AvaTrade review.

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of AvaTrade, scored 7.5 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews. AvaTrade is not a single company but a group of separately licensed entities trading under one brand: AVA Trade EU Ltd in Ireland, DT Direct Investment Hub Ltd. in Cyprus, Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd, Ava Capital Markets Pty Ltd in South Africa, Ava Trade Japan K.K., Ava Trade Middle East Ltd in Abu Dhabi, Ava Trade Kenya Limited, ATrade Ltd in Israel, Ava Trade Markets Ltd in the British Virgin Islands, and Friedberg Direct in Canada, per the entity list on the firm’s own legal page.

Our previous review scored AvaTrade 6 out of 10; this review moves that to 7.5. That change reflects this review’s own current assessment, not any change at the firm, and it rests on what we checked directly. Regulation scores 7 on the back of licences we confirmed on eleven registers: the Central Bank of Ireland, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, ASIC, the BVI Financial Services Commission, the Japan FSA, the South African FSCA, the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the Israel Securities Authority, the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya, and CIRO in Canada. Platform scores highest at 8.9, reflecting a lineup that runs from AvaTrade’s own WebTrader and mobile app through MetaTrader 4 and 5, AvaOptions, AvaSocial, DupliTrade, TradingView and CQG. Fees sit at 8.3, based on the fee schedule we read on the firm’s own pages. Support is the lowest of the five at 6, and reviews sits at 7.4.

Who Actually Runs AvaTrade

The marketing pages point to the Dublin entity, AVA Trade EU Ltd, as the group’s face, and the Central Bank of Ireland register confirms that entity, reference C53877, as an Investment Firm regulated under MiFID. But the site-wide footer copyright line reads “Copyright © 2007-2026 Ava Trade Markets Ltd,” the British Virgin Islands entity, not the Dublin one. A client using the global site is dealing with the entity the local regulator applies to; the footer names the BVI company as the one that owns the site itself. Separately, the homepage badge strip lists Colombia’s SFC among AvaTrade’s ten regulatory jurisdictions, but the firm’s own legal page describes that Colombian registration, Res. 0261 of 2024, as authorization for a representative office “to promote and advertise its products in Colombia” only, not a licence to deal in investments or hold client money. We also found the site’s own pages disagree with each other on how many licences AvaTrade holds: one earlier review says six, the homepage badge strip says ten, and a platforms FAQ page says twelve.

Overview Table

Facts List

• The Central Bank of Ireland register lists AVA Trade EU Ltd, reference C53877, as an Investment Firm, MiFID.
• The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register confirms licence 347/17, held by DT Direct Investment Hub Ltd.
• The ASIC register shows AFS licence 406684 held by Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd, ABN 72143340907, since 9 November 2011.
• The South African FSCA register lists FSP 45984 held by Ava Capital Markets (Pty) Ltd, with status “Authorized.”
• The ADGM FSRA public register lists Ava Trade Middle East Limited under FSP number 190018, status Active, dated 6 February 2020.
• The Japan FSA’s list of registered Financial Instruments Business Operators carries a matching registration number, 1662, for Ava Trade Japan K.K.; the list itself gives firm names in Japanese only, so this was matched on number rather than name.
• The Capital Markets Authority of Kenya’s register of licensees lists Ava Trade Kenya Limited under non-dealing online foreign exchange broker licence 262.
• CIRO’s directory of Dealers We Regulate lists Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd., the entity behind the Friedberg Direct brand used in Canada, as an Investment Dealer at 220 Bay Street, Toronto.
• We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and AvaTrade appears on none of them; that covers only the lists we mirror, not every regulator worldwide.
• The firm’s own fee page states an inactivity fee of $50/€50/£50 after three consecutive months of non-use, followed by a $100/€100/£100 administration fee after twelve consecutive months of non-use.
• The firm’s own withdrawals page states that clients must return up to 100% of their original deposit to the credit or debit card used to fund the account before withdrawing by another method.

Key Takeaways

Our previous score for AvaTrade was 6/10. This review scores it 7.5/10, restated from the current evidence. The move is ours, not a claim that the firm changed: platform (8.9) and fees (8.3) pull the overall well above the old figure, while regulation (7) and support (6) hold it back, and reviews sits at 7.4. Below are the specific findings that fed those numbers.

What AvaTrade’s licences show on the public registers

• The Central Bank of Ireland register lists AVA Trade EU Ltd under reference C53877 as an Investment Firm, MiFID, confirmed.
• The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register shows licence 347/17 for the Cyprus entity as a CySEC investment firm licence, confirmed.
• ASIC shows AFS licence 406684 held by Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 72143340907, since 09/11/2011), confirmed.
• The BVI FSC lists Ava Trade Markets Ltd as regulated for Arranging Deals in Investments and Dealing as Principal; the BVI export publishes no licence numbers, so the firm’s own figure of SIBA/L/13/1049 could not be matched against a number in the register, and that export snapshot is 35 days old.
• Japan’s FSA list carries registration 1662 for Ava Trade Japan K.K. (関東財務局長(金商)第1662号, registered 2007-09-30), matched by registration number since the list itself gives firm names only in Japanese.
• The FSCA lists FSP 45984 for Ava Capital Markets (Pty) Ltd, status Authorized, confirmed.
• The ADGM FSRA public register lists Ava Trade Middle East Limited at FSP number 190018, status Active since 2020-02-06, confirmed.
• The Israel Securities Authority licensee list carries ATrade Ltd (אייטרייד בע”מ), company number 514666577, status valid since 30/10/2016, confirmed.
• The Capital Markets Authority of Kenya’s licensee register lists Ava Trade Kenya Limited under non-dealing online foreign exchange broker licence 262, confirmed.
• CIRO’s directory of Dealers We Regulate lists Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd. (operating as Friedberg Direct) as an Investment Dealer and CIRO Participant in Toronto; CIRO publishes no membership number to check against the firm’s own claim.
• We hold no register entry for the Financial Futures Association of Japan (licence 1574) or for a body named “B.V.I Financial Services Commission,” so those two claims are unchecked, a gap in our own directory rather than a finding about AvaTrade.
• The Colombian filing, Res. 0261 of 2024, is an authorization for a representative office to promote and advertise products in Colombia, not a licence to deal in investments or hold client money, yet it appears on the AvaTrade homepage badge strip as one of the firm’s regulatory jurisdictions alongside genuine dealing licences.
• AvaTrade’s own pages disagree with each other on how many regulators it holds: our earlier review text says “six prestigious financial authorities,” the homepage badge strip says “regulated across 10 jurisdictions,” and the platforms FAQ says “12 regulations and licenses worldwide.”
• We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, run against a positive control across all 17 registers we checked, and AvaTrade matched none of them. That covers only the lists we mirror, not every regulator worldwide.

