CFD · CHECKED 10 OCT 2026
Just2Trade review.
Cyprus-regulated CFD broker under CySEC, with a disputed US FINRA claim
OK-ISH
OUT OF 10
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Just2Trade is a CFD broker holding a confirmed CySEC licence (281/15) through J2T Services Ltd, with EURUSD spreads from USD 2.00 and access to MetaTrader, CQG and Sterling Trader Pro. The biggest reservation: its site's claim that Lime Financial USA is FINRA-registered returns zero matches on BrokerCheck, and links between its three entities aren't explained.
Each criterion is scored 1 to 10 from primary sources. The overall score is their unweighted mean. How scoring works.
| Founded | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | CY |
| Minimum deposit | $100 |
| Maximum leverage | 500:1 |
| Account opening | 1-3 |
| Platforms | MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MetaTrader 5 (MT5), MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, CQG, Sterling Trader Pro |
- CySEC licence 281/15 for J2T Services Ltd, confirmed on the register
- Spread from USD 2.00 round turn on 1 lot EURUSD on MT5 Global
- Minimum deposit of USD 100
- Platforms include MT4, MT5, the MetaTrader web terminal, CQG and Sterling Trader Pro
- CySEC cover includes compensation up to 20,000 EUR and an ombudsman
- Negative balance protection and 30:1 leverage cap on major FX under CySEC rules
- Lime Financial USA's claimed FINRA membership returned zero matches on BrokerCheck
- ESMA oversight claim is vague language with no licence number
- J2T Services Ltd, Lime Trading (CY) Ltd, Lime Financial USA: unclear links
- Support contact depends on which entity onboarded the client
- Blended 3.30 stars across just 19 ratings
- NFA licence not confirmed on the register
Overview
TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of Just2Trade, scored 6.5 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews.
Our previous review scored Just2Trade 4.5 out of 10; this review scores it 6.5. That is a change in our assessment, not a claim that the firm has changed. The move is driven mainly by what direct register checks turned up this time: the CySEC register confirms an active CIF licence, 281/15, for J2T Services Ltd, issued 25 September 2015, and we checked that entry three separate times against three of the firm’s own pages with a consistent result. We also ran the firm’s name against 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius and it matched none of them. Those two things support a firm regulation and fees picture that the earlier review did not have sourced this way. Set against that, the entity picture is messier than a single clean licence suggests, and the support evidence in our evidence is thin, which is reflected in the lower support and reviews components below.
Overview Table
| Headquarters | Limassol, Cyprus (Magnum Business Center, Office 4B, Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue 78, Limassol 3076, per the firm’s contact page) |
| Established | CySEC licence 281/15 is dated 25 September 2015; the firm’s own homepage separately states it has “provided brokerage services since 2016” |
| Countries Served | Not stated as a list; the site geo-gates visitors and flags some products as unsuitable for the visitor’s country |
| Regulated By | CySEC (licence 281/15, entity J2T Services Ltd) |
| Minimum Deposit | $100, per the earlier review’s account summary (not confirmed against the firm’s current pages in our evidence) |
| Maximum Leverage | Up to 1:500 on Forex, per the firm’s MT5 Global pricing page |
| Total Instruments | 30,000+ stocks and 5,000+ futures contracts (MT5 Global); 44 Forex pairs and 111 CFD pairs (MT4), per the firm’s platform pages |
| Platforms | MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, CQG, Sterling Trader Pro |
| Customer Support | Phone (+357 25 055 966), trading desk phone (+357 95 135 475), email (24_support@j2t.com) |
| Languages | Not stated |
Facts List
- J2T Services Ltd’s CySEC licence, No. 281/15, shows as an active CIF entry on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s register of Cypriot investment firms, with no revocation or withdrawal marker, and we confirmed this reading against three separate pages the firm publishes.
- We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius; Just2Trade and J2T Services Ltd matched none of them.
- CySEC’s List of Non-Approved Domains names a separate site, just2trade.live, as unauthorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. CySEC does not say which firm that domain imitates, and it is not the firm under review here.
- The firm’s UK-facing terms page names “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd” as the entity that ceased UK services and exited the UK Temporary Permissions Regime by year-end 2023, while the licence block on the same site names “J2T Services Ltd” as the CySEC-licensed entity.
- A separate page states that access to US stocks is provided by “Lime Financial USA – FINRA member.” We searched FINRA BrokerCheck for “Lime Financial USA” and it returned no matching firm; a control search for Interactive Brokers LLC on the same system returned a result.
- The NFA’s BASIC register lists “Lime Trading Corp,” NFA ID 0430385, as an NFA Member Approved (approved 26 August 2016) currently registered as a Futures Commission Merchant. That is a different corporate name again from the ones on the firm’s own pages.
- Cyprus’s company registry, via the CyprusRegistry.com mirror, lists company number HE 341520 as “Just2Trade Online Ltd,” registered 13 March 2015, status Active. That is a company filing, not a financial licence, and the name on the entry differs from “J2T Services Ltd,” the entity CySEC’s licence names.
- The firm’s own MT5 Global pricing page states: “The Company has the right to change the level of Margin Requirements without prior notice.”
- The same pricing page states that using its Market Data service “even 1 day in a month leads to a charge of the full monthly fee,” and that the subscription “will be terminated automatically” if the account balance does not cover the fee.
- The country-restriction screen on the firm’s site lets a visitor bypass its own suitability check by self-certifying VPN use or eligibility and clicking “Continue anyway.”
Who runs Just2Trade
The entity behind the Just2Trade brand, according to the firm’s own pages, is J2T Services Ltd, based in Limassol, Cyprus, and holding CySEC licence 281/15 since 25 September 2015. The firm’s about page describes it as an agency-only broker offering execution, settlement and prime brokerage services and states it does not engage in proprietary trading. Beyond that core entity, the pages we fetched also name “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd” and “Lime Financial USA” in connection with UK market withdrawal and US stock access respectively, without explaining on the page itself how those names relate to J2T Services Ltd or to each other. A reader relying on the site to work out exactly which entity they would be contracting with, for which service, would not find that spelled out.
What the Just2Trade fee schedule actually charges
The firm’s own terms page sets out a granular fee schedule rather than a single headline number: Forex and metals commission of $2 per lot plus swap, US (NYSE/NASDAQ) brokerage at $0.006 per share with a $1.50 minimum, UK and German exchange trades at 0.14% of transaction value, and Russian equities on a tiered daily-turnover scale from 0.00944% up to 0.0354% depending on volume. Options carry a $2.50 per-contract commission and futures start from $0.50 per contract plus exchange fees. On top of trading commissions, the same page lists a $0.000175-per-share NSCC clearing fee (minimum $0.01 per order), a SEC fee of 0.00278% of position value on sale orders, and one-off regulator-request charges of $5 for a Blue Sheets request and $10 for a Fed Reference Request. Dividend payments are subject to a 3% commission (minimum $3 per issuer) on UK, EU and Asian stocks and 2.2% on Russian stocks, and the same page states that if the commission exceeds the dividend amount, no payout is made and the withheld amount is not reimbursed.
