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Is TRADEVIEW MARKETS a scam?

High risk (unverified)MEDIUM confidence
Offshore-regulated broker: cross-border solicitation and disputed fund clawbacks

Tradeview Markets is not a clone and not an unlicensed shell. Tradeview Ltd genuinely holds the Cayman broker-dealer licence it advertises, no regulator has made a finding of fraud against it, and no court record names it. We still rate it high risk at 52%, because of where it sells and how a 2025 balance dispute was handled.

  • The main licence is real. The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority's own list of Securities Investment Business licensees carries licence 585163 in the name Tradeview Ltd., as a Broker/Dealer, licensed on 4 April 2012. It is one of only 44 such licensees.
  • Five regulators have flagged the operation for taking clients it was not registered to take: Japan's FSA (December 2016), Spain's CNMV (2017), the Alberta Securities Commission (2023, naming tradeviewforex.com), Ukraine's NSSMC (2024) and Quebec's AMF (March 2025). None alleges fraud. All say the same thing: not authorised here.
  • Clients report balances being clawed back. At least five people from four countries describe funds deducted from their accounts on 28 and 29 July 2025 without trades, with figures such as 7,220 US dollars cut to 1,481, and 3,123.47 pushed to minus 30.39. The company's position is that these accounts carried debit balances and that it recovered its own capital.
  • Trustpilot has switched its rating off. The platform states the rating is unavailable due to a breach of its guidelines and that it removed a number of fake reviews for this company.
  • Two of the advertised authorisations do less than they look like. The UAE regulator prints a notice on this group's own entry saying the licence does not authorise spot FX or derivatives brokerage, and the EU entity's authorisation covers only reception and transmission of orders.

Safety verdict

Moderate risk
52%Scam risk
3.0/5Safety rating 3 out of 5
Wikilix safety rating
medium
Confidence
At a glance
Proof of regulationFound
Clone of another firmNo
TypeOffshore-regulated broker: cross-border solicitation and disputed fund clawbacks
Evidence items24

Risk scorecard

Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.

Worst area: High
SeverityLowModerateHighCritical

Regulation

7/10 · High

A genuine, current Cayman Broker/Dealer licence confirmed on the regulator's own licensee list caps this below the top band, but the deposit-holding licence is low-tier offshore with no compensation scheme, the EU permission covers order transmission only, the UAE licence expressly excludes brokerage, and five regulators list the operation as unregistered locally.

Identity & transparency

3/10 · Low

All six group entities, their numbers, addresses and websites are disclosed on the site and match what the Cayman, Labuan, Mauritius, UAE and EU registers hold, with the Labuan register independently confirming the address, a tvmarkets.com contact and the named principal officer.

Withdrawals & conduct

6/10 · High

A specific, time-clustered fund integrity pattern around 28 and 29 July 2025 with checkable amounts from several users, set against credible positive payout reports, public company responses with case references and a stated settlement of many of the accounts involved.

Reputation

7/10 · High

Trustpilot has suspended the rating for a guidelines breach and states it removed fake reviews, so the majority-positive picture is unreliable, and the firm carries published entries from five securities regulators.

Website claims

6/10 · High

No tier-one licence is falsely claimed and the group structure is disclosed, but a UAE licence the regulator says excludes brokerage and an order-transmission-only EU permission are listed as if equivalent to the Cayman dealing licence, a Peruvian company registration appears among the licences, no verification link is published, and 'Since 2004' predates the company by seven years.

Operational history

6/10 · High

Roughly fifteen years of verified track record, the younger of a 2004 brand domain and a company incorporated in December 2011, with a regulator licence running continuously since April 2012 and no gap or change of operator in the domain history.

Who they are

A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.

