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XM

XM is the retail brand of Trading Point Group, trading since 2009 and licensed in Cyprus since 2010. It is built around MetaTrader 4 and 5, opens accounts from $5, and puts unusual weight on research and education — daily market video, webinars in a long list of languages, and a Trading Central feed. The trade-off is price: default Standard-account spreads are wide by 2026 standards, and the tighter Zero tier is restricted to the European entity. Most clients outside the EEA are onboarded to the Belize company, where leverage is far higher and statutory investor protection is absent.

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Open account
Provider score
81
weighted mean of the dimensions below
Data confidence
Medium
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Last fully verified
Aug 31, 2026
last checked Aug 31, 2026
Commercial relationship
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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.

Trading Point (South Africa) Pty Ltd
RegulatorFSCA (tier2)
Licence number49976
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionSouth Africa
Investor protectionFSP conduct regime; no compensation fund
AcceptsSouth Africa
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
XM Middle East Ltd (Trading Point MENA)
RegulatorDFSA (tier2)
Licence numberF003484
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionUnited Arab Emirates
Investor protectionDIFC regime; no retail compensation fund
AcceptsUnited Arab Emirates
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
XM Global Limited
RegulatorFSC Belize (offshore)
Licence number000261/158 (also cited as 000261/397 — unresolved)
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionBelize
Investor protectionNone. No compensation scheme applies to this entity.
AcceptsBangladesh, South Africa
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Trading Point of Financial Instruments Pty Ltd
RegulatorASIC (tier1)
Licence numberAFSL 443670
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionAustralia
Investor protectionNo statutory compensation scheme; client money held in segregated accounts
AcceptsAustralia
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd
RegulatorCySEC (tier1)
Licence number120/10
Licence statusVerified on register
JurisdictionCyprus
Investor protection€20,000 Investor Compensation Fund
AcceptsCyprus
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Conditions

Trading conditions

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

Account tier shownMicro

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Typical EUR/USD spread1.6 pips

no sample date on file

Commission$0 disclosed

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Minimum deposit$5

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Swap-free availableYes

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Max leverage1:1000 (Belize entity) / 1:30 (CySEC, ESMA retail cap) / 1:30 (ASIC retail)

Varies by entity and client jurisdiction.

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Conditions

Markets & access

PlatformsMT4, MT5, TradingView

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Instrumentsforex, indices, commodities, metals, stocks, crypto

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Payment methodscard, bank wire, skrill, neteller, local bank

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Trading restrictionsScalping, hedging and expert advisors are all permitted, and there is no minimum holding time on standard accounts. Bonus credit cannot be withdrawn and is reduced pro rata when you withdraw funds. Accounts left idle for 90 days attract a monthly maintenance charge. Residents of the United States, Canada, Israel and Iran are not accepted.

Source: CySEC public register — Trading Point Of Financial Instruments Ltd (120/10) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Offers

Current & past offers

Expired offers stay listed so the history is not quietly rewritten — their codes are disabled.

PENDING
50% up to $500
Code disabled
No expiry on file
PENDING
$30 free credit
Code disabled
No expiry on file
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.

Commercial deals excluded
20%Regulatory & entity clarity84

The Cypriot entity checks out on the CySEC register (120/10, live since August 2010) and the group adds ASIC, DFSA and FSCA arms. What pulls the number down is where most non-European clients actually land: the Belize company, whose supervision is far lighter than the licence list implies. Which entity you sign with is decided by residence and is not obvious until late in onboarding.

15%Cost transparency68

Commission on the Zero tier is stated plainly at about $7 per lot round turn. The problem is the spread marketing: headline "from 0.6 pips" sits a long way from the 2.0 pip average an independent test recorded on a Standard account in late 2025. A "from" figure that far off the typical fill is the weakest part of the disclosure.

15%Funding & withdrawal clarity86

Deposit and withdrawal channels are documented per region, the broker absorbs wire charges above a stated threshold, and payouts are pushed back to the funding method. Long-running complaint volume about withdrawal delays is modest relative to the client base, though verification hold-ups do recur in user reports.

12%Platform / execution disclosure82

Full MetaTrader 4 and 5 coverage plus a TradingView bridge, and the operator publishes execution-quality claims (no requotes, no order rejections) rather than staying silent. No proprietary terminal, so anything beyond MetaTrader — advanced order types, integrated journalling — has to come from third-party tooling.

12%Country eligibility accuracy80

A restricted-country list is published and the big exclusions (United States, Canada, Israel, Iran) are unambiguous. Marks come off because the mapping from country of residence to signing entity — the thing that decides your leverage cap and whether any compensation scheme covers you — is buried in the legal pages rather than surfaced at signup.

12%Terms / promotion fairness78

Deposit-bonus and loyalty terms are written in plain language, but the usual constraints apply: bonus credit is not withdrawable, it scales down as you withdraw, and the promotional leverage is not available on every entity. Nothing hidden, though the conditions do more work than the headline offer suggests.

8%Operational history92

Trading under the same brand and the same Cypriot licence since 2010, with no material enforcement action against the regulated entities in that period. Fifteen years of continuous operation through several regulatory regime changes is the strongest single item in this record.

6%User-feedback quality80

Feedback volume is high and broadly positive on execution and support responsiveness. Discounted somewhat because a brand this size attracts both incentivised positive reviews and clone-site complaints that are not actually about this operator, which makes raw aggregate ratings unreliable.

Reviews

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Editorial assessment
XM review: cheap to open, expensive to tradeuse with caution · verified Aug 31, 2026

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Sourcing

Where this data came from

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Verification statusRecently checked
Data confidenceMedium
Last checkedAug 31, 2026
Last fully verifiedAug 31, 2026
Reviewed byNot recorded
Attached sources

Editor note: Cypriot licence verified directly against the CySEC register. Trading conditions come from secondary summaries because xm.com returns 403 to automated capture — they need a manual screenshot into Sources before this record moves to "verified". Two open conflicts: the Belize licence number is cited as both 000261/158 and 000261/397, and sources disagree on whether the ASIC entity is still current. Both are recorded as claimed rather than verified.