Exness Review 2026: Costs, Leverage and Safety Tested
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- Published: 12 September 2026
- Last updated: 12 September 2026
For this 2026 Exness review I worked through the broker’s full platform range: the Exness Terminal web app, the Exness Trade mobile app, and the branded MT4 and MT5 builds. I opened accounts on both sides of the pricing model, spread-only and commission-based, read the client agreement to confirm which entity actually holds the account, counted the indicator libraries on each platform and traced the leverage tiers against what the broker publishes rather than what the marketing pages imply.
If you are a forex and metals trader who cares about cost per round turn and wants to keep your present MetaTrader setup, Exness is your best option. Get full MT4 and MT5 support with no restrictions on Expert Advisors, Raw Spread pricing from 0.0 pips, 0% stop out level and free VPS. Exness’s weaknesses are its product variety (CFDs only, no genuine shares or ETFs), its depth of research (two third-party feeds and nothing in-house) and a regulatory system where the two strongest licenses do not benefit retail clients at all.
Why you can trust us
Led by Fazeel Imtiaz, Director of Online Broker Research, our team opens and funds genuine accounts with every broker we analyze. We verify the client agreement to identify the legal body that owns the account, we tally what the platforms actually deliver rather than what the feature pages say, and we check every license number against the regulator’s own public register.
Scores are weighted and reported. Our business arrangements do not affect anything on this page and we make it clear when a figure is based on the broker’s own disclosures rather than our own evaluation.
Quick verdict
Meridian FX suits traders who want tight, transparent spreads on major pairs and the flexibility of three serious platforms — without giving up multi-jurisdiction regulatory oversight. Newer traders get a genuinely useful academy; active traders get raw-spread accounts and API access. Where it loses points is a fee structure that only truly rewards higher account tiers, and phone support hours that lag its chat and email response times.
- Spreads from 0.0 pips on the Raw account
- Segregated client funds across four regulators
- MT4, MT5, cTrader and a proprietary web terminal
- $10/month inactivity fee after 12 months
- No 24/7 phone support on weekends
- Standard account spreads are average, not exceptional
Table of Contents
Exness pros and cons
Pros
- Raw Spread and Zero accounts from 0.0 pips. Zero commission from $0.05 each side each lot.
- Supports full MT4 and MT5, no limits on Expert Advisors or third-party indicators, and also comes with a free VPS.
- 0% stop out level and negative balance protection, against the industry standard of 20% to 50%.
Cons
- FCA and CySEC firms don’t accept retail clients, therefore your account is offshore and you won’t have any statutory compensation plan.
- CFDs Only. No actual stocks, no ETFs, no bonds, no options and maybe 200 to 250 symbols total.
- Copy trade was shut off (not wound down) in June 2026.
My top takeaways for Exness in 2026
- 5 account tiers and the one people miss is Pro. Spreads from 0.1 pips, no commission and quick execution on forex, commodities, energy, stocks and indices.
- Raw spread round turn costs up to $7 per standard lot. My arithmetic below explains why this does not automatically beat the spread of just the standard account.
- Leverage isn’t static, it’s stratified by equity. You can get to 1:Unlimited for under $5,000 and after $100,000 the limit reduces to 1:500.
- The 0% stop out is the most important parameter on the account and it may go both ways. And the trade remains open when equity is positive, so you’re not caught on the way down.
- Exness keeps its own tick history, so you may do backtesting on the prices recorded by the broker and check its execution claims independently. No one else does that for you.
- Research is two external feeds, Trading Central and FXStreet, with no in-house desk and no customer sentiment data.
Score breakdown
Trust and regulation
Is Exness safe?
Trust Score: 78 / 100. Exness is dependable. It has been trading since 2008 – thus will be 18 years old in September 2026 – with over 2,000 people across 13 offices and had a peak of $5.1 trillion in monthly trade volume in April 2024 before it stopped providing monthly data. It is not listed and has no bank.
