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Steven Hatzakis is the Global Director of Online Broker Research for ForexBrokers.com. He is a forex industry expert and an active fintech and crypto researcher.
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StoneX Trading is the new name in the U.K. for City Index, a forex and CFD broker founded in 1983. It holds a Trust Score of 99 out of 99, and its parent, StoneX Group Inc., is publicly traded. I placed live trades on its web platform, its mobile app, and MT4, and I tracked its EUR/USD spreads. I found over 13,500 markets to trade, far more than the 4,500-plus that its sister brand, FOREX.com, lists for U.K. traders on the same platform technology.
That range of investments is the main reason I'd choose StoneX Trading for forex and CFD trading or spread betting in the U.K. Many of its markets, including every forex pair, can also be traded as spread bets, which carry a tax efficiency for U.K. residents compared with CFDs. Pricing is simple and spread-only, averaging 1.1 pips on EUR/USD.
I consider the Performance Analytics tools built into the web platform and mobile app a major highlight, because they compare your trading history against your plan. StoneX analysts also post several market updates to YouTube each day. The broker has no raw spread account, MT5, or sentiment data, and its courses are mostly text, without quizzes or progress tracking. StoneX Trading is currently available only to U.K. residents.
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Table of Contents
StoneX Trading pros and cons
PROS
- Over 13,500 CFD markets, with spread betting for U.K. residents.
- Performance Analytics built into the web platform and mobile app.
- Daily analyst updates, podcasts, and over 2,000 YouTube videos.
CONS
- No raw spread account, and MT5 is not available.
- No client sentiment, trading signals, or third-party research tools.
- Courses lack video, quizzes, and progress tracking.
My top takeaways for StoneX Trading in 2026:
- Over 13,500 tradeable markets, including 75 forex pairs, with many also available as spread bets for U.K. residents.
- Simple spread-only pricing, with a 1.1-pip average EUR/USD spread and no commission.
- The same TradingView-powered web platform and mobile app as FOREX.com, with 90 indicators on both.
- Multiple daily video updates from StoneX analysts, backed by well over 2,000 archived YouTube videos.
- A Trust Score of 99 out of 99, with 7 Tier-1 licences and a publicly traded parent, StoneX Group Inc.
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Is StoneX Trading safe?
StoneX Trading is Highly Trusted, with a Trust Score of 99/99. Its parent, StoneX Group Inc., holds seven Tier-1 licences, from ASIC, MAS, FCA, CIRO, JFSA, CFTC, and CySEC. Only six other brokers reviewed at ForexBrokers.com hold as many, including its sister brand, FOREX.com.
Does it matter where I live?
Yes. StoneX Trading only accepts U.K. residents, who sign up with its U.K. entity, regulated by the FCA, a Tier-1 regulator.
If you live elsewhere, StoneX Trading isn't available to you. Its sister brand, FOREX.com, accepts traders from many other countries. Depending on where you live, a FOREX.com account may not be held by a Tier-1 regulated entity.
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Range of investments
StoneX Trading's range of markets is its biggest strength. I found over 13,500 tradeable markets on its proprietary platform, a substantial selection compared with the industry average. That is also far more than the 4,500-plus that its sister brand, FOREX.com, lists for U.K. traders on the same platform technology. The library covers indices, forex, shares, metals, commodities, cryptocurrencies, ETFs, weekend markets, sectors, bonds, interest rates, thematic indices, and options.
A portion of these markets can also be traded as spread bets, which carry a tax efficiency for U.K. residents compared with CFDs. Access is currently limited to the United Kingdom, as the StoneX Trading brand has not been fully rolled out in other regions.
Forex: I counted 75 forex pairs. The platform shows 150 forex markets, but that total lists each pair twice, once as a regular spot pair and once as a DFT spread bet.
Shares: The platform lists share CFDs and spread bets on exchanges in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Mexico. U.S. share CFDs trade 24/5. DMA and underlying shares are not available through StoneX Trading.
Options and futures: I could open put and call chains on 19 options products, as CFDs or spread bets. Futures are available as CFDs. Exchange-traded futures need a separate StoneX Futures account, and physical bullion is sold in certain regions, such as the U.S. and EU, through StonexBullion.com.
Cryptocurrency: Each of the 15 cryptocurrencies comes with multiple contracts, such as a CFD and a spread bet, and crypto markets trade 24/7. Note: Crypto CFDs are not available to retail traders from any broker's U.K. entity, nor to U.K. residents (except to Professional clients).
