Top 10 Best Forex Brokers in Costa Rica 2026: Compare Fees, Leverage & Regulation

A field journal, not a sales sheet. This guide is written as entries from a coffee-growing season in the Central Valley: planting, rain, picking, drying, selling. Each entry is a lesson about the best forex brokers in Costa Rica in 2026: how to compare them, what to ask, what to fear. The people in the journal are composites, nothing here is advice, and a name in the list is a place to start research, not a recommendation. 🇨🇷☕

⚠️ Legal caution for readers in Costa Rica: investment services in Costa Rica fall under SUGEVAL, the securities supervisor, while banks and many financial groups are overseen by SUGEF, and both institutions publish warnings about unauthorised offers. Many online brokers market to Spanish speakers from offshore bases, and a licence elsewhere does not by itself authorise a firm to deal with people living in Costa Rica. Tax treatment, bank rules for overseas payments and consumer protections can all differ from what a broker's website suggests. Speak to your bank and to a Costa Rican lawyer or accountant before acting. This page does not claim that any firm named below may lawfully serve residents.

🌱 Entry One: Planting — What Are You Actually Buying?

A coffee farmer knows the crop: seed, soil, water, time. A trader should know the product the same way. Retail forex through a broker is a contract for difference. You and the firm agree that the firm will pay or collect the change in a currency price between opening and closing. You never take delivery of colones, euros or dollars. Margin is a deposit that keeps the contract open, and leverage is the ratio between the contract's full size and that deposit. With a ratio of 1:100, a one percent move against you takes the whole margin. Public statistics from European supervisors have long reported that roughly three quarters of private accounts lose. Learn that figure before you learn any chart pattern. 🌱

🏦 Entry Two: Rain — Paying In and Getting Paid Out

Costa Ricans earn in colones and spend in a mix of colones and dollars, and many contracts, rents and cars are priced in dollars. A broker account in dollars therefore feels natural, but each conversion carries a margin. Before any deposit, write to your bank. Ask what documents an overseas payment to a trading company needs, whether the bank will process it, which fee it charges and whether it will answer in writing. Ask separately about card payments, because banks may reject merchant categories. Ask the broker how withdrawals reach you, how long they take and whether the same method that funded the account is required for the return. Never send money to a private person or an anonymous wallet. 🌧️

🧺 Entry Three: Picking — Ten Names to Research

The firms below are names that people in Costa Rica may meet online. They are listed as homework, in no order of merit. For each one, the only reliable answers are on its registration page and in the client agreement: which legal entity would contract with a Costa Rican resident, who regulates it and whether it accepts residents at all.

1. FP Markets 🔴 — offers a Standard account and a Raw account with commission. Open the FP Markets page and write down which entity the Costa Rican form assigns you
2. JustMarkets 🟢 — notable for cent-style accounts where very small trade sizes are possible. Check the JustMarkets account types and minimums before the harvest weekend ends
3. Exness 🟡 — a large global name with several account types; confirm the country menu and the entity. See whether Costa Rica appears in the Exness registration country list and log the entity shown
4. Pepperstone 🟠 — an Australian-founded firm pairing narrow spreads with a commission.
5. IC Markets ⚪ — markets itself to active traders on raw pricing.
6. XM 🟣 — micro accounts and recurring promotions.
7. OANDA 🟤 — an old name with a lot of research material.
8. Axi ⚫ — MetaTrader accounts for retail traders.
9. HFM 🔶 — tiered accounts across several asset classes.
10. Plus500 🟦 — a proprietary platform rather than MetaTrader.

Note down for each: entity, regulator, licence number, accepted countries, minimum deposit, typical spread in your hours, commission, swap and the funding and withdrawal methods. 📋

☀️ Entry Four: Drying — Testing Costs Slowly

Beans dry in the sun over days, and cost tests need days too. Open a demo with each shortlisted firm and trade the same pair in the Asian morning, the London open and the New York afternoon. Costa Rica sits on Central Standard Time all year, UTC−6, with no daylight saving, so the London open falls in the early morning and the US data releases arrive mid-morning. Record the spread you actually see, add commission, and convert the sum into a cost per trade at your intended size. Note slippage during a data release. A published average that you rarely see is decoration. ☀️