What AvaTrade’s fee pages and terms actually charge

• The firm’s own fee page sets an inactivity fee of $50 / €50 / £50 after three consecutive months of non-use, repeating every successive inactivity period unless local law forbids it.
• After twelve consecutive months of non-use, an administration fee of $100 / €100 / £100 is deducted, which the page describes as offsetting “the cost incurred in making the service available, even though it may not be used.”
• The Australian fee page adds that “applicable fees subject to change periodically,” meaning the stated amounts are not fixed.
• Withdrawals are routed back through the original funding method: the firm’s own withdrawals FAQ requires a client to withdraw up to 100% of their deposit to the same credit or debit card before using any other method, which can delay access to funds if that card has since expired.
• Clients on an Islamic (swap-free) account are told on the accounts page that they face “an increase spread on FX pairs” as the trade-off for no overnight swap.

What AvaTrade offers on the trading platform side

Across the pages we read, AvaTrade’s own platform lineup is broad: the browser-based WebTrader, the AvaTrade mobile app, MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 for manual and automated trading, AvaOptions for vanilla FX options (40+ currency pairs plus gold and silver), the AvaSocial copy-trading app, and DupliTrade for auto-trading, with TradingView and CQG offered for futures traders on the Australian site. The Australian and UAE pages both display the CFD-specific risk line that “70% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider,” the firm’s own disclosed figure for that product line.

Support channels and the terms that bind a trading account

Support channels listed across the sites we checked include phone (numbers vary by page: +61 2 7201 8721 on the Australian site, +44 7520 644093 and WhatsApp +358 94272 3482 on the UAE contact page, and a separate help line at +1-212-941-9609 on another legal page), live chat and email described as available “in your language” whenever markets are open, and a web contact form. AvaTrade’s trading conditions carry several clauses worth flagging for anyone opening an account: the firm “reserves the right to cancel any excess trades or exposures that exceed the outlined threshold limits,” closing them at their opening rate rather than the market price; threshold limits themselves “may be modified” with clients then required to reduce exposure; margins “may be increased on any instrument, without prior notice, outside normal market conditions”; and the trading conditions as a whole can be changed “at any time and without prior notice,” with continued use of the platform counting as acceptance. Per our earlier review, professional accounts trade away negative balance protection in return for higher leverage, a status change worth checking before opting in. Separately, the site’s footer copyright line names Ava Trade Markets Ltd, the BVI entity, as the holder of the global site, rather than the Dublin-based MiFID entity that the marketing pages lead with.

Licenses & Regulation

AvaTrade is not one company but a cluster of separately incorporated entities, and which one actually holds a client’s account depends on where that client is based. We checked the licence numbers on the firm’s own legal pages against seventeen public registers directly, running a positive control against a firm we knew to be listed on each register first, so that a register returning nothing meant the entity genuinely wasn’t there rather than that our search had failed.

The entities we confirmed on their own registers

• AVA Trade EU Ltd holds reference C53877 on the Central Bank of Ireland register of financial service providers, listed there as Investment Firm, MiFID.
• DT Direct Investment Hub Ltd. carries licence 347/17 on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s register of Cypriot investment firms, a CySEC investment firm licence entry with a matching entity name and number.
• Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd, ABN 72143340907, holds AFS licence 406684 on the ASIC register, in place since 9 November 2011.
• Ava Trade Markets Ltd, the British Virgin Islands entity, appears on the BVI Financial Services Commission register under SIBA/L/13/1049, for Arranging Deals in Investments and Dealing as Principal. The FSC’s own export doesn’t publish licence numbers, so that number is the firm’s own claim rather than something we could read off the register directly, and our snapshot of the export is 35 days old.
• Ava Trade Japan K.K. is registered with Japan’s Financial Services Agency as 関東financial第1662号 since 30 September 2007, for Type I Financial Instruments Business and Investment Advisory and Agency Business, and is a member of the Financial Futures Association of Japan and the Japan Investment Advisers Association. It appears as corporate number 2010401081157 on the FSA’s list of 1,951 registered Financial Instruments Business Operators, a list that gives firm names in Japanese only, so we matched it on the registration number rather than the company name.
• Ava Capital Markets (Pty) Ltd holds FSP 45984 on South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority register, status Authorized.
• Ava Trade Middle East Limited sits on the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority’s public register of financial firms, FSP number 190018, status Active, FSP date 6 February 2020, recorded as a Private Company Limited By Shares.
• ATrade Ltd (אייטרייד בע”מ) appears on the Israel Securities Authority’s licensee lists as a trading-platform licensee, company number 514666577, valid since 30 October 2016.
• Ava Trade Kenya Limited holds licence 262 on the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya’s register of licensees, as a non-dealing online foreign exchange broker. The Kenyan portal lists current licensees only, with no status or licence dates attached.
• Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd, which operates as Friedberg Direct in Canada, appears in CIRO’s directory of Dealers We Regulate as an Investment Dealer approved as a Participant, at 220 Bay Street Suite 600, Toronto. CIRO’s own directory publishes no membership number, so the entity is confirmed but the number AvaTrade quotes for it is not something the register lets us check.

What we could not check

We hold no register entry for three of the authorities AvaTrade names on its own pages: the Financial Futures Association of Japan (licence 1574), a second entity described as “B.V.I Financial Services Commission” rather than the BVI FSC entry above, and Colombia’s Financial Superintendency (SFC). Each of those is a gap in our own directory of registers, not a finding about the firm one way or the other.

Where AvaTrade’s own pages complicate the regulatory picture

The Colombia entry is worth separating out on its own. AvaTrade’s homepage displays an SFC badge as one of ten regulatory jurisdictions, alongside Ireland, Australia and Japan. The firm’s own legal page tells a narrower story: the underlying registration is Res. 0261 of 2024, held by Ava Trade Markets Ltd, and it authorizes a representative office to promote and advertise products in Colombia. It is not a licence to deal in investments or hold client money. Placed next to dealing licences on the same badge strip, it reads as more than it is.