Support and the state of the evidence
The contact channels we found on the firm’s pages are a phone line (+357 25 055 966), a separate trading desk phone (+357 95 135 475), an email address (24_support@j2t.com) and a Limassol postal address. The pages in our evidence do not state support hours, a live chat option, or which languages support is offered in.
Key Takeaways
Where the score moved and why
This review scores Just2Trade 6.5 out of 10, up from our previous score of 4.5. That change is ours, not the firm’s. It reflects a rescoring against current evidence rather than any improvement or decline at the firm. The pull higher comes mainly from fees, scored 9, and platform, scored 7.1. The drag comes from support at 4.8 and reviews at 4.8, with regulation in the middle at 6.7.
What the CySEC register confirms
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register shows an active CIF licence, No. 281/15, for J2T Services Ltd, issued 25 September 2015, with no revocation or withdrawal markers. We checked this directly on the CySEC register rather than taking the firm’s word for it, and the entry is a financial services authorisation, not merely a company listing. Separately, JUST2TRADE ONLINE LTD is registered in Cyprus as HE 341520, an active limited company since 13 March 2015, per the Cyprus Registrar of Companies as mirrored by CyprusRegistry.com. That is a company record, not a licence.
Three claims in our evidence did not clear a register. FINRA BrokerCheck returned no match for “Lime Financial USA,” the entity the firm’s own platforms page says provides US stock market access as a FINRA member, while our control search for Interactive Brokers LLC returned a result, so the search tool was working. We hold no register to check the ESMA oversight claim or the HE 341520 company number against, since neither names a checkable authority in the form given. The NFA and Central Bank of Russia licensing claims in this file come from our earlier review, not from anything we fetched from the firm. The NFA one checks out: the NFA register lists LIME TRADING CORP under NFA ID 0430385, “NFA Member Approved” since 26 August 2016 and registered with the CFTC as a Futures Commission Merchant, and that is the firm our NFA search for Just2Trade returns. The Central Bank of Russia claim we have not verified.
We searched 1,441 warning list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and Just2Trade appears on none of them. One lookalike surfaced in that same search: CySEC’s List of Non-Approved Domains names just2trade.live as unauthorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. CySEC does not identify which firm that domain imitates, and the entity under review here, J2T Services Ltd under licence 281/15, is not the site named on that list.
What Just2Trade charges
The firm’s own fee page sets out a long, itemised commission schedule rather than a flat spread. On the MT5 Global account, forex and metals trade at $2 per lot plus swap, US shares (NYSE/NASDAQ) at $0.006 per share with a $1.50 minimum, options at $2.50 per contract, and futures on CME, ICE and CBOE from $0.50 per contract plus exchange fees. Bonds carry a 0.128% commission with a $10 minimum, and international share commissions vary by exchange: 0.14% on the LSE and on Tradegate/Xetra, 0.5% on the Warsaw exchange with a $30 minimum, 0.3% on the Hong Kong exchange with a $6 minimum, and 0.7% on the Mexican exchange with a $37 minimum. Russia trading runs on a tiered daily turnover schedule from 0.0354% down to 0.00944% depending on volume.
Beyond commission, the fee page lists a Market Data “Advanced” package at $1 a month on MT5, with the terms stating that using it even one day in a month triggers the full monthly charge, and that the subscription cuts off automatically if the account balance cannot cover it. Dividend handling carries its own bite: the terms state that a 3% commission on UK, EU and Asian stock dividends, or 2.2% on Russian stock dividends, applies per issuer, and that if the commission exceeds the dividend amount no payout is made at all, with no reimbursement of any extra amount withheld by the issuer or depositary. Deposit and withdrawal fee detail (card withdrawal at 2.5% with a minimum charge, e-wallet withdrawal at 2% to 2.8%, bank withdrawal fees that vary by currency) comes from our earlier review, not from a page we fetched in our evidence.
Terms that bind a client
The MT5 Global pricing notes state plainly that “the Company has the right to change the level of Margin Requirements without prior notice,” which means a margin call or forced liquidation can arrive without warning. The same notes carry the dividend clause quoted above verbatim.
Entities, platforms and the UK exit
The site’s UK pages name Lime Trading (CY) Ltd as the entity that ceased serving UK residents and exited the UK Temporary Permissions Regime by year end 2023, stating that “any related UK consumer protections shall not apply from that point onwards,” while the same pages’ licence block names J2T Services Ltd as the CySEC-licensed entity, and a separate page attributes US stock access to yet another name, Lime Financial USA. Our evidence does not tie these three names together into one clear line of who a client actually contracts with. Platform access spans MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, CQG and Sterling Trader Pro per the firm’s own pages, with the MT5 Global platform page marking its Options asset class and three of its listed markets as “Coming soon,” meaning part of the advertised range is not yet live.
Support
Contact channels on the firm’s own pages are limited to a Cyprus phone line, a trading desk phone line, an email address and a Limassol postal address. That thin channel list, together with the reviews score of 4.8, is what holds support and reviews down even as the fee disclosure and platform range score well.
Licenses & Regulation
Just2Trade trades under J2T Services Ltd, a Cyprus investment firm. We checked the CySEC register of Cypriot investment firms directly and confirmed an active CIF licence 281/15 for J2T Services Ltd, issued 25 September 2015, with no revocation or withdrawal markers against it. That entry is the only regulatory authorisation this review can stand on: it covers investment and ancillary services under CySEC, which is an EU regime with its own compensation scheme and complaint routes, not the tier of oversight a reader gets from a top-tier regulator like the FCA or ASIC.
What the register does and doesn’t show
CySEC’s page identifies the licensed entity as J2T Services Ltd. Separately, the firm’s own UK-facing terms page names “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd” in an important-notice banner as the entity that ceased UK services and exited the UK’s Temporary Permissions Regime by year-end 2023, while the same page’s footer and licence block point back to J2T Services Ltd as the CySEC-licensed entity. The pages we fetched do not explain how these two names relate, or which entity a client actually contracts with for which service. A separate page states that access to the US stock market is provided by “Lime Financial USA”, described there as a FINRA member. We searched FINRA BrokerCheck directly for a firm matching that name and found none of the 0 results returned; a control search for Interactive Brokers LLC on the same system returned a result, so the search mechanism itself was working. BrokerCheck’s records normally include firms that are inactive or have been expelled, so a firm that was ever registered would ordinarily still show up.
The firm’s own UK page also states that J2T SERVICES LTD is “subject to the oversight and legal framework of ESMA,” but gives no licence number for that claim, and we hold no ESMA register entry to check it against ourselves; that is a gap in our own coverage, not a finding about the firm. The same applies to a Russian central bank licence and an NFA licence both mentioned only in the earlier published review, not on any page in our evidence, so we report them as what that earlier review said rather than as something we confirmed. For what it’s worth, the NFA BASIC register does list a firm called Lime Trading Corp, NFA ID 0430385, as an NFA member approved 26 August 2016 with current CFTC registration as a Futures Commission Merchant, but that record was not part of what this section’s checks covered for Just2Trade specifically.