⛈️ Entry Five: Storm — Leverage and the Weekend Gap

A storm in the mountains can ruin a harvest in an afternoon. Leverage can ruin an account just as fast. Prices can jump over your stop between Friday night and Monday morning, and whether a broker covers a negative balance depends on the entity. Keep rent, tuition, healthcare and loan instalments outside the fund. Size each position so that a miss costs about one percent of the account, set a monthly loss ceiling and stop for the day after two losses in a row. ⛈️

🚨 Entry Six: Pests — Scams That Target Costa Rica

Costa Rica's profile as a stable, English-friendly country has made it an address for many online investment schemes, and its residents are also targets. Be wary of a "manager" who calls repeatedly, shows screenshots of gains and presses you to deposit more, of social-media mentors who ask you to pay a person, of recovery services that charge up-front fees to retrieve lost money and of anyone who asks to share your screen. Four refusals cover most cases: do not pay a fee to release your own balance, do not send funds to individuals, do not give remote access and do not join schemes that pay you for recruiting. If you paid, tell your bank and the authorities the same day. 🚨

🧾 Entry Seven: Selling — Paper, Tax and Records

Keep monthly statements, deposit receipts, withdrawal confirmations and a trade log in a folder. Ask a Costa Rican accountant how trading gains and losses are treated for your situation. If your bank asks about a payment, answer truthfully and in full; if you cannot explain the transfer in one sentence, do not make it. 🧾

🧭 Entry Eight: Choosing a Staged Plan

Stage one is demo and study for thirty days. Stage two is verification: the entity, the regulator, the bank's written answer. Stage three, only if all of it is lawful and clear, is a small live test with an amount you could lose entirely. If any stage fails, stay where you are. "Not yet" is an acceptable result. 🧭

✅ Closing Entry: Which Is Best?

No broker is best for every farmer. Weigh the contracting entity, the all-in cost, whether paying in is lawful for you, the platform and whether Costa Rican residents are accepted at all. Compare, test and keep records. ☕

🌋 Entry Nine: Volcano Ash — What Sudden Moves Look Like

Anyone who has lived near Poás or Arenal knows that the ground can surprise you. Prices surprise too. Central banks announce rates, employment figures land, a geopolitical headline breaks and a currency pair travels fifty or a hundred pips in seconds. At such moments spreads widen, orders fill at worse prices and platforms may lag. A beginner's mistake is to hold a full-size position into such an event hoping for a jackpot. Read the calendar, note the release times in Costa Rican time and either stay flat or shrink the position to something you would not mind losing entirely. The ash settles in an hour; the account does not recover as quickly. 🌋

🐒 Entry Ten: Monkeys in the Mango Tree — Distraction

On a farm in Monteverde, a troop of monkeys can strip a tree while the farmer is looking elsewhere. Distractions strip a trading account the same way: a chat group, a notification, a video that promises a secret. List the three distractions that most often make you trade without a plan and remove them from the device you trade on. Mute groups, disable alerts that are not about margin or stops and set a fixed trading window, say ninety minutes, outside which the platform stays closed. A narrow window keeps your attention where the money is. 🐒

🛖 Entry Eleven: A Day With Marta, a Composite Accountant in Heredia

Marta works in an accounting office. She has heard from a cousin that forex can earn dollars on the side. On Monday she writes down what she wants: not to quit her job, only to understand. On Tuesday she reads her bank's terms for international transfers and finds that she needs a letter describing the purpose. On Wednesday she opens a demo and sets the balance to the amount she would accept to lose, about two weeks of her electricity and phone bills. On Thursday she notices that her demo trades follow no rule. On Friday she writes one: risk one percent, stop after two losses. By the end of the month she has twenty-six journal entries and a clearer idea of her own temper. She still has not deposited anything, and she considers the month well spent. 🛖

🛵 Entry Twelve: Diego, a Delivery Rider Who Trades Between Orders

Diego rides in San José and tries to trade during pauses between orders. He opens positions on his phone at red lights and in the rain. His losses mount from slips, partial attention and late stops. After a bad week, he decides to separate his days: riding in the morning, demo-trading at home in the evening. His trade count falls by two thirds and so do his losses. The lesson is not that phones are bad. The lesson is that trading needs the same attention that riding in traffic needs, and you cannot give both at once. 🛵