The site is also inconsistent about how many licences AvaTrade holds at all. The homepage badge strip on the firm’s Australian home page and the firm’s UAE home page states AvaTrade is “regulated across 10 jurisdictions,” while the FAQ on the firm’s UK platforms page states “AvaTrade is a highly regulated broker with 12 regulations and licenses worldwide.” An earlier version of this review, drawing on older site text, put the figure at six. None of the three first-hand or second-hand counts agree, and nothing on the current pages resolves which one is current.

One more detail sits oddly against the marketing: the copyright line running across every geo variant of the site reads “Copyright © 2007-2026 Ava Trade Markets Ltd,” naming the British Virgin Islands entity as the site’s legal owner, rather than the Dublin-based, MiFID-regulated AVA Trade EU Ltd that the marketing pages lean on as the group’s origin and headquarters entity.

Checking AvaTrade against the warning lists

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and AvaTrade appears on none of them. That covers only the regulators we mirror, not every regulator worldwide, but it is a clean result across three lists that do get checked against firms in this category.

Our previous review scored regulation at 6 out of 10 for this firm; this review scores it 7 out of 10, and the overall score moves from 6 to 7.5. That is our assessment changing, not the firm’s status changing: the criteria and the evidence behind them are both different this time. The confirmed list above spans genuine dealing licences across nine jurisdictions plus a confirmed CIRO entity, and the warning-list search came back clean, which supports a score above the middle of the range. Against that sits a Colombia badge that overstates what the underlying registration actually permits, three authorities we could not check against any register, a licence quote that outruns what the BVI FSC’s own export publishes, and a site that cannot settle on how many licences it holds.

How to Trade

AvaTrade’s own site groups tradable markets under a “Markets” navigation menu that runs across its Forex, Cryptocurrencies, Stocks, Indices, ETFs, Commodities and Bonds pages, with Futures and Options (vanilla FX options via the AvaOptions app) listed separately under “Ways to Trade”. The crypto markets page names BTCUSD, BTCEUR, BTCJPY, BCHUSD, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin Mini, BTGUSD, DASH and Stellar as tradable 24/7 on MetaTrader accounts, while the site’s Australian variant carries a risk warning stating that “70% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.”

Platforms AvaTrade offers

The firm’s own platform pages list WebTrader (its browser-based, no-download proprietary platform), the AvaTrade App for iOS and Android with real-time pricing and one-tap execution, MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 for manual and automated trading, AvaOptions for vanilla FX options (13 option strategies, over 40 currency pairs plus gold and silver), AvaSocial for social and copy trading, and DupliTrade, a separate auto-trading platform on which, per the firm’s own about page, “monetary transactions are handled directly by AvaTrade.” The Australian site also lists TradingView and CQG as futures-trading platforms.

The terms that bind an open position

AvaTrade’s Trading Conditions page, which we read directly, gives the firm wide latitude over positions once they are open. It states: “AvaTrade reserves the right to cancel any excess trades or exposures that exceed the outlined threshold limits, all cancelled trades will be closed at their opening rates.” That means a position breaching a threshold limit is not just closed but closed at the price it was opened at, not the market price at the time of cancellation. The same page adds that “AvaTrade reserves the right to modify its threshold limits, affected clients will be notified in advance and may be required to reduce their exposure,” so those limits are not fixed even after a position is opened.

The Trading Conditions page also reserves the right to change margin requirements without warning: “Margins may be increased on any instrument, without prior notice, outside normal market conditions,” which can trigger a margin call or forced liquidation with no advance notice. And the page as a whole can change under a client without a fresh agreement, since it states: “Ava may modify these Trading Conditions at any time and without prior notice. Your continued access to and use of the website and/or platform constitutes your acceptance of these Trading Conditions as modified.”

The same Trading Conditions page sets per-customer maximum position limits on crypto and TRY exposure: Bitcoin pairs capped at $1.5M, Ethereum at $750K, XRP at $400K, total crypto assets at $2.5M, TRY pairs at $1M, and Silver Future Contracts at $1M.

Islamic accounts and where crypto isn’t tradable

AvaTrade’s UK account page describes an Islamic Trading Account that waives overnight swap fees for up to five days (a fee applies beyond that), and converts Forex swap fees into daily administration fees instead. The same page states plainly that “Islamic accounts are subjected to an increase spread on FX pairs,” so the swap-free structure is paid for through wider pricing rather than being free outright. Cryptocurrency trading is not available on an Islamic account, and ZAR, TRY, RUB and MXN pairs are excluded from it unless the client gives up Islamic-account status. Separately, the UK markets page states that cryptocurrency trading is prohibited for all UK-based retail clients, with an exception for professional traders.

Dormant accounts get charged, not just closed

The fee material we read applies to open positions indirectly, through account-level charges that erode a balance regardless of trading activity. An account untouched for three consecutive months is charged an inactivity fee of $50, €50 or £50 depending on account currency, repeating for “every successive Inactivity Period” unless local law forbids it. After twelve consecutive months of non-use, a further administration fee of $100, €100 or £100 applies, which the firm’s fee page describes as covering “the cost incurred in making the service available, even though it may not be used.” The Australian fee page adds that these amounts are “subject to change periodically,” so neither figure is fixed for the life of an account.

Account Types

The AvaTrade pages we fetched show no tiered menu of account types with a minimum deposit for each tier, the way some CFD brokers lay theirs out. What the evidence turns up instead is a single named account variant, a retail/professional split mentioned only in passing, and a promoted add-on product. We report what each page actually says rather than filling in a tier table the firm has not published.

The Islamic account AvaTrade documents

The firm’s UK/EU accounts page describes an Islamic Trading Account built around one trade-off: no overnight swap fee for the first five days a position stays open, with a swap fee applying beyond that. Swap fees that would otherwise appear on the account are folded into a daily administration fee instead. Holding this account also switches off part of the product range: MT4 cryptocurrency trading is not available on it, and the ZAR, TRY, RUB and MXN forex pairs are withdrawn unless the client gives up Islamic-account status. AvaTrade’s own account terms, as summarised on this page, add that Islamic accounts are “subjected to an increase spread on FX pairs”, so the swap-free structure is paid for at least partly through wider pricing on the pairs the account can still trade.

Separately, AvaTrade’s UK page states that cryptocurrency trading is switched off for all UK-based retail clients regardless of account type, with professional traders excepted, so a UK client cannot point to the Islamic account’s crypto restriction as the reason crypto is missing from their account; it would be missing anyway.

