easyMarkets

easyMarkets Broker Overview

easyMarkets is a CFD and options broker that dates its brand to 2001, and its Australian company was formerly called easy-forex Pty Ltd. The brand is run by several companies, and the one a client signs with depends on where the client lives: easyMarkets Pty Ltd in Australia and Easy Forex Trading Ltd in Cyprus hold ASIC and CySEC licences confirmed on the regulators' registers, while two companies named EF Worldwide Ltd hold offshore licences in the British Virgin Islands and Seychelles. Clients can trade on the broker's own easyMarkets platform and app, on TradingView, or on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, and on the EU site every retail account opens from 25 US dollars with no commission.

easyMarkets Regulation and License

Each licence below was confirmed on the regulator's own register on 22 October 2026:

• easyMarkets Pty Ltd (ACN 107 184 510), Sydney, Australia: Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) 246566 from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), current and in force since 26 March 2004. It authorises the company to deal in and make a market in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts and to give general advice on them, for retail and wholesale clients.
• Easy Forex Trading Ltd, Limassol, Cyprus: Cyprus Investment Firm licence 079/07 from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), dated 29 May 2007, covering reception and transmission of orders, execution of orders on behalf of clients and dealing on own account.
• EF Worldwide Ltd, Road Town, British Virgin Islands: listed as currently regulated on the Investment Business list of the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC), under Dealing as Agent and Dealing as Principal. The register shows no licence number; SIBA/L/20/1135 is the number the broker gives.
• EF Worldwide Ltd, Providence, Seychelles, a separate company with the same name: on the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA) list of securities dealers. The list shows no licence numbers; SD056 is the number the broker gives.
• EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd (2023/187587/07), South Africa: financial services provider authorisation 54018 from the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), effective 28 June 2024, for Category I derivative instruments as an intermediary only, with no advice authority. The register shows no licence to act as the counterparty on client trades, although the broker's own pages describe it as an FSCA licence.

The ASIC and CySEC licences are onshore; the British Virgin Islands and Seychelles licences are offshore. Separately from its licence, easyMarkets Pty Ltd's company registration, with incorporation on 26 November 2003, was confirmed on ASIC's company register data and ABN Lookup on 22 October 2026.

Is easyMarkets Regulated?

Yes, though which regulator stands behind an account depends on where the client lives. The Australian site is run by easyMarkets Pty Ltd under its ASIC licence, residents of the EU and the European Economic Area other than Spain deal with Easy Forex Trading Ltd under CySEC, and the registration form routes residents of other countries to the group's other companies, among them the two EF Worldwide Ltd companies, which hold only offshore licences.

Is easyMarkets Safe?

Whether easyMarkets is a safe choice depends mostly on which of its companies holds the account, and on terms that give the broker wide discretion. On the EU site, all accounts carry negative balance protection, and the broker discloses that 73% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with it. Professional clients give up part of that protection: the broker states that they are not eligible for the Investor Compensation Fund, the Cyprus scheme that covers eligible retail clients up to 20,000 EUR per client and never trading losses, and that the Cyprus product intervention measures do not apply to them. Clients of the offshore EF Worldwide Ltd companies have no investor compensation scheme, and EF Worldwide Ltd's client agreement sends a dispute that arbitration cannot settle to the courts of the British Virgin Islands, under BVI law (clause 29.1).

easyMarkets Pty Ltd's product disclosure statement says it acts as market maker and sets its own prices, which may diverge significantly from the underlying market, and that it may directly benefit when a client loses on a deal (clause 12.17). Its client agreement lets it cancel any profits after a Default Event (clause 25.1), which it decides in its sole discretion and defines to include scalping, placing opposing orders, accounts sharing a device or IP address and failing to respond to its correspondence (clause 1.1). The broker's app pages for India and Japan state that EF Worldwide Ltd is not supervised by the regulators of those countries and that the site is not aimed at their residents.

easyMarkets Account Types

The EU site publishes five retail accounts: one for the easyMarkets platform, app and TradingView, with fixed spreads, and a Standard and a VIP account on each of MT4 and MT5, with floating spreads. All five have a 25 US dollar minimum deposit, a 0.01 lot minimum trade, no commission and a choice of 18 account currencies; the VIP accounts differ from Standard in their tighter spreads.

Two Professional accounts, one for the easyMarkets platform and TradingView and one for MT4 and MT5, are open to clients who meet two of three tests: trades of significant size averaging 10 per quarter over the previous four quarters, a portfolio including deposits above 500,000 EUR, or at least one year in a professional position in the financial sector. The Professional page states no minimum deposit.

easyMarkets Spreads, Commissions and Fees

On the EU site, EUR/USD spreads start at 0.6 pips fixed on the easyMarkets platform and TradingView, and at 1.2 pips on MT4 and MT5 Standard or 0.6 pips on VIP, both floating. A separate VIP page advertises fixed spreads from 0.6 pips, although the comparison table lists the VIP accounts as floating. Guaranteed stop loss with no slippage, offered only on the easyMarkets platform and TradingView, is activated with a wider spread.

