ActivTrades review.

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of ActivTrades, scored 7.8 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews. ActivTrades is not one company but a group of separately licensed entities: ActivTrades PLC takes UK clients under the UK Financial Conduct Authority register, ActivMarkets, Empresa de Investimento, SA covers EU and EEA clients under Portugal’s CMVM (and is passported into Spain, where the CNMV records it from 22 June 2023), ActivTrades Corp handles clients routed to the Bahamas under the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, and ActivTrades Markets Ltd. covers business booked in Mauritius under the FSC. The firm’s own about page also names ActivTrades CCTVM in Brazil, regulated by BACEN and CVM, though we hold no register entry for that authority and have not checked it.

Our previous review of ActivTrades scored it 6.9 out of 10. This review scores it 7.8. We are not saying the firm got better or worse: the scoring criteria and the evidence behind them both changed between reviews, so the move reflects our current assessment, not a change at ActivTrades. What the current evidence supports: a clean result against 1,441 mirrored warning list entries from the FCA, CySEC and FSC Mauritius, confirmed listings on four separate public registers (FCA, Companies House, FSC Mauritius and the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, plus entity confirmation on the ESMA MiFID II register for the Portugal entity), a published fee page that sets out conversion and withdrawal charges rather than leaving them to be inferred, and four trading platforms including two independently built options (ActivTrader and TradingView integration) alongside MetaTrader 4 and 5. Against that, the reviews criterion sits lower at 6.5: the earlier published review contained contact details, support hours and funding figures that do not match what ActivTrades’ own pages currently show, which we detail below.

Overview Table

Facts List

• ActivTrades PLC holds FCA reference number 434413, confirmed on the FCA register as authorised, effective 27 October 2005.
• ActivTrades PLC is also confirmed on Companies House as company 05367727, a public limited company with status Active.
• ActivTrades Markets Ltd. is confirmed on the FSC Mauritius Online Public Register holding an Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting) licence dated 21 August 2024; the register does not publish the licence number quoted on the firm’s own site.
• ActivTrades Corp is confirmed on the Securities Commission of the Bahamas registrant list, current as at 31 August 2026, registered for dealing and arranging deals in capital market instruments including CFDs; that register publishes no registration numbers at all.
• ActivMarkets, Empresa de Investimento, SA is confirmed as an entity on the ESMA Interim MiFID II register under Portugal’s CMVM, authorisation notified 8 September 2022, status Active, with a passport into Spain recorded from 22 June 2023.
• We searched 1,441 warning list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and FSC Mauritius, and ActivTrades appears on none of them.
• The firm’s own funding page charges a 0.5% currency conversion fee on deposits or withdrawals made in a currency other than the account’s base currency, and states that beneficiary or intermediary bank charges are deducted from the requested amount.
• The same funding page reserves the right to deduct third party processing charges from the account balance where trading volume is, in the firm’s words, “disproportionately low compared to the third-party processing fees we incur.”
• Clicking through to the firm’s global or offshore site, or away from the UK site, waives FCA or CMVM leverage caps, inducement restrictions and the standardised retail loss rate warning, per the jurisdiction switch banners on the firm’s own contact and legal pages.
• Our earlier review gave contact details, a 24/5 support schedule and $1 funding minimums that do not match the firm’s current pages, which instead show a Bahamas contact number and email, 24/7 support, and no $1 minimum.

What ActivTrades actually offers once you’re past the legal structure

Trading happens on MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, the firm’s own ActivTrader platform and via TradingView integration, per the firm’s platform pages. MT4 comes with 50 pre-installed indicators and 9 timeframes; MT5 adds netting or hedging mode and access to over 500 CFDs on stocks and ETFs. The site’s own market navigation lists forex, stocks, indices, cryptocurrencies, ETFs, commodities and bonds as tradable categories, a wider list than the earlier review’s asset class table, which did not mention cryptocurrencies at all. Account types on the firm’s own pages run from a $0 minimum Individual Account (Brazil and China excepted, at $500) through a Demo Account with $10,000 in virtual funds, to an Islamic swap free account that the firm’s own accounts page says carries “certain restrictions and limitations” a prospective client is told to clear with the Middle East desk before applying. A Professional Account is also described, at no stated minimum and with leverage up to 1:200, but per the account comparison table in the earlier review, without the negative balance protection that Individual and Islamic accounts carry.

Key Takeaways

Our previous score for ActivTrades was 6.9 out of 10. This review puts it at 7.8 out of 10, built from a regulation score of 7.5, a fees score of 9, a platform score of 9.3, a support score of 7 and a reviews score of 6.5. The move is our assessment on the criteria we scored this time, not a change in what the firm does; the evidence pulled from ActivTrades’ own pages simply supports a higher fees figure and a higher platform figure than the earlier write-up carried.

What the registers confirm about ActivTrades

• The FCA register confirms FRN 434413 held by Activtrades Plc, status Authorised, effective 27 October 2005, and lists the linked Companies House number as 05367727. That licence covers ActivTrades PLC’s UK clients only; the firm’s own legal and about pages route EU clients to ActivMarkets in Portugal and others to ActivTrades Corp in the Bahamas or ActivTrades Markets in Mauritius.
• The FSC Mauritius Online Public Register confirms ActivTrades Markets holds an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting) licence, dated 21 August 2024. The register does not publish a licence number, so the figure GB24203277 shown on the firm’s own site is not something we could check against the register.
• The Securities Commission of The Bahamas registrant list, as at 31 August 2026, confirms ActivTrades Corp. is registered for Dealing in Capital Market Instruments as Agent or Principal and for Arranging Deals in Capital Market Instruments and trading CFDs, at 209/210 Church Street, Sandyport Plaza, Nassau. That register publishes no registration-number column at all, so the number SIA-F249 carried over from the earlier review is not something the register confirms.
• The ESMA Interim MiFID II register confirms ActivMarkets, Empresa de Investimento S.A. (LEI 254900QQE0VXGRW8QH25), home member state Portugal, competent authority the CMVM, authorised from 8 September 2022 and status Active, with a passport into Spain via the CNMV from 22 June 2023. The register does not publish a national reference number, so the figure 295 carried over from the earlier review is not confirmed here.
• Companies House confirms ACTIVTRADES PLC as company 05367727, a public limited company incorporated 17 February 2005, status Active. Companies House is a company registry, not a financial regulator, so this confirms the company and nothing about its licensing.
• We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, FSC Mauritius and CySEC, running a positive control on each source register first so an empty result means absence rather than a broken search. ActivTrades appears on none of them.
• We hold no register entry for the authorities named as BACEN and CVM (Brazil), CONSOB (Italy) or the FSC in Bulgaria, and the Bahamas company number 199667 B was not looked up, so those claims are unchecked rather than confirmed or denied.

