Here's why traders around the globe choose FOREX.com:
Click and Deal from Real-Time Streaming Quotes - With Instantaneous Fills
No Slippage on Market Orders
Guaranteed Fills on Stop Loss and Limit Orders
Fixed Dealing Spreads Under All Market Conditions
Limited Risk - No Negative Balances
Up to 200: 1 Leverage
Commission-Free Trading
Choice of 3 Robust Trading Platforms for Desktop, Remote and Wireless Trading
Superior System Stability and Reliability
24-hour Customer Service
Registered Futures Commission Merchant
Safety of Funds
Click and Deal from Real-Time Streaming Quotes -with Instantaneous Fills
At FOREX.com, we've automated fills for ALL market orders. The system performs a real time margin check and instantaneously returns a trade confirmation. Why is this important to you? Automation means there's NO manual dealer intervention & NO requoting.
Many forex firms claim to offer "real time executable prices" or "live dealing rates". What these other firms don't say is that they only allow customers to initiate a trade request from the quote. Their dealers review trade requests manually, giving them the opportunity to reject any deal and requote a new price. Invariably, requotes tend to occur at the most inopportune of times, when you can least afford it. If you are subject to price requotes, the dealer is likely manipulating the price in their favor. Ask yourself, when was the last time you received a requote in your favor?
As a FOREX.com client you won't wait even a few seconds for a fill or have to endure requotes. It's that simple!
No Slippage on Market Orders
At FOREX.com you will not receive a fill at any price other than the quoted bid or offer. More importantly, we stand behind this guarantee for ALL market orders, whether it's $10,000 or $10,000,000!
Many traders accept slippage as one of the realities of forex trading. It doesn't have to be. Even a few pips now and then add up quickly and eat into your trading profits. At FOREX.com, you can deal directly from our real-time streaming prices, and you'll always receive the current, at the market price on your forex trades.
Guaranteed Fills on Stop Loss and Limit Orders
Our no slippage policy extends to stop loss and limit orders. During FOREX.com's trading hours, all stop and limit orders up to $2 million are guaranteed to be filled at your price.* We understand that stop loss and limit orders are an important part of every trader's risk management strategy, and so we take this policy very seriously.
Fixed Dealing Spreads Under All Market Conditions
As a division of GAIN Capital Group, FOREX.com clients routinely benefit from the size and strength of the one the world's largest online foreign exchange providers. With access to over $1 billion in liquidity from the world's top FX banks, FOREX.com is able to pass along bank level pricing to our clients.
FOREX.com offers standard clients a fixed dealing spread of 3 pips on EUR/USD and 3-5 pips on other major currency pairs. FOREX.com will not widen spreads under any market condition - including before and after major economic releases or other important news and events.
It is important to remember that quality of execution is every bit as important as tight spreads. In other words, tight spreads are meaningless if you can't get filled at your price. This is a very subtle but important point, and we stand behind our commitment to provide both: competitive dealing spreads AND quality fills.
Limited Risk - No Negative Balances
At FOREX.com, your risk is only limited to funds on deposit. Our margin policy eliminates concerns about debit balances by guaranteeing that you will never owe more than you have in your account.
Up to 200: 1 Leverage
FOREX.com offers a flexible margin policy that allows you to choose the leverage that's right for you - all the way up to 200:1!
The leverage available in forex is one of the main advantages of this market, especially for futures and stock traders. Higher leverage is possible because of unparalleled size of the Forex market - at over $1.2 trillion a day, the volume of the Forex market dwarfs the U.S equity markets by more than 30x. The sheer amount of transactions done every day in the Forex market makes it highly liquid, which in turn causes price stability. These three factors support the use of higher leverage.
The higher the leverage, the more buying power you have. Leverage increases your total return on investment -- with less cash outlay. Of course, trading on margin magnifies both your profits AND your losses. For a more detailed description of trading on margin, click here.
Commission-Free Trading
For many, commission-free trading is one of the most attractive features of FOREX.com.**
Stock and futures traders find this hard to believe, but it's true. That's because stock and futures trading is done through a middleman - the broker - whose sole means of making money is by charging commissions. In contrast, when you deal with FOREX.com, you're dealing directly with a market maker. The cost of trading is built into the bid/ask spread found in all financial products. What's more, there are no exchange fees when dealing forex.
Choice of 3 Robust Trading Platforms for Desktop, Remote and Wireless Trading
FOREX.com offers two platforms for desktop trading: FOREXTrader and FOREXTrader.web. Both offer a secure and robust environment in which to trade and manage your account. And with FOREXTrader.wireless, you can also access your account using your web-enabled phone, PDA, or Blackberry.
Best of all, one user ID and password gives you access to all three trading platforms. The result? As a FOREX.com client, you'll benefit from maximum flexibility and full access to your trading account, no matter where you are.
Find out more about the features of FOREX.com's trading platforms.
Superior System Stability and Reliability
At FOREX.com, we realize our clients are highly dependant on the availability of our systems. We maintain a powerful and highly fault tolerant server farm that is specifically designed to support our 24-hour trading environment, with 100% uptime. Our systems employ a LIVE-LIVE horizontal redundancy model in their design and execution, and a team of system infrastructure specialists provide round the clock system support. Redundant systems extend beyond just technology; our entire trading floor has been replicated at a disaster recovery site within 10 minutes of our primary site.
24-hour Customer Service
Our dedicated customer service team provides 24-hour support via phone, email and live chat. We support clients from every time zone and employ a multilingual staff to assist our clients in Cantonese, Japanese, Russian, Hindi and Mandarin among others.
Registered Futures Commission Merchant
FOREX.com is a subsidiary of GAIN Capital Group, a registered Futures Commission Merchant (NFA ID #0339826), regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As an FCM, GAIN must uphold the highest standards and business practices and is subject to strict financial requirements and reporting. You can visit the NFA web site at any time to review GAIN Capital's unblemished record as an NFA member.
Safety of Funds
At FOREX.com, we realize that safety of funds is a major concern for investors. As a result, we've taken several important measures to ensure the utmost safety of customer deposits.
FOREX.com is a division of GAIN Capital Group. GAIN Capital Group's financial footing is strong, with a steadily increasing balance sheet. The firm's Total Net Adjusted Capital, as reported to the CFTC and the NFA, is 50 times more than the minimum net capital requirement of $250,000.*** Net Adjusted Capital represents GAIN Capital Group's own operating funds, not customer funds on deposit. Importantly, all customer funds are strictly segregated from GAIN's operating funds in separate bank accounts.
GAIN Capital Group is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA). As a registered Futures Commission Merchant (NFA ID #0339826), GAIN Capital Group and its subsidiaries must uphold the highest standards and business practices andare subject to strict financial requirements and reporting. All FCMs must adhere to strict rules and regulations to protect customer funds, including Minimum Net Capital requirements based on customer's open positions. GAIN Capital Group submits financial data to the CFTC and the NFA on a monthly basis.
GAIN's operating and risk management procedures as well as financial statements are audited by the Big Four accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche.
Finally, GAIN holds supplemental insurance policies to further protect customer funds against failure of service, dishonesty, forgery, alteration etc. A Financial Institution Bond is held through the National Union Fire Insurance Company and the Bankers Professional Liability policy is held through Lexington Insurance Company (both member companies of American International Group).