Company registration versus licence
The Cyprus Registrar of Companies, via a point-in-time mirror, shows Just2Trade Online Ltd registered under number HE 341520, a limited company registered 13 March 2015 with active status. That is a company record, not a financial-services authorisation, and it names a slightly different entity (“Just2Trade Online Ltd”) than the CIF licence holder (“J2T Services Ltd”); we did not check that HE number against any authority.
The clone warning that isn’t Just2Trade
We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and Just2Trade does not appear on any of them. One entry is worth flagging for a reader searching the name: CySEC’s List of Non-Approved Domains lists the domain just2trade.live as not authorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. CySEC does not name which firm that domain imitates, so no broker is identified there, but the domain is not the firm under review here, and anyone typing the name into a search engine could land on it by mistake.
Our previous score for this section was pulled up from the broader 4.5/10 overall rating this review replaces to a regulation score of 6.7 out of 10 in this pass. The evidence driving that is the confirmed, current CIF licence 281/15 on CySEC’s own register, which this review checked directly and the earlier one did not carry the same way, set against the entity-naming confusion between J2T Services Ltd and Lime Trading (CY) Ltd, the unconfirmed FINRA claim for Lime Financial USA, and the unchecked ESMA, NFA and CBR references that this review could not verify on the firm’s own pages.
How to Trade
Just2Trade sits behind a stack of platforms, account tiers and per-market commission tables, and the pricing material we read is unusually specific about what each trade costs. That specificity is the strongest part of this section; where the coverage thins out is everything downstream of the fill, from execution model to instrument availability.
Platforms and account types
The firm’s own platform pages describe four trading systems: MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, CQG and Sterling Trader Pro. MT4 is built for forex and CFDs, with 44 forex pairs and 111 CFD pairs, MQL4 expert advisors, and desktop, web, Android and iOS access. MT5 covers stocks, currencies and futures with hedge and netting accounting, more than 80 analytics tools, algorithmic trading and VPS hosting, again across desktop, web and mobile. The account structure maps onto these platforms: a Forex and CFD Standard account, a Forex ECN account, and a Forex ECN PRO account all run on MT4, while a separate MT5 Global account is the route into stocks, bonds and futures. CQG and Sterling Trader Pro are pitched at professional traders needing direct market access, real time data and complex order types, with Sterling Trader Pro listed as desktop only.
What Just2Trade charges per market
The firm’s fee page, read directly for this review, sets out commission by market rather than a single blanket rate. On the MT5 Global account, forex and metals cost $2 per lot plus swap. US stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ cost $0.006 per share with a $1.50 minimum, plus a 0.03% overnight fee. Canadian shares on the TSX run 0.06 CAD per share. German instruments on Tradegate and Xetra, and UK shares on the LSE, are both charged at 0.14% of the transaction amount. Polish shares on the GPW cost 0.5% with a $30 minimum, Hong Kong shares on the SEHK cost 0.3% with a $6 minimum, and Mexican shares on the BMV cost 0.7% with a $37 minimum. Options are $2.50 per contract, charged on both entry and exit. Futures on CME, ICE and CBOE start from $0.50 per contract plus exchange fees, with a 0.0712% overnight fee applied once a position exceeds initial margin. Bonds cost 0.128% of the transaction amount with a $10 minimum. Russian instruments are priced on a sliding scale by daily turnover, from 0.0354% on turnover under 1,000,000 RUB down to 0.00944% above 100,000,000 RUB, with a 0.044% overnight fee.
On top of commission, the same fee page lists pass through exchange charges for US trades: an NSCC fee of $0.000175 per share with a one cent minimum, and an SEC fee on sale orders of 0.00278% of position value with the same minimum. There are one off charges for regulator paperwork, $5 for a Blue Sheets request and $10 for a Fed Reference Request, and orders placed outside the main US session cost $0.003 per share. A voice trading fee of $5, €5 or ₽350 per order applies depending on account currency.
Market data and dividends
The fee page separates a free “Basic” market data package on MT5 from a paid “Advanced” package billed at $1 a month, waived only if the account makes at least one trade that month. The same page states plainly that using Advanced data for even one day triggers the full month’s charge, and that the subscription is cancelled automatically if the account balance cannot cover it. It also notes that some US market data may be unavailable to residents of Russia.
Dividend handling carries a condition worth flagging in full. The fee page charges 3% of the dividend volume on UK, EU and Asian stocks, with a $3 minimum per issuer, and 2.2% on Russian stocks. In practice a client can end up with no dividend payout at all if the commission due exceeds the dividend, with no refund of any extra withholding taken by a third party.
Margin and execution
The MT5 Global pricing notes we read also give the firm a free hand on margin: “The Company has the right to change the level of Margin Requirements without prior notice.” That leaves a leveraged position exposed to a margin call or forced liquidation triggered by a requirement change the client had no warning of. Forex on this account is advertised with spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:500, negative balance protection and instant execution, described on the same page as an STP ECN model. A separate page for the UK market describes the licensed entity, under the name J2T Services Ltd, as operating on an agency only, direct market access basis for execution, settlement and prime brokerage, and states it does not engage in proprietary trading, a claim about the execution model worth weighing against the discretionary margin clause above.
Instrument range, and what is not live yet
Across the pages we read, Just2Trade advertises forex, stocks, futures, CFDs, bonds and, on the MT5 Global account specifically, more than 30,000 stock instruments across 20 markets and more than 5,000 futures instruments with execution from 10 milliseconds. Bonds on that account are limited to eurobonds and corporate or government issues, with leverage capped at 1:3. Options are listed on the same platform page as “coming soon” rather than live, and a separate markets section of the site shows three additional market slots all marked “soon.” A reader comparing the advertised 30,000 plus instrument count against what is actually tradable today should account for those gaps.
Access to US stock trading is described on one page as provided by “Lime Financial USA,” named as a FINRA member, which is a different entity from the CySEC licensed J2T Services Ltd that appears in the firm’s own licence block elsewhere on the same site. Which entity a client is actually contracting with, for a given market, is not made clear across the pages in our evidence.
Account Types
Just2Trade is sold in four tiers, and the pricing evidence we have covers them unevenly. An earlier review of the broker recorded three MetaTrader 4 accounts and one MetaTrader 5 account: a Forex and CFD Standard account opening at $100 with spreads from 0.5 pips and no separate commission, a Forex ECN account opening at $200 with spreads from 0 pips and commission up to $3 per lot, and an MT5 Global account opening at $100 with spreads from 0 pips and commission up to $2 per lot. The firm’s own platforms page lists a third MT4 tier, Forex ECN PRO, alongside the Standard and ECN accounts, but gives no deposit minimum or pricing for it on that page.