There is one reason why the score is 78 and not higher, and that is the most essential element on this site. Exness is licensed under two strong regulators, FCA in the UK and CySEC in Cyprus. Neither caters for retail clients. Both entities only deal with professional clients, through different geographical domains. If you register using the global site, the account opening procedure will re-route you to an offshore entity dependent on where you are located.
The entity structure, per the broker’s own regulatory disclosures:
| Entity | Country | Regulator | License | Who it serves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exness (SC) Ltd. | Seychelles | FSA | SD025 | Selected non-EEA clients |
| Exness B.V. | Curaçao | CBCS | 0003LSI | Selected non-EEA clients |
| Exness (VG) Ltd. | British Virgin Islands | FSC | SIBA/L/20/1133 | Selected non-EEA clients |
| Forexite Ltd. | Belize | FSC | 22129 | Selected non-EEA clients |
| Exness (MU) Ltd. | Mauritius | FSC | GB20025294 | No current retail services |
| Exness ZA (PTY) Ltd | South Africa | FSCA | 51024 | South Africa, via exness.co.za |
| Exness (KE) Limited | Kenya | CMA | 162 | Kenya, via exness.ke |
| Exness Limited Jordan Ltd. | Jordan | JSC | 51905 | Jordan, via exness.jo |
| Exness (Cy) Ltd | Cyprus | CySEC | 178/12 | Professional clients only, via exness.eu |
| Exness (UK) Ltd | United Kingdom | FCA | 730729 | Professional clients only, via exness.uk |
What that changes for you: under the offshore entities you keep segregated client funds, negative balance protection and the broker’s own Stop Out Protection. What you lose is the statutory safety net. An FCA retail client who loses money to a failed firm can claim on the FSCS. A Seychelles FSA client may not. Anyone saying “Exness is FCA regulated” and stopping there has given a deceptive answer.
The partial substitution and its bounds. Exness is a member of the Financial Commission, which has a compensation fund of up to €20,000 per client funded by 10% of the monthly fees paid by member brokers. Read the trigger carefully. It pays when a member refuses to honor a judgment that the Commission has already made against it. It does not cover trading losses and it does not apply to a situation where the broker is insolvent across all of its clients. It’s an insurance on a dispute you win, but don’t get paid on, not on your deposit.
How to check your own entity in thirty seconds: Go to your Personal Area, view legal documents or the client agreement and see the name of the firm in the header of the agreement that you signed. That name determines your leverage cap, your minimum deposit, your recourse. None of them are determined by the license list on the marketing pages.
Fund and payment security: client money is ring-fenced from company funds, the payment stack is independently audited to PCI DSS, card payments flow through 3D Secure and the broker maintains a public bug bounty program. Over 98% of withdrawals are processed automatically, even on weekends.
The complaint pattern Briefly: Exness had a TrustScore of 4.7 out of 31,598 reviews at the time of filing, with 89% at five stars and 6% at one star. Within that 6% the themes repeat: withdrawals or commission distributions stopped or delayed after a string of profits, unanticipated account limits, and slow ID verification at busy times. One reviewer said they waited eight days versus “instant withdrawal” claim. I can’t judge a single case and 6% at one star out of 31,000 reviews isn’t a statistical oddity in this sector. What I will say is that the pattern is in the public record, it clusters around verification and profitable withdrawals, and you should complete your KYC before you deposit, not after you want to take money out.
Trust and company data
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Year founded | 2008 |
| Publicly traded (listed) | No |
| Bank | No |
| Total licensed entities | 10 |
| Tier-1 licences (retail onboarding) | 0 |
| Tier-1 licenses (professional only) | 2 |
| Segregated client funds | Yes |
| Negative balance protection | Yes |
| Statutory compensation scheme (retail) | No |
| External dispute resolution | Yes (Financial Commission, up to €20,000) |
Range of investments
Everything on Exness is a contract for difference. You trade the price, you never own the asset, and that holds for the stocks as much as the crypto.
