How do I find a broker that is good at providing forex trading (i.e. foreign exchange / currency)?

External question — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: William Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/7302 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. How do I find a broker that is good at providing forex trading (i.e. foreign exchange / currency)? Where should I look to learn about what brokers have in terms of brokerage, leverage, and software platforms?

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Vitalik Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/7350 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I find this website to be a good start to understand what factors to look for. Other than that "good" is a very subjective. Here are some of the factors mentioned at that site: Regulation Data security Dealing spreads Commissions and fees Order types Currency pairs Deposit required Account types Leverage Margin requirements Trading platforms Mobile trading Algorithmic trading Market alerts Support Information resources Dealing desk access

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: poolie Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/11126 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. In general, how I choose a provider or product is: Make a short list of ones that seem popular or worth looking at. By looking at their web sites, make a spreadsheet or document listing features, range of products, response times, rates, fees and other costs, and any other factors on which you might want to choose between them. Think about which of these you actually care about: many providers offer features that just may not be relevant to you. Make some estimates of how I would use the service (eg how many trades, how much money) and multiply that out to get the cost to use each one. Ideally this would be based off a larger investment plan for why you are doing forex (or whatever) at all, which includes a statement about you putting x% of your income into it every n months, or holding it at about y% of your total assets. If possible create a free account on them and try out the software and user interface. I think this is better than relying on someone else's subjective report that it's easy or fast. Pick the one that seems to have the features I need at the lowest cost with a decent interface, and start using it. Normally you can close out or transfer financial accounts without an enormous expense so there's no point over-optimising. If it's not actually good in practice you can go somewhere else.

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Marsellus Wallace Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/11161 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Brokerage Review in one of my favorite sites for these kind of things. It has very useful information about many online brokerage companies and it provides pros and cons for each of them. It sometime has links to offers or introduction packages. The website suggests Zecco Forex as the best one for currency trading.

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Stephane Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/11216 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I would advise you to look at ECN brokers first. Then look for online reviews about these ECNs brokers. Best to see what existing traders think about such companies before opening an account. Read what they say about customer service, withdrawal time and fees (deposit is usually not a problem) and trading platform. Also, your broker must have Metatrader trading platform if you want a better trading experience or in case you want an expert advisor made to assist you in your trading.