What Just2Trade’s MT5 Global account charges
The firm’s own fee schedule for the MT5 Global account, published in its pricing notes, sets a different commission for almost every market it covers rather than one flat rate. It reads as follows:
| Market | Commission |
|---|---|
| USA (NYSE/NASDAQ) | $0.006 per share, minimum $1.50 |
| Canada (TSX) | 0.06 CAD per share |
| Germany (Tradegate/Xetra) | 0.14% of transaction amount |
| UK (LSE) | 0.14% of transaction amount |
| Poland (GPW) | 0.5% of transaction amount, minimum $30 |
| Hong Kong (SEHK) | 0.3% of transaction amount, minimum $6 |
| Mexico (BMV) | 0.7% of transaction amount, minimum $37 |
| Bonds | 0.128% of transaction amount, minimum $10 |
| Options | $2.50 per contract, charged on entry and again on exit |
| Futures (CME, ICE, CBOE) | from $0.50 per contract plus exchange fees |
| Forex and metals | $2 per lot plus swap |
| Russia | tiered from 0.354% of daily RUB turnover under 1,000,000 RUB down to 0.00944% over 100,000,000 RUB, minimum $0.50 |
The same schedule adds overnight financing on top of these commissions: 0.03% on US, Canadian, German and UK positions, 0.0712% on futures once initial margin is exceeded, and 0.044% on the Russian MT5 book, which the schedule notes is built on forward contracts rather than direct share ownership. On top of the per-trade commission, US trades carry two pass-through exchange charges: an NSCC fee of $0.000175 per share (minimum $0.01 per order) and, on sale orders only, an SEC fee of 0.00278% of position value. Orders placed outside the main US session cost $0.003 per share, and a voice order placed by phone rather than through the platform costs $5, €5 or ₽350 depending on the account’s currency. A one-off Blue Sheets request costs $5 and a Fed Reference Request $10, both billed only if a regulator asks for one.
Market data and dividends on the MT5 Global account
Market data on MT5 Global comes in two tiers on the same fee schedule: a Basic package at no charge, and an Advanced package billed at $1 a month, waived only if the account makes at least one trade that month. The schedule is explicit that partial use still costs the full fee: Please note, that using the Market Data even 1 day in a month leads to a charge of the full monthly fee. … Your subscription will be terminated automatically in case your account balance does not cover your Market Data fees. It also notes that some US market data may be unavailable to residents of Russia.
Dividends on the account carry their own commission rather than passing through untouched: 3% of the dividend volume (minimum $3 per issuer) on UK, EU and Asian stocks, and 2.2% of the dividend volume per issuer on Russian stocks. The same pricing notes state plainly what happens if that commission is larger than the dividend itself: “In case commission amount exceeds dividend amount, dividend payout will not be made. The company will not reimburse additional commission, withheld by issuer, depositary or another counterparty.” A client can end up with no dividend at all and no route to recover it.
The pricing notes also reserve the right to move margin requirements without warning: “The Company has the right to change the level of Margin Requirements without prior notice.” That sits alongside the per-market commission table as a term of the MT5 Global account, not a separate policy, and it means the margin an open position needs can change between one session and the next with no notice attached to it.
What the MT5 Global account does not yet deliver
The firm’s own platforms page for this account advertises access to 30,000-plus instruments across 20 markets, plus futures, bonds and an options board. The same page marks three of the market slots under “Markets in MT5 GLOBAL” as “Soon”, and lists the options asset class itself as “Coming soon”. A client buying into the MT5 Global tier on the strength of that instrument count is buying access to a range that is not yet fully live.
Negative Balance Protection
The clearest first-hand statement on this point comes from Just2Trade’s own MT5 Global platform page, which lists Spread from 0.0 pips, Leverage up to 1:500*, Negative balance protection, Instant execution, STP ECN Broker against its forex offering. That is a marketing bullet on a pricing page, not a clause from a client agreement, and it sits specifically under the Forex asset class on that page. The same page’s entries for Stocks, Futures, Bonds and Options do not repeat the phrase, so the pages we fetched give no basis for saying negative balance protection extends to those other markets traded through MT5 Global.
The leverage that sits behind that promise
The same forex listing puts leverage at “up to 1:500*”, with an asterisk that is not resolved anywhere in the pages we fetched, so whatever condition or exception it points to is not something we can report. Bonds traded through MT5 Global are capped much lower, at “Leverage up to 1:3” on the same page. Neither figure comes with a stated margin call level or stop-out percentage; the evidence we hold does not say at what point a losing position gets closed out, only that leverage of that size is on offer.
What Just2Trade can change without telling a client first
The MT5 Global pricing notes on that same page state plainly: “The Company has the right to change the level of Margin Requirements without prior notice.” Read against the leverage figures above, that clause means the 1:500 or 1:3 a trader opened a position under is not fixed. Just2Trade can raise margin requirements on a live position with no warning, which can turn a position that was adequately margined at open into one facing a margin call or forced liquidation purely because the requirement moved, not because the market did.
The futures fee schedule on the same terms page adds a separate charge tied to margin: an overnight fee of 0.0712% “for exceeding initial margin” on CME, ICE and CBOE futures, on top of the base commission of “from 0.5 USD per contract plus exchange fees.” That is a cost for carrying a position beyond its initial margin overnight, charged as a percentage rather than disclosed as a fixed penalty, and the terms page does not say at what point a position is force-closed if the shortfall isn’t covered.
What the pages do not say
Negative balance protection, where it applies, normally answers a specific question: if a fast market move takes an account through zero before a position can be closed, does the client owe the shortfall or does the broker absorb it. The MT5 Global forex listing uses the phrase but the pages we fetched do not go on to define it, and we did not read a client agreement or risk disclosure document in our evidence that sets out the mechanics, the accounts it covers, or whether it is retail-only. On the entities named across the site, that gap matters more than usual: the UK page’s banner names “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd” as the entity that withdrew from the UK market while the same page’s licence block names “J2T Services Ltd” as the CySEC-licensed entity, and a separate page states that US stock access runs through “Lime Financial USA.” None of the pages in our evidence explain which of these entities a client is actually contracted with for a given account, which is the entity that would be on the other side of a negative balance claim.
We searched CySEC’s public register and confirmed CIF licence 281/15 as an active entry for J2T Services Ltd, so the CySEC authorisation itself is not in question. What we cannot do from the evidence available is say what CySEC’s own negative balance protection rule requires of that licence, because we did not read a regulatory text to that effect in our evidence, only the firm’s own marketing use of the phrase.
Trading Instruments
Just2Trade splits what it advertises into two platform tracks, and each track carries a different asset list. The site’s own navigation names five tradable classes (Forex, Stocks, Futures, CFD, and Bonds, with CFD and Bonds both tagged “NEW”), and a sixth, Options, appears only on the MT5 Global platform page, marked “Coming soon”.