Six asset classes are live: forex, metals, energies, indices, stocks and cryptocurrencies. On its own forex page Exness names 28 major and minor pairs, and the full list runs higher once exotics are counted, varying by account tier. The total catalogue sits somewhere between 200 and 250 symbols depending on which account you hold and which platform you load, with MT5 carrying more than the web terminal. Exness publishes no headline total, so treat any round number you read elsewhere with suspicion and count the instrument list inside your own platform before you build a strategy that needs a specific market.
Stocks and indices: the stock CFD lineup covers global single names including Amazon, NVIDIA and Tesla, trading Monday to Friday from 13:40 to 19:45 server time (GMT+0), with some available pre-market from 10:00. Around ten major indices are available. There is no underlying share ownership and no ETFs.
Cryptocurrency: crypto CFDs trade 24/7 outside maintenance windows, covering BTC and ETH pairs plus crosses such as BTCXAU, BTCJPY and BTCZAR. Several of those crosses run in close-only mode. Standard accounts pay daily swaps on crypto, and accounts registered in selected Islamic countries are swap-free by default. You never hold the token.
Leverage: this varies by the entity that holds your account and by your account equity, not by a single published ceiling. Full tiers are in the fees section below. Exness offers 1:Unlimited on eligible accounts, which I would not switch on. The reasoning is in the leverage section, and it is about the 0% stop out rather than the leverage number itself.
What is missing: real equities, ETFs, bonds, futures, options and agricultural commodities. If you want to hold an actual share, this is the wrong broker.
Available investment products
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Forex trading (CFDs) | Yes |
| Tradeable symbols (total) | ~200 to 250, varies by account and platform |
| Forex pairs (majors and minors, per broker) | 28 |
| Real US stocks (shares) | No |
| Real global stocks (shares) | No |
| ETFs | No |
| Stock CFDs | Yes |
| Index CFDs | Yes (~10) |
| Commodity and energy CFDs | Yes |
| Cryptocurrency (underlying) | No |
| Cryptocurrency (CFDs) | Yes |
| Copy trading | No (discontinued June 2026) |
Fees
The number moves more than anything else, and so does the tier you choose. The cost is the reason most people join an Exness account. There are five accounts which are either spread-only or raw spread plus commission models.
| Account | Spread from | Commission | Execution | Margin call | Stop out | Min lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 0.2 pips | None | Market | 60% | 0% | 0.01 |
| Standard Cent | 0.2 pips | None | Market | 60% | 0% | 0.01 |
| Pro | 0.1 pips | None | Instant (market on crypto) | 30% | 0% | 0.01 |
| Raw Spread | 0.0 pips | Up to $3.50 each side per lot | Market | 30% | 0% | 0.01 |
| Zero | 0.0 pips | From $0.05 each side per lot | Market | 30% | 0% | 0.01 |
Most new accounts start at Standard. No commission, spreads from 0.2 pips, market execution, margin call 60%. It’s the easiest tier to get your head around and a good place to start at a small size.
Pro is the tier that gets skipped over, and I think that’s a mistake. The spreads are available at 0.1 pips, there is still no commission and it operates instant execution across forex, commodities, energy, equities and indices. Instant execution means you receive the price you clicked or you get nothing and that matters if you trade tight stops and despise slippage. Crypto is still on market execution.
Raw Spread & Zero built in volume. Raw Spread charges up to $3.50 per side per lot, thus a round turn on one standard lot costs up to $7 plus the raw spread at that point. Zero cuts the commission floor to $0.05 per side per lot and maintains 0.0 pip spreads on a limited instrument set during trading hours.
The math involved: One standard lot of EUR/USD on Standard costs you the spread alone. So at 0.8 pips you are paying some $8 for the round turn. On Raw Spread the same trade costs up to $7 in commission plus the raw spread which generally is between 0.0 and 0.3 pips on EUR/USD in liquid hours so anywhere around $7 to $10 all in. On those statistics the two tiers are close enough for Standard to win. The spread opens up on instruments where the marked up spread is wider than the commission. It widens as your size grows since commission scales in a straight line whereas a terrible spread pinches on every entrance and every departure. Before you switch, run your own pairs through the trading calculator for a week.