  • Brand: Tradeview Markets
  • Legal entity: Tradeview Ltd., a Cayman Islands company limited by shares, registry number 264661, incorporated 2 December 2011
  • Registered: c/o Harneys Fiduciary (Cayman) Limited, 4th Floor Harbour Place, 103 South Church Street, PO Box 10240, Camana Bay, George Town KY1-1002, Cayman Islands. Business address given as 13 Genesis Close, 4th Floor, Suite 422, Cayman Islands
  • Website: tradeviewmarkets.com, with tvmarkets.com redirecting to it, plus tradeviewforex.com, tradeview.eu and tradeviewmena.com
  • Main licence: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Securities Investment Business licence 585163, Broker/Dealer category only, dated 4 April 2012
  • Other authorisations: Malta (Tradeview Europe Limited, MFSA, order transmission only), Labuan (TVM Global Limited, money broking), Mauritius (iLC Brokers Ltd, investment dealer), UAE (Tradeview Financial Advisors L.L.C, Category 5 introduction and promotion), plus a Peruvian company registration
  • Offers: forex, stocks, futures, metals, crypto and options on MetaTrader, cTrader and its own platform, with margin trading
  • Not accepted: the United States and US Persons, per the site's own restriction notice
  • Age claim: the About page says 'Since 2004'. The brand domain tvmarkets.com was registered on 4 April 2004, but the contracting company dates from December 2011
  • Group footnote: a UK company, Tradeview Markets UK Limited (08648747, renamed from TVCM Limited in January 2025), is recorded as non-trading with a strike-off proposal pending. It holds no UK authorisation and the broker does not claim one
Global LEI record for TRADEVIEW LTD, validated against the Cayman Islands Registry of Companies as entity 264661, created 2 December 2011. Corporate existence only, not a trading licence.
The Tradeview Markets regulation page listing its six entities and registration numbers, published without any external verification link.
The Tradeview Markets homepage, showing the Tradeview Ltd. Cayman Islands footer, the regulator logos and the risk warning that losses can exceed the amount initially invested.

Regulation

Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.

Proof found

Proof of regulation on an official register: Yes

We confirmed this broker on a genuine regulator’s register.

Licences the broker publishes

Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA)

VerifiedTier 3
A full Securities Investment Business licence authorising broker-dealer activity, held by the company that contracts with clients and holds their money. Cayman supervises the licence but runs no investor compensation scheme for retail trading clients.
Protection: Real supervision of a licensed dealer, but no compensation scheme and no retail conduct regime comparable to the UK or Australia. Recovery in a failure would depend on insolvency proceedings.Official register

Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA)

VerifiedTier 2Limited relevance
An EU investment services authorisation held by Tradeview Europe Limited, company C 93990. The EU register records a single permitted service, reception and transmission of orders, so the entity may take client orders and pass them on but is not authorised to execute them or to deal on its own account.
Protection: An EU licence with investor compensation and conduct rules behind it, but limited to order transmission. Clients whose orders are routed onward to the Cayman company are exposed to that company, not to the Maltese one.Official register

Labuan Financial Services Authority (Labuan FSA)

VerifiedTier 3Limited relevance
A Labuan money broking licence held by TVM Global Limited. The number the broker publishes, LL15870, is the Labuan company number rather than a licence number; the regulator's directory lists the entity by name in its money broking category, with the address and principal officer matching the broker's own disclosures.
Protection: An offshore Malaysian regime intended for international business. Money broking is intermediation between counterparties and offers little protection for retail client deposits.Official register

Financial Services Commission (Mauritius)

VerifiedTier 3Limited relevance
A Mauritius investment dealer licence held by iLC Brokers Ltd, recorded on the regulator's register as SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer, Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting. The GB20025800 number the broker publishes is its global business licence number; the register shows the dealer licence itself dated 16 December 2020.
Protection: A genuine offshore dealing licence with capital and reporting requirements, but no compensation scheme and a different legal entity from the one most clients contract with.

Securities and Commodities Authority / Capital Market Authority (UAE)

VerifiedNot a forex licenceLimited relevance
A Category 5 licence held by Tradeview Financial Advisors L.L.C, covering introduction, promotion and advisory work. The regulator prints a notice on this entity's own register page stating that the licence does not authorise brokerage in derivatives, unregulated commodity contracts or spot foreign exchange, nor executing client orders or managing portfolios. It is therefore not a brokerage licence.
Protection: None for trading. It permits the company to introduce and promote in the UAE only, and the regulator says so explicitly on the entry itself.Official register

National Superintendence of Public Registries (SUNARP), Peru

UnverifiedNot a forex licence
A company registration for Tradeview Financial Markets S.A.C under Peru's General Law of Companies. It records that a company exists and is nothing to do with financial supervision, yet it appears on the broker's Regulation and Licenses page alongside its actual licences.
Protection: None. A company registration confers no authorisation to take deposits or trade for clients, and no protection whatsoever for client money.
UAE Capital Market Authority entry for licence CP-0000757 held by Tradeview Financial Advisors L.L.C, showing the licence active and the regulator's notice that it does not authorise spot FX or derivatives brokerage.
Labuan Financial Services Authority money broking directory listing TVM Global Limited, the Tradeview group's Labuan entity.
Alberta Securities Commission Investment Caution List entry for Tradeview Forex, added 9 June 2023, naming tradeviewforex.com and Tradeview Ltd.

