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Narrow 10 tested brokers by the things that actually decide whether an account suits you — who regulates it, what it costs, which platforms it runs, and whether it will onboard you at all. Then tick up to four and put them side by side.
Most traders compare brokers in the wrong order. They start with the headline spread, open an account, and only discover months later that withdrawals take a week, that their strategy is quietly restricted, or that the entity holding their money is not the one whose licence they checked. The order that works is the opposite: eliminate on the things you cannot change, then optimise on the things you can.
Your country of residence decides which legal entity may onboard you, and that entity decides your leverage cap, your compensation-scheme cover and your dispute route. A broker with five licences may still route you to its offshore arm. Filter by regulator first, confirm the entity name on the account-opening form, and check that name against the regulator's own public register before you fund anything.
Minimum deposit, swap-free availability, cent accounts and demo access are binary: either the broker offers what you need or it does not. These filters are cheap to apply and they usually cut a long list in half. If you need a genuinely swap-free account, verify that the broker does not simply replace swaps with an equivalent administration fee.
A raw-spread account at 0.1 pips plus $7 per round turn costs roughly 0.8 pips all-in — more than a 0.6-pip commission-free account for a trader placing few, larger trades, and far less for a scalper placing dozens a day. Our EUR/USD figures convert commission into pips so the two models are directly comparable, but the right answer still depends on your own trade frequency and size. Sort by cost, then sanity-check the number against your own expected volume.
If you run Expert Advisors, a proprietary-only broker is disqualified no matter how well it rates. If you trade discretionary swing positions from charts, MetaTrader's ageing interface may cost you more in friction than it saves in spread. The platform filter exists to make this a two-second decision rather than a two-week regret.
Once you are down to two to four candidates, use the compare tray. The matrix marks the best value in every measurable row and shades the cells that differ from your reference broker, so the trade-offs are visible in one screen instead of four browser tabs. When a row is identical across your shortlist, it is not a decision factor — hide it with the “show differences only” toggle and focus on what actually separates them.
Still not sure where to start? The Broker Finder quiz asks six questions and scores every broker against your answers with a transparent, published weighting.
Up to four. Tick the Compare box on any broker card and the tray at the bottom of the screen keeps your selection as you filter, sort or move between pages. The comparison matrix highlights the best value in every measurable row and shades the cells that differ from your first pick.
Yes. Every filter, the sort order and the grid/list choice are written into the page URL, so copying the address bar shares exactly what you are looking at. Your browser's back and forward buttons step through your filter history.
It is the average spread over a full trading week plus any round-turn commission, converted to pips at $10 per pip per standard lot. That makes commission-based raw-spread accounts directly comparable with spread-only accounts. The figures in this build are illustrative sample data, not measurements.
A handful of the brokers we cover are futures or options specialists rather than spot FX or CFD venues. They quote contract commissions instead of spreads, so the EUR/USD column shows N/A and they sort last when you order by cost.
No. The overall rating measures the quality of the trading environment, not its fit with your situation. A 5.0-rated US futures broker is useless if you live in South Africa and want swap-free MetaTrader accounts. Use the filters — or the Broker Finder quiz — to narrow by fit first, then rank by quality.