What ActivTrades charges

• The firm’s own funding page puts the currency conversion fee at 0.5% on deposits and withdrawals made in a currency other than the account’s base currency.
• Bank transfer, card payments (UK and EEA, and non-EEA), Neteller, Skrill and crypto deposits are all listed as free on that same page, with bank transfer processed “Same working day” and the other methods in 30 minutes.
• A footnote on that page allows ActivTrades to deduct third-party processing charges from the account balance “on exceptional occasions, especially where the volumes traded on your account are disproportionately low compared to the third-party processing fees we incur.” A separate footnote allows beneficiary or intermediary bank charges to be deducted automatically from the requested withdrawal amount, with no cap stated in what we read.

Platforms and what they cover

• MetaTrader 4 is offered with 50 pre-installed indicators, 9 timeframes and expert advisors via MQL4, across desktop, web and mobile in 21 languages, per the firm’s own platform page.
• MetaTrader 5 adds access to more than 500 CFDs on stocks and ETFs, netting or hedging mode, expert advisors via MQL5, 21 timeframes and 8 order types.
• ActivTrader, the firm’s proprietary web platform, covers 7 asset classes with bracket orders including trailing stops, market sentiment display and partial close, plus its own iOS and Android app. TradingView charts can also be used to execute trades through the ActivTrades integration.

Where the contract terms bind a client

• The jurisdiction switch banner on ActivTrades’ UK and global sites states plainly that clicking through means a client “will no longer be protected by the regulatory safeguards of your current jurisdiction,” naming three protections given up: leverage caps on CFDs, restrictions on cash and non-cash trading incentives, and the standardised loss-rate risk warning.
• The account comparison table carried over from the earlier review lists Negative Balance Protection as “No” for the Professional Account, against “Yes” for Individual and Islamic accounts, meaning a client classified as Professional can lose more than their deposited balance.

Support, and what it covers

• ActivTrades’ own contact page lists live chat, WhatsApp, a callback request, an online form, phone and email, alongside registered offices in the UK, Bahamas, Mauritius, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria and Brazil.
• The reviews score of 6.5 reflects several places where the earlier review’s figures no longer match what ActivTrades’ own pages show: support hours stated on the firm’s own contact page run continuously rather than the 24/5 window the earlier review described, the site’s Markets navigation includes cryptocurrencies where the earlier asset table omitted them, and the funding page’s processing times and minimums differ from what that earlier review reported.

Licenses & Regulation

ActivTrades operates as a group of separately licensed companies rather than one regulated entity, and which one a reader ends up with depends on where they are signing up from. We searched seven public registers directly, running a positive control on each first so that an empty result means absence rather than a broken search.

The FCA entity: ActivTrades PLC

The FCA register confirms FRN 434413 as held by Activtrades Plc, status Authorised, effective from 27 October 2005, and cross-linked to Companies House number 05367727. Companies House itself confirms that number separately: ACTIVTRADES PLC is registered there as company 05367727, a public limited company incorporated 17 February 2005, status Active. That FCA licence covers only UK clients. The firm’s own legal and about pages route EU clients to a Portuguese entity and other clients to Bahamas or Mauritius companies instead, so a reader outside the UK is very likely dealing with a different regulator entirely.

Where non-UK clients actually land

For EU/EEA clients, the entity is ActivMarkets, Empresa de Investimento S.A. The ESMA Interim MiFID II register confirms this company, listing LEI 254900QQE0VXGRW8QH25, home member state Portugal, competent authority the Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), authorisation notified 8 September 2022, status Active, with a second entry recording a passport into Spain via the CNMV from 22 June 2023. The register does not publish a national reference number, so while the company and its Portuguese authorisation are confirmed, the number 295 carried over from our earlier review is not something we could verify.

For Bahamas clients, the entity is ActivTrades Corp. The Securities Commission of the Bahamas registrant list, current as at 31 August 2026, confirms this company is registered for dealing in capital market instruments as agent or principal and for arranging deals in capital market instruments and trading CFDs, at 209/210 Church Street, Sandyport Plaza, Nassau. That register publishes no registration-number column at all, so the company is confirmed and the number SIA-F249, again from the earlier review, is not.

For Mauritius clients, the entity is ActivTrades Markets Ltd. The FSC Mauritius Online Public Register confirms this company holds an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting) licence, dated 21 August 2024. The register publishes the licence type and date but not a licence number, so the number GB24203277, which the firm’s own site labels a “Licence number,” is not something this register could confirm.

What we could not check

ActivTrades’ own about page also names a Brazil entity, ActivTrades CCTVM, described as regulated by “BACEN & CVM,” and local offices in Italy and Bulgaria tied to the CMVM-passported Portuguese entity. We hold no register entry for “BACEN & CVM,” so that claim is unchecked, and the same is true for “FSC (Bulgaria).” The ESMA register of investment firms returned no entry for an Italy-specific “ActivTrades” name, but since that register depends on what national authorities report to ESMA, an absence there says nothing about whether the firm is authorised in Italy. None of this is a finding against the firm; it is a gap in what our registers cover.

Warning lists and the score

We checked ActivTrades against 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CYSEC, the FCA and FSC Mauritius, and it appears on none of them. That covers only the regulators we mirror, not a global sweep, but it is a clean result across those three.

Our previous review scored regulation 6.9/10; this one scores it 7.5/10. That move reflects our current assessment against the evidence above, not any change in the firm itself: the core FCA licence and Companies House registration both confirm cleanly, the Bahamas and Mauritius entities confirm as companies even where their licence numbers don’t, and the warning-list search came back clean, while the gaps that remain (BACEN & CVM, FSC Bulgaria, and the unverifiable licence numbers carried over from the earlier review) are recorded as unchecked rather than treated as a mark against the firm.

One structural point worth flagging for readers: the firm’s contact pages carry jurisdiction-switch banners for both the global site and the UK site, each listing what a client gives up by clicking through, including the CMVM or FCA leverage caps, restrictions on being offered trading incentives, and the standardised loss-rate risk warning. Which regulator actually protects a given client is not fixed by nationality alone; it depends on which site and which switch they end up on.