Why we reached this verdict

How the evidence adds up.

We scored this broker at 52%, which is the weighted mean of the six dimensions below: regulation 7, identity 3 and withdrawals 6 each counted twice, reputation 7, website claims 6 and operating history 2 counted once. That lands it in the high risk band, above an ordinary offshore broker but well short of a scam finding.

  • The licence checks out, and that matters. The Cayman regulator's published list of Securities Investment Business licensees shows licence 585163 held by Tradeview Ltd., the same entity that contracts with clients, authorised as a Broker/Dealer since April 2012. The Labuan, Mauritius and UAE entries all resolved on their own regulators' registers too, each in the name of a group company the broker discloses on its site. No other firm's licence is being borrowed.
  • But the selling is wider than the licensing. Five securities regulators have published entries naming this operation. The Alberta Securities Commission names tradeviewforex.com and states that Tradeview Forex, 'also operating under Tradeview Ltd.', is not registered to trade in or advise on securities or derivatives in Alberta. Japan's FSA lists Tradeview Ltd for soliciting over-the-counter derivatives over the internet without registration. Quebec's AMF added Tradeview Ltd in March 2025, Ukraine's commission added the group's Peruvian entity in 2024, and Spain's CNMV listed Tradeview Ltd in 2017. That is a nine-year pattern, not one stale notice.
  • Two licences are presented more broadly than they read. The UAE Capital Market Authority prints a notice on this group's own register entry saying the holder is not licensed to conduct brokerage in derivatives, unregulated commodity contracts or spot foreign exchange, and that the Category 5 licence does not authorise trading operations or executing client orders. The EU register records a single authorised service for the Malta entity, reception and transmission of orders, which makes it an order router rather than the execution venue the 'Class 2 Investment Service Company' label suggests. The site lists both alongside its Cayman dealing licence without that distinction, and it lists a Peruvian company registration on the same page as its licences.
  • The July 2025 balance dispute is the most serious open question. Reviewers from Nigeria, Greece, the United Kingdom and Lithuania describe the same mechanism inside one window: funds deducted from live accounts on 28 and 29 July 2025 with no trades placed, several accounts pushed negative. The figures are specific and checkable, and an earlier report from Japan describes the same thing in October 2024, roughly 31,000 US dollars of swap profit on EURMXN positions reversed after the company said incorrect swap rates had been applied. The company's answer is that those accounts carried debit balances and that what it took back was its own capital, not client money, and that it settled with many of the clients involved. We cannot resolve that from outside, and the contract term it relies on is genuinely disclosed: the site's own risk warning says losses can exceed the amount initially invested.
  • The review record has been tampered with. Trustpilot has suspended the rating on 434 reviews and states that it removed a number of fake reviews for this company. That does not make the negative reports true, but it does mean the 73% five-star picture cannot be taken at face value, and paying for praise is a choice a firm makes.
  • What keeps the number out of the scam bands. The operating history is real and verifiable: a 2004 brand domain, a company incorporated in December 2011, a regulator licence from April 2012, roughly fifteen years of track record on the younger of the two legs. There is no clone, no fabricated licence number, no borrowed entity, no demand for an extra payment to release funds, and no enforcement action or fraud-related court record naming this group. The Alberta and Japan notices concern local registration, which is not the same as an allegation of theft, and we have not treated them as one.

Evidence ledger

Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.

12 against9 in favour
  • E1The Cayman regulator's own published list of Securities Investment Business licensees, effective 31 December 2025, records licence 585163 in the name Tradeview Ltd., licensed 4 April 2012, with the Broker/Dealer column ticked and no securities manager, advisor, arranger or market maker authorisation. It is one of 44 licensees on the list.