Retail against professional classification

An earlier version of this review reported that negative balance protection applies automatically to AvaTrade’s retail accounts, and that a client reclassified as a professional trades that protection away in return for access to higher leverage. We have not read the account-classification document that would confirm this in AvaTrade’s own words, so we pass it on as what the earlier review found rather than as a clause we verified ourselves. Anyone considering professional status should ask AvaTrade directly what it gives up, rather than take this secondhand.

AvaProtect, promoted but not documented

AvaTrade’s accounts page pitches a named product, AvaProtect, with the line “Get refunds on losing trades with AvaProtect™.” The same page frames the firm as “Among the most regulated brokers in the world” and promises “Global customer support in your language.” None of the three lines is explained on the page we fetched: there is no stated refund percentage, no list of which trades or instruments qualify, and no cost figure attached to using it. We can report that AvaTrade markets AvaProtect as a reason to open an account; we cannot describe how it pays out, because the page that names it does not say.

What keeping an AvaTrade account open costs

Whichever account a client holds, AvaTrade’s own fee pages set out two charges tied to inactivity rather than to trading. The firm’s terms state that after three consecutive months without trading activity, an “Inactivity Period”, an inactivity fee is deducted from the account: $50 on a USD account, €50 on a EUR account, £50 on a GBP account, repeating for every successive Inactivity Period, “unless prohibited by law.” A second charge follows twelve consecutive months of non-use: AvaTrade’s terms describe this as an “Annual Inactivity Period” attracting a $100/€100/£100 administration fee, which the firm’s own wording says exists “to offset the cost incurred in making the service available, even though it may not be used.” AvaTrade’s Australian fee page adds that these amounts are themselves “subject to change periodically,” so the figures quoted here are what the firm currently publishes, not a fixed price locked in at account opening.

On deposits and withdrawals, AvaTrade’s own FAQ ties every account to the funding method used to open it: withdrawals must return up to 100% of the original deposit to the same credit or debit card before a client can withdraw remaining profit by any other method. That rule is stated as an anti-money-laundering requirement applying across account types, not a feature specific to any one of them.

Negative Balance Protection

What AvaTrade’s own trading conditions say about limits

AvaTrade’s Trading Conditions page sets per-customer position ceilings on some of its most volatile markets: Bitcoin pairs capped at $1.5 million, Ethereum at $750,000, XRP at $400,000, a combined $2.5 million ceiling across crypto assets, $1 million on TRY pairs, and $1 million on Silver Future Contracts. The same page states that “AvaTrade reserves the right to cancel any excess trades or exposures that exceed the outlined threshold limits, all cancelled trades will be closed at their opening rates.” A position that breaches the cap is not simply blocked going forward; it is unwound retroactively at the rate it was opened at, not the rate prevailing when AvaTrade acts.

The same page reserves the right to move the ceiling itself: “AvaTrade reserves the right to modify its threshold limits, affected clients will be notified in advance and may be required to reduce their exposure.” So the number a client trades against today is not fixed, and a tightened limit can force an existing position smaller regardless of the client’s own view of the market.

Margin calls and changes to the terms themselves

On margin, the Trading Conditions page states that “Margins may be increased on any instrument, without prior notice, outside normal market conditions.” A margin increase with no warning is exactly the kind of event that turns a position that was adequately funded the moment before into one facing a margin call or forced liquidation the moment after, and the client has no notice window to add funds or reduce size first.

The same page also reserves the right to rewrite the rules that govern all of this: “Ava may modify these Trading Conditions at any time and without prior notice. Your continued access to and use of the website and/or platform constitutes your acceptance of these Trading Conditions as modified.” Continuing to hold an open position after such a change counts, under this wording, as accepting whatever the revised terms now say about thresholds, margin or closures.

Negative balance protection: what we read and what we did not

The Trading Conditions section of the markets page we read covers threshold limits, margin increases and AvaTrade’s right to change its own terms, but it says nothing about a guarantee against owing the broker more than the account holds. An earlier review of AvaTrade reported that negative balance protection applies automatically to retail accounts, and that clients who move to a professional account classification give that protection up in exchange for access to higher leverage. We have not verified that trade-off against AvaTrade’s own account-agreement wording, so it should be read as what the earlier review found rather than as a clause we confirmed ourselves. A trader weighing professional status against retail status on this broker should ask AvaTrade directly, in writing, whether that trade-off still applies to the account type on offer, rather than assume it from a page we did not fetch.

AvaTrade’s own disclosed loss rate

AvaTrade’s Australian site carries its own risk warning stating that “70% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.” That figure is the firm’s own disclosure on that page, not a third-party estimate, and it sits alongside the threshold-limit and margin-increase clauses above as the clearest first-hand indication of how exposed a retail CFD account on this platform actually is before any drawdown or breach event is even considered.

Inactivity charges compound the drawdown problem

AvaTrade’s fee page states that an account left untouched for three consecutive months is charged an inactivity fee of $50, €50 or £50 depending on the account currency, repeating for every further inactivity period, with a further $100/€100/£100 administration fee added after twelve consecutive months of non-use. Both fees are described on that page as applying “unless prohibited by law.” For a client who has already taken a loss and stepped away from the account rather than fund it further, these charges keep eating the remaining balance on a schedule that runs independently of any market move, margin call or threshold breach described above.

Trading Instruments

AvaTrade’s site navigation lists eight asset classes under “Markets”: Forex, Cryptocurrencies, Stocks, Indices, ETFs, Commodities, Bonds and Futures, with Options and CFD trading listed separately under “Ways to Trade” on the Australian and UAE site variants we fetched. All of it is offered as CFDs or, for the options product, as vanilla FX options rather than the underlying instrument itself; the Australian homepage carries the standard warning that “CFDs are complex instruments” with a “high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.”

What AvaTrade lists under cryptocurrencies

The markets page names specific crypto pairs rather than a generic “crypto CFDs” line: BTCUSD, BTCEUR, BTCJPY, BCHUSD, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin Mini, BTGUSD, DASH and Stellar, tradable 24/7 on MetaTrader accounts according to that page. The Abu Dhabi contact page separately notes that crypto trading runs around the clock while standard markets open Sunday 21:00 GMT and close Friday 21:00 GMT, so crypto is the one asset class not bound by the weekly market close.