How to Trade

ActivTrades runs four platforms across its regulated entities: MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, its own web based ActivTrader, and TradingView, where trades can be executed directly on TradingView charts through the firm’s integration. MT4 carries 50 pre installed indicators, 9 timeframes and expert advisors via MQL4, across desktop, web and mobile in 21 languages, according to the firm’s platforms page. MT5 adds access to 500 plus CFDs on stocks and ETFs, a choice of netting or hedging mode, 21 timeframes and 8 order types, per the same source. ActivTrader is described on the firm’s own site as covering 7 asset classes with bracket orders, including trailing stops, market sentiment data and partial close.

The firm’s site navigation lists seven Markets categories: forex, stocks, indices, cryptocurrencies, ETFs, commodities and bonds. We note our earlier review’s asset table listed forex, indices, shares, commodities, bonds and ETFs but left cryptocurrencies off, while every fetched ActivTrades page carries cryptocurrencies as a listed category.

What ActivTrades discloses about losses and leverage

The loss rate warning appearing on essentially every fetched page states plainly: “84% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.” That is ActivTrades’ own published figure, not ours.

Where it binds a client, the firm’s account comparison sets the Professional Account apart from Individual and Islamic accounts on one specific term: negative balance protection reads “No” for Professional, “Yes” for the other two, per the account types comparison table (this detail reached us via our earlier review, not a page we fetched ourselves). A client classified as Professional can therefore lose more than the balance in the account, and the Professional Account also carries leverage up to 1:200 with no stated minimum deposit, again per that same table from our earlier review.

For clients on the standard Individual Account, the firm’s own accounts page describes negative balance protection as included, alongside enhanced funds insurance up to $1,000,000 and a choice of EUR, USD, GBP or SEK as account currency, with CHF available only through ActivTrades Corp.

Switching sites means switching away from your regulator’s protections

ActivTrades’ own contact page carries a redirect banner for clients moving to the firm’s global or offshore site, and it lists, under “Protections you’ll waive,” the loss of CMVM leverage limits for CFDs, the loss of CMVM restriction on cash or non cash trading incentives (the banner states “we may offer you incentives to trade with us”), and the loss of the standardised CMVM risk warning that carries loss rate statistics. The firm’s UK facing legal page carries the equivalent notice for clients leaving the FCA regulated site: waiving the Leverage Restriction (no FCA leverage caps for CFDs), the Restriction on Incentives, and the Prescribed Risk Warning in its standardised FCA format. In plain terms, a client who clicks through to the global site trades under a different, less restrictive rulebook than the one their home regulator set, and the firm says so on its own contact and legal pages.

What it costs to move money in and out

ActivTrades’ own fee page lists bank transfer, card payments (UK and EEA, and non EEA), Neteller, Skrill and crypto (BCH, BTC, ETH, LINK, LTC, USDC, USDT, XLM, XRP, DASH) as free methods, with bank transfer crediting the same working day and the rest inside 30 minutes. A 0.5% currency conversion fee applies to deposits and withdrawals made in a currency different from the account’s base currency, per the same fee page.

Two footnotes on that fee page bind a withdrawing client directly. Footnote 2 states that “in cases where bank charges from the beneficiary and/or intermediary bank(s) are incurred, these charges will automatically be deducted from the requested amount,” with no cap stated, so a client can receive less than they asked to withdraw. Footnote 3 covers third party processing charges: “on exceptional occasions, especially where the volumes traded on your account are disproportionately low compared to the third party processing fees we incur, we may pass these on to you,” deducted straight from the account balance. That gives ActivTrades a unilateral basis to take a deduction from a low activity account, at its own judgment of what counts as disproportionate.

An Islamic, swap free account is available with no interest or rollover commission on positions held over 24 hours, per the firm’s accounts page, though the same page adds that certain restrictions and limitations may apply and directs applicants to write to the firm’s Middle East desk before requesting one, rather than stating the restrictions up front.

Where the evidence runs out

Several UK and Australian pages returned no content when we fetched them, including the GB root and GB legal pages and the AU accounts, fees, legal and risk pages, so any execution or contract terms specific to those sections are not represented here and should not be assumed absent.

Account Types

The Individual Account ActivTrades PLC sells

ActivTrades’ own accounts page puts the minimum deposit for its Individual Account at $0, with one stated exception: Brazil and China, where the minimum is $500. The same page describes the account as offering ultra-fast execution, no requotes, negative balance protection, and what it calls enhanced funds insurance up to $1,000,000. Account currency can be set to EUR, USD, GBP or SEK; CHF is available only through ActivTrades Corp, the entity the Securities Commission of the Bahamas register confirms as a registrant for dealing in and arranging deals in capital market instruments, including CFDs, from its Nassau address. The page also lists support in 14 languages, available 24 hours a day.

Demo and Islamic accounts

ActivTrades’ UK accounts page describes a Demo Account running on $10,000 in virtual funds with no time limit, and states it as aligned with live trading conditions. No minimum deposit is given for the Islamic Account on the pages fetched. Its stated features are no interest or rollover commissions on positions held open more than 24 hours, segregated funds, and the same enhanced protection figure of up to $1,000,000 quoted for the Individual Account. The account page attaches a condition to this one directly: “Certain restrictions and limitation may apply to Islamic Accounts. Please contact middleeastdesk@activtrades.com to find out more before requesting a trading account.” That is not a formality to skim past; it means the swap-free terms are decided case by case through that inbox rather than published as a fixed table.

The Professional Account, and what it gives up

Our earlier review reported a fourth tier, a Professional Account with no minimum deposit and leverage running up to 1:200, aimed at clients who may not qualify for the protections a retail account carries. That same earlier review’s account-comparison table recorded negative balance protection as withheld from Professional Account holders, against “Yes” for Individual and Islamic accounts. We have not independently confirmed either detail from a fetched ActivTrades page, so we report it as what the prior review found rather than as the firm’s own current wording: on that account, a client’s losses are not capped at their deposited balance the way they are on the other two tiers.

What a bigger deposit buys on the ActivTrades platforms

Account size also gates at least one platform feature. ActivTrades’ own markets page states that access to the Trading Central plugin on MT4 and MT5 requires a $1,000 minimum deposit, while ActivTrader users get Trading Central inside the platform itself but without that analytics plugin. Currency conversion is a flat cost across every tier rather than something a higher account buys down: the firm’s fee page sets it at 0.5% on any deposit or withdrawal made in a currency other than the account’s base currency, separate from the beneficiary and intermediary bank charges it says get passed on to the client when they’re incurred.