  • E2The EU register of investment firms, read from the register's own data service, records Tradeview Europe Limited with the Malta Financial Services Authority as competent authority, status Active, authorised from 22 December 2020, LEI 213800CJHS2WZDN8MT41, at 114/3 The Strand, Gzira.

  • E3The same EU register records exactly one authorised investment service for the Malta entity, reception and transmission of orders. It carries no permission to execute orders on behalf of clients and none to deal on own account, so the EU company routes orders rather than executing them. The broker's page describes it only as a Class 2 Investment Service Company.

  • E4The Labuan regulator's Financial Institutions Directory lists TVM Global Limited among money brokers, at Office 5, Jamie Business Center I, Unit F10, Paragon Labuan, with principal officer Mr. Kirk Ricardo Miller and contact email kmiller@tvmarkets.com. The address, officer and email all tie the licensed entity to the broker's own domain and published details.

  • E5The Mauritius regulator's Online Public Register returns iLC Brokers Ltd with a licence dated 16 December 2020 of type SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer, Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting, carrying no annotations for suspension or revocation.

  • E6The UAE regulator's entry for licence CP-0000757 shows TRADEVIEW FINANCIAL ADVISORS L.L.C as Active and prints a notice that the company is not licensed to conduct brokerage in financial derivatives contracts, unregulated commodity contracts or spot foreign exchange, and that its Category 5 licence does not authorise trading operations, portfolio management or executing client orders.

  • E7The Alberta Securities Commission Investment Caution List carries an entry added 9 June 2023 headed TRADEVIEW FOREX, stating that Tradeview Forex is also operating under Tradeview Ltd., that tradeviewforex.com has been associated with it, and that it is not registered to trade in or advise on securities or derivatives in Alberta.

  • E8The IOSCO aggregate of member regulators' alerts records warning 27085 from Quebec's Autorite des marches financiers naming Tradeview Ltd, published 24 March 2025. This is the most recent of the registration notices and shows the pattern continuing into 2025.

  • E9Japan's Financial Services Agency list of operators conducting financial instruments business without registration records Tradeview Ltd, noting it solicited over-the-counter derivatives transactions over the internet, that the service names used were TRADEVIEW MARKETS and TRADEVIEW, and giving the date as December 2016 with the operator located overseas.

  • E10IOSCO warning 6475 records Spain's Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores naming TRADEVIEW LTD, published 30 October 2017, the earliest of the European registration notices.

  • E11IOSCO warning 31849 records Ukraine's National Securities and Stock Market Commission naming Tradeview Financial Markets SAC, published 28 June 2024. That is the Peruvian entity the broker lists on its own regulation page, so the notice attaches to this group.

  • E12The Trustpilot profile for tvmarkets.com carries a warning that the company's rating is unavailable due to a breach of its guidelines, and states under Breach of guidelines that Trustpilot removed a number of fake reviews for this company. The profile holds 434 reviews, 54 of them in the last twelve months, split 73% five star, 11% four, 4% three, 4% two and 8% one star.

  • E13Five reviewers from Nigeria, Greece and the United Kingdom describe the same mechanism inside one window on 28 and 29 July 2025: funds deducted from live accounts with no trades placed. Reported figures include over 8,000 US dollars removed, a withdrawal to Binance reversed the next day with about 1,000 dollars deducted, a balance cut from 7,220 to 1,481, a balance of 3,123.47 taken to minus 30.39, and a claim of over 2.5 million dollars by a client of more than a decade who says deductions ran while positions were open.

  • E14An earlier report from Japan dated October 2024 describes the same mechanism: roughly 4,700,000 yen, about 31,000 US dollars, of swap profit on EURMXN positions held between 17 September and 15 October 2024 was reversed, with the company emailing the following day that incorrect swap rates had been applied and all swap-related profit removed.

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  • E15The same Trustpilot profile shows the company replying to each complaint, declining to discuss account specifics publicly, directing clients to a compliance mailbox and issuing individual case references. It also carries positive accounts from clients of several years reporting no issues with deposits or withdrawals.