Standard Cent doesn’t get enough recognition. The balance and lot sizes are in cents, thus a $10 deposit will appear as 1,000 cents and a 0.01 lot will represent a tenth of the comparable Standard position. It is the cheapest honest way to test a live strategy against real execution instead of a demo feed.
Minimum deposits are the most inconsistently reported figure attached to this broker, and that is not the reviewers’ fault. Exness publishes no single global number on its account pages, because the threshold moves with your entity, your country and your payment method. The floor is around $10 for Standard and Cent. Professional tiers are commonly quoted between $200 and $1,000. Check the figure inside your own Personal Area at signup and do not trust a number you read anywhere else, this page included, without confirming it.
Leverage and margin
Maximum leverage is tiered by account equity rather than fixed at a headline number.
| Account equity | Max leverage |
|---|---|
| $0 to $4,999.99 | 1:Unlimited if eligible, otherwise 1:2000 |
| $5,000 to $29,999.99 | 1:2000 |
| $30,000 to $99,999.99 | 1:1000 |
| $100,000 and above | 1:500 |
To unlock 1:Unlimited you need at least 10 closed positions totalling 5 lots or more, and equity under $5,000. It applies to forex majors, minors and precious metals only. Crypto, stocks, indices and exotic pairs carry fixed caps whatever your balance. Clients under the Kenya entity are capped at 1:400. During high-impact news the broker raises margin requirements temporarily across volatile instruments, and your available leverage falls with them.
Fazeel’s take
The 0% stop out is the setting that actually matters here, more than the leverage figure everyone quotes. On most brokers a stop out at 20% or 50% force-closes you while there is still equity in the account, and traders hate it. Exness leaves the position open until equity reaches zero. That sounds like a gift and it reads well in marketing copy. In practice it removes the last mechanical brake between a bad trade and an empty account. Run 1:Unlimited on a $200 balance and a 20-pip move against you can take the whole thing, with nothing stepping in on the way down. Negative balance protection stops you owing money. It does not stop you losing all of it.
Editorial writer and Marketing Expert Forex/CFD/Crypto
Non-trading fees
Trading fees and account data
Our review confirmed commission of up to $3.50 each side per lot on Raw Spread and from $0.05 each side per lot on Zero, taken from the broker’s own professional accounts page, alongside no inactivity fee and no broker-side withdrawal charge.
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Minimum deposit | From $10, varies by entity and method |
| Variable spreads | Yes |
| Fixed spreads | No |
| Commission-free account available | Yes (Standard, Standard Cent, Pro) |
| Raw spread account commission | Up to $3.50 each side per lot |
| Lowest commission tier | From $0.05 each side per lot (Zero) |
| Inactivity fee | No |
| Withdrawal fee (broker side) | No |
| Islamic (swap-free) account | Yes |
| Professional account | Yes |
| Free VPS | Yes, conditions apply |
Compared to top competitors
Side-by-side data
2007
$0
0.1 pips (Pro) / 0.9 pips (Standard)
1:4000 advertised, 1:1000 under $10k equity
No, BVI FSC only
MT4, MT5, proprietary app, Share4you
Yes (Share4you)
2008
From $10
0.0 pips (Raw Spread, Zero)
Up to 1:Unlimited, tiered by equity
No, FCA and CySEC are professional-only
MT4, MT5, Exness Terminal, Exness Trade app
No, discontinued June 2026.
2014
$100
0.0 pips (Raw) / 1.6 pips (Classic)
1:1000, varies by entity
Yes
MT4, MT5, TradingView, Tickmill Trader
Yes (Tickmill Social Trading)
2010
$0 to $500, varies by entity
0.0 pips (ThinkZero) / ~1.0 to 1.2 pips (Standard)
1:500 non-EU, 1:30 UK and EU
Yes
MT4, MT5, ThinkTrader, TradingView
Yes (ThinkCopy)
How to read that table. The broker on the left has the lowest entry barrier, the highest advertised leverage and the thinnest oversight. The two on the right carry genuine Tier-1 retail licences and charge for it in a higher deposit or a lower leverage cap. There is no free option in that row. You are picking which trade-off you can live with, and the right answer changes as your balance grows.