That access is not universal across the pages we read. The UK markets page states cryptocurrency trading is prohibited for retail clients for all UK-based clients except professional traders, and the UK accounts page excludes crypto entirely for anyone holding an Islamic account, alongside a separate exclusion of ZAR, TRY, RUB and MXN currency pairs for Islamic-account holders unless they give up the account’s swap-free status. The same Islamic-account page notes those accounts carry an increased spread on FX pairs as the trade-off for no overnight swap fee (waived for the first five days, then charged as normal beyond that).

Futures, options and the platforms tied to them

Futures trading is offered through CQG and TradingView, described on the Australian homepage as delivering “professional futures trading with unique tools” and charting for futures traders respectively, alongside MT5. Options are handled through AvaTrade’s own AvaOptions app, which the Australian platforms page describes as covering vanilla FX options across more than 40 currency pairs plus gold and silver, with 13 option strategies built into the platform.

Position limits AvaTrade sets on its own markets page

The UAE markets page publishes maximum position limits per customer on crypto and TRY pairs: $1.5M on BTC pairs, $750K on ETH, $400K on XRP, a combined $2.5M ceiling across crypto assets, $1M on TRY pairs and $1M on silver future contracts. These are caps on how large a position a client can hold in these instruments, not just indicative liquidity notes.

Terms that let AvaTrade change what a position is worth or whether it stands

The same markets page, under “Trading Conditions,” states that AvaTrade “reserves the right to cancel any excess trades or exposures that exceed the outlined threshold limits,” with cancelled trades closed “at their opening rates” rather than the market price at the time of cancellation. The page also reserves the right to modify those threshold limits, with affected clients “notified in advance and may be required to reduce their exposure,” and it allows margin to be “increased on any instrument, without prior notice, outside normal market conditions.” A further clause lets AvaTrade “modify these Trading Conditions at any time and without prior notice,” treating continued use of the site or platform as acceptance of whatever the revised terms turn out to be. None of these clauses are unusual by themselves for a leveraged CFD provider, but together they mean the size, cost and even the survival of a position in any of the asset classes above is something AvaTrade can adjust unilaterally under its own published terms.

Where the advertised range gets thinner in practice

Reading across the site variants we fetched, the headline asset count is consistent (the same eight-plus-two list appears on both the Australian and UAE fee pages), but the detail sits behind jurisdiction and account type: a UK retail client loses crypto outright, an Islamic-account holder loses crypto and four FX pairs and pays a wider spread on the rest, and every client trading crypto, TRY pairs or silver futures is capped by the position limits above regardless of what the platform lets them enter as an order. The pages we fetched describe the full range as available in principle and narrow it in the footnotes rather than on the front page.

Education & Analysis

AvaTrade offers a mix of its own tools and third-party platforms, and the exact lineup shifts depending on which geo version of the site is read. The Australian and UK pages both list WebTrader, the AvaTrade App, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, AvaOptions, AvaSocial and DupliTrade as the available platforms, and the Australian homepage adds TradingView and CQG specifically for futures traders.

AvaTrade’s own platforms

WebTrader is described on the firm’s UK platforms page as a browser-based platform that needs no download. The AvaTrade App is the firm’s mobile app for iOS and Android, which the same page describes as giving real-time pricing, one-tap execution and account management from a phone. Both sit alongside the third-party platforms rather than replacing them, so a client who wants MetaTrader’s charting or EA support still has to run that separately.

MetaTrader 4 and 5

AvaTrade offers both MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, and the UK platforms page describes MT4 as supporting manual and automated trading through Expert Advisors, with MT5 pitched as the newer platform running on a different coding language for automated strategies. The account pages carry a restriction that matters for anyone building an automated or algorithmic setup on MT4 specifically: clients holding an Islamic (swap-free) account cannot trade cryptocurrency on MT4, and lose access to ZAR, TRY, RUB and MXN pairs unless they give up the Islamic-account terms altogether. The same Islamic-account page also discloses that those accounts carry a wider spread on FX pairs, a direct trade-off against the waived swap fee.

AvaOptions

For FX options specifically, AvaTrade runs a separate app and desktop platform called AvaOptions. The Australian platforms page describes it as covering vanilla FX options across more than 40 currency pairs plus gold and silver, built around 13 option strategies. The same page gives the technical floor for the mobile build: iOS 11.0 or later, and an Android package of roughly 32MB.

Copy trading: AvaSocial and DupliTrade

AvaTrade runs two separate copy-trading routes rather than one. AvaSocial is described on the UK platforms page as a mobile social and copy-trading app. DupliTrade is a separate auto-trading platform, and the firm’s own about page is specific about how money moves through it: monetary transactions are handled directly by AvaTrade rather than by DupliTrade itself, meaning the broker sits inside the settlement path for any strategy a client copies through that platform.

TradingView and CQG for futures

The Australian homepage lists TradingView and CQG as the tools available to futures traders specifically, describing TradingView as covering charting and analysis and CQG as aimed at professional futures trading with what the page calls unique tools. Neither of these is presented as an AvaTrade product; both are third-party platforms AvaTrade connects futures accounts to, distinct from the MetaTrader and AvaOptions stack used for FX, CFDs and options.

What sits outside normal trading hours

One scheduling detail worth flagging for anyone using these platforms for round-the-clock monitoring: AvaTrade’s contact page states that cryptocurrency trading runs 24/7, while standard trading across the rest of the platform stack opens Sunday 21:00 GMT and closes Friday 21:00 GMT. A client watching crypto charts outside that window is looking at a live market; a client watching FX or CFD charts in the same window is looking at a closed one, on the same set of platforms.

What the pages don’t cover

The platform and fee pages we fetched describe the seven platforms above, plus TradingView and CQG for futures, and say nothing about proprietary research feeds, signal services or VPS hosting one way or the other. That silence means only that the pages we read don’t address those tools, not that AvaTrade does or doesn’t offer them elsewhere on the site.

Special Offers

The accounts page we fetched for the UK-facing site leads with a single named feature under the line “Get refunds on losing trades with AvaProtect™.” That’s the only promotional-style feature named and described anywhere in the pages we pulled: a trade-insurance product branded AvaProtect, pitched on the accounts page as a reason to pick an account tier rather than as a time-limited signup bonus. The same page pairs it with two further claims, “Among the most regulated brokers in the world” and “Global customer support in your language,” both presented as marketing lines on that page rather than backed by further detail in what we fetched.