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  • E16The Global LEI record for TRADEVIEW LTD, validated against the Cayman Islands Registry of Companies as entity 264661, shows the company created on 2 December 2011, legal form company limited by shares, entity status ACTIVE, registered at Harneys Fiduciary in George Town. The incorporation date sits four months before the CIMA licence date, with no sign of a dormant shell being reused.

  • E17Domain records show tvmarkets.com registered on 4 April 2004, tradeviewforex.com on 15 November 2007 and tradeviewmarkets.com on 18 June 2013, with the regional and entity domains ilcbrokers.com, tradeviewmena.com and tvmgloballtd.com all dating from 2019. The brand's presence accumulates over twenty-two years with no gap or change of operator.

  • E18The British Columbia Securities Commission Investment Caution List, searched for Tradeview, returns no matching records, so not every Canadian regulator has listed the firm.

  • E19The Labuan regulator's enforcement pages carry no entry for TVM Global or Tradeview, neither on the list of 31 licensed entities under business restriction dated 7 September 2026 nor on the list of 45 unregulated or unauthorised entities, so the Labuan licence is in good standing.

  • E20The broker's own regulation page lists six entries: CIMA 585163 for Tradeview Ltd., a Peruvian company registration 13089531 for Tradeview Financial Markets S.A.C, Labuan company LL15870 for TVM Global Ltd., Mauritius GB20025800 for iLC Brokers Ltd., a Malta Class 2 licence for Tradeview Europe Ltd. and UAE registration CP-0000757. It publishes no external verification link for any of them, and presents the Peruvian company registration alongside the financial licences.

  • E21UK Companies House records TRADEVIEW MARKETS UK LIMITED, number 08648747, incorporated 13 August 2013 at 30 Churchill Place, London, with status Active and an active proposal to strike off, SIC code 74990 for a non-trading company, and a previous name of TVCM LIMITED used until 2 January 2025. No UK authorisation is held or claimed.

  • E22The broker's homepage risk warning states that trading involves a high level of risk, that leverage magnifies both potential returns and potential losses, and that losses can exceed the amount initially invested. There is therefore no negative balance protection, which is the contractual basis the company relies on for recovering debit balances.

  • E23The IOSCO aggregate returns seven results for the keyword Tradeview, of which three belong to unrelated operations and must not be charged to this broker: two Facebook pages flagged by Thailand's SEC in November 2025, and TradeView Guild at tradeviewguilds.online flagged by the UK FCA in June 2025. None uses this broker's domains or entities.

  • E24The broker's About page advertises Since 2004 and names Timothy Furey as founder, stating the organisation has grown to nearly 200 staff worldwide from five or six when a senior manager joined in 2016. The 2004 claim precedes the incorporation of the contracting company by seven years, though the brand's oldest domain does date from April 2004.

IOSCO I-SCAN results for the keyword Tradeview, showing entries from the Quebec AMF, Alberta Securities Commission, Ukraine's NSSMC and Spain's CNMV alongside unrelated look-alike operations.

The other side

The strongest case in this broker’s favour.

The case for Tradeview Markets deserves to be put properly, because several parts of it are strong.

  • It is a genuinely licensed dealer, not a paper one. Cayman's securities regime has 44 Securities Investment Business licensees in total. Tradeview Ltd is one of them, with a Broker/Dealer authorisation running since April 2012, and the group has since added authorisations in Malta, Labuan, Mauritius and the UAE, each in a disclosed entity with an address that matches what the register holds. The Labuan regulator's directory even lists a tvmarkets.com contact address and names the same principal officer the company names on its own About page. That is unusually joined-up disclosure for an offshore group.
  • The regulator notices are about registration, not conduct. Every one of the five entries says a version of 'not authorised in our jurisdiction'. None contains a finding of fraud, a restitution order, a fine or an allegation that client money went missing. An offshore broker that accepts clients from Canada, Spain, Japan or Ukraine will collect exactly these notices whether or not it treats those clients well, and many well-known brokers carry them.
  • The balance clawback has a legitimate reading. Several of the July 2025 accounts appear to have gone into debit, and the company says it recovered its own capital rather than client deposits, repaid a number of the clients and signed settlement agreements with them. Its risk warning tells clients in plain words that losses can exceed the amount deposited, so there is no negative balance protection to rely on. The industry saw a wave of similar disputes in 2025 where traders stacked positions that profited from mispriced carry and then relied on negative balance protection to walk away from the downside. If that is what happened here, enforcing the debit balance is a contractual right, not theft.
  • The complaint cluster has planted-campaign markers. Four of the July reports were posted on the same day in August 2025, several from single-review accounts, and the company has publicly attributed them to a coordinated group of traders. A tight burst from new accounts after a quiet history is the classic signature of an organised push, and we would be wrong to ignore that just because the detail is specific. Specific detail is available to anyone who actually held the account.
  • The company answers in public. It replies to the complaints on Trustpilot, issues case references and directs clients to a compliance mailbox. There are also credible positive accounts, including clients of several years reporting that deposits and withdrawals worked normally, and the Lithuanian reviewer who could not see his withdrawal eventually received the money.
  • The age claim is largely supported. 'Since 2004' is not invented. The brand's oldest domain was registered in April 2004 and a second followed in 2007, so the name has been in continuous use for twenty-two years, even though the Cayman company behind it was incorporated in December 2011.