Mobile trading app
Charting:
charts run on TradingView with 100+ indicators, 50 drawing tools and 9 timeframes. Nine covers most workflows, though it is fewer than the MetaTrader apps offer, and there are no sub-minute intervals.
Order management
the trade ticket is the best thing about this app. You can set take profit and stop loss by price, by pips, by money, or by percentage of account equity. That last option is uncommon and it is how I size risk, because it scales with the account instead of needing recalculation every time the balance moves. One-click trading is available, and price alerts fire as push notifications.
Funding and support
you deposit and withdraw inside the app rather than being bounced to a browser, and live chat sits in the app in 14 languages. It needs Android 6.0 or iOS 15.0 and up.
The limitation
the Exness Trade app cannot run Expert Advisors. If your strategy is automated you are on the MetaTrader mobile apps instead, and those are a step down on charting. MT5 mobile gives you 21 timeframes but only 30+ indicators and 20+ drawing tools, with FXStreet news built in. You end up choosing between the better ticket and the working robot.
Available mobile platforms and tools
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Android app | Yes |
| Apple iOS app | Yes |
| TradingView charting on mobile | Yes |
| Mobile charting indicators | 100+ |
| Mobile drawing tools | 50 |
| Mobile timeframes | 9 |
| Price alerts | Yes |
| Risk entry by equity percentage | Yes |
| Deposit and withdraw in app | Yes |
| In-app live chat | Yes, 14 languages |
| Expert Advisors on proprietary app | No |
Trading platforms
Full MT4 and MT5 support is the single most practical thing Exness offers, and it is what separates it from brokers that lock you into a proprietary platform with no way out. Your expert advisors run unmodified. Your custom indicators load. Your templates and saved layouts come across. If you have spent three years building a setup in MetaTrader, you are not rebuilding it here.
MetaTrader: MT5 is the better of the two now, carrying more symbols than the web terminal along with stop-limit orders and depth of market. MT4 stays available because a large share of the EA market is still written against it. Both run on desktop, in the browser through MetaTrader WebTerminal, and on mobile. Pricing is bound to your account tier, not to the platform, so your cost is identical across MT4, MT5 and Terminal.
Exness Terminal charting: the proprietary web platform is more capable than most broker-built terminals. It ships 100+ built-in indicators, 50 drawing tools and 10 default timeframes. It runs in Chrome 92, Edge 92, Firefox 104, Opera 78, Safari 15 on macOS and Safari 16 on iOS or later.
Order ticket and position management: one-click trading is available, the economic calendar sits inside the interface rather than in a separate tab, and multi-position management lets you close or modify a group of positions instead of working through them one ticket at a time. That last one saves real time when you are running several correlated positions and want out of all of them.
What Terminal does not do: there is no Expert Advisor support, so algorithmic traders end up back in MetaTrader regardless of how good the web ticket is. Treat Terminal as the discretionary platform and MetaTrader as the automation platform, and the pair works well together.
Execution model, which is easy to miss: Standard accounts run market execution across the board. Pro accounts run instant execution on forex, metals, energies, stocks and indices, and market execution on crypto. Raw Spread and Zero run market execution. If price certainty matters more to you than fill certainty, that difference is the reason to look at Pro.
Tick history, and why it matters: Exness publishes its own tick history. You can backtest a strategy against the broker’s recorded pricing instead of a third-party feed, and you can audit its execution claims yourself rather than taking the marketing line on trust. Very few brokers hand you that data, and it is the most underrated feature on the account.
VPS: free for MetaTrader users, running Windows Server 2019 with 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM and 50 GB of disk, sited next to the Exness MT servers. Eligibility conditions apply and are shown in the Personal Area.
