex Platform |
| YouTradeFX |
500:1 |
$100 |
10% |
MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MT5, Web Trader |
Do you know another Forex broker that offers the highest leverage of 400:1 or 500:1?
Please suggest by adding a comment below.
Is trading Forex with high leverage dangerous?
No, if a trader understands simple basics of leveraged trading.
Yes, if a trader has no clues about what he is doing.
High leverage enables Forex traders to trade larger capitals. Without leverage majority of individual investors won't be able to operate in the Forex environment today.
The most important thing to understand about leverage:
Leverage increases trader's buying and selling ability in Forex by providing VIRTUAL NONEXISTENT capital.
While operating with nonexistent capital is possible, losing it is absolutely impossible. Instead a trader always loses HIS OWN MONEY.
Why traders opt for a higher leverage?
With little investment and high leverage a trade can trade, for example, not just 1000 unit lot and earn $0.10 for each pip, but go for 10 000 unit lot, where he will earn $1 dollar per pip. High leverage provides opportunity to earn higher profits.
BUT, only those trades who seriously takes the subject of FINANCIAL RISKS and MONEY MANAGEMENT are able to benefit from highly leveraged trading. They can confidently take the highest possible leverage of 500:1 and be successful in their everyday trading.
Other, less careful Forex adventurers, blinded by the opportunity to earn high profits in Forex with reasonably small investments can easily get themselves into their own trap of uncontrolled large lot size trading, which will lead to quick account blowup.
What is a "Stop Out level"?
Stop Out level is a certain required margin level in %, at which a trading platform will start to automatically close trading positions (starting from the least profitable position and until the margin level requirement is met) in order to prevent further account losses into the negative territory - below 0 USD.
Some Forex brokers use only with Margin Calls, where a Margin Call = Stop Out level at the same time,
others define separate Margin Call and Stop Out levels.
More details at: Margin Calls vs Stop Out levels in Forex
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trader
December 25, 2008alpari 500:1
BrokerGuru
December 25, 2008Thank you!
trader
February 19, 2009AVS CARTER OFFERS 400:1. They have two platforms MT 4 as well as VERTEX FX trader
BrokerGuru
February 19, 2009Thank you.
trader
March 13, 2009how can one confirm the authenticity of these brokers? is there any way of checking if they are genuine?
BrokerGuru
March 13, 20091. By checking if there is a physical address on the broker's website.
2. By calling in and asking about questions that concern you, while inspecting the quality of customer support as well as clarity of the answers given.
You may also ask if your investment is protected, in other words, where they hold your money. Also do they provide any guarantees for paying you out the profits you've earned (this question should sound more like a concern, and they should be able to face it professionally).
3. By checking whether this broker is regulated by any authorities. You'll find the list of supervising authorities here: http://www.100forexbrokers.com/how-to-choose-forex-broker
4. By reading broker reviews on various websites.
5. By trying it yourself opening the smallest account size available.
trader
April 7, 2009You say that "trading Forex with high leverage is not dangerous if a trader understands simple basics of leveraged trading."
This glosses over the issue too easily. In fact how many traders do you know who DO understand the implications of trading using high leverage? And, I think it is also a fact that brokers offer high leverage KNOWING that less than 1-in-20 traders actually DO know what they are doing.
The majority of traders lose, and STILL have NO clue as to why. There should be a full inquiry into the use of high leverage offered by brokers. It is criminal to allow under-capitalised traders to attempt to make money this way. Sure a few DO understand this - but the vast majority do not. This should not be allowed to continue.
At the opposite end of the scale, how many brokers do you know who offer 10:1 leverage?
Why don't they?
Food for thought!
BrokerGuru
April 7, 2009That's very true.
Most of the Forex brokers nowadays warn about risks of high leverage trading, few however, are going deeper into the details as to how one should trade safely with a high leverage.
I think I can address this topic today, why not?
The goal of a Forex broker (as well as a trader) is to allow a trader to invest any amount of money he/she wants (or what is required) and STILL BE ABLE to participate in the currency exchange market.
To trade Forex, a trade should be able to buy/sell currency lots, which come in several well known sizes: 1 lot = 100 000 units of the base currency, which means that if we have EUR/USD pair, Euro will be the base currency, so in order to trade 1 lot we need to buy 100 000 Euro at once. Does an investor with a small account can buy this much? The answer is - No.
How on earth a trader can participate in trading then? He/she needs leverage.
Leverage allows to virtually expand one's account beyond its limits: when we say "an account has 400:1 leverage", this means that for every dollar we have on the account, a broker will give us 400 times more, leveraging our ability to buy/sell the required amount of currency.
So, now if we say that we "opened a mini account with $1000 US at 400:1 leverage", this means that our buying ability will be equal to $400 000 US dollars. Can we buy 1 lot (100 000 units) now? Yes, we have the ABILITY, but it would be very silly to actually go for it and start trading with 1 standard size lot having just $1000 US on deposit...
I think by this time, everyone has got an idea what leverage is needed for.
Now, let's go to the actual topic of a correct and safe usage of the leverage:
Using leverage correctly is tight up with the correctly chosen amount of currency you'll be trading=risking at any time, in other word the lot size you will trade.
A trader should be well aware about the value of 1 pip (the smallest currency shift/move):
for 1 standard lot, which is 100 000 units, the value of 1 pips will be $10 per pip. This means that by earning 20 pips a trader will earn $200, but if he loses 20 pips, he'll lose $200.
