OANDA is one of the longest-established brokers in the industry, a silent forex broker giant standing out among the top 10 largest retail brokerages. OANDA’s uninterrupted growth from as early as 1996 is benchmarked by excellent customer service and a unique trading experience provided to clients. Lowest spreads and high leverage are accompanied by unique risk management tools.

AvaTrade is one of the top CFD and forex brokers around. It offers four trading platforms, which should suit traders at all skill levels, plus the assurance of regulation by several reputable regulators. AvaTrade offers the widest variety of CFDs on various financial instruments: forex, stocks, indexes, ETFs. We found AvaTrade great for their mobile trading app, copy trading, best for their pricing and education.

HYCM or Henyep Capital Markets is a brokerage firm regulated by several financial authorities globally, including the UK Financial Services Authority (FCA) and the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). Forex and CFD trading fees offered by HYCM are comparatively low in the commission-based account. The company offers a wide selection of high-quality educational tools.

With a parent organization (Jefferies Financial Group) traded on the NYSE stock exchange, FXCM stands out as a brokerage of choice for algorithmic traders. In addition to an expectedly rich variety of forex and CFD instruments (stocks, commodities, indices, crypto), the firm has redefined the market of API trading. While boasting its integration with TradingView.

Founded in 1977, Interactive Brokers is a publicly listed giant (NASDAQ: IBKR), highly trusted due to being regulated in eight tier-1 jurisdictions (USA, Canada, Japan, UK, etc). The firm offers the widest range of markets for trading, while the availability depends on clients’ residence. Interactive Brokers stands out for its high-quality education suite - Traders’ Academy and Insights, as well as a unique sophisticated trading platform.

IC Markets is known for competitive spreads and fees, a solid range of industry-leading trading platforms (MT4, MT5, cTrader), support of algorithmic trading and excellent customer service.
Founded in 2007 in Australia, the brokerage has always been keenly invested in high-quality service, market research and education products, which secured IC Market’s position in the list of the world’s top companies and a great reputation among beginner forex traders.

Qtrade is of the biggest online brokerages in Canada and North America that offers stocks, bonds, options, commission-free ETFs, mutual funds, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) and new issues (IPOs). You can also opt for over-the-counter (OTC) stocks, rights and warrants. We’d specifically note a huge variety of ETFs on the Canadian and US exchanges, more than a hundred commission-free ETFs available from iShares, SPDR, Desjardins, Horizons and Vanguard.

Founded in 2006, FxPro offers a wide range of trading platforms: MT4, MT5, cTrader, and own proprietary FXPro Trading app, in both desktop and mobile versions. Forex and CFD trading conditions are competitive, the speed of light No Dealing Desk Execution gets your trade done in under 14 milliseconds.
The users’ most appreciated are FxPro's research and insights tools - basic daily fundamental research, cool multilingual webinars, and Trading Central-backed technical analysis.

When it comes to Social Trading and Copy Trading in forex, eToro is your primary choice. The trading platform interface is super slick and intuitive, allowing you to copy the experienced investors’ trades or to share your own ones while receiving a commission. The number of instruments is overwhelming - over 3,000, including forex, CFDs, and exchange-traded securities. Users from all over the globe praise eToro’s Smart Portfolios and indemnity insurance of up to EUR 1 million per client.