The National Futures Association (NFA) and the Commodities Futures Trading Association (CFTC) regulate how OANDA operates our business for US clients.
THE OANDA DIFFERENCE
OANDA is more than a trading system: it's a company that built itself around doing the right thing to protect you and protect your trades.
Liquidity
Our pricing starts with our liquidity pool. We have no "dark pools" or internal liquidity creating a price for you that someone else can benefit from. Our pricing is exclusively sourced from a global network of premier banks and that's all.
Pricing
Other dealers may skew your individual pricing, or reject individual orders depending on whether they make money on your traders or not. We do not selectively pick orders. We honour all quotes without re-quotes or rejections. No one at OANDA has the ability to target your positions, hunt your stops or change your pricing.
Our Technology
We own the quality of our trading system, because we've built it. Other trading platforms frequently forward your trades to third parties, that may or may not accept your trades. When you trade with OANDA, you know when the markets are moving your orders are filled. No rejections, no re-quotes and no "last look".
Execution Firewalls
Our system is fully-automated. It was built that way, from the ground up.
HOW WE HEDGE
Some brokers can only profit when you lose -- and when you find success, they ask you to leave. Not at OANDA. We manage our risk, so that we can partner with you.
Risk Management
Our risk management decisions are done in a way that would never affect the timing or the price of your fills.
SWITCH TO OANDA IN THREE SIMPLE STEPS
Apply
Complete our simple online form within minutes.
Fund
Login and deposit your funds
If you are an FXCM customer it will be quicker to withdraw your funds and deposit directly into your new OANDA account
Trade
Place your first trade on our easy to use OANDA platform or MT4.
ARE YOU A PREMIUM CLIENT?
As a premium client we are dedicated to tailoring your trading requirements. Trade with confidence knowing as a VIP client you will receive access to even tighter spreads and custom pricing.
Our premium accounts start at $50K minimum deposit, with no re-quotes. Find out more about our premium offering.
Trusted OANDA Partners:
EXCEPTIONAL EXECUTION
Execution affects the price you pay. Our all new V20 all execution engine now executes trades in just one millisecond†.
Trade on the world's most popular trading platform with MT4 with hedging capabilities
Trade on our award-winning OANDA trading platform
AWARDS THAT COUNT
Winner
World’s Best Retail FX Platform - FX-Week e-FX Awards 2016
Winner
Highest Overall Client Satisfaction – Investment Trends US FX Report 2016
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Frequently Asked Questions
OANDA has been regulated by the NFA since 2003
OANDA takes pride in its regulatory history and has a strong organizational commitment to satisfying our customers. OANDA has never been subject to regulatory discipline by the NFA or CFTC. You can compare the regulatory history of our firm through the NFA Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC) tool
Yes. OANDA has 6 regulators around the globe. The regulator of your account will depend on your country of residence and which OANDA entity you opened your account in. For more information please see our regulation section.
Our pricing starts with our liquidity pool. We have no “dark pools”, internal liquidity creating a price for you that someone else can benefit from. Our pricing is exclusively sourced from a global network of premiere banks.
We own the quality of our trading system, because we've built it. Other trading platforms may simply forward your trades to third-parties. When you trade with OANDA, you know your trading partner and when markets are moving, your trades are filled. No rejections, no re-quotes and we have no “last look”.
No. Other dealers may skew your unique pricing, depending on whether they are making money on your investments. Our system makes that impossible. We have one pricing feed that serves all our clients. Nobody has the ability to target you, hunt your stops or change your pricing.
Our system is fully-automated, with no manual intervention. It was built that way, from the ground up. The traders on our risk management desk cannot see your trades until after they are priced and filled. Nobody has the ability to interfere with your trades.
Our risk management decisions are done in a way that would never affect the timing or the price of your fills.
ONLINE TRADING PLATFORMS
Our innovative, proprietary forex and CFD trading platforms combine exceptional execution and depth of market with no re-quotes or trade rejections†.
† Disclaimer:
Contracts for Difference (CFDs) or Precious Metals are NOT available to residents of the United States.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) limits leverage available to retail forex traders in the United States to 50:1 on major currency pairs and 20:1 for all others. OANDA Asia Pacific offers maximum leverage of 50:1 on FX products and limits to leverage offered on CFDs apply. Maximum leverage for OANDA Canada clients is determined by IIROC and is subject to change. For more information refer to our regulatory and financial compliance section.
MT4 hedging capabilities are NOT available to residents of the United States.
Hedging capabilities not available to residents of the U.S.
OANDA’s APIs allow your applications to communicate directly with OANDA’s Trade servers over secure and authenticated Internet sessions with fully encrypted communication channels.
The APIs do not require the OANDA Trade user interface to be up and running, although you can use it to monitor the real-time actions taken by the APIs.
OANDA does not requote orders that are executed at the valid market price when the request is received at our server. No automated rejections, market orders only fail to be executed if they fall outside the upper/lower bounds that you choose to place to protect against price fluctuations, or if you have insufficient funds to execute your trade.
Execution speed numbers are based on the median round trip latency measurements from receipt to response for all Market Order and Trade Close requests executed between August 1st and November 30th 2017 on the OANDA V20 execution platform, excepting MT4 initiated orders.