With a range of accounts on the MT4 and MT5 platforms, Alpari caters well to professional traders who are prepared to pay high minimum deposits for low ongoing trading costs. However, Alpari offers a limited number of tradable assets, which may leave some traders dissatisfied. Alpari offers six live accounts on the MT4 and MT5 trading platforms. The Pro and ECN Accounts have spreads starting at 0.3 pips on the EUR/USD, with a round turn commission of 3.2 USD, making them some of the lowest-cost accounts in the industry. However, this is in exchange for a minimum deposit of 500 USD, which is relatively high.   Alpari's CFD offering is limited compared to other brokers, with 22 indices, 2 metals, and only 46 Forex pairs for trading. One drawback for beginner traders considering opening an account at Alpari is the lack of educational and market analysis materials, forcing traders to self-educate elsewhere.

Admirals is a well-regulated global online broker offering multi-asset trading on a broader range of instruments than other brokers.  Tradable instruments include Forex, commodities, indices, shares, ETFs, and bonds.  The company also has one of the best cryptocurrency offerings on the market, although these are unavailable under the FCA and JSC regulators.  With full support for the MT4 and MT5 platforms, Admirals is home to the MetaTrader Supreme Edition, a plugin that offers technical analysis on virtually every financial instrument.  It also offers a VPS service to clients that deposit more than 5000 EUR, which is substantially higher than the minimum deposit requirement, but offers Trading Central for free.    Admirals boasts excellent trading conditions on four live accounts. The minimum deposit requirements are only 25 USD on all accounts, spreads average at 0.8 pips (EUR/USD) on its commission-free accounts, and commissions of 6 USD (round turn) are charged on its Zero Accounts.   One drawback for those considering trading with Admirals is the high deposit fees charged on accounts with different currencies to those on offer at the broker.

FP Markets is a well-regulated Forex broker with two low-cost, low minimum deposit accounts, and a range of excellent trading tools. We were also impressed with how easy the FP Markets Trading App was to use and the quality of FP Markets' customer service. Regarding fees, FP Markets has an “ECN pricing” model, which it claims provides “extremely competitive” costs. Unfortunately, we found that the fees on its standard trading accounts were higher than most of its ECN competitors. But FP Markets does make it easy for beginners to get started, with 100 AUD minimum deposits and unlimited demo accounts. We are also impressed that in addition to MT4 and MT5, cTrader is also available. FP Markets is now one of a handful of brokers with such a good platform offering.