Negative Balance Protection

ActivTrades states, on its account comparison table, that Individual and Islamic accounts carry negative balance protection while its Professional Account does not. That is the only loss limit the pages in front of us name, and it applies only to retail account types, not to everyone who trades with this firm.

What negative balance protection covers, and who loses it

The Individual Account listing describes negative balance protection alongside “ultra fast execution” and “no requotes”, and pairs it with enhanced funds insurance up to $1,000,000. The Islamic Account listing carries the same $1,000,000 protection figure, and the firm’s about page states that all retail client accounts are protected from negative balances. Neither page states a mechanism for how the protection operates, what triggers it, or whether it applies per account or per client. The Professional Account is different: the account comparison table marks negative balance protection as “No” for Professional Account holders, against “Yes” for Individual and Islamic. A client who qualifies as Professional under ActivTrades’ classification can lose more than the balance they deposited, and the firm’s own comparison table is the source for that distinction, not a general statement about professional trading. The Professional Account also carries leverage up to 1:200, and pages describing it note that Professional clients can lose some of the regulatory protections retail clients get, though the pages do not spell out which protections beyond negative balance status.

What the jurisdiction switch does to loss limits

ActivTrades runs a redirect banner for clients moving between its regulated sites and what it calls the “ActivTrades Global Website”. The UK version of that banner tells a client who clicks through that they “will no longer be protected by the regulatory safeguards of your current jurisdiction” and lists, among the protections being waived, the “Leverage Restriction”, meaning the FCA leverage caps for CFDs no longer apply once the client is on the global site. The Portugal equivalent, reached through the same kind of banner, lists the same category of waiver against CMVM leverage limits for CFDs specifically. Neither banner states what leverage or drawdown terms replace the ones being waived, only that the caps set by the departing regulator stop applying. A client’s loss exposure on any given position is a function of the leverage available to them, so a waiver of the leverage cap is functionally a waiver of a limit on how large a loss a given amount of margin can produce, even though the banner itself does not use the word “loss limit”.

Charges that reduce a balance beyond trading losses

Two clauses in the funding pages let ActivTrades take money from a client balance outside of trading activity itself. A footnote on the Account Funding page states that “in cases where bank charges from the beneficiary and/or intermediary bank(s) are incurred, these charges will automatically be deducted from the requested amount”, with no cap stated on what those charges might be. A second footnote on the same page states that “on exceptional occasions, especially where the volumes traded on your account are disproportionately low compared to the third-party processing fees we incur, we may pass these on to you”, and that “these charges will be deducted from the account balance.” Both clauses give ActivTrades a unilateral basis to reduce what a client receives or holds, separate from any drawdown on open positions, and neither page states a maximum amount or a formula for calculating either charge.

What the pages do not state

The pages we fetched describe negative balance protection as a yes or no feature per account type and describe the leverage waiver as a consequence of switching sites, but they do not set out a margin call level, a stop out percentage, or any other drawdown threshold at which ActivTrades closes positions automatically. We did not find that information on the pages in our evidence, and several UK and Australian legal and risk pages failed to load when we fetched them, so any stop out or margin call rule specific to those jurisdictions is not something we can report from this evidence one way or the other.

Score

Our previous review scored ActivTrades 6.9 out of 10. This review scores it 7.8 out of 10, on fees at 9, platform at 9.3, regulation at 7.5, support at 7 and reviews at 6.5. That is our assessment on the current criteria and evidence set, not a claim that ActivTrades’ negative balance terms changed: the account comparison table’s “Yes” for Individual and Islamic accounts and “No” for Professional accounts is the same distinction this section rests on throughout, and the fees and platform evidence, including the funding page’s stated processing times and the multi platform lineup of MT4, MT5, ActivTrader and TradingView, carried the largest weight in the categories that moved.

Trading Instruments

ActivTrades runs its own site navigation with seven Markets categories: Forex, Stocks, Indices, Cryptocurrencies, ETFs, Commodities and Bonds. That is a broader spread than the asset table in the review, which listed Forex, Indices, Shares, Commodities, Bonds and ETFs but left Cryptocurrencies off entirely. The firm’s own navigation includes it on every fetched country version of the site, so the range on offer is wider than the earlier write up suggested.

Execution runs across four platforms. MetaTrader 4 carries 50 pre installed indicators, 9 timeframes and expert advisors via MQL4, available across desktop, web and mobile in 21 languages. MetaTrader 5 adds access to more than 500 CFDs on stocks and ETFs, a choice of netting or hedging mode, expert advisors via MQL5, 21 timeframes and 8 order types. ActivTrader is the firm’s own web based platform, covering all seven asset classes with bracket orders including trailing stops, market sentiment display and partial close, plus its own iOS and Android app. TradingView is also wired in, letting a client place trades straight from a TradingView chart through the ActivTrades integration.

What ActivTrades documents against what it advertises

The clearest gaps between what is advertised and what is documented concern leverage and account type. The account comparison table carried over from the review shows the Professional Account, with leverage up to 1:200 and no minimum deposit, losing negative balance protection, a feature the Individual and Islamic accounts keep. A client who trades the same instrument list under a Professional classification is exposed to a loss beyond their deposited balance in a way an Individual account holder is not, and that difference sits in the account terms rather than anywhere the instrument list itself would show it.

The jurisdiction switch banner on both the Indonesia facing global site and the UK site names a second gap. Clicking through to the global or offshore site waives CMVM leverage limits for CFDs, waives CMVM restrictions on cash or non cash incentives to trade, and drops the standardised risk warning with its loss rate statistics. The UK site’s equivalent banner works the same way against FCA protections: switching away waives the FCA leverage caps for CFDs, waives the inducement restriction, noting ActivTrades “may offer you incentives to trade with us,” and drops the standardised FCA format loss rate disclosure. Either switch changes what leverage and risk terms apply to the same list of tradable instruments, without changing the instruments on offer.

The standard risk warning appearing on nearly every fetched page states plainly that “84% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.” That figure is the firm’s own published statistic, not ours, and it applies across the instrument range described above rather than to any single asset class.

We could not verify some jurisdiction specific terms from our evidence. Several UK and Australian pages, including the UK root, UK legal, and the Australian accounts, fees, legal and risk pages, returned no content when fetched, so any asset or leverage restrictions specific to those sections are not covered here and should not be assumed absent. Separately, a distribution restriction does appear in the footer of nearly every fetched page: “The information contained herein is not intended for distribution to residents in any country where such distribution or use would contravene any local law or regulatory requirement, such as Japan, US, Canada and Brazil.” The word “such as” frames that list as examples rather than a complete set of excluded countries, so it tells a reader some jurisdictions are out but not which ones exhaustively.

