Exness Review

CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Trading is risky. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Exness has steadily grown globally in recent years into a major forex broker offering a unique blend of services across multiple account types and platforms, despite its narrow product range of barely a few hundred tradeable CFD symbols.

The biggest drawback is that Exness doesn’t accept retail clients in its more regulated European-licensed entities, located in the U.K. and Cyprus, leaving non-institutional clients to sign up under its offshore entities in the Caribbean and Africa.

Minimum Deposit: $10 _info
Trust Score: 81
Tradeable Symbols (Total): 209

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Exness pros & cons

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Innovative web platform with drag-to-modify order features.
Wide forex coverage with 96 pairs and flexible account types.
MetaTrader, Trading Central, and social trading all supported.

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Research content is limited and lags behind top-tier brokers.
Narrow product range with under 250 total tradeable symbols.
Spreads on Standard Cent accounts are higher compared to other account types.

My top takeaways for Exness in 2025:

I enjoyed using the Exness Terminal web platform due to its minimalist design, featuring quick management of pre-trade and post-trade order types when trading.
Exness’s Pro account offers both instant and market execution.
Exness offers two levels of swap-free account statuses that are preferable to different trading activities, such as day trading versus holding positions overnight.
Exness’s U.K. and Cyprus licensed entities – its only Tier-1 licenses – do not accept retail clients.
The minimum for social trading at Exness is $500 to copy-trade a strategy provider and $2,000 to become a strategy provider, which can be a hurdle.

Trust score

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Trust Score

Exness is considered Trusted, with an overall Trust Score of 81 out of 99. Exness is not publicly traded, does not operate a bank, and is authorised by two Tier-1 regulators (Highly Trusted), three Tier-2 regulator (Trusted), zero Tier-3 regulators (Average Risk), and three Tier-4 regulator (High Risk). Exness is authorised by the following Tier-1 regulators: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and regulated in the European Union via the MiFID passporting system. Learn more about Trust Score.

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Feature
Year Founded _info	2008
Publicly Traded (Listed) _info	No
Bank _info	No
Tier-1 Licenses _info	2
Tier-2 Licenses _info	3
Tier-3 Licenses _info	0
Tier-4 Licenses _info	3

Range of investments

Although the range and availability of CFD products will depend on the Exness entity that holds your account and the specific account type you choose, there are generally 96 currency pairs for forex trading, 10 indices, 18 commodities, 10 cryptocurrencies, and over 90 stock CFDs.

While Exness offers a smaller range of tradable products than the industry average, it still has the most popular products to help meet the majority of its clients’ needs. However, if you are looking to trade a product that Exness doesn’t offer you will of course need to use a different broker.

Cryptocurrency: Cryptocurrency trading is available at Exness through ten different CFDs, but not the underlying asset (e.g., you can’t actually purchase and hold bitcoin). Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum CFDs against the U.S. dollar are obtainable, and the other seven CFDs trade bitcoin against various other currencies or commodities like the Japanese yen or gold.

Feature
Forex Trading (Spot or CFDs) _info	Yes
Tradeable Symbols (Total) _info	209
Forex Pairs (Total) _info	96
U.S. Stocks (Shares) _info	No
Global Stocks (Non-U.S. Shares) _info	No
Copy Trading _info	Yes
Cryptocurrency (Underlying) _info	No
Cryptocurrency (CFDs) _info	Yes
Disclaimers	Note: Crypto CFDs are not available to retail traders from any broker’s U.K. entity, nor to U.K. residents (except to Professional clients).

Exness fees

Exness offers an extensive selection of account types with five primary offerings: two standard accounts and three professional accounts. Note that there are also two specific social copy trading account types, Social Standard and Social Pro, with their own trading conditions for those who wish to share their trading strategies for easy copying.

The trading costs will depend on the account type you select, as the two commission-based accounts have lower spreads compared to the commission-free accounts. All account types use market execution, except for the Pro account which offers both instant and market execution methods.

Standard Cent: This account has the highest spreads, comparably, and more restrictive risk management in terms of margin stop-out levels, and offers market execution.

Standard: Similar to the Standard Cent account, this one has slightly better spreads, less restrictive margin stop-out levels, and offers market execution.

Pro: The Pro account has even lower spreads than the other two commission-free accounts and you can switch between instant (dealer, or market maker) and market (agency) execution.

Zero Spread: Exness’ “zero spread” account charges a per-trade commission of $3.5 per side ($7 per round turn) and provides market execution, with no restrictions on leverage or stop-out, although margin calls trigger at 30%.