What the AvaTrade pages we read say about discounts

Outside AvaProtect, the pages we fetched describe account mechanics rather than promotions. The Islamic Trading Account, covered on the UK accounts page, waives the overnight swap fee for the first five days a position stays open, after which the fee applies as normal; the same page states “Islamic accounts are subjected to an increase spread on FX pairs” as the trade-off for that swap exemption. That’s a structural condition tied to one account type, not a discount code or a deposit-matching offer, and it’s the only fee trade-off of that shape in the material we read.

The fee pages for the UAE and Australian site variants cover inactivity and administration charges rather than any sign-up incentive: a $50/€50/£50 inactivity fee after three consecutive months without trading, and a further $100/€100/£100 administration fee after twelve consecutive months, described on the Australian fee page as there “to offset the cost incurred in making the service available, even though it may not be used.” Neither fee page mentions a welcome bonus, a deposit match, or a referral credit; the pages we fetched are simply silent on that, and we did not find or fetch a dedicated promotions page for AvaTrade.

Conditions worth reading before relying on AvaProtect

The UK accounts page names AvaProtect and its refund pitch, but the evidence we pulled does not include the AvaProtect terms document itself. We cannot report here what a qualifying loss has to look like, what the refund cap is, or what it costs to hold. A reader treating AvaProtect as a reason to open an account would need to find and read that terms document directly rather than rely on the single marketing line on the accounts page.

Opening an Account

Which entity actually opens the account depends on where the applicant lives. AvaTrade operates through a cluster of separately licensed companies rather than one global firm: AVA Trade EU Ltd in Dublin holds Central Bank of Ireland reference C53877 as an Investment Firm under MiFID, Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd holds AFS licence 406684 with ASIC, Ava Capital Markets Pty Ltd holds FSP 45984 with South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority, Ava Trade Middle East Ltd holds FSP 190018 with the Abu Dhabi Global Market’s FSRA, DT Direct Investment Hub Ltd. holds CySEC licence 347/17, Ava Trade Kenya Limited holds Capital Markets Authority licence 262 as a non dealing online foreign exchange broker, and Ava Trade Markets Ltd in the British Virgin Islands is the entity the site’s own footer copyright names as running the global site. The firm’s legal page states that its “Australian license and regulation applies to Australian residents only”, so an applicant’s home jurisdiction determines both which contract they sign and which regulator, if any, stands behind it.

One jurisdiction on the site’s own homepage badge strip is not a dealing licence at all. AvaTrade’s detailed legal page records that the Colombian authorisation, Res. 0261 of 2024 from the Financial Superintendency of Colombia, covers only a representative office’s right to promote and advertise the firm’s products in Colombia, not a licence to deal in investments or hold client money. An applicant signing up from Colombia is not opening an account with a locally regulated broker in the way the badge implies.

Account types AvaTrade offers

Alongside its standard trading account, AvaTrade offers an Islamic Trading Account for clients who need a swap free structure. Its own account page describes the trade offs: no overnight swap fee for the first five days a position is held, with the fee applying beyond that; swap fees on forex positions instead converted into daily administration charges; MT4 cryptocurrency trading not available on this account type; and the ZAR, TRY, RUB and MXN forex pairs excluded unless the client gives up Islamic account status. The same page states that Islamic accounts are subject to an increase in spread on FX pairs, so the swap free structure is paid for through pricing rather than being free of cost.

Retail versus professional classification

An account comparison page reported by our earlier review describes negative balance protection as applying automatically to all retail accounts, while professional accounts waive that protection in exchange for higher leverage access. As this fact reached us secondhand rather than from a page we fetched ourselves, we cannot confirm AvaTrade’s own wording for it, but the trade off it describes, giving up the guarantee against owing the broker more than a deposited balance in return for higher leverage, is the kind of reclassification decision an applicant should weigh carefully before requesting professional status.

Restrictions on who may open an account

Beyond the Australia only limit on the ASIC licensed entity, the firm’s UK facing markets page states that cryptocurrency trading is prohibited for all UK based retail clients, with the exception made only for professional traders. The Kenyan entity operates specifically as a non dealing online foreign exchange broker under its Capital Markets Authority licence, a narrower business model than the CFD and multi asset offering described elsewhere on the site. Separately, an earlier version of the review text claimed AvaTrade published a list of countries it restricts, including Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba, but a check of AvaTrade’s homepage, legal, terms and legal documents pages found no such published statement, so that list has been dropped here as unsourced.

Funding an AvaTrade account and the deposit to withdrawal link

AvaTrade’s own payments information lists credit and debit cards in USD, EUR, GBP and AUD, with deposits credited instantly except for a first time deposit which may take up to one business day; wire transfer in the same currencies, which can take up to seven business days to arrive and up to ten business days to reflect on withdrawal; and e-payment options including Skrill, WebMoney and Neteller, credited within 24 hours but not available to EU and Australian clients. The same page sets an AML linked rule that governs how funds can leave again: withdrawals must be sent through the same method used to fund the account, and up to 100% of the original deposit must be returned to the credit or debit card used before any other withdrawal method becomes available. A client who expects to move profits straight to a bank account or e-wallet on day one will instead see the original card repaid first.

What happens if the account sits idle

AvaTrade’s fee page states that an inactivity fee of $50, €50 or £50 depending on the account currency is deducted after three consecutive months without use, repeating for every further inactivity period, and that after twelve consecutive months without use a further administration fee of $100, €100 or £100 is charged, described on the same page as offsetting the cost of keeping the service available whether or not it is used. Both fees are stated as applying unless prohibited by law, and the Australia facing version of the same page adds that the fees themselves are subject to change periodically. An applicant who opens an account and then leaves it unused is not opening a free option to trade later; the balance is drawn down on a schedule the firm sets and can alter.

Deposits & Withdrawals

How money moves in

AvaTrade’s own account-funding page lists three rails: credit and debit cards in USD, EUR, GBP and AUD (excluding Canada); wire transfer in the same four currencies; and e-payments through Skrill, WebMoney and Neteller. Card deposits are credited instantly, though the page notes a first-time deposit can take up to one business day to clear. Wire transfers can take up to seven business days to arrive. The e-payment providers credit funds within 24 hours, but the same page states they are not available to EU and Australian clients, so a client funding from either of those regions is left with cards or wire transfer only.

