At the end of each year, Masterforex-V Expo draws the bottom line to determine the best representatives of the contemporary FX industry in various aspects. That is why there are several nominations and awards.
Based on thousands of votes cast by international traders, investors, and Masterforex-V Academy experts, we can determine the best representatives of the international Forex industry once again. This is the 5th time Masterforex-V Academy has determined the winners.
More and more international traders, investors and financial experts say that MasterForex-V Expo has already become an indicator of transparency and honesty. According to Eugene Olkhovsky, President of EUTA Capital (Canada), the thing is that there are 23 independent criteria allowing the experts to build unbiased and truthful ratings reflecting the actual state of affairs in the industry on a monthly basis. By the way, he has been on the judges since day one.
Mr. Olkhovsky says that this time there are hundreds of FX brokers competing for one of the awards. However, only 12 of them succeeded in winning those awards.
TOP 12 BEST FOREX BROKERS 2015
1. Grand Prix was won by NordFX. This is the ultimate award within the scope of MasterForex-V Expo. 23 criteria were taken into account to make sure that the decision is as unbiased as possible. The criteria list included virtually everything – from trading conditions (swaps, spreads etc.) and trading contests to bonuses and licenses issued by major financial watchdogs.
On top of that, NordFX won 3 more awards:
-Best Micro FX Broker 2015
-Best ECN Broker 2015
-Best FX Broker for Auto-Copying 2015 (the clients of pro-rebate.com also took part in the voting). Most of the live trading account opened by pro-rebae.com clients belong to NordFX.
It is not accidental that NordFX has been recognized the World’s Best Micro FX Broker for the 4th time in a row. This is a new all-time record in the history of the award. The thing is that none of the FX brokers offering micro accounts have offered better or at least the same trading conditions so far. It is not accidental that NordFX enjoys a huge client base – over 1 000 000 clients.
In 2015, NordFX has already done a lot of work:
The company upgraded everything from the ground up, introduced a new education center for beginners and intermediate traders. NordFX also offered 100% deposit bonus, introduced a new mobile app for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets and updated its auto-copying service. Another thing to keep in mind is that since 2015, NordFX clients can trade binary options at binary.nordfx.com. 2015 is the time when the company’s client base exceeded 1 000 000 active traders. On top of that, the company introduced Supertrader TV and founded a new company - NordFX CY (NFX Capital CY Ltd.) – within the scope of NordFX Group.
2. FIBO Group won 2 awards at a time:
-Best PAMM FX Broker 2015
-Best FX Broker Ukraine 2015
these awards came as the result of the great quality of the products and services offered by the company.
In 2015, FIBO Group made the following achievements:
-The company made a unique achievement during Moscow Forex Expo 2015 when winning 3 awards at a time ("Best forex broker in Russia and CIS”, “Best standard forex broker” and “Best analytic support service”).
-It launched the “Trade with FIBO Group” series on YouTrade.TV.
-It launched a new trading platform called Trading Idea.
-The company also conducted FIBO GROUP FOREX CONGRESS.
-FIBO Group extended the popular “Triathlon” contest long with conducting various bonuses and promos and improving the trading conditions.
3. Verum Option was recognized Best Binary Broker 2015
Verum Option offered binary options traders the best trading platform, which is intuitive, stable and fast. At the same time, the minimal deposit is only 5 dollars, which means virtually anyone can give it a try without having to risk big money. By the way, Verum Option offers some of the highest payouts in the industry fro turbo options (also known as 60-second options). All of that comes along with a wide range of types of binary options - Binary, Multi strike, Strike out, One touch etc.
The list of other rare features includes the opportunity to double the bet even after the trade has been opened as well as the opportunity to delay the expiration of any binary option on demand. You can trade over 200 assets. By the way, VerumFX, which is the company’s division allowing you to trade Forex via the innovative STP technology, makes it possible for the trader to minimize the expenses.
4. TeleTrade – Most Reliable FX Broker 2015.
This is one of the industry’s heavyweights (was founded in 1994). The company has been winning at least a couple of prestigious awards a year for over a decade. Most of the time, TeleTrade is awarded for its transparency, and financial expertise, especially when it comes to market analytics.
The company has been developing every aspect of its business since day one. Today the company is especially focused on innovative solutions helping the company’s clients to achieve great financial performance in trading and investing.
5. IAFT which stands for International Association of Forex Traders – Best Rebate Service 2015.
The association has won this prestigious award for the 3rd time in a row. It unites over 150 000 participants. Most of them enjoy the privilege of getting up to 60% of the spread charged by their FX brokers on a regular basis, which is a decent profit booster for active traders. The associate offers a range of other premium-quality services to help the members improve their financial results, including legal and technical support, analytics and so much more.
It is not accidental that more and more famous FX brokers start cooperating with the association. This cooperation backs long-term success and stability.