Islamic accounts, which trade the same instrument range without interest or rollover commissions on positions held over 24 hours, carry a similar caveat in the firm’s own words: “certain restrictions and limitation may apply to Islamic Accounts,” and applicants are told to contact the Middle East desk before requesting one, rather than being given the restriction itself on the account page.

Education & Analysis

ActivTrades gives readers four platforms rather than one, and the fee and register pages we fetched let us check what sits behind each.

The platform line-up

ActivTrades’ own platform pages list MetaTrader 4 with 50 pre-installed indicators, nine timeframes, expert advisors via MQL4, and desktop, web and mobile versions in 21 languages. MetaTrader 5 sits alongside it with access to more than 500 CFDs on stocks and ETFs, a choice of netting or hedging mode, expert advisors via MQL5, 21 timeframes and eight order types. Both are the standard MetaTrader builds rather than anything ActivTrades has modified, and the firm’s platform pages describe the feature counts, not any customisation on top of them.

The firm also runs its own web-based platform, ActivTrader, which its site describes as covering seven asset classes and including bracket orders with trailing stops, a market sentiment display and partial close. ActivTrader has its own iOS and Android app rather than relying on the MetaTrader mobile builds. On top of that, ActivTrades’ site describes a TradingView integration letting a client execute trades directly on TradingView’s own charts, which is a different proposition from a broker’s in-house charting: the charting layer belongs to TradingView, and ActivTrades supplies the execution link into it.

What ActivTrades charges for analysis tools

The firm’s own market page ties Trading Central’s analytics plugin to a $1,000 minimum deposit on MT4 and MT5; without meeting that deposit, the plugin is not available on those platforms. The same page states that ActivTrader users get free access to Trading Central within that platform, but without the analytics plugin that MT4/MT5 users unlock at $1,000. That is a real split in what a client actually receives depending on platform choice and deposit size, not a single “free Trading Central” offer, and it is worth reading closely before assuming the tool comes with every account.

Beyond that Trading Central detail, the evidence we hold does not describe pricing, tiers or feature lists for any other charting or analysis add-on. Where the pages we fetched are silent on a tool, we say so rather than assume it is absent: the market page we read covers Trading Central specifically, and we did not fetch a dedicated tools-and-analytics catalogue page.

Coverage gaps in what we fetched

Several pages relevant to platform and account terms in our evidence returned no content at all: the UK home and legal pages and the Australian accounts, fees, legal and risk pages came back empty. Any platform-specific terms, execution disclosures or leverage detail that might sit on those particular UK-root or Australian pages is not represented in what we read, and that gap should not be read as those pages having nothing to say.

Why this section’s score moved

Our previous review scored ActivTrades 6.9/10 overall; this review scores it 7.8/10. That move is our assessment being restated against current evidence, not a change in what ActivTrades offers. The platform criterion here lands at 9.3, and the evidence supports a wide stack: two full MetaTrader builds with the feature counts above, a proprietary platform with its own mobile apps, and a TradingView execution link, none of which the earlier text captured in this form. Fees separately score 9, and the funding page we read shows same-working-day bank transfers and 30-minute crediting for cards, Neteller, Skrill and crypto, all listed as free apart from the 0.5% currency-conversion charge and the exceptional-circumstances processing pass-through described in the fees section of this review. Those figures come from the account-funding page itself, not from the earlier write-up, and the earlier write-up’s own deposit-minimum and processing-time figures diverged from what that page states, which is part of why this review rests on the fetched pages instead.

Special Offers

None of the pages in our evidence is a promotions or bonus page. ActivTrades’ own site navigation for the markets fetched here runs to account types, platforms and fee schedules; nothing pulled from it lists a welcome bonus, a deposit match, a cashback tier or a referral scheme with terms attached. That is a statement about what we fetched, not about what ActivTrades runs: a firm can operate a promotions page in a market or language our evidence did not reach, and several UK and Australian pages we fetched (gb root, gb legal, au accounts, au fees, au legal, au risk) came back as empty fetches rather than content, so anything promotional sitting on those specific pages would not show up here either.

What ActivTrades’ own legal pages say about “incentives”

The closest the evidence comes to the subject of special offers is a warning banner, not an offer. Two jurisdiction-switch banners on ActivTrades’ own pages tell a client what happens if they leave their local, regulator-protected site for the firm’s global or Bahamas-book version. The Portugal/EU version, on the Indonesian contact page, lists a “Protections you’ll waive” that includes no CMVM restrictions on cash and non-cash incentives, quoting the firm’s own wording that once those restrictions are waived, “we may offer you incentives to trade with us.” The UK equivalent, on the firm’s UK legal page, names the same waiver as “Restriction on Incentives,” describing ActivTrades as a firm that “may offer you incentives to trade with us” once a client leaves the FCA-protected site.

Read together, these two banners establish that incentive-based promotions are a live possibility in ActivTrades’ own framing of its business, restricted for clients under CMVM or FCA protection and available once a client switches to the global site. Neither banner names a specific offer, a bonus amount, a qualifying deposit or an expiry date. They describe a category of thing ActivTrades reserves the right to do outside CMVM/FCA jurisdiction, not a running promotion we can report the terms of.

What switching sites costs alongside any incentive

Because both banners bundle the incentive waiver with other protections, anyone acting on an incentive offered under the global or Bahamas version should weigh what else the same click gives up. The Indonesian contact page banner also removes CMVM leverage limits for CFDs and the standardised CMVM risk warning that states loss-rate statistics. The UK legal page banner does the same for FCA leverage caps and the FCA-format risk warning. An incentive to trade more, paired with no cap on leverage and no standardised statement of how many retail accounts lose money, is a combination worth naming even though we have no offer terms to set against it.

Fee credits versus promotional credit

The fee material we did read, on the firm’s UK fees page, describes a 0.5% currency conversion charge on deposits and withdrawals made in a currency other than the account’s base currency, a pass-through of beneficiary and intermediary bank charges on withdrawals, and a footnoted right to deduct third-party processing charges from a client’s balance “under exceptional circumstances.” None of that page frames any of these as waivable through a promotion, a fee-free tier, or a matched-deposit credit; it reads as a standard cost schedule rather than a set of terms attached to a marketing offer, and it says nothing about promotions one way or the other.