Getting money out of AvaTrade

AvaTrade’s Withdrawals and Deposits FAQ sets a routing rule rather than a free choice of method: “you must withdraw up to 100% of your deposit to your credit or debit card” before any remaining profit can be paid out by another method. The firm frames this as an anti-money-laundering requirement, and its wording covers all clients, not just card users. In practice this means a client who deposited by card and later wants to withdraw to a bank account has to first route funds back to that same card, up to the full amount originally deposited, and only the balance above that can go elsewhere. If the card has since expired or been cancelled, the FAQ does not say what happens next.

Withdrawal timing differs by rail. Card withdrawals are folded into the same card-first rule above; wire withdrawals are the slower path, with the funding page giving up to ten business days for a wire withdrawal to reflect, three days longer than a wire deposit takes to arrive.

What an idle account is charged

AvaTrade’s terms and conditions bind a dormant account to two separate charges. After three consecutive months without trading, the “Inactivity Period,” the terms state: “an inactivity fee will be deducted from the value of the Customer’s trading account,” repeating for “every successive Inactivity Period.” The firm’s fee page quotes this at $50, €50 or £50 depending on the account’s base currency, unless local law prohibits it. A second, larger charge follows a full year of inactivity: the terms describe an “Annual Inactivity Period” of twelve consecutive months, after which $100, €100 or £100 is deducted as an administration fee, which AvaTrade’s own wording justifies as covering “the cost incurred in making the service available, even though it may not be used.” Both charges come straight out of the account balance rather than being billed separately, so a client who stops trading and forgets to withdraw sees their balance shrink on a fixed schedule regardless of market activity. The Australian version of the fee page adds one more line worth noting: “Applicable fees subject to change periodically,” which leaves AvaTrade free to revise these amounts without the figures above being locked in.

Where this leaves the fees score

Our previous review of AvaTrade scored the broker 6 out of 10 overall; this review scores it 7.5, with fees now assessed at 8.3. That change reflects our current assessment against updated criteria, not any claim that AvaTrade’s own charges have moved, and this review rests on the fee schedule and terms and conditions we read directly rather than a secondhand summary. The evidence supporting the higher fees mark is the same detail set out above: named, capped inactivity and administration charges with clear trigger periods, rather than open-ended or undisclosed account-maintenance costs. Set against that is the card-first withdrawal rule, which restricts how quickly a client can move profit to a different payment method, and the wire-withdrawal window of up to ten business days, both of which keep this section from reading as unqualified praise.

Customer Support

AvaTrade splits its support contacts across its regional entities rather than running one global desk. The Australian site lists a phone number, +(61)272018721, and WhatsApp as a header contact channel. The Middle East contact page gives a different phone number, +447520644093, plus a separate WhatsApp line, +(35)8942723482, a “Send us an Email” web form asking for reason of request, name, email, phone, subject and message, and a live chat button labelled “Chat with us”. A UK legal page carries a third number again, a help line at +1-212-941-9609. None of these pages says which number reaches which entity, so that is something a client has to work out from the geo version of the site they happen to be on.

Channels and hours

Beyond phone, WhatsApp, email and live chat, AvaTrade’s about page describes email and live chat as accessible “in your language” whenever markets are open. That ties support availability to the trading calendar rather than to fixed clock hours: the contact page states standard trading runs from Sunday 21:00 GMT to Friday 21:00 GMT, with cryptocurrency trading running 24/7 outside that window. A marketing line on the accounts page promises “Global customer support in your language” as a reason to choose the firm; that is the firm’s own framing, not something we could test.

For anything requiring a postal or registered address rather than a live channel, the entities publish separate registered offices: Dockline, Mayor Street, Dublin 1, D01 K8N7, Ireland for the Irish HQ entity; Ground Floor, 320 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000 (via WeWork) for the Australian entity; and Suite 307, Al Sarab Tower, 15th Floor, Abu Dhabi Global Market Square, Al Maryah Island for the Middle East entity.

What AvaTrade can do to a client’s account without asking first

The Trading Conditions page a client agrees to sets several terms that matter more than the contact form once something goes wrong. It states AvaTrade “reserves the right to cancel any excess trades or exposures that exceed the outlined threshold limits, all cancelled trades will be closed at their opening rates” and separately “reserves the right to modify its threshold limits, affected clients will be notified in advance and may be required to reduce their exposure.” The same page states margins “may be increased on any instrument, without prior notice, outside normal market conditions,” and that AvaTrade “may modify these Trading Conditions at any time and without prior notice,” with continued use of the site or platform counting as the client’s acceptance of the change. A client who contacts support after a forced close, a raised margin requirement or a changed threshold is disputing something the Trading Conditions already permit the firm to do unilaterally, which narrows what a complaint through phone or live chat can actually achieve.

Withdrawals carry their own constraint on the support relationship: AvaTrade’s Withdrawals and Deposits FAQ states a client “must withdraw up to 100% of your deposit to your credit or debit card” before the remaining balance can go out through another method. A client chasing a withdrawal through email or live chat is not choosing their own payout route; the card-first rule decides it for them, and only the amount above the original card deposit is free to go elsewhere.

Score

Support scores 6/10 in this review. Nothing in the material we hold documents response-time commitments, a formal complaints procedure, or an ombudsman or internal escalation path, and the channels themselves are split unevenly across regional entities rather than presented as one consistent desk.

Prohibited Countries

AvaTrade operates through a set of separately licensed entities rather than one global company, and which entity a client actually deals with depends on where they are. The firm’s own legal page lists AVA Trade EU Ltd (Ireland), DT Direct Investment Hub Ltd. (Cyprus), Ava Trade Markets Ltd (British Virgin Islands), Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd, Ava Capital Markets Pty Ltd (South Africa), Ava Trade Japan K.K., Ava Trade Middle East Ltd (Abu Dhabi) and Ava Trade Kenya Limited as the operating entities behind the brand, alongside ATrade Ltd in Israel and Friedberg Direct in Canada. We did not find, on any of the pages fetched, a single published list naming countries whose residents are refused an account outright. What we found instead is a set of entity-specific and product-specific limits that function as exclusions for particular groups of clients.

The Colombia registration is not a dealing licence

AvaTrade’s legal page discloses Resolution 0261 of 2024 from the Financial Superintendency of Colombia (SFC), held by Ava Trade Markets Ltd, and describes it as authorization for a representative office “to promote and advertise its products in Colombia”, the page is explicit that this is not a licence to deal in investments or hold client money. That distinction matters because the homepage badge strip presents the Colombia mark alongside genuine dealing licences such as Ireland, Australia and Japan, with nothing on that badge distinguishing a promotional authorization from a licence to actually take on a client and hold their funds. A Colombian resident reading the badge strip alone would have no way to know that the underlying paperwork covers advertising rather than custody.

