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Active Trader

FXCM's Active Trader account is designed for traders who actively trade. When trading is more than a hobby, treat yourself to our very best. Active Trader benefits include dedicated support, premium services and custom solutions. Active Traders are eligible for different tier pricing including a Tax Free3 account for UK and Irish residents with tight spreads and no commissions.

BENEFITS

Designed with the dedicated trader in mind, the Active Trader account represents FXCM's highest level of service and furnishes customers with many unique features:

ELITE PRICING

As an Active Trader, you are eligible to receive Active Trader pricing

DEDICATED SUPPORT

A committed team of experienced professionals offer top-tier support to Active Trader accounts. From one-on-one consultations with a Relationship Manager to the exclusive Back-Office Team ensuring FXCM's resources are being properly utilised, customer support is second to none.

API TRADING

If you're a programmer looking to develop a black-box solution or an order-processing application, you can use our FIX, ForexConnect and JAVA APIs to create the custom solution you need. With your Active Trader account, you get free access to multiple APIs.

INSTITUTIONAL DERIVED TRADE IDEAS

Supplement your trading strategy with access to high-end institutional derived FX data through an eFXplus premium subscription*. Receive real-time alerts on fresh trade ideas, and currency forecasts from institutional research. Scan insightful economic forecasts and analytical views supported by trade level and targets from the model portfolios of multiple banks. Review market sentiment generated by quant models. Fill out the eFXplus access form to see if you qualify for a subscription.

MARKET DEPTH

An Active Trader account unlocks market depth functionality on the Trading Station platform. Multiple levels of liquidity are visible at each price, providing extremely useful information to short-term and high-frequency traders.

CUSTOM SOLUTIONS

The favourable market access of VPS hosting comes complimentary with an Active Trader account. A 2% credit of deposited funds is available for allocation towards the FXCM APPs store.

While Active Trader account might provide some benefits, we remind clients that CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.

HOW DO I ENABLE MY ACTIVE TRADER ACCOUNT?

CALL US AT +44 20 7398 4050 TO FIND OUT IF YOU QUALIFY

ACTIVE TRADER PRICING

FXCM's Active Trader account is designed for traders who actively trade. You can get different tier pricing on your spread costs based on the volume you trade.

Forex Commissions

  Discount

Active Trader
Savings1 62.4%
Commission per 1M $25
Monthly Volume2 150M - 500M

FOREX AVERAGE SPREADS

Finding ways to improve your trading experience while lowering spread costs is where Active Trader really shines.

Pair Spread Pair Spread Pair Spread
AUD/CAD 0.9 AUD/CHF 0.8 AUD/JPY 0.6
AUD/NZD 1.0 AUD/USD 0.3 CAD/CHF 0.8
CAD/JPY 0.6 CHF/JPY 1.1 EUR/AUD 1.0
EUR/CAD 1.1 EUR/CHF 0.8 EUR/GBP 0.6
EUR/JPY 0.5 EUR/NOK 45.0 EUR/NZD 1.5
EUR/SEK 34.7 EUR/TRY 150.1 EUR/USD 0.2
GBP/AUD 1.8 GBP/CAD 1.7 GBP/CHF 1.6
GBP/JPY 1.1 GBP/NZD 2.2 GBP/USD 0.7
NZD/CAD 1.0 NZD/CHF 0.9 NZD/JPY 0.6
NZD/USD 0.5 TRY/JPY 2.3 USD/CAD 0.5
USD/CHF 0.6 USD/CNH 5.6 USD/ILS* 33.6
USD/JPY 0.3 USD/MXN 40.7 USD/NOK 34.5
USD/SEK 26.9 USD/TRY 114.6 USD/ZAR 72.6
ZAR/JPY 0.4
Disclosure
*

USD/ILS is only available for MT4 accounts.

CFD AVERAGE SPREAD COSTS

With all FXCM account types, you pay only the spread to trade indices and commodities. Our enhanced index CFDs allow you to trade without stop and limit restrictions or re-quotes.

Instrument Spread Instrument Spread Instrument Spread
AUS200 1.76 CHN50 9.13 ESP35 8.01
EUSTX50 1.74 FRA40 1.09 GER30* 2.11
HKG33 9.01 INDIA50 2.51 JPN225 8.66
NAS100 1.30 SPX500 0.52 UK100 1.05
US2000 0.42 US30 2.26 VOLX 650.05
NGAS 0.01 UKOil 0.04 UKOilSpot 0.04
USOil 0.04 USOilSpot 0.04 Copper 0.003
XAG/USD 0.05 XAU/USD 0.41 BUND 0.03
CORNF 0.77 SOYF 0.77 WHEATF 0.79
EMBasket 4.84 JPYBasket 3.20 USDOLLAR 2.10
BCH/USD 3.24 BTC/USD 35.12 EOS/USD 0.02
ETH/USD 1.21 LTC/USD 0.32 XLM/USD 0.0002
AIRLINES 1.47 BIOTECH 1.76 CANNABIS 10.02
CASINOS 4.06 CHN.ECOMM 7.82 CHN.TECH 8.05
ESPORTS 1.70 FAANG 1.93 TRAVEL 6.73
US.AUTO 3.37 US.BANKS 1.17 US.ECOMM 4.23
WFH 7.64
Disclosure
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GER30 average spread displayed is for peak hours only (7:00-21:00 GMT). Effective from February 11th 2019, the GER30 remains open during off peak hours (0:30-7:00 GMT). Spreads may widen during off-peak hours, for more information on GER30 trading hours and spreads, please visit FXCM Help.

Cryptocurrency products are only available to Professional and Eligible Counterparty Clients.

Disclosure
1

Tax Treatment: The UK tax treatment of your financial betting activities depends on your individual circumstances and may be subject to change in the future, or may differ in other jurisdictions.

2

This is the average discount across our major pairs: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF, AUD/USD, EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY.

3

Monthly trading volume is the sum of all trades in terms of notional volume in USD for a given month. For example, if you trade 50,000k EUR/USD in one month at a rate of 1.20, your notional volume would be approximately 60,000,000 units of currency. As your monthly trading volume is above 50 million, as long as your account equity is above $25,000 for a given month, the commission per side per million would be $30 for trading in major currency pairs. The commission can be reduced to $25 per side per million for trading in major currency pairs if your monthly trading volume is above 150 million. If your trading volume is above 500 million, please contact FXCM. For the commission rate on other non-major currency pairs, please refer to standard rate card for details.

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EFX Access: You can receive the eFXPlus service for your live FXCM Account at no cost if you have a live FXCM account that has placed at least a singular trade this current month. If you do not meet this requirement at the end of the month, your subscription will be cancelled.

Commissions: Commission-based pricing is available on Active Trader account types. Commissions are charged at the open and close of trades in the denomination of the account.

Compensation: When executing customers' trades, FXCM can be compensated in several ways, which include, but are not limited to: spreads, charging fixed lot-based commissions at the open and close of a trade, adding a markup to the spreads it receives from its liquidity providers for certain account types, and adding a markup to rollover, etc.

Intermediary Markup: In some instances, accounts for clients of certain intermediaries are subject to a markup.

Average Spreads: Time-weighted average spreads are derived from tradable prices at FXCM from October 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. Spreads are variable and are subject to delay. The spread figures are for informational purposes only. FXCM is not liable for errors, omissions or delays or for actions relying on this information.

Active Trader Accounts: Active Trader accounts offers spreads plus mark-up pricing or spreads plus commission pricing depending on your equity level and trading volume.