Brokers With 1:100 Maximum Leverage

One hundred and sixty-nine of the brokers WIKILIX has on record set their maximum leverage at exactly 1:100. That shared ceiling is the only thing this page selects on, and it is a telling one. A cap of 1:100 sits above the 1:30 limit the FCA and EU regulators impose on retail accounts, but it stays well under the 1:500 and 1:1000 ratios offshore firms advertise. It is the middle setting, and the firms that pick it turn out to be a mixed crowd rather than a tidy shortlist.

Sorted by WIKILIX score, the eight highest-scoring firms look like this. The score column and the recorded status column are shown together on purpose, because on this page they often disagree.

The firm with the highest score here, FX Connect, is also recorded with no regulation on file, which is exactly why score alone is a poor way to read this group. Swissquote, by contrast, carries five separate licences and a clean status. The oldest name on the whole list, KAGAWA Securities of Japan, has been trading since 1944 and still caps its clients at 1:100.

Where these brokers sit, and how they are supervised

Two places dominate. Thirty-two of the 169 are headquartered in Hong Kong, most of them gold and bullion houses licensed by the Hong Kong Gold Exchange, and twenty are Indonesian futures brokers licensed by BAPPEBTI. That regional weighting is the real character of the 1:100 group. It reads far less as a roster of the large global names than as a directory of Asian regional firms.

• Eighteen hold a licence from the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
• Forty-five hold licences from two or more separate authorities.
• Sixty-two opened before 2010, and the median WIKILIX score across the group is 35.1 out of 100.
• Thirty-nine carry no regulation on record, eleven are flagged as suspicious clones, sixteen are marked offshore, and six as exceeding their permitted scope.

WIKILIX records a single maximum leverage figure for each firm, the highest ratio it offers across the products it lists. Individual instruments are often capped lower than the headline number, so a 1:100 firm may still restrict a specific currency pair or a volatile index to less.

What a 1:100 cap does and does not tell you

Leverage of 1:100 means a deposit controls a position one hundred times its size. A 1,000 dollar balance can hold a 100,000 dollar position, and a small move against it clears the balance quickly. The cap describes the risk a broker is willing to let a client take. It says nothing about whether that broker is well run or properly licensed, which is the trap in reading any leverage list as a ranking of quality.

The onshore and offshore split matters more than the ratio. A 1:100 account at an FCA or ASIC entity is offered under a supervised regime, usually to clients who qualify as professional. The same ratio at a firm registered only in an offshore jurisdiction carries none of that backing, and more than forty names on this page hold nothing beyond an offshore registration or no licence at all.

Before you open a 1:100 account

• Check which legal entity the 1:100 cap belongs to. A group can run an FCA arm at 1:30 and a separate offshore arm at 1:100, and it is the offshore one you would be contracting with.
• Read the recorded status on each card before you read the score. A high number next to a clone or no-regulation label is a warning, not a recommendation.
• Confirm the licence on the regulator's own register. This page shows the licences WIKILIX has on record as of today, and a register entry can be an appointed representative rather than a full authorisation.
• Ask whether 1:100 is your only option or the firm's ceiling. Some brokers here offer lower ratios on the same account, which cuts the risk without changing broker.

One thing this page will not tell you is which of these firms accepts clients from your country. The list is built from company records and licences, not from account-opening rules, so a broker can appear here and still turn away residents of your jurisdiction. It also leaves out any broker whose maximum leverage WIKILIX has not recorded, so absence from this page is not evidence a firm avoids 1:100.