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RoboForex

RoboForex is the retail brand of the RoboMarkets group, trading since 2009 and built around MetaTrader 4/5 plus a proprietary multi-asset terminal, R StocksTrader. Most non-EU clients — including the $10-minimum, 1:2000-leverage accounts the brand markets hardest — sign with RoboForex Ltd, licensed offshore by Belize's FSC rather than by either of the group's two EU regulators. EU residents are instead routed to RoboMarkets Ltd (CySEC, Cyprus) or RoboMarkets Deutschland GmbH (BaFin, Germany), but the CySEC entity is not a clean reference point: it was ordered to stop offering retail clients non-monetary rewards in 2023, and paid CySEC a €100,000 settlement in 2026 over organisational, disclosure and CFD-marketing failures. Trustpilot reviews are heavily bimodal, with a large one-star cluster describing withdrawal holds tied to compliance reviews rather than routine delay.

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Provider score
59
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Data confidence
Medium
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Last fully verified
Sep 1, 2026
last checked Sep 1, 2026
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Legal entities

Regulation is per entity, not per brand

Which entity you are onboarded to decides your regulator, protections and available leverage.

RoboMarkets Deutschland GmbH
RegulatorBaFin (tier1)
Licence number10154068 (HRB 105969, Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main)
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionGermany
Investor protectionEdW (Entschädigungseinrichtung der Wertpapierhandelsunternehmen) statutory scheme — up to 90% of a claim, capped at €20,000 per creditor.
AcceptsGermany, Cyprus, France, Denmark, Finland
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
RoboMarkets Ltd
RegulatorCySEC (tier1)
Licence number191/13
Licence statusVerified on register
JurisdictionCyprus
Investor protection€20,000 Investor Compensation Fund (ICF Cyprus)
AcceptsCyprus, France, Denmark, Finland
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
RoboForex Ltd
RegulatorFSC Belize (offshore)
Licence number9759600 (2021 Securities Industry Act; earlier material cites superseded IFSC no. 000138/32 — unresolved which is current without a register lookup)
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionBelize
Investor protectionFinancial Commission Compensation Fund up to €20,000 per case — a private ADR/arbitration body funded by member brokers, not a statutory government scheme. No investor compensation scheme applies to this entity.
AcceptsBangladesh
RestrictedUnited States, Canada, Australia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Finland, United Kingdom
Conditions

Trading conditions

Spreads are only comparable when sampled on the same day at the same account tier.

Account tier shownProCent

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Typical EUR/USD spread1.3 pips

sampled Sep 1, 2026

Commission$0 disclosed

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Minimum deposit$10

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Swap-free availableYes

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Max leverage1:2000 (RoboForex Ltd, Belize — ProCent/Pro) / 1:500 (ECN) / 1:300 (Prime) / 1:30 (RoboMarkets EU entities — CySEC & BaFin, ESMA retail cap)

Varies by entity and client jurisdiction.

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Conditions

Markets & access

PlatformsMT4, MT5, R StocksTrader

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Instrumentsforex, indices, commodities, metals, crypto, stocks, etfs

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Payment methodscard, bank wire, skrill, neteller, crypto, bkash, nagad, local bank

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Trading restrictionsScalping, hedging and EAs are permitted, and qualifying algo traders get free VPS. Account base currency has been restricted to USD or EUR only since March 2024. Bonus credit is forfeited pro rata on withdrawal. RoboForex Ltd (the Belize entity) does not accept residents of the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, Russia, Belarus, Iran or the EU/EEA, among others — those clients are meant to sign with the group's RoboMarkets or RoboMarkets Deutschland entities instead. For Bangladeshi residents specifically: bKash, Nagad and local-bank deposit rails are technically available, but Bangladesh Bank treats outward remittance for offshore leveraged CFD trading as restricted under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947, and the broker's own site does not address this.

Source: RoboForex — company/regulation overview (official) · last checked Sep 1, 2026 · confidence Medium

Score breakdown

How this score was built

Each dimension is scored 0–100 with a written rationale and its own weight. No single unexplained star.