Available trading platforms and features
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Demo account | Yes |
| Proprietary web platform | Yes |
| MetaTrader 4 | Yes |
| MetaTrader 5 | Yes |
| MetaTrader WebTerminal | Yes |
| Charting indicators (Terminal) | 100+ |
| Drawing tools (Terminal) | 50 |
| Trade from chart | Yes |
| Expert Advisors (MetaTrader) | Yes, unrestricted |
| Expert Advisors (Terminal) | No |
| Public tick history | Yes |
| Free VPS | Yes, conditions apply |
| Retail API | No |
Available order types
| Order type | Exness |
|---|---|
| Market | Yes |
| Limit | Yes |
| Stop | Yes |
| Stop-limit (MT5) | Yes |
| Depth of market (MT5) | Yes |
| Guaranteed stop-loss (GSLO) | No |
Research
Research is where the account starts to feel thin. Everything on offer comes from two outside providers and Exness produces nothing of its own.
Trading Central: this is the most useful piece of the stack. Signals are delivered through the Personal Area and the mobile app, blending technical methods across timeframes, and Trading Central also supplies a technical analysis indicator and a WebTV feed for fundamental commentary. Coverage spans five asset classes. The full Trading Central suite is not included, only the slice Exness licenses.
News and calendar: FXStreet supplies a live news feed inside the Personal Area and the app. The economic calendar is Exness’s own and it appears on the website, in the app and inside Terminal, which is the right place for it. Having the calendar in the trading interface rather than a separate tab is a small thing that changes how often you actually check it.
Calculators: the trading calculator and currency converter are practical rather than analytical. They size a position and check margin before you place it, and that is all they need to do.
What is absent: there is no in-house analyst desk, no client sentiment data showing how the broker’s own book is positioned, no pattern-recognition scanner and no equity research. If your process depends on the broker feeding you trade ideas, you will outgrow this fast. If you run your own analysis and need a clean calendar plus a news feed, it covers you.
Available research tools
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Economic calendar | Yes |
| Trading signals (Trading Central) | Yes |
| Technical analysis indicator (Trading Central) | Yes |
| Market news feed (FXStreet) | Yes |
| Trading calculator | Yes |
| Currency converter | Yes |
| Public tick history for backtesting | Yes |
| In-house analyst desk | No |
| Client sentiment data | No |
| Pattern recognition scanner | No |
| Equity or fundamental stock research | No |
Education
Available educational offerings
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Podcast series | Yes |
| Video content | Yes |
| Help centre | Yes |
| Demo account | Yes |
| Cent account for live micro-testing | Yes |
| Structured beginner course | No |
| Live webinars | No |
| Glossary | No |
| Quizzes or progress tracking | No |
Final thoughts
Exness has built a real position among forex and metals traders who care about cost per round turn and want their MetaTrader setup left alone. Raw Spread and Zero pricing, unrestricted Expert Advisors, a free VPS, published tick history and a 0% stop out make it hard to beat on mechanics, and the Pro account is better than its reputation.
It loses ground on three fronts. Product range is CFDs only, at roughly 200 to 250 symbols, with no real shares and no ETFs. Research is two licensed feeds and nothing in-house. And the regulatory structure means your account almost certainly sits offshore with no statutory compensation scheme, however good the FCA licence number looks on the homepage.
If you already know what you trade, run your own analysis, and want the cheapest realistic execution with MetaTrader intact, Exness earns a place on your shortlist. If you want to own assets, or you need a broker to teach you, look elsewhere.
