Exness Review 2025

Trust

Exness Regulators

In our reviews, we examine the regulatory status of each entity operated by a broker. This allows us to compare the different levels of client protection. We rank regulators using a three-tier system, where Tier-1 licensing reflects the highest level of regulation.

Here are my findings on the various entities of Exness:

• Exness (UK) Ltd. is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), register number 730729. We rate the FCA as a Tier-1 regulator.
• Exness (Cy) Ltd. is regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) under license number 178/12. We rate CySEC as a Tier-1 regulator.
• Exness (KE) Ltd. is authorized by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) in Kenya with license number 162. We rate CMA as a Tier-2 regulator.
• Exness Limited Jordan Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Jordan Securities Commission (JSC) and incorporated in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with the Companies Control Department with a Registration Number 51905. We rate JSC as a Tier-2 regulator.
• Exness ZA (PTY) Ltd is authorized by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) in South Africa as a Financial Service Provider (FSP) with FSP number 51024. We rate FSCA as a Tier 2 regulator.
• Exness (SC) Ltd. is authorized and regulated by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA) with license number SD025. We rate the FSA as a Tier-3 regulator.
• Exness (VG) Ltd. is authorized by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (FSC) with registration number 2032226 and investment business license number SIBA/L/20/1133. We rate the BVI FSC as a Tier-3 regulator.
• Exness B.V. is regulated by the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten with license number 0003LSI. We rate the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten as a Tier-3 regulator.
• Exness (MU) Ltd is authorized by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC) with registration number 176967 and Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, Excluding Underwriting) license number GB20025294.

How Exness Protects You

Brokers operate multiple entities to serve clients globally, yet regulatory protections vary by jurisdiction. Some regulators enforce strict financial standards, while others are more lenient. Traders should understand the protection offered by the entity where they intend to open an account.

• Segregation of Client Funds: Keeping client funds in segregated bank accounts from the ones used for the broker’s corporate capital negates the risk of accounting errors. At Exness, all client funds are held in segregated accounts away from the company’s funds.
• Negative Balance Protection: This safety mechanism removes the risk of trading losses exceeding the account balance. In other words, the losses you incur from trading are capped at the amount you have put in your trading account. This is especially important in volatile markets. All Exness entities provide negative balance protection.
• Compensation Scheme: A compensation scheme protects retail traders against the broker’s liabilities in the unlikely event that the company becomes insolvent. As a member of the Financial Commission, Exness ensures clients are protected up to 20,000 EUR per complaint.
• Maximum Leverage: Capping the maximum leverage restricts the extent of market exposure to retail traders. The higher the leverage, the higher the potential profits and potential losses. The default maximum leverage at the Seychelles entity of Exness is 1:2000.

Stability and Transparency

In our tests for the Trust category, we also cover factors relating to stability and transparency. Here, we focus on the broker’s operating history, size, and overall credibility.

Exness dates back to 2008, marking it as a highly experienced CFD broker with a lengthy operating history. According to the broker’s website, the company has over 2,000 employees, reflecting a large brokerage firm.

In my research, Exness showed high transparency in its regulatory status, listing its regulators in the footer of its website pages and on its Regulation page.

The website clearly breaks down trading costs on the Fees page. To get the nitty-gritty details, traders can find the Client Agreement on the Legal Documents page.

Is Exness Safe to Trade With?

Exness operates nine entities, which offer different levels of client protection. The broker is a member of the Financial Commission, an independent self-regulatory organization and external dispute resolution body focused on Forex. This membership provides Exness clients with protection through the Commission’s Compensation Fund, covering claims up to 20,000 EUR.

To summarize, I rate Exness as trustworthy and stable due to the following:

• 17-year operating history
• All entities covered by regulatory bodies
• All entities segregate funds
• All entities offer negative balance protection

Fees

Exness Trading Fees

Exness Spreads

I tested the spreads at Exness on 11 July 2025 during the London open and just after the New York open. At these times, the market is typically highly liquid with the tightest spreads.

I found that Exness delivers tighter spreads than the industry average for major forex pairs, gold, oil, and Bitcoin. However, spreads on the DAX 40 were less competitive, highlighting that costs vary by instrument.