🏖️ Entry Thirteen: Guanacaste and the Expat Market

Beach towns in Guanacaste and the Pacific coast host many foreign residents, remote workers and retirees. Some are paid in dollars or euros, some are tax resident elsewhere and many receive advice from friends in other countries. Their situation can differ from yours. If a neighbour says "I use this broker and it works great," ask which entity serves them, where they are tax resident and what rules apply there. Do not assume your position matches theirs. The same caution applies to real-estate agents or lawyers who hand out investment tips as a sideline: ask for their regulatory credentials and for written terms. 🏖️

🧑‍🏫 Entry Fourteen: Students at the Universidad de Costa Rica

Students of economics and statistics have an advantage: they can read papers rather than tweets. Use that advantage. Read a central bank's explanation of how interest differentials influence currencies. Test a simple moving-average strategy on historical data with realistic costs and watch it fail or survive. Present the findings to classmates and let them criticise. A shared demo journal, with each member reviewing the others' entries, builds discipline faster than any paid course. If you do open a live account later, treat it as a research tool funded with a small amount. 🧑‍🏫

💱 Entry Fifteen: The Colón, the Dollar and the Hidden Spread

Banks and exchange houses in Costa Rica quote buy and sell rates for the colón against the dollar, and the gap between them is a cost. If you convert colones to dollars to fund a broker, then convert back after withdrawal, the combined gap can outweigh weeks of trading spreads. Compare at least two banks, ask about fees for international transfers and consider whether a dollar account at your bank is available and sensible. Write a small table: amount in colones, rate at which you bought dollars, rate at which you might sell them back and the fee at each step. The numbers often sober a beginner more than any warning does. 💱

🧮 Entry Sixteen: A Worked Example in Dollars

Suppose you set aside the equivalent of 600 dollars. Conversion and transfer costs take about 3 percent, so 582 dollars arrive. You trade micro lots on a pair with a combined spread-and-commission cost of about 1.2 dollars per trade and take twenty trades in the month, costing 24 dollars. Overnight swaps add 6 dollars. If your trades are break-even before costs, the account is now 552 dollars. A withdrawal fee of 5 dollars and a second conversion at 3 percent leaves roughly 530 dollars. You are down about 70 dollars, nearly twelve percent, without a single losing trade. If you traded sixty times, costs would climb sharply. Costs are the opponent you meet first. 🧮

🔍 Entry Seventeen: Five Questions for Support

Write to each firm and ask: which legal entity contracts with clients in Costa Rica, which regulator licenses it and what is the licence number; where are client funds held and are they segregated; is negative-balance protection offered for this entity; what are all fees including inactivity and withdrawal; and how are complaints handled. Save the replies. Time how long they take and whether they answer the question asked. Verify the entity on the regulator's register. Evasive answers are answers. 🔍

🪪 Entry Eighteen: Reading an Agreement Like a Contract of Sale

Before you accept terms, read at least these sections: client categorisation, execution policy, margin-call and stop-out levels, treatment of bonuses, the right to amend terms, dispute resolution and governing law. Note whether the agreement is with an entity in a distant jurisdiction and what that means for any complaint. If you do not understand a clause, copy it, ask support to explain in writing and keep the answer. 🪪

🥭 Entry Nineteen: The Bonus That Is Not Free

A deposit bonus or "credit" may carry a trading-volume condition before you can withdraw anything. A forty percent bonus that requires a volume equal to many times your deposit may cost more in spread than it gives. If you cannot compute the effective cost, decline the bonus. A plain account without conditions is often cheaper than a generous-looking one. 🥭

📵 Entry Twenty: When the Signal Drops

Rural areas, mountain roads and storms can disrupt connectivity. Hold positions only if you can monitor them or if you have server-side stops. Keep a power bank, a second data plan and the broker's phone number written on paper. Do not travel with open leveraged positions during unstable connectivity. 📵

🗓️ Entry Twenty-One: A Season Calendar for the Cautious Beginner

Weeks 1-2: read the legal notices of SUGEVAL and SUGEF, write the bank letter and learn the vocabulary. Weeks 3-4: demo trade at least ten sessions and record each. Weeks 5-6: shortlist two firms, send the five questions and compare the replies. Weeks 7-8: test costs on demo at three times of day. Week 9: decide whether a live test is lawful and affordable. Week 10 onwards: if you proceed, use only the amount you pre-set, keep daily and monthly limits and review each week. If a step fails, repeat it rather than skip it. 🗓️