Leverage: U.K. retail traders are capped at 30:1. Professional clients can trade at up to 200:1. Spread betting margin scales with stake size, starting at 20%, or 5:1 leverage, on stakes up to £10 per point. It then rises to 30% from £10 to £100, 40% from £100 to £500, and 50% above £500.
StoneX Trading fees
I like how simple StoneX Trading keeps its pricing. It is a market maker, and all pricing is spread-only, so you pay through the spread and no commission is charged. The broker lists a minimum spread of 0.7 pips. The average EUR/USD spread came in higher, at 1.1 pips.
A £100 minimum deposit keeps the barrier to entry low. After 12 months with no open positions or trades placed, StoneX Trading charges an inactivity fee of £12 a month, or the equivalent in your account currency.
Active trader rebates: Without a raw spread or commission-based account, retail traders have no way to trade on tighter spreads. There is no VIP account either. Professional clients who meet monthly volume thresholds earn rebates instead, starting at £4 per million units traded once you reach £25m a month and rising to £7.50 per million above £200m. Higher rebates are available on request above £300m. Professional client status also requires at least £20k in average tradeable funds.
Deposits and withdrawals: I'd fund by debit card, which is free, rather than by credit card, which carries a 1.5% fee. Withdrawals under £5k that require the Clearing House Automated Payment System, or CHAPS, cost £25. International wire transfers are free.
Overnight financing: To check a market's financing charge, I clicked its symbol in the watchlist. The market information panel opens instantly with the overnight financing rate, trading hours, baseline spread, and margin requirement.
Mobile trading apps
StoneX Trading's mobile app is the same app FOREX.com offers, apart from branding and product lineup, so parts of this section draw on my testing of both. I found it well designed, and its TradingView charts carry more indicators than most brokers' apps. Discovery tools and indicator saving are the weak spots.
Navigation: The five tabs along the bottom are each a single tap away: Portfolio, Watchlists, Markets, Alerts, and Account. Without a slider, I entered trade size and risk levels easily with the on-screen keyboard. With trade confirmation disabled, buy or sell executes in one click once you've typed the size.
Charting: I counted 90 indicators and over 54 measurement tools. The 14 timeframes are towards the upper range. None are sub-minute. You can drag stop-loss and take-profit levels on the chart, and trendlines save automatically. Indicators did not persist when I switched tabs. Saving an indicator as a named TradingView preset lets you reload it across charts and devices.
StoneX Trading's app is the same one FOREX.com offers, and I found it well designed. Watchlists are responsive and clean, with each custom list in its own tab across the top. Pricing is spread-only, so the spread column between the sell and buy prices shows the main cost of each trade at a glance.
Order management: Order flexibility is somewhat basic compared with the web platform. A small bar chart icon opens a miniature chart inside the ticket, and a toggle switches a regular stop to a trailing stop. Custom price slippage tolerance and fill-or-kill settings are web-only.
Discovery: Watchlists are responsive and clean, with multiple custom lists that sync across devices. I liked how the Browse Markets tab groups the product library by category, as the best platforms do. Multi-variable technical or fundamental screeners are absent. Popular and Trending are the only dynamic lists, and adding top gainers and losers would make finding setups faster.
Special tools: Performance Analytics is nicely integrated into the Account tab, where it works like a mini-app with Trading Plan, Review, GamePlan, and Settings sub-tabs. After at least three closed trades, I could pull my win rate, risk-reward ratio, and actual results against my targets, with metrics updating in real time. It's a nice touch. The app has no AI-powered features or copy trading, and demo accounts need a separate login.
Trading platforms
I found StoneX Trading's web platform modern and easy to customise. It carries the full lineup of over 13,500 markets. Apart from that product range, it is nearly identical to the FOREX.com web platform, which I have also tested in depth. The broker supports MT4 and TradingView, but MT5 is not available. A proprietary Windows desktop platform is listed too, but I recommend the web platform, because the equivalent desktop platform at FOREX.com is no longer maintained or supported.
Web platform: Free-floating windows resize by dragging, and you can save multiple workspaces built from Markets, Portfolio, and Research modules. I was pleased to find modular linking, which pairs your watchlist with your charts so clicking an asset switches the chart.
I found StoneX Trading's web platform modern and easy to customise. In my workspace, the blue link icons connect the watchlist to the chart, so clicking a market switches the chart. I dragged my stop-loss and take-profit levels into place on the chart. Each market in the watchlist appears twice, once for CFD trading and once as a DFT spread bet.