Exness Swap Fees

The table below shows the Swap Long (the cost/credit of holding a buy position overnight) and the Swap Short (the cost/credit of maintaining a sell position overnight) for one full-sized contract.

In forex, a full-sized contract is 100,000 units of the base currency (the first currency quoted in the pair), or 100 ounces in the case of gold. I recorded the data on 11 July 2025.

My tests revealed that swap fees at Exness are average for the industry, but it is noteworthy that the broker does not credit clients when there is a positive interest rate differential.

Exness Non-Trading Fees

Exness does not charge deposit or withdrawal fees (some payment providers may charge their own fees). There is also no inactivity fee for idle accounts.

Are Exness Fees Competitive?

I rate the fees at Exness as better than average for the following reasons:

• Competitive spreads in most instruments
• Average swap fees
• No deposit, withdrawal, or inactivity fees

Platform and Tools

Exness Terminal Platform

In this review, I performed tests using the web-based Exness Terminal platform, which features a simple, user-friendly interface that’s easy for beginners to use. While customization options are limited, you can expand the chart by hiding the watchlist and trade panels. The platform supports 17 languages.

Key Features

Here are the main features of the Exness Terminal platform:

• Watchlists: The Exness Terminal has watchlists broken down by asset class, popular instruments, and top movers.
• Charting: Robust charting from TradingView is built in.
• Order Types: Traders can use market, limit, and stop-loss orders.
• Position Tracking: You can easily stay on top of the live P/L of your open positions, pending orders, and closed trades within this section.
• One-Click Trading: This feature allows you to execute orders with a single click and no secondary confirmation, enabling you to be faster and nimble. This is especially useful for day traders.
• Price Alerts: This enables you to be notified when the price reaches a pre-set level.

Using watchlists in the Terminal platform, traders can conveniently monitor different markets in one place. These watchlists display instruments grouped by asset class, such as forex pairs, commodities, indices, or stocks. Additionally, the platform offers curated lists like top movers, which highlight instruments experiencing the biggest price swings, and most traded, which show assets that are trending among other traders.

In my experience, price alerts are an excellent tool for staying on top of the market without having to watch the screen all day. By setting alerts for key support and resistance levels, you can be instantly notified when the price hits those important points. This allows you to react quickly to potential trading opportunities or adjust your strategy as needed.

The panel at the bottom of the platform provides traders with a clear, real-time overview of their trading activity. It allows you to easily monitor all open positions, check the status of pending orders, and review details of closed trades.

Charts

The Exness Terminal platform integrates TradingView charts, which I consider top-notch. The charts come packed with powerful features, including:

• 100+ technical indicators, covering popular trend, volume, and momentum tools.
• 50+ drawing tools, such as trend lines, channels, Gann, and Fibonacci retracements.
• 9 time frames, ranging from one minute up to one month.
• 12 chart types, from classic bar and Japanese candlestick charts to advanced options like Heikin Ashi.

Orders

The Exness Terminal platform supports standard order types, including market, limit, and stop-loss orders. However, it does not offer trailing stop-loss orders, and traders cannot apply time-in-force conditions to their orders.

Trading Central Analysis

Exness Terminal integrates technical analysis from Trading Central, which includes directional bias, support and resistance levels, and commentary. It also includes intraday, short-term, and medium-term trend bias and an alternative scenario in the event of a trend reversal.

Exness Terminal Platform: My Key Takeaways

After a few weeks of testing, I found the Exness Terminal platform intuitive, well-crafted, and very user-friendly. Active traders will appreciate features like 1-click trading and trading from the chart. I personally enjoyed the incorporation of Trading Central and price alerts.

However, the platform has limitations—for instance, it lacks advanced order types and offers only basic layout customization.

Exness Trade App

The Exness app, available for iOS and Android, has a clean, intuitive interface that is easy to navigate. Instant deposits and withdrawals add convenience for active traders. The app’s 24/7 customer support ensures help is always on hand when you need it.

In terms of charting, the app provides 12 chart types, from simple line charts to Japanese candlesticks and Heikin Ashi, plus nine timeframes and a wide range of technical indicators like Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands, and Parabolic SAR. Traders can place market and pending orders, including limit and stop-loss orders, directly within the app.