🐢 Entry Twenty-Two: Turtle Nesting and the Discipline of Waiting

On the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, volunteers wait through long nights for turtles to arrive, and they do not interfere once the nest is dug. Waiting is a skill. In trading, the equivalent is the flat position: no trade because no setup meets your rules. Beginners feel that doing nothing is wasteful. It is not. A trader who takes three well-chosen trades a week and waits through the rest often has lower costs and clearer records than one who takes thirty impulsive ones. Count the days you stayed out as wins when they were the result of discipline. 🐢

🍃 Entry Twenty-Three: Pura Vida and the Limits of Optimism

Optimism is a national treasure, and in trading it needs a counterweight. "It will turn around" is a sentence that has emptied many accounts. Replace it with a rule: if price reaches the stop, the idea was wrong and you leave. Optimism can live in your daily life. In your risk plan, let arithmetic speak. 🍃

🚌 Entry Twenty-Four: Commuting From Alajuela to San José

Long commutes tempt people to trade from the bus. A cramped screen, spotty signal and half attention are all poor conditions. Use the ride for reading and journal review. Place no orders, and if you must adjust a stop, do it only to protect capital. Take decisions at a desk, and let the phone carry only the alarm. 🚌

👪 Entry Twenty-Five: Family Money and Family Peace

Money shared with relatives deserves special care. Do not borrow from family for trading. Do not trade the family's savings. If a spouse or parent does not know you are trading, tell them. Surprises about money rarely end well. Agree an upper limit with someone you trust, and let that person ask you at month-end how things stand. Keeping trading funds separate from household accounts avoids the quiet drift of spending. 👪

🧠 Entry Twenty-Six: The Four Biases of the Farm

Anchoring is clinging to the price you paid. Loss aversion is holding a losing position because closing it makes the loss real. Overconfidence follows three wins in a row. Recency bias treats last week as the future. Each has a counter: base decisions on current price and plan, use fixed stops, reduce size after winning streaks and look at at least a hundred trades before drawing conclusions. Naming a bias in the journal makes it easier to notice the next time. 🧠

🧰 Entry Twenty-Seven: Tools Worth Having

A spreadsheet for the journal, a position-size calculator, an economic calendar with local time, a phone alarm for the daily stop and a notebook for the bank and broker correspondence. Nothing in this list costs money and each prevents a category of error. Advanced tools can wait until the basics are routine. 🧰

🧪 Entry Twenty-Eight: How to Test a Strategy Honestly

Write the rules in full: entry, exit, stop, size and the conditions under which you will not trade. Apply them to at least a hundred past chart situations with realistic spreads and commissions. Record results without peeking ahead. Then apply them to demo trades in real time for another month. If results hold up after costs, the idea deserves a small live test. If not, change one variable and start again. Honest testing is slow and unglamorous, which is why most people skip it. 🧪

📈 Entry Twenty-Nine: Why Past Winners Mislead

A trader with an impressive three-month record may have taken large risks that happened to pay. Judge records by drawdown, number of trades and consistency, and not by return alone. Ask whether the record is verified by a third party and whether it includes fees. Be sceptical of any screenshot, and more so when it comes from someone who profits from your sign-up. 📈

🤝 Entry Thirty: Affiliate Links and Honesty

Pages like this one may earn a commission when you register through a link, which can create a bias. Treat any page, including this one, as a starting point and check claims at the source. If a site hides how it is paid, be wary. If a site tells you which firm is "number one" without explaining criteria, ask why. Your best defence is your own list of questions and written replies. 🤝

🧘 Entry Thirty-One: Breathing Before Clicking

Before each order, take a slow breath and read your plan aloud: setup, stop, target, size. If you cannot say it in a sentence, do not place the order. This simple pause blocks a good share of impulsive trades. Over a month, the number of trades falls, the quality tends to improve and costs drop. 🧘

🧯 Entry Thirty-Two: Emergency Plan

Decide in advance what you will do if the account falls by your monthly ceiling: stop, withdraw what remains if you wish, review the journal and take a week away. Decide what you will do if a broker fails to process a withdrawal: collect documents, write to support, complain to the regulator named in the agreement and tell your bank. Decide what you will do if you feel the urge to chase losses: close the platform and call a friend. Write all three plans down now, while calm. 🧯

🌄 Entry Thirty-Three: Sunrise Review

Each Sunday morning, before coffee is cold, read the week's journal. Count rule breaks, total costs and the emotions you recorded. Choose one change for next week, only one. Over a season, small weekly changes accumulate into a style that fits your temperament. Nothing dramatic happens, and that is the point. 🌄

🎤 Entry Thirty-Four: A Few More Questions

Can I trade with a tiny budget? Yes, but costs per trade can eat a larger share of a small account, so keep trade counts low.