What Just2Trade’s MT5 Global page lists
The MT5 Global platform page breaks its own asset classes out with headline figures rather than a fixed instrument count for each: Forex is described as Spread from 0.0 pips, Leverage up to 1:500*, Negative balance protection, Instant execution, STP ECN Broker; Stocks as “30,000+ instruments, 20 markets, Leverage trading, Margin lending, Dividends”; Futures as 5,000+ instruments, Major markets, Direct access, Execution from 10 ms, From $1 per contract; and Bonds as “Eurobonds, Corporate and government, Research support, Leverage up to 1:3”. Options, on the same page, is listed at “90,000+ instruments, Fund, Currency, Index, Option boards” and flagged “Coming soon”, so this class is advertised with a specific instrument count before it’s live. The same page’s “Markets in MT5 GLOBAL” section shows three market slots all marked “Soon”, meaning part of the “20 markets” stocks pitch is not yet reachable through the account being sold.
The fee page for the MT5 Global account fills in which of the 20 markets are actually priced today: US shares on NYSE/NASDAQ at 0.006 USD per share (min. 1.5 USD), Canadian shares on the TSX at 0.06 CAD per share, German shares on Tradegate/Xetra at 0.14% of the transaction amount, UK shares on the LSE also at 0.14%, Polish shares on the GPW at 0.5% (min. 30 USD), and Hong Kong shares on the SEHK at 0.3% (min. 6 USD). The same page prices options at 2.5 USD per contract, CME/ICE/CBOE futures from 0.5 USD per contract plus exchange fees, and bonds at 0.128% of the transaction amount (min. 10 USD).
What the MT4 accounts carry instead
A separate platform page lists three MT4-based account types (Forex and CFD Standard, Forex ECN, and Forex ECN PRO) and describes MT4 itself as covering 44 Forex pairs and 111 CFD pairs, with MQL4 expert advisors and Windows, web, Android and iOS access. That page gives no further detail on what distinguishes the three MT4 account types from one another beyond their names. The earlier review of this broker, which we are restating here rather than quoting, described the Standard account as opening at a $100 minimum deposit with spreads from 0.5 pips and no commission, the ECN account at $200 with spreads from 0 pips and commission up to $3 a lot, and put the MT5 Global account’s own minimum at $100 with commission up to $2 a lot; these are figures we have not independently confirmed on the firm’s current pages in our evidence.
Stock dividends come with a clause worth reading before relying on the “Dividends” bullet
The MT5 Global pricing notes charge a dividend payment commission of 3% of the dividend volume (minimum 3 USD per issuer) on UK, EU and Asian stocks, and 2.2% of the dividend volume per issuer on Russian stocks. The same notes state: “In case commission amount exceeds dividend amount, dividend payout will not be made. The company will not reimburse additional commission, withheld by issuer, depositary or another counterparty.” On a small enough dividend, that clause means no payout at all, with no refund of whatever a third party has already withheld.
Leverage-based positions can be re-margined without notice
Forex is quoted with leverage up to 1:500 and bonds up to 1:3 on the MT5 Global page, but the same pricing notes reserve the right to move the goalposts: “The Company has the right to change the level of Margin Requirements without prior notice.” A leveraged position can face a margin call or forced liquidation triggered by a requirement change the client had no warning of.
US stock access runs through a separate, unverified name
One of the firm’s regional pages states that “Access to the US stock market is provided by Lime Financial USA – FINRA member.” We searched FINRA BrokerCheck for a firm matching “Lime Financial USA” and found none: the search returned zero firms, and a control search for Interactive Brokers LLC on the same tool returned a result, so the empty result is not a broken lookup. BrokerCheck carries inactive and expelled firms as well as active ones, so a firm that had ever held FINRA registration under that name would ordinarily still show up. Separately, the NFA’s BASIC register does confirm an entity called Lime Trading Corp, NFA ID 0430385, “NFA Member Approved” since 26 August 2016, currently registered with the CFTC as a Futures Commission Merchant, but that is a different name, a different regulator, and a different registration category (futures, not the stock brokerage the client-facing page describes), and nothing in the pages we hold ties it to “Lime Financial USA”.
CQG and Sterling Trader Pro
The earlier review also described two further platforms offered alongside MT4 and MT5: CQG, pitched for professional traders with real-time market data, charting and direct market access on desktop and mobile, and Sterling Trader Pro, a desktop-only platform for order management and algorithmic trading. Both are also named in the firm’s own about page, though without the detail the earlier review supplied, so we report that detail as the earlier review’s account rather than as something we read on the firm’s own pages.
Education & Analysis
Just2Trade splits its platform offer across four names: MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, CQG and Sterling Trader Pro. What each one actually gets a client depends heavily on which account sits under it, and the firm’s own pages leave real gaps in that picture.
MT4 and MT5 on Just2Trade’s own account pages
The firm’s platform page lists MetaTrader 4 as the venue for the Forex and CFD Standard, Forex ECN and Forex ECN PRO accounts, covering 44 forex pairs and 111 CFD pairs, with MQL4 expert advisors and Windows, web, Android and iOS versions. MetaTrader 5 is described separately as covering stocks, currencies and futures, with hedge and netting accounting modes, more than 80 analytics tools, algorithmic trading support and VPS access, again across Windows, web, Android and iOS. The MT5 Global account itself is pitched with more specific numbers on the same page: spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:500, negative balance protection and instant execution on forex; more than 30,000 instruments across 20 markets for stocks; and more than 5,000 futures instruments with execution from 10 ms starting at $1 a contract.
Some of what MT5 Global advertises is not live yet. The platform page marks three of the market slots under “Markets in MT5 GLOBAL” as “Soon”, and lists options trading, described elsewhere as 90,000-plus instruments across fund, currency, index and option boards, as “Coming soon”. A reader signing up for the multi-asset range MT5 Global describes should know part of that range is not yet accessible.
CQG and Sterling Trader Pro
Just2Trade’s about page names CQG and Sterling Trader Pro alongside MT4 and MT5 as platforms available through the firm, without giving CQG any further description on the pages in our evidence. The earlier review this section draws on describes CQG as built for professional traders with real-time market data, charting and direct market access, available on desktop and mobile, and describes Sterling Trader Pro as offering advanced order management, real-time data, algorithmic trading and complex order types, desktop only. Both of those descriptions come from that earlier review rather than from a page we fetched ourselves, so treat them as reporting rather than as Just2Trade’s own claim.
What the fee page adds to the charting picture
The firm’s own fee schedule for the MT5 Global account separates a “Basic” market data package, free of charge, from an “Advanced” package priced at $1 a month, or free for an account that places at least one trade that month. The same schedule warns that using the Advanced package even one day in a month triggers the full monthly charge, and that the subscription is cancelled automatically if the account balance cannot cover the fee. It also notes that some US market data may not be available to residents of Russia. None of this is charting software in the ordinary sense, but it sits directly upstream of what a client can actually see on MT5 Global’s stocks and futures instruments, so it belongs with the platform picture rather than buried in a fee table.