If we go back to our $1000 US account example above, and I ask you again whether you would take a 1 standard lot size trade, would you now hesitate to say 'NO, NEVER". Because risking to lose $200 on a single trade where market moved only -20 pips against you, is a very immature decision... in 5 trades, totaling of just -100 pips, you'll be out of trade with a zero account balance! (and this is not including spreads yet...)
So, what are other options for a $1000 account?
There are smaller lots sizes:
0.1 lot = 10 000 of the base currency, where 1 pip is equal to $1
0.01 lot - 1000 of the base currency, where 1 pip is equal to 10 cents.
and smaller lots under 1000 units of the base currency, which can go as low as 1 cent per pip or even less.
Your goal is to pick the best lot size that would correspond to your account balance and would not allow you to lose a lot of money on a single trade.
The common rule is to risk no more than 2%-5% of your account balance, which in our example with $1000 would be $20 to $50 dollars per trade.
If you followed me well, when we talked about lot sizes and the cost of 1 pip for each lot size, then you can easily calculate that:
$20 dollars equals to just 2 pips(!) if you trade a 1 standard lot.
$20 dollars equals to 20 pips when you trade a 0.1 lot.
$20 dollars equals to 200 pips when you trade with 0.01 lot.
Now, think about your trading strategy: at what distance does it require a stop loss to be placed? Are you a long term traders, an intra-day trader or a scalper? What currency pair(s) do you trade: volatile ones like GBP/JPY, or regular ones like EURUSD?
Depending on this you should be able to quickly figure out your safe trading lot size, as well as the amount of lots you can trade.
How does the leverage relates to all this? A leverage is on your side to enable you to trade.
With every trade you take, you have to meet a required margin - an amount of money which will secure your trading account and won't allow you to go overboard and end up in a negative account balance territory - this never happen in Forex. All accounts due to their simple margin requirement rules are protected. So, a leverage allows you to meet that required margin. Imagine that you go without any leverage: you have $1000 US account and you look to buy 1000 units (0.01 lot) of EUR/USD, you 'd need 1000 EURO to complete a transaction, which you won't be able to do, since US dollar has a lower value comparing to Euro. The trading platform would decline your trading request telling you that "You have insufficient funds".
Things would be different if you leverage your account: your buying ability increases proportional to your leverage and a trading platform will allow you to make a trade.
So, that's what leverage is for: it allows you to participate in currency exchange having little money invested. It is your responsibility, however, to use the leverage in a smart way and control risks. If you do so, you can take the highest leverage, and never be worried again that it will "kill your account", it never will if you have proper risk control in place and don't overuse the buying/selling power given by the leverage.
Trade safe!
trader
May 2, 2009First of all, I must congratulate the BrokerGuru (BG) for explaining the differences among the DD, NDD, STP, and ECN so clearly using the trade flow graphic, that even a novice would know what to look for in a Forex brokerage and not get ripped off, while trading.
Having my thoughts validated by BG, I went on my hunt to look for the highest leverage brokerage (most preferably an ECN). 700:1 by the "IG Markets" (a non-ECN) is deceptive, since their default leverage is still 100:1. Upon my extensive conversations with their senior brokers, it was confirmed to me that up to 700:1 may kick in, based on how close your stop loss is, for a given trade. Since, they appear to be a DD broker, therefore as a market maker, they would easily trigger my stops all the times, thereby making me lose very heavily.
So, please beware! The 700:1 is heck of a juicy & delicious bate, but do you want to be eaten alive through the lure of this deceptive bate?
Does anyone know where can I find a list of Highest Leverage ECNs? This is very urgent, as many close friends are counting on me to come up with this list and I don't know where to go? BG, according to your data, only two brokers: "FinOdds" and "SFXB" would meet the criteria of being an ECN with a high leverage of 500:1. Any help by BG and everyone else in this pursuit will be highly appreciated and will also be tremendously helpful for all the traders, who want to have years of highly profitable forex trading experience in the future without worrying about losing their hard earned profits to a DD broker!
BrokerGuru
May 2, 2009Thank you for your feedback!
On this website I've gathered the most complete list of ECN brokers as well as the list of highest leverage brokers. Up to this morning, I know no other brokers who fits these categories.
David D.
May 5, 2009Hi BG!
Thank you so much for checking other possible ECNs with the highest leverage. I checked out the ECN websites of "FinOdds" and "SFXB". I noted that "FinOdds" has no customer support number, while the "SFXB" is in Cyprus and has the Swiss customer support numbers! Has anyone had any trading experience with these two ECNs? I feel very uncomfortable to open an account with a brokerage with no U.S. customer support numbers. What do you think BG?
Best regards,
David D.
mentorwiz@gmail.comBrokerGuru
May 6, 2009Hi David,
I have no experience with those two brokers.
Here is, however, what I know about them:
SFXB - SwissFXBroker is in fact an Introducing broker, which is not registered with NFA. I've send a request lately to learn who is their primary broker.
Update: for some reason this broker doesn't want to tell about its affiliation partners. They do not answer direct questions professionally. Also I found that other feedbacks online, which indicate that other traders had difficulties learning the truth about this broker as well.
FinOdds is not registered with NFA either, has absolutely no info about company, no address, no customer support numbers. On the top of that their customer support system, where you have to submit a ticket is rather dead... Out of 4 requests I got no replies at all for more than 2 months now...
Should I add something about the comfort level at this point..? I think no.
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