Should I use maximum leverage? Higher leverage increases the speed of losses. Many beginners are better served by lower effective leverage than the maximum offered.

Is a bank transfer safer than a card? Neither is safe by itself. Safety lies in the entity you pay and the legality for you; confirm both.

How do I know a review is honest? Look for disclosure of payment, criteria and negative findings. A review without any criticism is an advertisement.

What if my bank refuses? Accept it. Do not look for a workaround; ask what would be acceptable and consider whether trading is right for you at all.

When should I stop? When you break your own limits twice in a month, when money meant for obligations is at risk, or when trading stops being something you control. 🎤

🏞️ Entry Thirty-Five: Rivers Run Both Ways

A river in Costa Rica can be gentle in the morning and a torrent by afternoon. Volatility behaves the same. Quiet weeks lull beginners into larger sizes, and the first storm punishes them. Measure the typical daily range of your pair over the last month and over the last year. If the recent range is much smaller than the longer-term range, assume the quiet will end and keep size modest. Rivers return to their beds, and sometimes only after flooding the road. 🏞️

🪴 Entry Thirty-Six: Compound Growth Is Slower Than You Think

Online adverts show a small sum doubling every few months. Honest arithmetic is gentler. If you earn two percent a month after costs, which is far above what most people achieve, a thousand dollars becomes about twelve hundred and seventy after a year. If you lose two percent a month, you end near seven hundred and eighty. Both outcomes are far from a fortune. The difference between them lies in costs and discipline, not in a secret. Aim to learn first and to avoid ruin; return can come later or never. 🪴

🛡️ Entry Thirty-Seven: What Protection Does and Does Not Mean

Terms like "segregated funds", "negative-balance protection" and "investor compensation" appear in broker marketing. Each has limits. Segregation means client money is held apart from company money, and it does not stop you losing in trades. Negative-balance protection means you will not owe more than your deposit, if the entity offers it and under stated conditions. Compensation schemes may exist for some jurisdictions and not others, and may not cover a resident of Costa Rica dealing with an offshore entity. Read the specific clause, not the slogan. 🛡️

📬 Entry Thirty-Eight: Keeping a Paper Trail

Save every email with a broker as a PDF, record dates of deposits and withdrawals and keep screenshots of terms as they stood on the day you accepted them. If a dispute arises, the person with the neatest folder has the strongest position. Back the folder up in two places. 📬

🥾 Entry Thirty-Nine: Hiking Rules Apply

Hikers tell someone where they are going, carry water and turn back when the weather changes. Traders can borrow all three rules: tell a trusted person your plan and limits, hold a reserve that is not in the account and leave the market when conditions or emotions change. Turning back is not failure. It is how people keep walking for decades. 🥾

🧵 Entry Forty: Weaving the Whole Together

The season began with understanding the product, then moved through payments, comparison, cost testing, risk, scams, paperwork and habits. Strung together, these are the real "best forex broker" criteria: a lawful relationship, honest costs, safe funds, clear support and a trader who knows their own limits. A firm that meets the first four and a person who meets the fifth have a chance to learn something useful without damaging their life. If any link is missing, pause. ☕

🌟 Entry Forty-One: One Last Reminder About Timing

Costa Rica keeps UTC−6 all year. Major forex activity peaks when London and New York overlap, which falls in the morning here. Data releases from the United States tend to land between about 6:30 and 9:30 local time. If you work a day job, check your pair before work only to review stops, and avoid opening new trades just before a release. Mark the dates of central-bank decisions in your calendar a month ahead. 🌟

🏁 Entry Forty-Two: What to Do This Week

Write the bank letter. Read the SUGEVAL and SUGEF notices. Open one demo and write the first twenty journal lines. Shortlist two firms and send each the five support questions. Set a loss ceiling, and tell one person. These steps take about three hours in total, cost nothing and place you ahead of most people who open an account in a hurry. 🏁