Australia: the ASIC licence is scoped to residents only

The same legal page states that the Australian licence and regulation held by Ava Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd (AFS licence 406684, confirmed on the ASIC register) “applies to Australian residents only,” citing ASIC Regulatory Guide 227. Read plainly, that means the Australian entity’s authorisation is not something a non-resident can rely on when opening an account with AvaTrade; a client outside Australia dealing with the brand is necessarily onboarded under one of the other entities listed above, each carrying its own separate licence and its own separate protections.

Regional product restrictions rather than country bans

AvaTrade’s UK markets page states that cryptocurrency trading is prohibited for retail clients for all UK-based clients, with an exception only for clients classified as professional traders. The same restriction applies again, on different grounds, to anyone holding an Islamic Trading Account: the UK accounts page states that MT4 cryptocurrency trading is not available on that account type, and that ZAR, TRY, RUB and MXN currency pairs are also excluded for Islamic account holders unless they give up the account’s Islamic-account privileges. These are exclusions by client category and account type, not by nationality, but they still mean that a UK retail client or an Islamic-account holder is shut out of markets that other AvaTrade clients can trade.

Payment method access is also split by region: the firm’s payments information lists e-payment options, Skrill, WebMoney and Neteller, as funding methods, but states plainly that these are not available to EU and Australian clients. Clients in those regions are limited to credit/debit cards and wire transfer.

A country list that AvaTrade itself does not appear to publish

An earlier version of this review, drawing on an aggregator source rather than AvaTrade’s own site, carried a list of countries said to be off-limits to the firm, including Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba. When we checked AvaTrade’s own homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages directly, we found no such list published on any of them. We are not in a position to say the firm accepts or refuses clients from those countries either way; we can only say that the statement is not one we could find on the pages the firm itself publishes, and for that reason we have dropped it from this review rather than repeat a claim we could not source to AvaTrade.

Conclusion

AvaTrade scores 7.5 out of 10 in this pass, made up of 7 for regulation, 8.3 for fees, 8.9 for platform, 6 for support and 7.4 for reviews. That is a change from the 6 out of 10 we gave this firm previously. The move is ours, not the firm’s: this review checked seventeen public registers directly, ran a positive control on each before treating any gap as an absence, and searched 1441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, none of which name AvaTrade. That is a wider regulatory and fee-page check than a single-register glance, and it is what moved the number, not any change at the firm itself.

AvaTrade’s regulatory footprint, entity by entity

The Central Bank of Ireland register lists AVA Trade EU Limited under reference C53877 as an Investment Firm, MiFID. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register confirms licence 347/17, held by DT Direct Investment Hub Ltd. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission register shows AFS licence 406684 held by AVA Capital Markets Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 72143340907, since 09/11/2011). The Financial Sector Conduct Authority register shows FSP 45984 held by AVA Capital Markets (PTY) LTD, status Authorized. The ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority register lists Ava Trade Middle East Limited at FSP number 190018, status Active since 2020-02-06. The Israel Securities Authority licensee lists show ATrade Ltd as a trading-platform licensee, company number 514666577, valid since 30/10/2016. The Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) register lists Ava Trade Kenya Limited under licence 262 as a non-dealing online foreign exchange broker. The Japan FSA list of registered Financial Instruments Business Operators names firms in Japanese only; we matched Ava Trade Japan K.K.’s registration number 1662 against that list rather than its name. The CIRO directory of Dealers We Regulate lists Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd., the entity behind the Friedberg Direct brand, as an Investment Dealer in Toronto, though CIRO publishes no membership number to check against the one AvaTrade quotes. The British Virgin Islands FSC listing for Ava Trade Markets Ltd came back from a 35-day-old snapshot and the export carries no licence numbers, so SIBA/L/13/1049 remains the firm’s own claim rather than a number we matched. Two claims did not check out as dealing licences: the Financial Futures Association of Japan number sits outside any register we hold, and the Colombian “SFC” registration the homepage badge groups alongside the dealing licences is, per AvaTrade’s own detailed legal page, authorization for a representative office to promote and advertise products in Colombia, not a licence to deal in investments or hold client money. AvaTrade’s own pages also disagree with each other on how many jurisdictions this adds up to: ten on the homepage badge strip, twelve on a platform FAQ.

What AvaTrade’s fee pages and paperwork set out

AvaTrade’s fee pages disclose an inactivity fee of $50, €50 or £50 after three consecutive months without trading, repeating every inactivity period after that, and a further $100, €100 or £100 administration fee after twelve consecutive months, described on the fee page as covering “the cost incurred in making the service available, even though it may not be used.” An overnight premium applies to positions held past the stated funding time. The Australian fee page adds that the fee amounts are “subject to change periodically.” Separately, AvaTrade’s trading-conditions page reserves the right to cancel excess trades and close them at their opening rate, to change threshold limits with advance notice, to change the trading conditions themselves “at any time and without prior notice,” and to raise margin requirements without notice outside normal market conditions. Withdrawals must route up to 100% of the original deposit back to the card used to fund the account before another method can be used.

Platform range behind the 8.9

The platform score reflects a genuinely wide spread across AvaTrade’s own pages: the browser-based WebTrader, the AvaTrade App, MetaTrader 4 and 5, the AvaOptions app for vanilla FX options, the AvaSocial copy-trading app, the DupliTrade auto-trading platform, and TradingView and CQG for futures traders on the Australian site.

Support channels and the 6

Contact routes are plentiful across AvaTrade’s regional pages: phone numbers in the UAE, Australia and a UK help line, WhatsApp, a web contact form, and live chat, alongside registered offices in Dublin, Sydney and Abu Dhabi. What we did not find on any of the pages we read is data on response times or service quality behind those channels, which is the gap the support score reflects.

AvaTrade holds confirmed dealing licences from the Central Bank of Ireland, CySEC, ASIC, the FSCA, the ADGM FSRA, the Israel Securities Authority and Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority licence, and turned up clean against 1441 mirrored warning-list entries; its fee pages disclose inactivity and administration charges that erode a dormant account, and its terms let it close trades and raise margins without notice. TrueBroker scores AvaTrade 7.5 out of 10.

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