Charting: The web charts use TradingView, with 90 indicators, dozens of drawing tools, and 14 timeframes that stop short of sub-minute intervals. Stop-loss and take-profit levels were easy to drag on the chart. A saved chart template loads your indicators on any device. Drawings do not sync. Custom indicators and backtesting require MT4 or TradingView.
Order management: You can set stop-loss and take-profit as a price, currency amount, or pip value. None of these fields carry labels. A price tolerance of zero turns a market order into a fill-or-kill order. The web platform has no depth of market. The ticket also omits a risk-reward ratio. OCO and OTO orders are supported.
Steven's take
"Searching for a contract such as XAU will show you all the related gold pairs, just as searching for gold will return XAU pairs. In Browse Markets, when you click Stocks, you can narrow it down by exchange per country. Overall, I found the process of searching for assets pretty easy."
Steven Hatzakis
Director of Online Broker Research
Discovery: Each search result has shortcuts to open a chart, add it to a watchlist, trade, or view contract specs. Browse Markets is my preferred route. It opens a new window with an integrated chart beside the full product library, where FX alone splits into majors, euro crosses, GBP crosses, and eight other sub-groups. Every pair shows up twice there, once as a spot pair and once as a DFT spread bet, so check for the DFT label before you open a trade. I'd rather it opened from the search bar. I checked the platform and the broker's website and saw no currency heatmaps or client sentiment data.
Browse Markets is my preferred way to find something to trade. The window lists the full product library by category beside a chart and Reuters headlines. The chart even showed my open EUR/USD position, with its stop-loss and take-profit levels. You can set a price alert or add a market to a watchlist without leaving the window. My only wish is that it opened from the search bar.
Performance Analytics: I consider this module a major highlight. It analyses win ratios, identifies your most profitable times of day, and highlights psychological biases. Its Review module and Trading Journal compare your history against your trading plan. Most competitors lack this level of integrated evaluation.
MetaTrader and TradingView: MT4 runs on desktop, web, and mobile, with FX Blue add-ons. Its range is far narrower, at nearly 80 forex pairs and indices in total, plus commodities. TradingView carries the full forex list, indices, and crypto for professional clients. Stocks and precious metals are not there yet.
Algo trading and API: Algo trading runs on MT4 and TradingView. API access requires an approved application. You sign and return the API terms and conditions, along with details of your programming experience, the language you plan to use, your goal, and your expected trade volume and frequency. If StoneX Trading accepts the application, it emails you an API key. Copy trading is not available, and MetaTrader's MQL5 Signals market may be disabled by local regulation. The only AI-powered feature I came across was the customer support chatbot.
Research
StoneX Trading's research content impressed me with its quality and frequency, backed by TV-quality video production. Its tools are thinner. TradingView is the main third-party addition, and sentiment data is missing.
Daily videos: Analysts post several market updates to YouTube each day, typically 5 minutes long. The analyst appears on screen beside a screen share of real-time market data, so it feels like sitting in on a webinar. Five minutes is rarely enough for deep analysis. The analysts make the time count with sharp technical insights. The well-organised channel holds well over 2,000 videos.
Steven's take
"With multiple YouTube video updates per day from across the StoneX team, I found the coverage was both high-quality and concise at just 5 minutes long, which is typically not long enough for deep analysis, but the firm's analysts do a great job of balancing this."
Steven Hatzakis
Director of Online Broker Research
The StoneX YouTube channel draws on analysts who cover both the institutional and retail sides of the business. Recent uploads include zinc smelters, Australian cattle, and El Niño crop forecasts, alongside Nvidia and Treasury yields. StoneX posts several videos a day, with TV-quality production. The market updates I watched ran about 5 minutes. Longer interviews and podcasts fill out an archive of well over 2,000 videos.
Podcasts: StoneX Podcasts includes several shows covering commodities. The Trading Global Macro podcast has over 270 recordings archived on YouTube. The episodes I heard went deep. Some are audio only. Others include charts and screen shares.
The Trading Global Macro podcast pairs StoneX analysts John Kicklighter and Matt Weller. Episodes run 17 to 28 minutes, and the ones I heard went deep in a way the five-minute daily videos rarely can. Two episodes explain how to read risk appetite, fear and greed, and trader positioning. They're worth a listen, since StoneX Trading's platform has no sentiment data of its own.