What would change this

What we would need to see to revise the verdict.

The verdict can change. Concrete things would move it in either direction.

  • Down toward appears legitimate: a published outcome from the Cayman regulator on the July 2025 deductions finding that the accounts were correctly settled; documented repayment of the clients who reported losses, with their reports withdrawn or resolved; Trustpilot restoring the rating after the guidelines breach is cleared; and the site correcting its regulation page to state that the UAE licence does not cover brokerage and that the Malta authorisation is limited to order transmission.
  • Down, more modestly: removal or lapse of the Alberta, Quebec, Spanish, Ukrainian and Japanese entries, or evidence that the group has stopped accepting clients from those jurisdictions and now geo-restricts them.
  • Up toward likely scam: any regulator or court finding that client funds were taken without contractual basis; a credible, specific demand for a further payment before funds are released, which is the advance-fee pattern and would be decisive on its own; a second independent platform showing the same July 2025 mechanism from different users; suspension, revocation or non-renewal of the Cayman licence; or a fresh cluster of reports that funds cannot be withdrawn at all.
  • Up, immediately: any warning naming tradeviewmarkets.com from a tier-one regulator such as the FCA, ASIC or the CFTC, rather than the registration notices currently on file.
  • What we could not settle: whether the July 2025 accounts genuinely carried debit balances. That turns on account statements held by the company and the clients, and neither side's version can be verified from public records.

Check it yourself

Official registers and warning lists. Verify every claim first-hand.

12 sources

CIMA list of Securities Investment Business licensees

The Cayman register as published; licence 585163, Tradeview Ltd., appears under the Broker/Dealer column.

ESMA register of EU investment firms

Search Tradeview Europe Limited to see the MFSA authorisation and the single service it covers.

Labuan FSA Financial Institutions Directory

Money broking list; TVM Global Limited appears with its Labuan address and principal officer.

FSC Mauritius Online Public Register

Enter iLC Brokers in the Name field to see the investment dealer licence and its date.

UAE Capital Market Authority entry for CP-0000757

Shows the licence is active and carries the regulator's notice that it does not permit spot FX or derivatives brokerage.

Alberta Securities Commission Investment Caution List

The Alberta entry naming tradeviewforex.com and Tradeview Ltd., added 9 June 2023.

Japan FSA list of unregistered financial operators

Lists Tradeview Ltd for soliciting over-the-counter derivatives online, dated December 2016.

IOSCO I-SCAN entries matching Tradeview

The global aggregate of member regulators' alerts; four of the seven results are this group.

Quebec AMF entry via IOSCO I-SCAN

Warning 27085, Autorite des marches financiers, naming Tradeview Ltd, published 24 March 2025.

Global LEI record for Tradeview Ltd

Corporate reality only, not a trading licence: Cayman registry number 264661, incorporated 2 December 2011.

Trustpilot reviews for tvmarkets.com

434 reviews with the rating suspended for a guidelines breach; the fund deduction reports sit in the one and two star filter.

Tradeview Markets regulation page

The broker's own list of its six entities and numbers, published without any external verification link.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about this broker’s safety.

13 questions
Is Tradeview Markets a scam?