Raw: The Raw account also charges a per-trade commission of up to $7 per round turn lot ($3.5 per side) and features lower spreads with market execution, no restriction on leverage or stop-out, and a 30% trigger on margin calls.

Exness accepts deposits in different cryptocurrencies, available from within the client portal under its wallet section.

Active Trader program: Exness offers a Premier Program with various perks available depending on your total lifetime deposits and quarterly trading volumes, akin to an active trader program.

While there are no discounts in spread or commissions, there are three tiers: you qualify for Preferred if your total accrued deposits are at least $20,000 with $50 million or more in trading volume per quarter, Elite if you have at least $50,000 in deposits and $100 million or more in volume, and Signature if you have at least $100,000 in deposits and $200 million or more in volume. All tiers provide priority customer support, exclusive educational content, and trading analytics, along with special promotions and rewards from Exness. The benefit to the higher tiers are lifestyle benefits, such as access to events and unique experiences.

While some lifestyle perks can be valuable depending on your style and tastes, I am more of a fan of discounts on trading costs for active traders and believe educational content should be free regardless of the need to recoup the costs of providing such content to traders.

Feature
Minimum Deposit _info	$10 _info
Average spread (EUR/USD) – Standard account _info	N/A
All-in Cost EUR/USD – Active _info	N/A
Non-wire bank transfer _info	No
PayPal (Deposit/Withdraw) _info	No
Skrill (Deposit/Withdraw) _info	Yes
Bank Wire (Deposit/Withdraw) _info	Yes

Mobile trading apps

Alongside the full MetaTrader suite, including both MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5), Exness offers its flagship mobile app, the Exness Trade app for Android and iOS Devices.

Exness Trade app: The Exness Trade app is available on the App Store for Apple iOS devices, and on Google Play for Android. The mobile app closely resembles the web platform, and has a good balance of features for trading, charting, and market analysis.

MetaTrader: The MT4 and MT5 mobile apps come standard for Android on the Google Play Store and on the Apple App Store for iOS devices. To learn more, read my full guide about MetaTrader.

Exness MetaTrader 5 mobile trading from charts.

Trading from the chart on the MetaTrader 5 mobile app, accessed through Exness’ offering.

Social Trading App: The Exness Social Trading app is dedicated to supporting the three social trading accounts at Exness, available for Android devices on the Google Play Store. However, due to a country restriction I was unable to test the app (even with a VPN). See my overview of the web app version below.

Overall, Exness has made slow but steady progress in innovating its Exness Trade app and Social Trading app, bringing several useful features and touches to the trading experience. Still, the Exness Trade mobile app has a way to go to catch up to the best brokers for mobile trading.

Feature
Android App _info	Yes
Apple iOS App _info	Yes
Mobile Price Alerts _info	Yes
Mobile Watchlists – Syncing _info	No
Mobile Charting – Draw Trendlines _info	Yes
Mobile Research – Economic Calendar _info	Yes
Mobile Charting – Indicators / Studies _info	35

Trading platforms

In addition to offering the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platforms, Exness also provides its Terminal web platform which features robust charting and order types in an otherwise minimalist design.

MetaTrader: Both the MT4 and MT5 offerings at Exness are plain and vanilla – what you would expect out of the box. The main difference for the broker is the available range of markets and trading costs (spreads, plus any commission) depending on the account type you choose.

Exness Terminal: The flagship trading platform at Exness is its web app Terminal which has a few neat features in an otherwise plain design featuring TradingView charts. For example, while it’s common for many of the best platforms to feature the ability to drag-to-modify your stop-loss and limit-order for an open position, on Terminal you can do it on a pre-trade basis in addition to modifying an open position on a post-trade basis. You also have Trading Central integrated into the watchlists, and within the charts themselves, with a directional arrow to indicate potential trading signals.

Exness’s Terminal web trading platform showing a variety of trading instruments.

Exness Terminal Charts: Charts in Terminal are strikingly similar to TradingView and feature two subtle additions that I appreciated which could easily be overlooked: including the integrated analysis from Trading Central and economic calendar events.

The calendar events within the Exness Terminal charts can be clicked on once they appear as their respective source country flag, revealing the event details, whereas to see the analysis from Trading Central you have to click on an arrow within a green or red square and the article appears as a hovering window. Overall, these are both nice touches to otherwise powerful charts, loaded with over 100 indicators and almost as many drawing tools.