Exness Trade App: My Key Takeaways

Overall, the Exness Mobile app packs powerful functionality into an easy-to-use mobile platform that I rate as well-suited for beginners and on-the-go traders. Its combination of funding options, robust charting tools, and built-in economic calendar and live market news, elevates it beyond most trading apps.

Copy and Social Trading

Within the client portal, clients can access the Exness copy trading platform, enabling the flexibility of replicating the strategies of experienced traders. Traders can browse and analyze real-time performance metrics such as returns and maximum drawdown before selecting one or more strategies to copy.

Clients can decide how much to allocate per strategy, follow multiple providers simultaneously to diversify, and set risk limits such as stop-loss, take-profit, and daily loss thresholds to protect against significant drawdowns.

Both the trade copier and the strategy provider can earn from profitable trades. The trade copier uses the platform to find a strategy provider to follow. When the strategy provider makes a profit, they earn a commission.

Exness Order Execution Model

Exness utilizes a market execution model for most of its account types. This means orders are executed at the best available market price with no requotes, ensuring speed and reliability, even during volatile conditions. The infrastructure behind this model includes a global network of decentralized servers and connections to top-tier liquidity providers, which work together to reduce latency and slippage. For traders using Pro accounts, Exness also offers instant execution, allowing them to target specific prices with the potential for requotes.

Tradable Instruments

Exness performs above average in most asset classes and is especially strong in forex. Traders also have the flexibility of trading metals against various currencies. The broker could improve by adding soft commodities like soybeans and increasing the number of available shares.

What are CFDs?

A Contract for Difference (CFD) is an agreement specifying that the buyer must pay the seller the difference between an asset’s current value and its value at the time the contract was initiated. Like futures and other derivative financial instruments, CFDs allow traders to speculate on price movements without owning the underlying asset.

What CFDs Can You Trade with Exness?

To better illustrate the range of instruments available at Exness, the following tables show samples from various asset classes:

Exness Instruments: My Key Takeaways

Exness offers a very strong selection of CFDs on forex, commodities, indices, and cryptocurrencies, affording clients opportunities with a greater variety of markets at their fingertips. CFDs on shares are relatively limited, and I would like to see more global exchanges added to the mix.

Customer Support

Exness Customer Support Test

Support is a key component of a broker’s offering – whether you are a new trader looking for guidance on how to use the platform or an experienced trader who needs help fast to exit their positions in the event of a technical glitch.

I tested Exness’ customer support for over two weeks. The live chat usually responded within a minute. I also received fast replies via email.

My inquiries ranged from basic questions about fees to more complex themes relating to platforms, tools, and regulations. When I reached support via chat and email, I usually had a good experience with satisfactory answers to my queries.

Deposit and Withdrawal

How Do You Deposit Money with Exness

Exness offers a solid range of deposit methods, with fast processing times.

How Do You Withdraw Money from Exness

Withdrawal methods are the same as deposit methods, except for bank cards.

Unlike many brokers, Exness does not charge for withdrawals, although some payment providers may charge their own fees.

Account Types and Terms

How to Open an Account with Exness

Opening a live account with the Seychelles entity of Exness is straightforward: prospective clients simply need to enter their region of residence and confirm their email address and phone number.

What Account Types Exness Offers

At Exness, two standard accounts are available: Standard and Standard Cent. Standard is the most popular account and is suitable for most traders. The Standard Cent account is designed for new traders to limit their risk by using micro lots. Exness also offers three professional accounts—Raw Spread, Zero, and Pro—designed for experienced traders, including scalpers, day traders, and algorithmic traders.

The table below covers the main features of each account type:

Exness Standard and Standard Cent accounts are best suited for beginners and general traders who prefer commission-free trading with a low minimum deposit. By contrast, the professional accounts (Raw Spread, Zero, and Pro) offer tighter spreads, flexible commission structures, and lower margin requirements, making them ideal for experienced traders who use scalping, day trading, or automated strategies.

Demo Account

Exness offers demo accounts for the Terminal platform and MetaTrader 4/5. Demo accounts enable traders to practice their strategies and get comfortable with the platform without risking real money. The demo account features live quotes and mirrors live market conditions for assets such as forex, commodities, indices, and stock CFDs. Once traders are up to speed on a demo account, they can easily switch to a live version.