No, not on the evidence we found. Tradeview Ltd holds a genuine Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Broker/Dealer licence, number 585163, listed on the regulator's own published list of licensees. It is not a clone and it is not using another company's credentials. We do rate it high risk at 52%, because five regulators have published entries saying it is not registered in their jurisdictions, and because clients reported funds being deducted from their accounts in July 2025.

Is Tradeview Markets a fraud?

No regulator or court has found that. There is no enforcement action, no fine and no fraud-related court record naming Tradeview Ltd that we could find. What exists is a set of client allegations about account deductions, which the company disputes, and five regulator notices about not being registered locally. Those are serious but they are not a finding of fraud, and we do not present them as one.

Is Tradeview Markets regulated?

Yes, in several places, though not all of those licences do what they appear to. The money-holding company, Tradeview Ltd, is licensed by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority as a Broker/Dealer. The group also holds a Malta investment services authorisation limited to receiving and transmitting orders, a Labuan money broking licence, a Mauritius investment dealer licence and a UAE Category 5 licence that the UAE regulator says does not permit brokerage.

Can I withdraw my money from Tradeview Markets?

Most reviewers say yes, including long-standing clients who report no trouble with deposits or withdrawals. However, in late July 2025 several clients reported that money was deducted from their live accounts without trades, in some cases taking the balance negative, and one 2026 reviewer could not see his withdrawal request in his account history for days before it was eventually paid. Withdraw in small amounts and keep your own statements.

Is my money safe with Tradeview Markets?

Treat it as at risk. The Cayman Islands does not operate an investor compensation scheme for retail trading clients, so if the firm failed there is no statutory fund to repay you. The company also states in its own risk warning that losses can exceed the amount you initially invested, meaning there is no negative balance protection and you can be left owing money.

Who owns Tradeview Markets and where is it based?

The contracting company is Tradeview Ltd, a Cayman Islands company limited by shares, registry number 264661, incorporated on 2 December 2011. Its registered office is held through Harneys Fiduciary in George Town, and the business address given on the site is 13 Genesis Close, Suite 422, Cayman Islands. The About page names Timothy Furey as founder and Kirk R. Miller in senior management, and the Labuan regulator independently lists Kirk Ricardo Miller as principal officer of the group's Labuan company.

How old is Tradeview Markets?

About fifteen years as an operating business, measured on the younger of its two legs. The brand's oldest domain, tvmarkets.com, was registered on 4 April 2004 and tradeviewforex.com followed in 2007, but the Cayman company was only incorporated in December 2011 and licensed in April 2012. The site advertises 'Since 2004', which the domain record supports for the name but not for the company.

Why do five regulators list Tradeview?

Because it accepts clients in countries where it holds no local registration. Japan's FSA listed Tradeview Ltd in December 2016 for soliciting over-the-counter derivatives online, Spain's CNMV in 2017, the Alberta Securities Commission in June 2023 naming tradeviewforex.com, Ukraine's commission in June 2024 and Quebec's AMF in March 2025. None of these entries alleges that client money was stolen. They say the firm is not authorised to deal with residents there, which means you would have no local protection.

What happened in July 2025?

Clients from Nigeria, Greece and the United Kingdom reported that on 28 and 29 July 2025 funds disappeared from their accounts without any trades being placed. Reported figures include a balance of 7,220 US dollars reduced to 1,481, a balance of 3,123.47 taken to minus 30.39, and a claim of more than 2.5 million US dollars from a client of over a decade. The company's position is that these accounts carried debit balances, that it recovered its own capital rather than client funds, and that it settled with a number of the clients involved.

Why is the Trustpilot rating missing?

Trustpilot has suspended it. The page states that the company's rating is unavailable due to a breach of its guidelines and that Trustpilot removed a number of fake reviews for this company. The profile still shows 434 reviews with 73% at five stars, but that distribution cannot be read at face value given the platform's own finding.

Is Tradeview Markets a clone of another broker?

No. Its identity matches the registers. The licence numbers the site publishes resolve to companies in the group's own names, the Cayman register entry matches the legal entity on the website, the Labuan regulator lists a tvmarkets.com contact address for the group's Labuan company, and no regulator has issued a clone warning about this brand. Unrelated operations using similar names do exist, including a Facebook page flagged by Thailand's regulator and a site called TradeView Guild flagged by the FCA, and neither belongs to this broker.