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20%Regulatory & entity clarity58

Two verifiable EU licences exist — RoboMarkets Ltd on the CySEC register since 2013, and RoboMarkets Deutschland GmbH under BaFin ID 10154068 — but neither is the entity most of this site's readers would actually open. The $10-minimum, 1:2000-leverage accounts sit under RoboForex Ltd, licensed offshore by Belize's FSC (registration 9759600 under the 2021 Securities Industry Act; older material still cites a superseded IFSC number, 000138/32, and it is not clear from public sources which is authoritative today). Worse, the group's own EU arm is not a clean reference point: CySEC ordered RoboMarkets Ltd in August 2023 to stop giving retail CFD clients non-monetary rewards, then reached a €100,000 settlement with it in August 2026 over organisational, disclosure and CFD-marketing failures. Two enforcement actions against the same CIF in three years is a real mark against the entity that is supposed to be the reassuring one.

15%Cost transparency66

Five account tiers are named and priced on the official site, but the comparison table renders via JavaScript and returned nothing to automated capture, so these figures are triangulated across several independent reviews rather than a direct screenshot. Sources agree ProCent/Pro run commission-free with spreads from roughly 1.3–1.75 pips, but disagree materially on ECN and Prime — commission is cited anywhere from about $1 to $20 per lot round turn depending on source and date. A dated, manual capture of the live fee page is needed before these move from claimed to verified.

15%Funding & withdrawal clarity42

Cards, e-wallets, crypto and a long list of local bank/mobile-wallet rails are supported, and small deposits move quickly by most accounts. The problem is the withdrawal-specific review pattern: 773 Trustpilot reviews sit at 2.1/5 with 51% one-star against 37% five-star, and the negative cluster repeats a specific complaint — withdrawal requests cancelled or held after initial approval, tied to compliance/KYC review, not generic slowness. Card withdrawals also carry an outright fee (roughly 1.5% SEPA / 2.6%+$1.30 on cards), which is worse than several peers on this site.

12%Platform / execution disclosure74

MT4 and MT5 are fully supported, and the proprietary R StocksTrader adds a genuinely differentiated multi-asset web/mobile terminal with a no-code strategy builder and free back-testing — unusual at this price point. Free VPS for algo traders is a real, checkable perk. Marked down because independent reviews disagree on whether cTrader is offered at all: it appears on some comparison sites but not on RoboForex's own platforms page, and that kind of inconsistency should not exist for a broker with this much marketing spend.

12%Country eligibility accuracy60

An unusually explicit restricted-country list is published — the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, Russia, Belarus, Iran and the EU/EEA among others — and EU residents are correctly routed to the RoboMarkets/RoboMarkets Deutschland entities rather than the Belize one. What the broker's own marketing omits is any acknowledgement that Bangladesh Bank treats outward remittance for offshore leveraged CFD trading as restricted under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947 — bKash/Nagad/local-bank rails being technically available is not the same as the activity being clearly lawful for a Bangladeshi resident.

12%Terms / promotion fairness55

The base-currency restriction to USD/EUR only (added March 2024) and pro-rata bonus forfeiture on withdrawal are disclosed plainly enough. But the 2026 CySEC settlement covered failures in client-information and product-appropriateness procedures — process failures that sit squarely in this dimension, not just abstract regulatory box-ticking. Promotion wording on the main site could not be independently captured (JavaScript-blocked), so specific offer terms are unverified.

8%Operational history82

Trading continuously since 2009 under the same brand, with the CySEC entity licensed since 2013 and the BaFin entity added later as the group built out its EU footprint. Sixteen-plus years without a wind-down or brand collapse is a genuine positive, tempered by the licence-numbering confusion at the Belize entity and by two CySEC enforcement actions inside the last three years.

6%User-feedback quality34

Trustpilot review volume is substantial (773) but split almost bimodally — 37% five-star, 51% one-star — and the negative cluster consistently names withdrawal holds and compliance reviews rather than generic slow service. The company's claimed 99% response rate to negative reviews helps its reputation management but does not resolve the underlying pattern, which is treated here as a real signal rather than dismissed as noise.

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4/5 from 1 member
My broker★★★★

Trading for a few years and still too good. No complaints

Forexcake Admin · Sep 1, 2026

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Verification statusRecently checked
Data confidenceMedium
Last checkedSep 1, 2026
Last fully verifiedSep 1, 2026
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Editor note: CySEC register entry for RoboMarkets Ltd was checked directly. The BaFin institution-detail page could not be fetched (portal returned a technical error), and Belize's FSC has no public register lookup we could locate, so both remain claimed rather than verified. The account/fee comparison table on roboforex.com renders via JavaScript and returned no data to automated capture — needs a manual, dated screenshot before the account-type figures move past triangulated-from-secondary-sources.