6. ActivTrades - Best Customer Support 2015.
As you can see, the U.K.’s fastest growing FX broker has a lot of factors backing this growth. In particular, the company stands out from the crowd in terms of customer support while being regulated by the FCA, a British financial watchdog. On top of that, ActivTrades is the only company in the FX industry insuring their traders’ deposits up to 500 000 pounds for free. At the same time, the company introduced a lot of innovative solutions allowing the trader to reduce the risk while still enjoying decent profits. For example, the company insures the balance against going negative. If the balance goes negative, the company covers the difference and restores the balance to zero.
Another thing worth mentioning is that ActivTrades was recognized the world’s best FX broker during Moscow Forex Expo 2015! This is not accidental give the company’s client-oriented approach and the quality of its products and services (SmartPattern, SmartTemplate, SmartOrder, PivotPoin, SmartForecast, Molanis, TradingCentral etc.)
7. PrivateFX – Discovery of the Year.
The company became popular even during beta-testing. Thousands of traders and investors joined the company even before its started offering its products and services to the public. It is interested to noted that the new FX broker emerged thanks to the support of Concorde Capital, a major investment company.
On top of that, more and more traders and investors say that PrivateFX differs from most other FX broker out there. They even call it a next-generation FX broker. Well, this may well be true, especially given the fact that the company introduced an exclusive solution allowing you to trade and invest from the same account. It is called Active Investor and it is getting more and more popular among both sophisticated investors and plain folks.
8. Nordhill Capital – Best Investment Fund 2015.
The major reason why Nordhill Capital managed to win this prestigious title is the fact that it offered the most beneficial conditions for trust management.
-All the client funds are stored separately on segregated accounts.
-The investor can choose among several investment options, which ads some flexibility.
-Investors can form their own investment portfolios.
-The company offers 10% transparency thanks to Myfxbook.
9. World FOREX – Best FX Broker For Binary Options Trading.
World Forex offers much more competitive trading conditions and solutions for binary options as compared to most other binary brokers. When registering with World Forex, you can count on kick-starting your trading career with minimal investments and marginal risks. But they way, you can withdraw your profits in a matter of minutes anywhere around the globe. Withdrawal requests are processed up to 30 minutes, which is pretty fast as compared to most other binary brokers operating in the industry.
World Forex offers 0-100 options. The benefit of such options is that you need a significantly lower win rate in order to stay profitable in the long run. The thing is that 0-100 options are all about losing 100% of investment or doubling up. Most other binary brokers offer only up to 85%-90% on any binary option expiring in the money, which means, that traders have to be correct more than 60-70% of the time just to get marginal gains. With 100% profits from in-the-money binary options, you can allow yourself to be correct only 51-55% of the time to get the same marginal profits. These binary options expire in 60 minutes, which allows you to profit every hour.
On top of that, World Forex offers you to deposit $100 (or the equivalent in any currency) in order to get a 50% deposit bonus along with free access to a VPS server. The bonus is available regardless of the type of trading accounts give the amount is equal or above. The promo conditions boil down to agreeing to the terms and conditions and activating the 50% bonus + free VPS access in the “Finances” section.
10. Fort Financial Services - Best CFD Broker 2015.
As you probably know, currencies are not the only assets FX traders allow you to trade. Even though they do not provide direct access to stocks, bonds and commodities and other financial assets, you still can trade them indirectly through such derivatives as contracts for difference (CFDs for short). It should be noted that such contracts are often used to hedge trades or benefit from speculation.
Most experts believe that CFDs has one major benefit as compared to physical commodities or stocks. The thing is that when trading CFDs you don’t have to purchase or sell the very asset you trade, which allows you o save a lot of money by avoiding extra expenses associated with delivery, account management and various extra fees.
When it comes to trading CFDs, Fort Financial Services is the leading broker to go with. It has been occupying the 1st place of the corresponding rating from several months, which means the award is not accidental.
However, CFDs are not the only thing the company can boast. Not so long ago, the company introduced an innovative investment service which is called S.T.A.R.
S.T.A.R. stands for Short-Term Assets Revenue. Essentially, this is an advanced and superior version of PAMM platforms allowing investors to choose among the best managers available on the list - the S.T.A.R. ranking.
11. SFX Markets – Most Technologically Advanced FX Broker 2015.
Experts say that SFX Markets is one of those few companies complying with all those modern requirements, including innovation. As opposed to most other innovative brokers, SFX Markets provides the client with a full range of innovative solutions in all aspects for more efficient trading rather than some isolated solutions. Some of those solutions allow the trader to get direct instant access to the interbank liquidity regardless of the type of trading accounts used ad other factors. The trading is based on the technology called Full STP. Simply put, this technology implies direct access to the interbank liquidity without and third parties.
12. TurboForex – Most Stable FX Broker 2015.
The award is not accidental as well. This is confirmed by several test drives conducted by Masterforex-V Academy experts. Most of the clients say that they enjoy the stability and reliability behind everything that TurboForex has been offering them over the last few years, which means that the FX company has deserved this award!