Is Tradeview Markets related to TradingView?

No. They are separate companies and the broker's own About page says so explicitly. TradingView is a charting and analysis platform. Tradeview Markets is a broker holding client money. The similar names cause frequent confusion.

What should I check before depositing with any broker like this?

Four things. Which legal entity your account contract names, and in which country. Whether that entity's licence actually permits dealing, not just introducing or passing on orders. Whether your own national regulator has published anything about the firm. And whether there is a compensation scheme if the firm fails. On this broker, the answers are Cayman Islands, yes for the Cayman entity only, yes in five countries, and no.

Scan history

How this broker’s safety assessment has changed across scans.

2 scans

What changed since August 7, 2026

Several input facts are now documented that were not on file before.

  • Company registration completed: Tradeview Ltd is recorded as Cayman registry number 264661, incorporated 2 December 2011, previously held without a number or date.
  • A sixth authority added: the UAE Capital Market Authority, formerly the SCA, licence CP-0000757 held by Tradeview Financial Advisors L.L.C, a Category 5 licence which the regulator states does not authorise FX or derivatives brokerage. A Peruvian company registration (13089531, Tradeview Financial Markets S.A.C) is also now recorded as a company registration rather than a licence.
  • Licence details filled in: the Labuan authorisation is held by TVM Global Limited (company LL15870) and the Mauritius one by iLC Brokers Ltd, which the register shows as a SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer licence dated 16 December 2020.
  • Two further group domains recorded: tvmgloballtd.com and ilcbrokers.com, plus tvmarkets.com, which redirects to the main site.
  • Five further social profiles recorded on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, alongside the LinkedIn page already on file.
  • Regulator entries newly documented: Quebec's AMF (24 March 2025), Ukraine's NSSMC (28 June 2024) and Spain's CNMV (30 October 2017), in addition to the Alberta and Japanese entries.
  • Review platform status changed: Trustpilot now shows the company's rating as unavailable for a breach of its guidelines, stating that it removed a number of fake reviews.
  • A UK group company surfaced: Tradeview Markets UK Limited (08648747), renamed from TVCM Limited in January 2025, recorded as non-trading with a strike-off proposal pending.
  1. October 11, 2026CurrentHigh risk (unverified)52% risk
  2. August 7, 2026High risk (unverified)40% risk

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What we recommend

The practical takeaway from everything above.

Our advice

If you are considering Tradeview Markets, or already have money with it, take these steps.

  • Check which entity your account is actually with before you deposit. The Cayman company holds the dealing licence and the client money. The Malta, Labuan, Mauritius and UAE companies are separate, and the UAE one is not licensed for brokerage at all. Read the client agreement to see which one you are contracting with, because that determines who you can complain to.
  • Assume no compensation scheme. Cayman does not run an investor compensation fund for retail trading clients. If the firm fails, there is no statutory pot to pay you back. Size your deposit so that losing all of it would not matter to you.
  • Read the debit balance clause, and take it literally. The company states that losses can exceed what you deposit, and it has acted on that. Avoid strategies that depend on carry, swap credits or mispriced rollovers, because that is the pattern the 2025 clawbacks hit.
  • Keep your own records. Download statements and trade confirmations weekly, screenshot your balance, and keep every support ticket. The clients who could state exact figures and dates are the ones whose reports carry any weight.
  • Withdraw in small amounts early. Test the payout route with a modest withdrawal before building a balance, and do not leave profits sitting on the platform.
  • If funds have already been deducted: write to the firm's compliance address demanding a written breakdown of every adjustment with timestamps, then complain to the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, which supervises licence 585163. If you were solicited from Alberta, Quebec, Spain, Japan or Ukraine, tell your own regulator as well, since each has already published an entry about this operation. Do not sign a settlement and release until you understand what you are giving up.
  • Ignore anyone offering to recover your money for a fee. Recovery services that charge upfront are themselves a scam pattern, and victims of fund disputes are their main target.

This is an independent assessment of risk, not a legal ruling. Scores and verdicts follow the Wikilix broker-safety methodology and can change as new evidence appears. Review scores are treated with caution when a broker’s reviews look manipulated. Last reviewed October 11, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.

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