Exness star ratings
| Feature | Exness |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.1 / 5 |
| Trust Score | 78 / 100 |
| Trading Platform | 9 / 10 |
| Fees | 9 / 10 |
| Trust | 7 / 10 |
| Research | 6 / 10 |
| Education | 5 / 10 |
| Mobile App | 8.5 / 10 |
| Account Types | 9.5 / 10 |
| Customer Support | 8.5 / 10 |
| Execution Speed | 8.5 / 10 |
FAQs
Yes, through ten legal entities holding licences from eight regulators, including the FCA in the UK, CySEC in Cyprus, the FSCA in South Africa, the FSA in Seychelles and the CMA in Kenya. The detail that matters is that the FCA and CySEC entities serve professional clients only and do not onboard retail traders, so most retail signups are routed to an offshore entity such as Seychelles, Curaçao, BVI or Belize. Those entities carry segregated funds and negative balance protection but no statutory investor compensation scheme. Exness is a Financial Commission member, and that fund covers up to €20,000 per client where a ruling goes unpaid, not where the broker becomes insolvent.
It starts from around $10 on the Standard and Standard Cent accounts, and the professional tiers, Pro, Raw Spread and Zero, are set higher. Exness publishes no single global figure because the threshold changes with your entity, your country and your payment method. Check the amount shown in your own Personal Area at signup rather than relying on any published number, this page is included.
Yes, both MT4 and MT5 are fully supported on desktop, in the browser and on mobile, with no restrictions on Expert Advisors or third-party indicators. MT5 carries more symbols than the proprietary web terminal and adds stop-limit orders and depth of market. A free VPS running Windows Server 2019 is available to MetaTrader users, subject to eligibility conditions shown in the Personal Area.
Up to 1\:Unlimited on eligible accounts, but it is tiered by equity rather than fixed. Accounts under $5,000 can reach 1\:Unlimited with at least 10 closed positions totalling 5 lots or more, and the default otherwise is 1:2000. Above that the ceiling falls to 1:2000 up to $29,999.99, 1:1000 up to $99,999.99, and 1:500 from $100,000, and it applies to forex majors, minors and precious metals only. Clients under the Kenya entity are capped at 1:400.
Yes, and it runs on the same platforms as a live account, including MT4, MT5 and Exness Terminal. It is the right place to test the trade ticket and your Expert Advisors before you fund anything. If you would rather test against live execution at a small cost, the Standard Cent account denominates balances and lot sizes in cents.
No. Exness does not accept retail clients resident in the United States, and none of its entities hold the US registration required to offer retail forex or CFD trading there. CFDs are not available to US retail traders from any broker, so this is a market-wide restriction rather than something specific to Exness.
Our testing
Why you should trust us
Fazeel Imtiaz leads broker research at YourForexBroker.com. He has been testing retail trading platforms since 11 YEAR and has opened and funded live accounts with brokers across Asia, Africa and Latin America. His work focuses on execution quality, real cost per round turn, and how a broker’s regulatory structure changes what protection a trader actually holds.
Every page on this site is written by a named researcher, checked against primary sources by a second person, and edited before it publishes. Our ratings and rankings are our own and are never influenced by our commercial arrangements. Where a figure comes from the broker’s own disclosures rather than our measurement, we say so on the page.
How we tested
We open and fund real accounts with every broker we review, then work through each platform the broker offers rather than reading the feature list.
For this review we tested the Exness Terminal web platform, the Exness Trade mobile app, and the branded MT4 and MT5 builds. We read the client agreement to confirm which legal entity held the account. We checked all ten entity licence numbers against each regulator’s own public register. We counted the indicator and drawing-tool libraries on each platform, traced the equity-based leverage tiers against the broker’s published documentation, and compared commission and spread structures across all five account tiers.
Where sources disagree, and on this broker they disagree most on minimum deposits, instrument counts and leverage caps, we default to what the broker publishes itself and tell you the figure is disputed rather than picking one silently.
About the Editorial Team
Forex risk disclaimer
There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading CFDs and margin-based foreign exchange. Leverage works in both directions and can amplify losses as easily as gains. Market volatility, liquidity gaps around news events, and limited regulatory protection under offshore entities can all materially affect the price and liquidity of an instrument. You should not assume that any method, technique or indicator described on this page will be profitable or will avoid losses. Only trade with capital you can afford to lose.