Markets · Forex

Forex priced the way a desk would price it

72 currency pairs on aggregated tier-1 liquidity, raw spreads from 0.0 pips and a flat per-lot commission. Firm quotes, no last look, and execution statistics we publish every month.

Illustration of currency exchange flows between the Swiss franc, dollar, euro and yen
Currency pairs
72
Spreads from, pips
0.0
Median round trip
38ms
Liquidity venues
14

Coverage

Three books, one order ticket

Every pair below trades from the same margin pool, with pricing that reflects the liquidity actually available in that group.

Majors

8 pairs

EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF and the rest of the core book — quoted continuously, 24/5.

Spreads from 0.0 pips

  • EUR/USD
  • USD/JPY
  • GBP/USD
  • USD/CHF
  • AUD/USD
  • USD/CAD
  • NZD/USD

Crosses

36 pairs

CHF, EUR and JPY crosses with depth that holds through the London and New York overlap.

Spreads from 0.4 pips

  • EUR/CHF
  • GBP/CHF
  • EUR/GBP
  • CHF/JPY
  • AUD/NZD
  • CAD/CHF
  • EUR/AUD

Emerging

28 pairs

PLN, HUF, TRY, MXN and ZAR pairs quoted during their local sessions with pre-trade checks.

Spreads from 1.2 pips

  • USD/PLN
  • USD/HUF
  • USD/TRY
  • USD/MXN
  • USD/ZAR
  • EUR/PLN
  • EUR/TRY

How it works

The mechanics behind the fill

Four things that decide whether your FX cost matches your backtest.

  1. 01

    No last look

    Quotes are firm. We do not hold your order to look at the market before filling it.

  2. 02

    Aggregated depth

    Fourteen tier-1 providers streamed into one book, ranked on fill quality rather than headline price.

  3. 03

    Swap published daily

    Long and short financing rates for every pair, posted before the 22:00 CET rollover.

  4. 04

    Margin you can model

    Static margin bands by pair group. No intraday changes without 48 hours notice.

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Pricing

Spread, commission and margin in one table

Figures are indicative for a Raw account. Standard accounts trade commission-free with spreads from 0.8 pips.

PairTypicalAverageCommission / lotMargin
EUR/USD0.00.2CHF 3.503.33%
USD/CHF0.20.4CHF 3.503.33%
GBP/USD0.30.5CHF 3.503.33%
USD/JPY0.20.4CHF 3.503.33%
EUR/CHF0.40.7CHF 3.503.33%
USD/PLN1.22.4CHF 5.0010.00%

Sessions

The book never closes between Monday and Friday

Trading opens with Sydney on Sunday at 23:00 CET and closes with New York on Friday at 23:00 CET. One maintenance window, 00:00 – 00:05 CET.

  1. 01

    Sydney

    23:00 – 08:00 CET

    AUD and NZD depth builds first.

  2. 02

    Tokyo

    01:00 – 10:00 CET

    JPY crosses at their tightest.

  3. 03

    London

    09:00 – 18:00 CET

    Peak liquidity across the whole book.

  4. 04

    New York

    14:00 – 23:00 CET

    Overlap window, largest clip sizes.

Terminal

Ladder, chart and risk on one screen

Depth-of-market ladder with one-click entry, OCO brackets and a journal that tags every FX fill by session and setup — the same workspace on web, desktop and mobile.

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Why here

What you get that you cannot see on a spread table

Execution you can audit

Monthly fill-rate, rejection and slippage distributions published per pair group.

One margin pool

Forex sits in the same account as stocks, indices, metals and crypto — netted margin.

FINMA supervision

Swiss-licensed, with client money segregated at Swiss custodian banks and reconciled daily.

24/5 dealing desk

Zurich-based coverage from the Sydney open to the New York close, answered by traders.

“Spreads hold through the London open, which is the only test I care about. Withdrawals land the same day.”
Nadia BrunnerDiscretionary FX trader, Basel

Questions

Forex, answered plainly

What leverage is available on forex?

Retail clients trade up to 1:30 on majors and 1:20 on crosses. Qualified professional clients can apply for tiered leverage up to 1:100.

How is financing calculated?

Overnight financing uses the tom-next rate of the underlying pair plus a published administration fee, applied at 22:00 CET.

Is there a minimum trade size?

0.01 lots on every pair. There is no maximum order size, though clips above 5m notional are worked by the desk.

Which platforms support forex?

Web Trader, desktop, iOS, Android and the FIX 4.4 / REST / WebSocket API — all on the same account.