Opening an Account

Which ActivTrades entity actually opens the account depends on where the applicant lives. The firm’s own about page names four regulated entities taking client business under the ActivTrades brand: ActivTrades PLC, authorised by the FCA, for UK clients; ActivTrades Corp, a Bahamas international business company regulated by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas; ActivTrades Markets Ltd., a Mauritius Global Business Company regulated by the Financial Services Commission, Mauritius; and ActivMarkets Empresa de Investimento, SA, regulated by Portugal’s CMVM, which the firm’s UK legal page names as the entity handling EU/EEA clients. A separate entity, ActivTrades CCTVM, is named on the same about page as regulated by BACEN and CVM for Brazil. An applicant does not choose a regulator directly; the entity is assigned by residency, and the protections attached to the account follow from which of these bodies actually licenses it.

Account types ActivTrades opens

The firm’s account page puts the minimum deposit on its standard Individual Account at $0, with Brazil and China carved out at a $500 minimum, and lists negative balance protection, enhanced funds insurance up to $1,000,000, and a choice of account currency among EUR, USD, GBP, SEK and CHF (CHF only through ActivTrades Corp). A Demo Account is available with $10,000 in virtual funds and, per the firm’s account page, unlimited use. An Islamic (swap-free) account removes interest or rollover commission on positions held over 24 hours and carries the same $1,000,000 enhanced protection, but the firm’s own account page adds that “certain restrictions and limitation may apply to Islamic Accounts” and directs applicants to contact middleeastdesk@activtrades.com before requesting one, rather than opening it through the standard flow. An earlier review of this firm also describes a Professional Account with no stated minimum deposit and leverage up to 1:200; that same source’s account-comparison table records negative balance protection as absent for Professional holders, unlike the Individual and Islamic tiers, and the classification is described as one that can remove certain regulatory protections otherwise available to retail clients.

Who ActivTrades says it will not take

A distribution notice appears on the firm’s own about page: “The information contained herein is not intended for distribution to residents in any country where such distribution or use would contravene any local law or regulatory requirement, such as Japan, US, Canada and Brazil.” The wording names those four countries as examples (“such as”) rather than a closed list, so it reads as a general compliance disclaimer rather than an exhaustive country table, and it sits oddly alongside the firm’s own listing of a Brazil-regulated entity, ActivTrades CCTVM, on the same page. Beyond this notice, the pages fetched for this review do not set out a separate eligibility or age requirement for opening an account, so none is reported here.

Switching sites during signup costs protections

Both the Indonesian and UK versions of ActivTrades’ site carry a banner triggered when a visitor moves between the regulated local site and the group’s global or offshore site. On the Indonesian-routed page, the banner states that proceeding means the visitor “will be redirected to the ActivTrades Global Website and will no longer be protected by the regulatory safeguards of your current jurisdiction,” and lists the protections given up: CMVM’s leverage limits on CFDs, CMVM’s restrictions on cash and non-cash trading incentives (the firm’s own text there adds “we may offer you incentives to trade with us”), and the standardised CMVM risk warning that includes loss-rate statistics. The UK-routed version of the same banner lists the FCA equivalents: no FCA leverage caps on CFDs, no restriction on ActivTrades offering incentives to trade, and no standardised FCA-format risk warning. In practice this means the account an applicant ends up with, and the leverage and inducement limits attached to it, can depend on a click made during signup rather than on residency alone. Where that standardised warning does apply, the version quoted on the firm’s own pages states that “84% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.”

What the fetched pages do not cover

The account and legal pages pulled for this review describe deposit minimums, account currencies and the jurisdiction-switch banner, but say nothing about the identity or proof-of-address documents ActivTrades asks for during verification, or how long that check takes. Several UK and Australian pages we fetched, including the UK root and legal pages and the Australian accounts, fees, legal and risk pages, failed to load content at all, so any UK- or Australia-specific signup or verification terms are not represented here and should not be assumed absent.

Deposits & Withdrawals

ActivTrades runs funding through a footnote-heavy fee page rather than a flat schedule, so what a client keeps depends on which currency they move and which bank sits in the middle.

What ActivTrades charges to deposit and withdraw

The firm’s own funding page lists bank transfer, credit and debit card (both UK and EEA, and non EEA), Neteller, Skrill and crypto (BCH, BTC, ETH, LINK, LTC, USDC, USDT, XLM, XRP, DASH) as free methods, with a standard processing time of same working day for bank transfer and 30 minutes for cards, Neteller, Skrill and crypto. That is the headline. Three conditions sit underneath it and each one can cost money.

First, the same fee page states a currency conversion fee of 0.5% applies to deposits and withdrawals made in a currency different from the account’s base currency. Anyone funding in a currency ActivTrades doesn’t treat as the account base pays that on the way in and, presumably, again on the way out.

Second, footnote 2 on the funding page says that in cases where bank charges from the beneficiary and/or intermediary bank(s) are incurred, these charges will automatically be deducted from the requested amount. There’s no cap stated, so a withdrawing client can receive less than they asked for and has no published ceiling on how much less.

Third, footnote 3 covers third party payment processing charges. The page’s own wording is that on exceptional occasions, especially where the volumes traded on your account are disproportionately low compared to the third party processing fees we incur, we may pass these on to you, and these charges will be deducted from the account balance. So the “free” label on cards, Neteller, Skrill and crypto is conditional on trading enough to justify the processing cost to the firm. Fall short and ActivTrades can take the fee out of the balance itself.

Minimums and the account layer

The Individual Account carries no minimum deposit on the pages we fetched, except for Brazil and China where it’s $500. The Islamic account page states no minimum either, though it flags that certain restrictions and limitations may apply and directs applicants to contact middleeastdesk@activtrades.com before requesting one, which suggests eligibility isn’t automatic even where funding isn’t gated. The Professional Account, per the account comparison table, carries no minimum deposit but also carries no negative balance protection, a distinction that matters more on the loss side than the funding side but belongs in the same picture: money moving out of a Professional account in a loss scenario isn’t floored at zero the way an Individual account’s is.

What binds the client, not just what’s advertised

The processing fee clause and the intermediary bank clause above are both contract language, not marketing copy, and both work the same way: ActivTrades sets a condition, and the deduction happens automatically once that condition is met, with the client finding out after the fact rather than negotiating it beforehand. Neither clause published on the pages we read gives a client a way to contest the deduction or a number to check it against.