The account comparison shows zero account fees, but the EU client agreement charges a dormant fee of 25 US dollars, or the free balance if lower, every six months after 12 months without transactions, and 5 US dollars a month on closed accounts that hold no payment details; the Australian product disclosure statement sets the same 25 US dollar dormant fee (section 13.2). An Islamic account is available on request for religious reasons, with swaps still charged on MT4 and MT5 positions held for more than 14 days, and on cryptocurrency positions after 7 days. On its proprietary platforms, easyMarkets Pty Ltd charges rolling fees daily, three times on Wednesdays, and takes them from the client's credit card when the account balance cannot cover them (client agreement clause 13).

easyMarkets Leverage

Retail clients on the EU site get up to 1:30, in line with ESMA rules, and ASIC's product intervention order holds retail clients of easyMarkets Pty Ltd to 1:30 on major currency pairs and less on other assets, down to 1:2 on crypto assets (client agreement clause 27). Professional clients on the EU site can reach up to 1:400 on currencies on the easyMarkets platform and TradingView, and up to 1:2000 dynamic leverage on currencies on MT4 and MT5, with lower caps on metals, commodities, indices, shares and cryptocurrencies. EF Worldwide Ltd's trading credit rules cap leverage at 1:200 for a client trading with a bonus, and allow profits above the initial deposit to be cancelled if the client exceeds it.

easyMarkets Trading Platforms

The broker's own easyMarkets platform runs on the web and as an app for iOS and Android, carries its in-house tools such as easyTrade and Inside Viewer, and is the only platform offering vanilla options. Clients can also connect an easyMarkets account to TradingView on the web, desktop and mobile, or use MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, which support Expert Advisors and are downloaded after registering. On its EU site the broker offers CFDs on currencies, metals, commodities, indices, shares and cryptocurrencies, with more than 150 instruments on MT4 and more than 135 on MT5.

easyMarkets Deposits and Withdrawals

EU clients can fund with Visa, MasterCard and Maestro cards, Neteller, Skrill, bank wire transfer, and iDEAL in the Netherlands. Card and e-wallet deposits are instant, iDEAL takes up to an hour and a wire one working day. The broker says it charges no fees to fund or withdraw, but its EU client agreement makes the client bear the charges when profits are returned to an e-wallet (clause 4.11.6).

On the EU site, withdrawals are processed within one business day once identity checks are complete, and the money then takes 3 to 10 business days to arrive, depending on the destination and the client's bank. Funds go back to the original deposit method, with any amount above the deposits sent by another method; withdrawals to a bank account have a 50 US dollar minimum, and there is none for cards or e-wallets. easyMarkets Pty Ltd's client agreement sets no fixed payment time and excludes liability for delays in funds arriving (clause 29.5), and it caps a client's combined available balance at 500,000 US dollars, with profits above that to be withdrawn before the end of each month (clause 23).

easyMarkets Support

EU clients can call +357 25 828 899, where phone support runs 24/5, email eusupport@easy-markets.com, or use live chat on the site; WhatsApp (+357 99 248 926) and Facebook Messenger chat run Monday to Thursday 08:00 to 21:00 and Friday 08:00 to 24:00, Cyprus time. The Australian site lists a 24/5 free call desk on 1800 176 935 and +61 2 9299 9466 for international callers. Under the EU client agreement, a complaint goes first to customer support and then, in writing, to the Compliance Officer at eucomplaints@easy-markets.com, and each complaint receives a reference number in an initial response, generally within five business days. Australian clients can also take a dispute to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), of which easyMarkets Pty Ltd is member 11740.

easyMarkets Pros and Cons

Pros:

• ASIC and CySEC licences confirmed on the regulators' registers
• A 25 US dollar minimum deposit and no commission on the EU accounts
• Fixed spreads, guaranteed stop loss and vanilla options on its own platform, alongside TradingView, MT4 and MT5
• Negative balance protection on every EU account

Cons:

• Clients routed to EF Worldwide Ltd trade under offshore licences, without an investor compensation scheme
• easyMarkets Pty Ltd can cancel profits after a Default Event that it defines at its own discretion
• A dormant fee in the client agreements, although the account comparison shows zero account fees
• Charges on profits returned to an e-wallet, although the funding page promises no fees

easyMarkets Review and Assessment

easyMarkets is a long-established brand whose Australian and Cyprus companies hold ASIC and CySEC licences, while offshore companies serve most other clients. For EU clients it combines low entry costs with fixed spreads, guaranteed stop loss and vanilla options on its own platform, plus TradingView, MT4 and MT5. The most important check before funding an account is which easyMarkets company will hold it, because the CySEC, ASIC and offshore companies work under different rules, and the client agreements are worth reading for the dormant and e-wallet charges and for the circumstances in which profits can be cancelled.