Brokers Based in the United States: 107 on Record

WIKILIX has 107 brokers on record with a registered address in the United States, and this page ranks all of them by overall score. The list runs from century-old Wall Street names to app-era newcomers. Jefferies Financial Group leads with a score of 89, ahead of the asset manager T. Rowe Price at 87.9 and the futures broker StoneX Group at 85.7. The median score across the 107 is 50.4, so the bottom half of the table holds a very different class of firm from the top.

What a United States address means here, and what it does not

Being based in the United States is a statement about where a company keeps its head office, and nothing more. It does not promise that the firm is authorised by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and it does not promise that the firm will open an account for someone living in the United States. Several of the largest retail brokers that do accept American clients are registered offshore, so a domicile list like this one never shows them. Some entries here are institutional houses and market makers such as Citadel Securities and Brown Brothers Harriman, which do not take retail traders at all.

The oldest firm on the list, StoneX One, traces its corporate roots to 1866, and 22 of the 107 opened before the year 2000. That heritage tail is one reason the median sits where it does: an old clearing broker and a two-year-old proprietary-trading shell both qualify as United States firms, and both are counted here.

How the ranking is ordered

Order follows the WIKILIX score, highest first. That score leans on how many licences a firm holds and how long it has operated, so the cross-licensed veterans rise to the top. Forty of the 107 hold registrations with two or more of the authorities we track, and they cluster near the front. T. Rowe Price alone shows six: the SFC in Hong Kong, the SEC and FINRA at home, the FCA in Britain, Canada's CIRO and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

What United States oversight actually buys a trader

For retail foreign-exchange trading, the regulators that matter are the National Futures Association and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Their rules are strict. A member forex dealer must hold twenty million dollars in adjusted net capital and keep client money apart from its own. Retail forex leverage is capped at 1:50 on the major pairs, a limit worth remembering when you read the grid. Twenty-two of the firms here carry an NFA registration, and the two best-known retail names among them, FOREX.com and OANDA, list maximum leverage of 1:200 and 1:50 on their records. The higher figure reflects business booked outside the American cap.

Securities brokers answer instead to the SEC and FINRA. That is why a discount broker such as Firstrade shows those two licences rather than an NFA number, and why an SEC registration on the grid tells you a firm can deal in stocks, not that it is cleared to offer you leveraged currency trades.

The firms you will not find on this list

Fifty-six of the 107 carry a clean regulation status on our records. The other fifty-one do not, and they fall into familiar groups: 26 have no regulation recorded at all, 16 are flagged as suspicious clones of licensed firms, five are marked as having exceeded their permissions, and four are noted as operating offshore despite the American address. Ten entries show only a FinCEN money-services registration and nothing beside it. A FinCEN listing means a company has told the Treasury it moves money. It is not a trading licence, and reading it as one is a common and costly mistake.

Before you act on anything here, a few checks specific to a United States address:

• Confirm a firm's NFA or CFTC status directly in the NFA BASIC tool, using its registration number rather than its brand name.
• Read which legal entity your account is actually with. A US parent often books retail clients through an offshore subsidiary that carries weaker protection.
• Check whether the licence you care about covers securities (SEC, FINRA) or futures and forex (NFA, CFTC), because one does not stand in for the other.
• Treat a lone FinCEN registration as a warning sign, not a credential.
• Match the registered address against the regulator's public record before you send any money.