Market briefings: The StoneX Market Analysis tab publishes several technical and fundamental briefings each trading day. I thought they were detailed and easy to read, with supporting charts and data.
Fundamental tools: I found the economic calendar useful and well integrated. It filters by a dozen event types, expected volatility, and country. Events expand to show source links, previous results, and consensus. Unlike calendars that plot past results on a bar chart, it shows nothing beyond the previous result. There is no earnings calendar or corporate action data. Premium reports range from monthly subscriptions to $750 institutional reports, and free ones include a quarterly commodities report. Financial statement data is only on the group's other platforms, such as StoneX One for share trading.
Third-party tools and sentiment: Reuters supplies the headlines in the web platform and MT4. Stories are expandable and searchable. TradingView is great for technical analysis, with screeners and Pine Script for building custom scripts. I couldn't find client sentiment, social sentiment, or trading signals anywhere. TradingView's bullish and bearish gauge is no substitute, because it relies on technical indicators rather than social trends or trader positioning. Acuity, Autochartist, Trading Central, and TipRanks are absent.
Education
In my view, StoneX Trading's education suits beginners who are comfortable learning from text. I counted 44 lessons across 8 courses, organised into beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Video and interactivity are lacking.
Course content: The curriculum is thoughtfully organised, well-rounded, and easy to digest. Most lessons are written text with helpful infographics. Video is missing from the courses. I would like to see some of the many videos on the broker's YouTube channel built in. Coverage is generalised rather than asset-specific, centred on technical analysis, an introduction to financial markets, and risk management. A single course spends about 5 minutes each on stocks, forex, commodities, indices, and interest rates.
StoneX Trading's course page bills its courses as interactive. I found a thoughtfully organised curriculum of 44 lessons across 8 courses, which you can filter by beginner, intermediate, or advanced level. Most lessons are text with helpful infographics. With no video, quizzes, or progress tracking, they didn't feel interactive to me.
Interactivity: Courses have no progress tracking or integrated quizzes. The mobile app has no educational resources either.
Platform tutorials: Apart from the tutorial built into the web platform, I came across none for MT4 or TradingView, so beginners picking up either platform get no guided start. Trading tool explainers are limited to support FAQs and articles, and a section of the site that mentions tutorials led nowhere. Performance Analytics is the exception, with good explainers for each module: PlayMaker, Trading Plan, GamePlan, and Review.
Help inside the platform: The web order ticket carries little contextual education. What it has works well. A tooltip next to Price Tolerance explains how deviation settings affect market and fill-or-kill orders. That setting is not on mobile. Red text flags problems straight away, such as a stop-loss at an invalid price. When I tried to exceed the maximum trade size, the ticket skipped error codes and showed "Quantity too high" along with the maximum allowed. The minimalist watchlist has no asset icons or quick-fact snippets. Clicking any symbol opens a market information panel with trading hours, baseline spreads, margin requirements, and overnight financing rates.
Expert commentary: No named author is credited on the courses. StoneX's analyst team covers the institutional and retail sides of the business with free and paid content. It also hosts webinars and podcasts and writes educational articles.
Final thoughts
StoneX Trading makes it easy for U.K. traders to access over 13,500 markets for forex and CFD trading, with many also available as spread bets. To get the full range, I'd trade on the web platform, because MT4 and TradingView each carry only part of it. I'd also take the time to set goals in Performance Analytics, because the tool is most useful once you can compare your results against a plan.
Retail traders have no raw spread or commission-based account for tighter spreads, and rebates are limited to professional clients. I would like to see the broker build some of its many YouTube videos into its courses, which are mostly text. For U.K. traders who want CFD trading and spread betting across a deep product library, StoneX Trading is a strong choice. If you're focused on the lowest raw spreads or MetaTrader 5, I'd compare other brokers before committing.
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Steven Hatzakis May 04, 2026About StoneX Trading
Founded in 1983 in the United Kingdom and formerly known as City Index, StoneX Trading was acquired in 2015 by GAIN Capital Holdings, the operator of its sister brand, FOREX.com. Its ultimate parent, StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX), is a Fortune 50 company. In its annual report for the financial year ending 30 September 2025, StoneX reported $45.2 billion in total assets and $7.4 billion in client segregated funds. The group employs over 5,400 staff and serves more than 400,000 self-directed and retail accounts across more than 180 countries. StoneX Trading is currently available only to U.K. residents and lists CFDs and spread bets on over 13,500 markets.
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