Where the analysis tools claim runs out
Beyond the “80+ analytics tools” line on the MT5 platform page, none of the pages in our evidence itemise which studies, drawing tools or order types are actually built into Just2Trade’s MT4, MT5, CQG or Sterling Trader Pro deployments, or whether any of the four support custom indicator or strategy scripting beyond MT4’s stated MQL4 expert advisors. The pages describe market access and account mechanics in detail but say nothing about charting depth, indicator libraries or backtesting on any platform besides that one MQL4 mention. We report what the firm’s pages state and stop where they stop, rather than filling in a fuller toolset than what was published.
This review scores platform at 7.1 out of 10, up from an earlier score of 4.5 for the broker overall. The move reflects this review’s own criteria and the evidence gathered for it, not any change at Just2Trade itself: a four-way platform spread across MT4, MT5, CQG and Sterling Trader Pro, backed by the firm’s own account and fee pages, is a materially fuller record than the prior review had to work with, even with the gaps in tool-level detail and the “Coming soon” markers noted above.
Special Offers
We did not fetch a promotions or offers page from Just2Trade’s own site in our evidence. The pages we read cover account types, commissions and pricing schedules, and none of them mention a deposit bonus, a welcome credit, a cashback scheme or any other promotional offer. That is a statement about what we found, not a statement that no such offer exists: a promotions page may sit elsewhere on the site or be shown only after registration, and we cannot rule that in or out from the evidence in front of us.
What Just2Trade’s own pricing pages describe instead of promotions
The fee schedule we read for the MT5 Global account prices activity through spreads and per-transaction commission rather than through any promotional credit. A separate Market Data package on the same account is $1 a month or free of charge if there is one trade in the month, and the terms are explicit that partial use still triggers the full charge: “using the Market Data even 1 day in a month leads to a charge of the full monthly fee.” That is a fee mechanic, not an offer, but it is the kind of detail a reader chasing a “free data” claim elsewhere would want to see in the actual wording.
Our earlier review described three other account tiers with their own minimum deposits and spread structures: a Forex and CFD Standard account from $100 with spreads from 0.5 pips and no commission, a Forex ECN account from $200 with spreads from 0 pips and commission up to $3 per lot, and the MT5 Global account from $100 with spreads from 0 pips and commission up to $2 per lot. None of this, as reported, was framed as a limited-time or conditional promotion; it reads as standard tier pricing, and we are restating it from the earlier review rather than from a page we fetched ourselves.
Costs that a promotional offer would normally have to outweigh
Where Just2Trade’s terms do specify a one-sided condition, it works against the client rather than in the form of a discount. On dividend payments the terms state: “In case commission amount exceeds dividend amount, dividend payout will not be made. The company will not reimburse additional commission, withheld by issuer, depositary or another counterparty.” That clause sits in the same pricing document that lists a 3% dividend commission (minimum $3 per issuer) on UK, EU and Asian stocks and 2.2% on Russian stocks. A reader evaluating whether any future promotional offer is worth taking should weigh it against fee terms like this one, published in the firm’s own pricing notes rather than promised on a landing page.
We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and Just2Trade does not appear on any of them, so we have no register record of a promotion-related enforcement action against this entity to report here either.
Opening an Account
Opening an account with Just2Trade starts on a site that first checks where a visitor is connecting from. On the pages we fetched, a country-suitability interstitial appears stating that “the product or service you’re trying to access isn’t suitable for your country,” and a visitor can dismiss it by self-certifying VPN use or eligibility and clicking through to the site anyway. That is a self-declared bypass, not a technical block, so the restriction does not stop anyone determined to reach the sign-up form regardless of location.
Which entity actually opens the account
The pages we fetched are not consistent about which company a new client contracts with. The CySEC register confirms an active CIF licence, number 281/15, for J2T Services Ltd, and the firm’s own footer and licence block name that same entity as the CySEC-authorised broker behind the Just2Trade brand. But the site’s “Important notice” banner names a different company, Lime Trading (CY) Ltd, as the entity that ceased UK services, while a separate platforms page states that access to US stocks is “provided by Lime Financial USA – FINRA member.” Our FINRA BrokerCheck search for Lime Financial USA returned no matching firm. A prospective client working through the sign-up flow should establish in writing which of these entities is the actual counterparty for the account being opened, since that is what determines which regulator, if any, stands behind it.
Account tiers and minimum deposits
An earlier review of Just2Trade that we are updating here described four account types available at sign-up: a Forex and CFD Standard account opening from $100 with no commission and spreads quoted from 0.5 pips, a Forex ECN account opening from $200 with commission up to $3 per lot, and an MT5 Global account also opening from $100 with commission up to $2 per lot and access to the broader stocks/bonds/futures range. A fourth tier, Forex ECN PRO, appears in the firm’s own platform listing alongside Forex and CFD Standard and Forex ECN as one of three MT4 account types, but the page we fetched gives no minimum deposit or fee detail for it. We have not independently verified the $100 and $200 minimums on the firm’s current pages, so these figures should be treated as reported rather than freshly confirmed.
Verification and who is turned away
None of the pages we fetched set out a document checklist or identity-verification procedure for opening an account, so we cannot report specific KYC steps here beyond the country gate itself. What the pages do establish is a UK exit: the site states that “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd has ceased providing its services to the UK market and UK resident investors and as a result shall exit the UK Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) by year-end 2023, and any related UK consumer protections shall not apply from that point onwards.” A UK resident reading the current site is therefore being told the firm no longer takes UK clients under that regime, with UK-specific protections no longer attaching to any account that remains open. An earlier version of our coverage listed specific banned countries such as Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba; we could not tie that list to anything published on the firm’s current pages, so we are not repeating it here.
The lookalike domain risk when signing up
CySEC’s List of Non-Approved Domains names just2trade.live as a site not authorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. CySEC does not say which firm that domain imitates, and it is not the entity reviewed here. Anyone searching for Just2Trade’s sign-up page should confirm they have reached the firm’s actual domain before entering identity or payment details, since a similarly named site with no CySEC authorisation is publicly flagged as operating alongside it.
Deposits & Withdrawals
Just2Trade’s own fee page, the MT5 Global pricing schedule fetched from the firm’s UAE terms page, sets out trading commissions in detail but says comparatively little about the deposit and withdrawal rails themselves. For the rail level detail, this section draws on figures the earlier published review recorded, restated here in our own words rather than quoted, since we did not fetch the payments page ourselves this time.
Getting money in
According to the earlier review, Just2Trade accepted bank transfer, credit or debit card, e-wallets, selected local payment methods such as OXXO and SPEI, and cryptocurrency. Card, e-wallet, local method and crypto deposits were reported as instant and fee free; bank transfer deposits took 2 to 3 days and could carry a fee charged by the sending bank rather than by the firm. Minimum deposit varied by account: the earlier review put it at $100 for the Forex and CFD Standard account and the MT5 Global account, and $200 for the Forex ECN account.
