AMarkets Review 2026: Real Trading Costs & Regulation

What Is AMarkets?

AMarkets started in 2007 and has operated as an online CFD broker. It serves clients in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and it markets itself with a long list of industry awards. The company provides limited information about its head office, and public sources describe its structure as offshore.

AMarkets LLC is registered in the Cook Islands, and AMarkets LTD is registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Both are corporate registrations. Some third-party reviews also list authorizations from offshore bodies in Mauritius, Seychelles, and Comoros. We couldn't match every claim to a public register, so we treat them as unverified until you verify them yourself.

AMarkets also has several trust features that do not come from a financial regulator. It's a member of The Financial Commission, which is an independent dispute body. It says a compensation fund covers claims up to €20,000. It also says an outside firm, Verify My Trade, audits its order execution every month. These features provide some protection, but they do not replace government regulation.

The product range is limited. You can trade forex, metals, energies, indices, stocks, and crypto CFDs on MT4 and MT5. Account types include Standard, ECN, Zero, Fixed, and Swap-Free. The broker also runs copy trading, a set of bonus programs, and a mobile app.

The broker advertises fast execution, third-party audits of its fills, leverage up to 1:3000, and a long list of awards. It targets traders who care more about conditions than about the logo of a big regulator.

Details vary by region and can change over time. Treat the figures in this review as a snapshot from our testing period and check the current terms in your client area. We opened live accounts, traded for four weeks, made deposits and withdrawals and We asked support the same set of standard questions.

AMarkets offers good day-to-day trading conditions, but some withdrawal fees are unusual. Its regulatory setup may not provide enough protection for traders with large balances.

How We Reviewed AMarkets

We tested AMarkets for four weeks between mid-August and mid-September 2026 with real money. We registered under the international entity and opened two live accounts: a Standard account on MT4 funded with $100 and an ECN account on MT5 funded with $300. We funded them by crypto and by card. No table below uses demo data.

Beyond trading, we searched for every regulatory claim AMarkets makes, read a large sample of user feedback, and sent the same five questions to support across different channels. We clearly separate AMarkets’ figures from our own test results. Our affiliate relationships do not affect our scores.

Spread Monitoring

We logged quotes every five minutes across the Asian, London, and London–New York overlap sessions. Our list covered EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, XAU/USD, and BTC/USD. We recorded minimum, maximum, and average spreads and watched how each account behaved around news.

Execution Speed Testing

We placed 260 live market orders across forex majors, gold, and an index CFD. We measured each fill and recorded slippage direction and size, requotes, and rejections. We then compared our numbers with AMarkets' own audit claims.

Customer Support Mystery Shopping

We asked five questions over live chat, email, and messaging: withdrawal fees, ECN commission basis, Islamic account rules, VPS eligibility, and bonus conditions. We scored speed, accuracy, and first-contact resolution.

Regulatory Verification

We checked each entity and license AMarkets names against public sources. We also read the Financial Commission's role and the terms of its compensation fund so we could describe them accurately.

How We Reviewed AMarkets

We tested AMarkets for four weeks between mid-August and mid-September 2026 with real money. We registered under the international entity and opened two live accounts: a Standard account on MT4 funded with $100 and an ECN account on MT5 funded with $300. We funded them by crypto and by card. No table below uses demo data.

Beyond trading, we searched for every regulatory claim AMarkets makes, read a large sample of user feedback, and sent the same five questions to support across different channels. We clearly separate AMarkets’ figures from our own test results. Our affiliate relationships do not affect our scores.

Spread Monitoring

We logged quotes every five minutes across the Asian, London, and London–New York overlap sessions. Our list covered EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, XAU/USD, and BTC/USD. We recorded minimum, maximum, and average spreads and watched how each account behaved around news.

Execution Speed Testing

We placed 260 live market orders across forex majors, gold, and an index CFD. We measured each fill and recorded slippage direction and size, requotes, and rejections. We then compared our numbers with AMarkets' own audit claims.

Customer Support Mystery Shopping

We asked five questions over live chat, email, and messaging: withdrawal fees, ECN commission basis, Islamic account rules, VPS eligibility, and bonus conditions. We scored speed, accuracy, and first-contact resolution.

Regulatory Verification

We checked each entity and license AMarkets names against public sources. We also read the Financial Commission's role and the terms of its compensation fund so we could describe them accurately.

Our Testing Methodology

Every broker on BrokersProfile goes through the same seven checks. This table shows how each one played out at AMarkets.

What We Found During Our Testing

Spreads

AMarkets offers Standard EUR/USD spreads from about 0.8 to 1.3 pips and that ECN spreads lies near 0.2 pips. We recorded similar results. During the London session, the Standard account averaged 1.02 pips with no commission. The ECN account averaged 0.24 pips, plus a $2 per lot per side commission, or $4 round turn. That puts the ECN all-in cost at about $6.40 per standard lot.

Around the US CPI release in September, EUR/USD on Standard widened to 4.9 pips for several seconds, and ECN reached 3.1 pips. Both normalized within a minute. We recorded wider spreads during Asian session than London on both accounts.

Execution

We sent 260 market orders, 130 on each account.

AMarkets advertises 30 to 50 ms fills in some materials. We didn't see that. Our ECN average was closer to 92 ms, that is still a good result for an offshore broker. Slippage was a bit more negative than positive but remained equally balanced.

Account Opening

Our registration took about seven minutes. We entered our email, country, and password, then landed in the personal area. We then completed verification using a passport and proof of address. AMarkets approved both in 3 hours 20 minutes. Our first crypto deposit showed up in the trading account in about ten minutes.

Withdrawals

AMarkets offers different withdrawal situations as compared to other brokers we've tested. It charges fee on withdrawals. The broker charged $1 fee on a $100 crypto withdrawal, which reached our wallet in 40 minutes. We paid a 0.5% fee, or $0.50 on a $100 e-wallet withdrawal, which arrived in 2 hours. Public sources say cards cost up to 1.8%. This fee may not be clear, so check the payment page before you deposit.

Customer Support

Live chat answered in about one minute and ten seconds on average. We got a correct answer for our four of five questions on the first try. We needed to contact a second agent for the ECN commission question to clarify whether the $2 charge applied per side. We received email replies in about five hours. Agents were polite and responded quickly, but some quickly shifted the conversation toward bonuses.

Bonuses and Promotions

AMarkets advertises bonuses more than most brokers we review. The programs include first-deposit boosts, cashback, risk-free trades, and offers that double a deposit in some regions. We didn’t take any of them, because bonus funds can affect withdrawals and make our timing data less accurate. Bonus funds are added to your balance but usually come with trading volume and withdrawal rules.

If you withdraw money too early, you may lose the bonus. This is common across the industry, but sales pages do not always make it clear. Traders should consider the bonus as trading credit, not free cash. You should ask support for the terms in writing before you accept it.

Platform Stability

We had no connection problems on MT4 or MT5 during four weeks of testing. The mobile app logged us out once after an update, but we signed back in within seconds. They perform maintenance on weekends that did not affect any open positions.