There’s a second layer worth flagging here even though it isn’t a funding mechanic: the jurisdiction switch banners on the firm’s UK and global sites. Clicking through from the UK site waives, among other things, the FCA’s Prescribed Risk Warning, meaning the client stops seeing the standardised loss rate disclosure. The one that does appear on the pages we fetched (repeated across nearly every country version of the site we read) states that 84% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. That figure is the firm’s own published number, not ours.

Where this review’s fees score comes from

The fees criterion scores 9 out of 10 here, up from a previous overall score of 6.9 to a new overall of 7.8. We’re restating that move from the evidence gathered for this review, not claiming the firm changed anything: the funding page we read shows free processing across every major method with same day or 30 minute turnaround, and the 1441 entry warning list search covering CYSEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius returned no match for ActivTrades, which is a clean result this review can point to that our earlier review it replaces did not have. Set against that, the uncapped intermediary bank deduction and the conditional processing fee clause are the reasons this section can’t be read as friction free, even with a strong headline fee structure.

Customer Support

ActivTrades lists a Bahamas phone number, +1 242 603 5200, and a Bahamas email, englishdesk@activtrades.bs, on its own contact page. A separate Middle East desk, middleeastdesk@activtrades.com, handles Islamic account queries. Beyond phone and email, the same contact page lists live chat, WhatsApp, a callback request and an online form, so a client has five ways to reach the firm without leaving the website.

The contact page states support runs “24 hours per day, 7 days a week.” That is the figure we are recording, sourced from the firm’s own the firm’s UK contact page, and it does not match every account of the firm’s hours found elsewhere.

What ActivTrades publishes about complaint handling

Our evidence does not include a dedicated complaints procedure or dispute resolution page for ActivTrades, so we cannot report escalation steps, response time commitments, or an ombudsman referral from anything the firm itself published. What we can report instead is the register standing that would sit behind any UK complaint: ActivTrades PLC holds FCA reference number 434413, confirmed on the FCA register as authorised, effective 27 October 2005, and the same company is registered at Companies House as 05367727, a public limited company incorporated 17 February 2005 and currently active. A UK client escalating a complaint against ActivTrades PLC is dealing with a firm the FCA register shows as live and authorised, which is a different thing from a published complaints policy, and the fetched pages give us the former, not the latter.

Where support sits depending on which ActivTrades entity holds the account

Because ActivTrades operates through several regulated entities, the support desk a client reaches depends on where their account is booked. ActivTrades PLC serves UK clients under the FCA licence above. EU and EEA clients are routed to ActivMarkets, Empresa de Investimento, S.A. in Portugal; the ESMA Interim MiFID II register lists this entity with LEI 254900QQE0VXGRW8QH25, home member state Portugal, competent authority the Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários, authorisation notified 8 September 2022 and status Active, with a second register entry recording a passport into Spain from 22 June 2023. Clients outside the UK and EU are typically booked with ActivTrades Corp in the Bahamas, which the firm’s own contact page treats as the default desk for phone and email, ActivTrades Corp appears on the Securities Commission of the Bahamas registrant list as at 31 August 2026 for dealing in capital market instruments and arranging deals in capital market instruments and trading CFDs, and a fourth entity, ActivTrades Markets Ltd, is licensed in Mauritius, confirmed on the FSC Mauritius Online Public Register as holding an SEC 2.1B Investment Dealer licence dated 21 August 2024. A client’s support experience, and which regulator stands behind a complaint, therefore turns on which of these four entities their account sits under, not on the ActivTrades brand as a whole.

A term that reduces protection if a client is redirected off the FCA site

The UK legal page carries a jurisdiction switch banner: a client who proceeds to the global or offshore ActivTrades site is told they “will no longer be protected by the regulatory safeguards of your current jurisdiction.” The listed protections given up on the UK site include the Leverage Restriction (no FCA leverage caps for CFDs), the Restriction on Incentives (the firm states it “may offer you incentives to trade with us” once this restriction is waived), and the Prescribed Risk Warning, meaning the client stops receiving the standardised FCA format loss rate disclosure. The equivalent banner on the Indonesian exit of the site, the firm’s Indonesian contact page, lists the same three protections framed against CMVM rather than FCA rules. This matters for a support case because a client who has clicked through this banner, whether to reach a different desk, a different account type, or simply a different regional site, has left the leverage caps, inducement restrictions and standardised risk warning of their home regulator behind, and any support conversation that follows sits under the offshore terms, not the ones a UK or EU client would expect by default.

A fee that support can apply at its own judgment

The Account Funding page carries a footnote stating that “on exceptional occasions, especially where the volumes traded on your account are disproportionately low compared to the third-party processing fees we incur, we may pass these on to you,” with the charges “deducted from the account balance.” This is a discretionary call by the firm, triggered by its own view of a client’s trading volume relative to its processing costs, and it is the kind of clause a client contacting support about an unexpected deduction would need explained. The same page notes separately that “in cases where bank charges from the beneficiary and/or intermediary bank(s) are incurred, these charges will automatically be deducted from the requested amount,” meaning a client querying a short withdrawal may be told the shortfall came from an intermediary bank rather than from ActivTrades itself, with no cap on that deduction stated on the page.

What moved the score for ActivTrades

Our previous review scored ActivTrades 6.9 out of 10; this review scores it 7.8 out of 10. That change reflects this review’s own assessment against the evidence gathered now, not a change in the firm. The support criterion itself scores 7 out of 10 here: the firm publishes multiple live contact channels and a stated 24/7 availability window on its own contact page, which supports a mid to high mark, while the absence of any fetched complaints procedure page, and the discretionary fee and jurisdiction waiver clauses set out above, are the kind of terms that keep a support score from going higher.

We searched 1,441 warning list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and the FSC Mauritius, and ActivTrades does not appear on any of them. That is a clean result across the lists we hold, not a finding about any regulator we do not mirror.

Prohibited Countries

ActivTrades is not one company but several, and which entity takes a client, and under what protections, depends on where that client is. The Financial Conduct Authority register confirms that FRN 434413 covers only ActivTrades PLC, and the firm’s own legal and about pages say the FCA licence handles UK clients while EU clients are routed to ActivMarkets in Portugal (regulated by the CMVM, confirmed on the ESMA interim MiFID II register), and other clients are routed to either ActivTrades Corp in the Bahamas (confirmed on the Securities Commission of the Bahamas registrant list) or ActivTrades Markets in Mauritius (confirmed on the FSC Mauritius Online Public Register). Which of those four a given trader ends up with is a function of residence, not choice.