Islamic Account

Exness offers swap-free Islamic accounts that adhere to the principles of Sharia law.

What is CFD Leverage?

One of the reasons that traders are attracted to the CFD-based forex, commodities, indices, and stock markets is their high degree of available leverage. Leverage is using borrowed funds to increase the size of your trading positions beyond what would be possible using only the cash in your account.

Exness, the FSA-regulated Seychelles entity, offers a default leverage of 1:2000. This means that with a 1,000 USD account, you can control up to 2,000,000 USD worth of positions in the market.

Leverage is often described as a ‘double-edged sword’ as it can hurt you as much as it helps you. Traders must remember that it can amplify both their profits and their losses.

The maximum available leverage at the Seychelles entity of Exness varies depending on the amount of equity in your account.

Exness Restricted Countries

Exness does not accept clients from The United States of America and its territories, including American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Kingman Reef, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Midway Islands, Wake Island, Palmyra Atoll, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Navassa Island, Martinique, Belize, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Canada, Vatican City, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Mali, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Barbados, Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba, Haiti, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, North Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Åland Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna, Cuba, Nicaragua, The Bahamas, Uruguay, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territory, Syrian Arab Republic, Western Sahara, Yemen, Bouvet Island, Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fiji, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Palau, Samoa, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Sudan, Antarctica, Japan, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos.

Research

Exness Insights offers a robust collection of research and market analysis. It is led by experts like Agustina Patti and Paul Reid, who regularly explain macroeconomic trends, corporate earnings, and sector-specific developments. Their in-depth deep‑dive articles examine price drivers like central bank policy and corporate earnings.

Alongside the fundamental insights, Exness produces Market Outlook videos presented by experienced strategists highlighting actionable trade setups, sentiment cues, and chart patterns.

Clients can also access Trading Central’s analysis directly through the client portal. The Analyst Views section delivers actionable insights, including detailed price forecasts and clearly defined support and resistance levels.

The Market News section within the client portal provides a real-time feed of market news and commentary from the FXStreet team. The feed includes coverage of key economic releases, major asset price moves, and technical insights.

Exness Research: My Key Takeaways

Exness provides an above-average selection of research tools, combining in-house market insights with news and analysis from Trading Central and FXStreet. The steady stream of reports and practical trading ideas can benefit both beginners and experienced traders looking to stay informed and spot opportunities. I liked the focus on markets in play and actionable trading ideas.

Education

Exness Insights provides a solid foundation for traders of all levels with its comprehensive library of written educational materials. The platform covers trading basics, including clear explanations of CFD-based forex and indices, and essential concepts like technical analysis, risk management, and order types. These beginner-focused guides break down complex topics into step-by-step sections, making them easy to digest.

Beyond the fundamentals, Exness Insights also features practical articles on trading strategies and psychology. These resources dive deeper into how to plan day trades, identify patterns, apply indicators, and manage emotions during volatile market conditions. While the materials are well-structured and rich in detail, they focus mainly on text-based learning.

The Exness YouTube channel is mostly dedicated to analysis, but it also features a useful range of educational platform tutorial videos on how to use Exness Terminal and MetaTrader 4 and 5. Here, you can find everything from basic setup to more advanced topics like how to connect to Exness VPS.

The Bottom Line

Exness is a large, well-established CFD broker that has grown significantly since its launch in 2008. It offers an extensive selection of tradable instruments, including a standout range of currency and crypto pairs. Exness ensures segregation of client funds and provides negative balance protection, adding a layer of security.

Trading costs at Exness are competitive, with Standard account spreads often beating the industry average, for example, EUR/USD spreads of around 0.9 pips. Professional accounts offer raw spreads from 0.0 pips plus commissions, ideal for active traders and scalpers. The broker supports a strong variety of trading platforms, including the intuitive Exness Terminal, the Exness Trade App, and MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. Funding and withdrawals are fast and hassle-free.

With massive leverage, micro-lot trading, tight spreads, and round-the-clock support, Exness welcomes a wide range of trading styles, including scalping, day trading, and algorithmic strategies. The combination of competitive pricing, diverse assets, and feature-rich platforms makes it a strong choice for traders looking for an accessible yet robust trading environment.

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