Exness Social Trading: The web app for social trading provides details such as maximum drawdown and monthly returns, and a simplified performance statistic metric called Trading Reliability Indicator which averages the safety score and Value at Risk (VaR) of each provider.

Performance metrics like these are common in the best social copy trading platforms and I was pleased to see them included in the Exness Social Trading platform, although additional parameters and settings could be helpful to filter across the 3,288 available providers. For example, it is easy to find the most copied providers and “best” strategies but not the least copied or worst performing ones, which can result in a database bias when sorting through providers.

The Exness Social Trading offering has potential but needs some important refinements, including potentially moderating the claims made by providers which more strict regulators could frown upon. For instance, I came across one strategy called “Risk Free Forex” and another called “Forex safe 2,” which can be misleading strategy names – since forex trading always involves a high level of risk. The Forex safe 2 strategy provider describes its strategy as “forex safe profits second strategy very safe welcome everyone,” yet had a maximum drawdown of -42.81% at one point despite showing an overall return of 35% as of July 8th, 2024, with a medium trading reliability of 61 out of 100, per Exness.

Feature
Virtual Trading (Demo) _info	Yes
Proprietary Desktop Trading Platform _info	Yes
Desktop Platform (Windows) _info	Yes
Web Platform _info	Yes
Copy Trading _info	Yes
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) _info	Yes
MetaTrader 5 (MT5) _info	Yes
Charting – Indicators / Studies (Total) _info	107
Charting – Trade From Chart _info	Yes

Research

Exness has been a long-time provider of Trading Central to complement its in-house research offering, including videos with technical and fundamental market analysis. Headlines from FXStreet also stream within the Exness MetaTrader platform suite, client portal and in the web platform.

Market news headlines from FXStreet within the Exness research feed.

Video content: Beyond third-party video content and articles, there is the weekly market outlook with commentary from in-house analysts. These videos are also available on the official Exness YouTube channel.

Overall, I found the research content to possess good production quality. However, adding more videos and research articles will help boost Exness’s rating in this category as it otherwise lags behind the best brokers for research. For example, the Exness Blog isn’t updated as frequently as brokers that produce dozens of daily content pieces. Expanding the quantity of content, if it remains just as high-quality, would be a welcome addition.

Feature
Daily Market Commentary (Articles) _info	Yes
Forex News (Top-Tier Sources) _info	Yes
Autochartist _info	No
Trading Central _info	Yes
Client sentiment data _info	Yes

Education

While Exness doesn’t stand out in this category it has a good foundation and potential to improve, with a combination of quality articles and videos, despite its limited range of each when it comes to client education. For instance, much of the educational content from Exness is mixed alongside research articles on its Blog. Having a dedicated section for educational content and eventually courses could be one path for Exness to improve in this category.

Team Pro: There is a group of nearly a dozen traders under the “Team Pro” at Exness who share their methodologies in an influencer-educator style with Exness customers. While I enjoyed much of the content and it is certainly well-crafted, it did appear partly promotional and not purely educational. The promotional aspect – which may just be incidental – is that you can follow and copy some of these Team Pro trader’s live positions via Exness’s social copy trading platform.

Beyond the sales pitch, I enjoyed much of the content from the Team Pro, despite a few unbalanced claims. However, it’s worth noting that some of them claim to be full-time traders willing to share their experience with Exness clients, so while it could be a mutually beneficial relationship for the broker, its educators, and its traders, clients must be aware of the potential conflicts of interest at play.

Potentially misleading claims: An example of some of the claims that could be considered unbalanced or misleading made by its Team Pro were statements describing Exness as the only broker to allow you to specify your risk or profit in pips or as a percentage from the trade ticket in their platform. The truth is that many brokers have already offered such basic features in their platforms for years. I also heard the claim that the negative balance protection Exness offers doesn’t allow your account to go negative, even though this could indeed happen if a volatile enough market anomaly or gap occurs. Even if Exness is willing to bring a client’s account back to zero, this assertion assumes Exness would be sufficiently capitalized to do so which might not always be the case. Despite these concerns to keep in mind, Exness could still be great for beginners as well as more experienced traders.

Overall: Some of Exness’s content is positioned as relevant to current events, such as “Japan’s economic evolution and how to trade JPY in 2024,” but this type of content can also be evergreen in the sense that it could still be relevant years later. Overall, the educational content is mixed in with other blog content including research. While it does have filters to switch between them, it would be great to see a dedicated educational portal or academy section where Exness could build out its related content as it remains thin compared to the best brokers in this category.