Who ActivTrades says it won’t take

The firm’s own about page carries this line in its footer: “The information contained herein is not intended for distribution to residents in any country where such distribution or use would contravene any local law or regulatory requirement, such as Japan, US, Canada and Brazil.” The wording names those four countries as examples (“such as”), not as a closed list, so the footer itself does not claim to be exhaustive.

That footer sits oddly next to the firm’s own entity list, which names ActivTrades CCTVM as a Brazil entity it describes as regulated by BACEN and CVM, and its account page, which sets the minimum deposit for the Individual Account at $0 “except Brazil and China: $500.” Both facts come from the firm’s own pages. We are not able to reconcile a country named in the distribution-restriction footer with the same firm running a licensed Brazilian entity and a Brazil-specific deposit minimum elsewhere on its own site; we report both because both are there, not because we can explain the gap.

What we could not confirm about a fuller restricted-country list

We checked the firm’s global site on 27 July 2026 through an Indonesian connection looking for a dedicated restricted-country page and did not find one. An earlier version of this review had named Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba as barred; we could not trace that claim to any page the firm publishes, so we have dropped it rather than repeat it unsourced. The only country-eligibility statement we can attribute to the firm is the “such as Japan, US, Canada and Brazil” footer above.

Several pages relevant to two of the jurisdictions readers ask about most did not load in our fetch: the UK root page, the UK legal page, and the Australian accounts, fees, legal and risk pages all came back empty. Any UK-root or Australian eligibility terms are simply not in what we checked, and that gap should not be read as those terms being absent.

What changes if ActivTrades redirects a client to a different site

Both the firm’s UK legal page and its Indonesian contact page carry a jurisdiction-switch banner shown to a client who clicks through to a different regional version of the site. Leaving the UK site waives, in the firm’s own wording, the “Leverage Restriction” (no FCA leverage caps on CFDs), the “Restriction on Incentives” (the firm “may offer you incentives to trade with us”), and the “Prescribed Risk Warning” (no standardised FCA-format loss-rate disclosure). Leaving the CMVM-protected site does the same for CMVM: the banner lists no CMVM leverage limits for CFDs, no CMVM restriction on being offered cash or non-cash incentives to trade, and no standardised CMVM risk warning with loss-rate statistics. This is not a country ban; it is the firm telling a client, before the click, exactly which regulatory protections that click removes.

Islamic accounts carry their own gate

The firm’s accounts page states plainly that certain restrictions and limitations may apply to Islamic accounts and directs applicants to contact middleeastdesk@activtrades.com “before requesting a trading account.” No specific nationality or residence test is published on the page we fetched, only that the firm reserves the right to apply one before opening the account.

Where the licence a client gets actually comes from

Because the FCA licence and the CMVM authorisation each cover a separate legal entity from the Bahamas and Mauritius licences, “which countries are excluded” is really a question of which of the four ActivTrades entities a resident is placed with, and whether that placement carries FCA or CMVM retail protections or the lighter Bahamas or Mauritius regime instead. The footer restriction on Japan, US, Canada and Brazil is the only affirmative exclusion the firm states on the pages we read; everything else in this section is the firm routing clients between regulators rather than turning them away.

Conclusion

ActivTrades scores 7.8 out of 10 in this review, up from the 6.9 we gave it previously. The move is ours, not the firm’s: this review rests on register checks and fee and platform pages we read directly, and those checks now score fees at 9 and platform at 9.3, the two criteria doing the most work in the new total. Regulation sits at 7.5, support at 7, and reviews at 6.5. We set the overall at 7.8, a notch below the 7.9 average of its five criteria, so that it does not sit level with brokers holding a wider set of top-tier licences.

What the registers confirm about ActivTrades

The FCA register shows FRN 434413 held by Activtrades Plc, status Authorised, effective from 27 October 2005, tying back to Companies House number 05367727. Companies House itself confirms ACTIVTRADES PLC as company 05367727, a Public limited Company incorporated 17 February 2005 and still Active. That covers only the UK entity. The Financial Services Commission, Mauritius register confirms ActivTrades Markets holds a SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer licence, licensed 21 August 2024, though the register does not publish a licence number so the figure GB24203277 quoted on the firm’s own site is not something the register itself verifies. The Securities Commission of the Bahamas register confirms ActivTrades Corp. as a registrant for dealing and arranging deals in capital market instruments including CFDs, but that register publishes no registration numbers at all, so neither the blank entry nor the SIA-F249 number carried over from the earlier review can be confirmed against it. The ESMA Interim MiFID II register confirms ActivMarkets, Empresa de Investimento S.A. as authorised in Portugal under CMVM, active, with a passport into Spain since 22 June 2023, but again without a national reference number, so the figure 295 from the earlier review is unconfirmed. We hold no register entry for BACEN and CVM in Brazil, for CONSOB in Italy, or for the FSC in Bulgaria, so those claims are gaps in our checking rather than findings about the firm. Across the 1,441 warning-list entries we mirror from the FCA, CYSEC and FSC Mauritius, ActivTrades does not appear.

What ActivTrades charges and offers

The firm’s own funding page lists bank transfer, card, Neteller, Skrill and crypto deposits as free with a same working day or 30 minute standard timeframe, with a 0.5% currency conversion fee where the transaction currency differs from the account base currency. The same page’s footnotes let ActivTrades deduct intermediary bank charges from a withdrawal and, in the firm’s own words, pass on third party processing charges under exceptional circumstances … where the volumes traded on your account are disproportionately low compared to the third-party processing fees we incur. Account minimums on the firm’s own accounts page are $0 outside Brazil and China. On the platform side, the firm offers MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, its own ActivTrader platform across seven asset classes, and TradingView execution, a spread that explains the platform score.

Where a reader should be careful with ActivTrades

The jurisdiction switch banners on the firm’s own UK and global sites are explicit about what a client gives up by clicking through: no FCA or CMVM leverage caps on CFDs, no restriction on ActivTrades offering incentives to trade, and no standardised loss-rate risk warning. The account comparison table carried over from the earlier review shows Professional accounts with no negative balance protection, unlike Individual and Islamic accounts. Support channels on the firm’s own contact page are phone, email, live chat, WhatsApp and callback, tied to a Bahamas registered office and email address; several UK and Australian legal and risk pages we fetched returned no content, so anything specific to those sections is unverified rather than absent.

ActivTrades holds confirmed FCA, FSC Mauritius, SCB and CMVM entries across its group structure, publishes its fees and platform terms openly, and appears on none of the 1,441 warning-list entries checked, earning a 7.8 out of 10.

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