What Just2Trade charges to withdraw
The same earlier review set out withdrawal terms that look considerably less generous than the deposit side. Bank transfer withdrawals took 2 to 3 days and carried a 0.5% fee with a $10 minimum for USD, a separate 0.4% fee with an $80 minimum also quoted for USD, and a flat 25 EUR fee for EUR withdrawals. Since these figures reached us secondhand rather than from a page we fetched, we cannot resolve why two different USD percentages and minimums appear side by side; a client relying on this should check the live fee schedule before moving money. Card withdrawals were reported as faster, 5 to 10 minutes in the ordinary case but up to 5 days in some, with a 2.5% fee and a minimum of 1 euro, 1 dollar or 50 rubles depending on account currency. E-wallet withdrawals took 2 to 3 days with a fee ranging from 2% to 2.8%. Cryptocurrency withdrawals were reported as fee free and settling in 1 to 2 days, the only withdrawal rail in the set with no charge attached.
Costs that eat into what a client actually receives
Outside the payment rails, the fee page we did read sets two conditions that reduce payouts rather than deposits or withdrawals as such but land in the same place, a client’s account balance. On dividends, the MT5 Global pricing notes state a commission of 3% of the dividend volume with a minimum of 3 USD for each issuer on UK, EU and Asian stocks, and 2.2% of the dividend volume for each issuer on Russian stocks. The same notes go further: “In case commission amount exceeds dividend amount, dividend payout will not be made. The company will not reimburse additional commission, withheld by issuer, depositary or another counterparty.” A client can end up with no dividend at all, and any extra amount withheld by a third party in the chain is not made good by the firm.
Market data carries a similar catch. The Advanced package on MT5 is billed at $1 a month, or free if the account makes at least one trade that month, but the terms specify that “using the Market Data even 1 day in a month leads to a charge of the full monthly fee,” and the subscription “will be terminated automatically in case your account balance does not cover your Market Data fees.” A brief look at a data feed midmonth costs the full month regardless of how little it was used.
The fee page also lists smaller charges that sit outside deposits and withdrawals but still reduce net proceeds: a $5, 5 euro or 350 ruble fee per order placed by phone with the trading desk, and one off charges of $5 for a Blue Sheets request and $10 for a Fed Reference Request, both triggered by official regulator requests rather than by anything the client does.
Our previous review of Just2Trade scored it 4.5 out of 10 overall; this review scores it 6.5. That move is ours, tied to how this review weighs the evidence rather than to any change at the firm, and the fees criterion, scored 9 here, is the clearest driver of it: the fee page we read this time lays out commissions, minimums and withdrawal charges in specific figures across every rail and asset class, rather than the vaguer picture the previous review had to work from. That same page is also where the sharpest caveats sit, the dividend commission that can wipe out a payout entirely and the market data charge that bills a full month for one day’s use, so a 9 on fees reflects how much detail is published, not an absence of costs.
Customer Support
The pages we fetched give three ways to reach Just2Trade directly: a phone line, an email address and a postal address, plus a second “trading desk” phone number on the firm’s UAE-facing contact page. None of the pages we read state support hours, describe a live chat option, or commit to a response time. The channels are listed and nothing more is said about how they operate.
How to reach Just2Trade
- Phone: +357 25 055 966, given on the firm’s UK-facing terms page.
- Trading desk phone: +357 95 135 475, given on the firm’s UAE-facing contact page.
- Email: 24_support@j2t.com, given on the firm’s UK-facing terms page.
- Postal address: J2T Services Ltd, Magnum Business Center, Office 4B, Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue 78, Limassol 3076, Cyprus, given on both the UK-facing terms page and the UAE-facing contact page.
The email address carries a “24” prefix, but the pages we fetched do not say the desk itself runs around the clock, and none of the pages we read set out weekend coverage or what happens if a ticket sits unanswered.
Who a complaint at Just2Trade actually goes to
The licensed entity behind the brand is J2T Services Ltd, holder of CySEC licence 281/15, confirmed on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register as an active CIF entry with no revocation or withdrawal markers. The firm’s UK-facing about page describes J2T SERVICES LTD as CySEC-authorised and a member of the Investor Compensation Fund, which is the body a client would look to if the firm itself became insolvent.
Elsewhere on the site, the entity named is not always the same one. The firm’s UK-facing terms page carries an “Important notice” banner naming a different entity, Lime Trading (CY) Ltd, as the one that dealt with UK clients, stating: “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd has ceased providing its services to the UK market and UK resident investors and as a result shall exit the UK Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) by year-end 2023, and any related UK consumer protections shall not apply from that point onwards.” That same page’s footer and licence block name J2T Services Ltd, not Lime Trading (CY) Ltd, as the CySEC-licensed entity. A UK client with an unresolved complaint from before that exit is left working out which of two named entities they actually held an account with, at the same time as losing the UK consumer protections the notice describes.
A separate page for the UAE-facing site names a third entity, Lime Financial USA, as the one providing access to the US stock market, describing it as a FINRA member. We searched FINRA BrokerCheck for a firm under that name, using a control search on Interactive Brokers LLC to confirm the search itself works, and no firm named Lime Financial USA came back. A client with a complaint about US stock access has no FINRA record under the name the site gives to check it against.
A lookalike site, not Just2Trade
Our search of 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, run against a positive-control lookup to confirm the search returns real matches, found no entry for Just2Trade or J2T Services Ltd. CySEC’s own List of Non-Approved Domains does carry a similarly named site, just2trade.live, describing it as not authorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. CySEC’s listing does not name which firm the domain imitates, so this is not a warning against Just2Trade or J2T Services Ltd. It is a separate, unauthorised site trading on a near-identical name, and a reader searching for support who lands on it instead would be dealing with an operator that has no CySEC authorisation behind it at all.
What isn’t on these pages
Beyond the phone numbers, the email address and the postal address, the pages we fetched say nothing about a complaints procedure, a named internal escalation step, or how long a client should expect to wait for a reply before going to CySEC or the Financial Ombudsman route that a CySEC-regulated firm would sit under. A client who wants that detail would need to ask the desk directly or check the client agreement itself, since it does not appear on the terms or contact pages this review drew from.
Prohibited Countries
We did not find a single restricted-country list on any of the pages in our evidence. What the pages show instead is a formal market exit written into the UK terms, a self-certifying nationality gate on the homepage, and one narrower, named restriction buried in the fee schedule.
The UK notice on Just2Trade’s own pages
Two separate UK pages we fetched carry an “Important notice” banner that reads, verbatim: “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd has ceased providing its services to the UK market and UK resident investors and as a result shall exit the UK Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) by year-end 2023, and any related UK consumer protections shall not apply from that point onwards.” For a UK resident, that means whatever protections the Temporary Permissions Regime gave them have stopped applying, and any dealings with the firm now sit solely under its Cyprus authorisation.
The notice is worth reading closely because of who it names. It attributes the UK exit to “Lime Trading (CY) Ltd”, while the footer and licence block on the same UK pages name J2T Services Ltd as the licensed entity, confirmed on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register under CIF 281/15. The pages we fetched do not explain how the two names relate, so a UK visitor reading the notice cannot tell from the page alone which entity they would actually be contracting with if they went further.