🍌 Entry Forty-Three: Small Business Owners and the Temptation of Idle Cash

A shop owner in Cartago or a tour operator in La Fortuna may hold cash between seasons and wonder whether it could earn something in forex. Idle cash is working capital: it pays suppliers, wages and the slow month. Before moving any of it into leveraged products, compute how many weeks of expenses it covers and keep at least three months untouched. Money for tax, payroll and rent is not spare. If the business is seasonal, the low season arrives whether or not the trade worked. 🍌

🎓 Entry Forty-Four: Teaching Teenagers Without Teaching Gambling

Parents sometimes ask how to talk to teenagers who watch trading videos. Be honest: most private traders lose, adverts show survivors, and the minimum age to open an account is typically eighteen. Offer a paper-trading game instead, with a notebook and imaginary money, and discuss what costs and emotions do to results. A teenager who learns early that arithmetic beats excitement has gained something real. 🎓

🧱 Entry Forty-Five: Building Rules That Survive a Bad Day

A rule that you break on a bad day is not a rule. Make rules mechanical: a hard stop on the server, a daily loss limit enforced by logging out, a maximum number of trades per day written on a sticky note, and no live trading when tired, ill, angry or celebrating. If you break a rule, record it and apply a cooling-off period of one day. Over time the rules become habits, and habits protect you when judgement slips. 🧱

🛰️ Entry Forty-Six: Execution Quality in Plain Words

Execution is how your order is filled. Slippage is the difference between the expected and actual price. Requotes and delays can cost money, particularly during news. Test execution on demo and, if you ever go live, on a tiny size, then compare screenshots of requested and filled prices. Ask the broker how orders are routed and whether it acts as the counterparty to your trade, since this creates a conflict of interest worth understanding. 🛰️

🧂 Entry Forty-Seven: Swaps, Rollovers and Holding Overnight

Holding a position past the daily rollover time can incur or earn a swap, depending on direction and interest rate differences. Over weeks, swaps can be larger than spreads. Check the swap table for your pair, note the triple-swap day, and include swaps in your cost calculation. If a strategy depends on holding for weeks, swaps matter more than the entry price. 🧂

🧊 Entry Forty-Eight: Cool Heads in the Cloud Forest

When mist settles over Monteverde, everything slows. Borrow the pace. Step away from the screen at fixed intervals, do not trade the first five minutes after a big release and never decide on money when annoyed. A calm trader is not one without feelings; it is one who has built routines that outlast them. 🧊

📘 Entry Forty-Nine: A Glossary for the First Month

Pip: the smallest standard price step on most pairs. Lot: the unit of trade size; a micro lot is a thousand units. Spread: the gap between buy and sell prices. Margin: the deposit that keeps trades open. Stop-out: the level at which the platform closes positions automatically. Swap: the overnight holding charge or credit. Slippage: a fill at a different price from the requested one. Drawdown: the fall from a peak in account value. Negative balance: a balance below zero after losses exceed deposits. Knowing these ten words makes agreements and platforms far less intimidating. 📘

🔚 Entry Fifty: The Season Ends

Every season ends with a harvest, but not every harvest is large. Some years you learn more than you earn, and that counts. If you decide to stay away from trading after reading all of this, the time was well spent. If you proceed, do it lawfully, slowly and with money that does not matter to your family's security. 🔚

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is forex trading legal in Costa Rica?

The supervisors SUGEVAL and SUGEF publish warnings about unauthorised offers, and the rules for individuals and for cross-border payments can be complicated. Take your case to your bank and a qualified local adviser.

Can I fund with a Costa Rican card or bank transfer?

Some brokers accept cards or transfers in some markets, while banks may reject certain payments. Ask your bank first and look at the cashier of a verified account.

What is the smallest amount to start with?

An amount whose complete loss would not disturb your life, and only after a demo period.

🔥 Your next move: pick two firms from Entry Three and run both on demo for thirty days before even thinking about live money.

📌 Important: CFD Risk Warning and Disclosure

CFDs and leveraged forex are complex instruments. Because you trade on margin, a small price move against you can remove a large part of your balance quickly, and a majority of retail traders lose money when trading CFDs. Before you open or fund any account, make sure you understand how leverage, margin, swaps and stop-outs work, and only trade with money you can afford to lose. Examples in this article are illustrations, not forecasts, and past performance is not a reliable guide to future results.

Disclaimer: this article is general information and education only. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and it is not a recommendation to open an account with any provider. Broker conditions, licences, payment methods and local laws change; confirm the current position on the broker's official website, with the relevant regulator and, where needed, with a qualified adviser.

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