Pricing & Fees

When a price for a market is quoted, you will actually see two prices. The first price, known as the bid, is the sell price and the second price is the buy price, known as the offer. The difference between the sell and buy price is called the spread.

FOREX.com offers both fixed and variable spreads, depending on the market you wish to trade.

Fixed spreads don’t change according to market conditions such as volatility or liquidity. Depending on the market, fixed spreads may either be offered for a defined period of the day, or throughout trading hours.

Variable spreads may fluctuate throughout the day according to different factors such as underlying liquidity or market volatility. With variable spreads, FOREX.com will quote you the minimum spread it could be, plus an average spread for a defined historical period of time. View our live spreads.

FOREX.com only charges commissions on shares CFD trading. We recommend you reference the Market Information Sheets in the FOREX.com desktop and Metatrader 4 platforms for complete details.

Financing, also known as rollovers, is a charge that you pay in order to hold a position open overnight. The daily financing fee is automatically applied to your account each day that you hold an open position (including weekends). Should you hold a position overnight, there will be an overnight financing adjustment. We use swap points to calculate the daily overnight financing adjustment amount for FX pairs.

Back to Base automatically converts any realized profits and losses, adjustments, fees and charges that are denominated in another currency, back to the base currency of your account before applying them to your account.

When Back to Base charges are applied, we strive to use commercially reasonable rates (which may be up to and including +/- 0.5% away from our quoted prices or rates from time to time). Any conversions and the rates applied will be disclosed on your contract notes and statements.

We do not charge any fees on debit and credit cards deposits or bank transfers. There are also no charges to withdraw money to your credit, debit card or to your bank account using BACS or SWIFT payments. If you wish to receive same day payment using a CHAPS bank transfer, there will be a £25 charge on withdrawals under £5,000.

FOREX.com does not charge data exchange fees. However, you may incur a financing/rollover charge if you hold your positions overnight. Learn more about rollovers.

FOREX.com charges an inactivity fee of £12 (or currency equivalent) per month if there is no trading activity or no open positions for a period of 12 months or more.

Clients that hold non GBP accounts will be charged as follows:

'Activity' is defined as placing a trade and/or maintaining an open position during this period. Placing an order on an account without executing a trade will not qualify as ‘Activity’ for these purposes.

If your account has been inactive for 3+ years (retail clients) or 1+ years (professional clients) we'll need to reassess your trading experience and ensure that we have your up-to-date contact details. You will need to complete our account reactivation form and a member of our Account Management Team will be in touch to let you know if we need anything further from you or to let you know that your account(s) have been reactivated.

CFDs are subject to corporate actions including dividend adjustments. We may make dividend adjustments if a dividend is scheduled to be paid to the holders of the underlying instrument. These adjustments are normally made on the ex-dividend date. Long positions receive adjustments net of tax, whereas short positions are charged the declared amount of gross adjustment, where applicable.

For more information on US withholding tax on US equity derivative markets, please visit our page on US code section 871(m).

Borrowing costs are incurred when you short a shares CFD position, and reflect a charge incurred in the underlying market when the underlying asset is borrowed in order to sell and return at a later date. Very few markets will incur a borrowing charge, and to determine whether the market you wish to trade has borrowing costs or not, please check the relevant Market Information Sheet in the FOREX.com desktop or MetaTrader 4 platform.

We provide central counterparty clearing through an Omnibus Segregated Clearing Account (OSCA) free of charge as standard to all clients.

If you wish to open an Individual Segregated Clearing Account (ISCA), fees apply:

• For an individual these charges are: £13,000 account opening fee, plus account maintenance and transaction charges
• For a corporate entity these charges are: £200,000 account opening fee, plus account maintenance and transaction charges

Please contact a tax professional for information on the tax situation in your country.