A gate visitors can click through
Separately from the UK notice, the site runs a geo-gate on entry. The UK page states that “the product or service you’re trying to access isn’t suitable for your country” and asks the visitor to confirm eligibility or view region-specific content before continuing. The UAE page we fetched shows the same mechanism restricting access by the visitor’s detected country, then offering a “Continue anyway” route that asks only for a self-certification of eligibility or VPN use, with no actual check behind it. Whatever list of countries sits behind that gate, a visitor the gate flags can click past it on their own say-so.
Russia: one narrower, named restriction
The single restriction tied to a specific country that sits outside the UK notice is narrower than a market exit. The MT5 Global pricing page states that some US Market Data may be unavailable to residents of Russia. Nothing on that page extends the restriction beyond that data package to trading itself.
No list behind the gate, on the record
An earlier review of Just2Trade that this write-up rewrites reported that it could not find a published restricted-country list anywhere on the homepage, legal, terms or legal-documents pages, having checked the site through an Indonesian exit point. That earlier review also noted that a previous version of its own write-up had named countries including Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba as restricted, but that the claim could not be tied to anything the broker had actually published, so it was dropped. Nothing in the pages fetched for our evidence adds to or contradicts that. Whatever sits behind the country dropdown or the client agreement referenced by the geo-gate above, it was not visible on the public pages checked here.
Conclusion
Just2Trade scores 6.5 out of 10 in this pass, up from the 4.5 this catalogue gave it previously. The move is ours, not the firm’s: it reflects current evidence and a rescoring against this catalogue’s criteria, not any change at Just2Trade itself. The regulation figure (6.7) rests on a licence we could confirm directly; the fees figure (9) rests on a published fee schedule with real numbers attached to nearly every line; support (4.8) and reviews (4.8) pull the overall down, and platform sits at 7.1.
What backs the regulation score
We searched the CySEC register directly and found an active CIF licence, No.281/15, issued 25 September 2015, held by J2T Services Ltd, with no revocation or withdrawal marker against it. We ran a positive control on the CySEC search before treating any result as an absence, so this confirmation stands on a search we know returns results when they exist. Cyprus Registrar of Companies records, via a mirror of the official register, additionally show a company numbered HE 341520 for an entity named Just2Trade Online Ltd, active since 13 March 2015; that is a company filing, not a trading licence, and the name doesn’t match the CySEC entry exactly, so we’re not treating the two as confirmed as the same filing.
Two other regulators the firm’s own pages invoke could not be checked against a register we hold: ESMA, which the site describes as an oversight body rather than a licensor with its own number, and the FCA, which is relevant only because a related entity, Lime Trading (CY) Ltd, is named in a UK notice as having exited the UK’s Temporary Permissions Regime by the end of 2023, leaving UK clients under CySEC’s framework alone from that point. Separately, a search of FINRA’s BrokerCheck for “Lime Financial USA,” the entity the firm’s own pages name as providing US stock market access, returned no matching firm; a control search for Interactive Brokers LLC on the same system did return a result, so the absence is a BrokerCheck outcome and not a broken search. We could not check the Central Bank of Russia licensing claim that appears only in our earlier review; the NFA claim from the same review does check out, since the NFA register lists LIME TRADING CORP under NFA ID 0430385, “NFA Member Approved” since 26 August 2016 and registered with the CFTC as a Futures Commission Merchant, and that is the firm our NFA search for Just2Trade returns.
That entity picture matters beyond the licence check. The firm’s own pages name J2T Services Ltd as the CySEC-licensed entity, Lime Trading (CY) Ltd as the entity that withdrew from the UK, and Lime Financial USA as the entity behind US stock access, without spelling out on any page we read which entity a client actually contracts with for which service. A reader who ends up in a dispute needs to know which company to pursue, and that isn’t laid out clearly across the pages in our evidence.
What Just2Trade charges
The fee score is the strongest part of this review because the firm’s own fee schedule, read directly rather than summarised, itemises pricing down to the cent across asset classes: $2 per lot on forex and metals plus swap, $2.50 per options contract, and futures from $0.50 per contract plus exchange fees, all on the MT5 Global account. Bond trades carry a 0.128% commission with a $10 minimum, and smaller regional exchanges run higher, such as 0.7% on Mexico’s BMV with a $37 minimum. Dividend handling is worth flagging on its own terms: the fee page states that if the dividend commission (3% on UK, EU and Asian stocks, 2.2% on Russian stocks) exceeds the dividend itself, no payout is made at all, and any excess withheld by a third party isn’t reimbursed. Market Data on MT5 is free at the “Basic” tier, but the “Advanced” tier’s own terms state that using it even one day in a month triggers the full month’s $1 charge, and the subscription is cut automatically if the account balance can’t cover it.
Support and the reviews figure
Support scores low at 4.8. The pages in our evidence give a Cyprus phone line, a trading-desk phone line, and a single support email address, with no stated response-time commitment or live-chat channel documented in what we read. The reviews figure, also 4.8, reflects this catalogue’s own criteria rather than a rating we can attribute to any outside source; nothing in the evidence names an independent review aggregator we checked.
The lookalike risk
Anyone searching for this broker should know that CySEC’s List of Non-Approved Domains names just2trade.live as a website not authorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. CySEC doesn’t say which firm that domain imitates, and Just2Trade itself does not appear anywhere on the 1,441 warning-list entries we searched across CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius. That is a clean result for the firm under review, but the lookalike domain is a real risk for a reader who mistypes the address.
Just2Trade holds an active CySEC licence (281/15) and publishes a detailed, itemised fee schedule, but thin support documentation, an unclear split between related entities such as Lime Trading (CY) Ltd and Lime Financial USA, and a lookalike domain flagged by CySEC hold the score to 6.5 out of 10.
What we saw
Pages captured from Just2Trade’s own site when this review was written. Brokers change their terms; these are what we read.
Score history
Recomputed daily; every move is on the record. The current score is always the latest row.
| Date | Score | Move |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 6.5 | ▲ |
| 2026-07-25 | 4.5 | = |
| 2026-07-18 | 4.5 | ▼ |
| 2026-07-11 | 4.6 | · |
FAQ
Is Just2Trade regulated?
Yes, through J2T Services Ltd under CySEC licence 281/15, confirmed on the CySEC register.
Is Just2Trade's FINRA membership claim genuine?
No. Its site says Lime Financial USA is a FINRA member, but that claim returns zero matches on FINRA BrokerCheck.
What does Just2Trade charge?
Spreads start from USD 2.00 round turn on 1 lot EURUSD on MT5 Global, with a USD 100 minimum deposit.
What trading platforms does Just2Trade offer?
MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, the MetaTrader web terminal, CQG, and Sterling Trader Pro.
How does Just2Trade protect client funds?
Under CySEC rules it offers compensation up to 20,000 EUR, an ombudsman route, and negative balance protection.
What do other users say about Just2Trade?
It has a blended rating of 3.30 stars across 19 ratings.
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