HighMarkets is a trading name of DXA Seychelles Limited, holder of Seychelles FSA Securities Dealer licence SD218. That single offshore licence is the whole regulatory picture, and it sets the terms for everything else here. The platform is better than the licence: a proprietary web terminal running TradingView charting that stayed stable throughout testing, moderate 1:200 leverage, a 5% stop-out and a genuine swap-free account. What we could not test is the part that matters most. We did not complete a withdrawal, and the money side of this broker — payment methods, processing times, fees, even the minimum deposit — sits behind a client-portal login.
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| Overall rating | 4.9/10 |
|---|---|
| Founded | Not declared by the broker; a recent brand operating under DXA Seychelles Limited |
| Headquarters | Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles |
| Main licences | Seychelles FSA Securities Dealer licence SD218 (DXA Seychelles Limited) — the only licence held |
| Minimum deposit | Not published; set inside the client portal at account opening |
| Spreads from | About 1.4 pips on EUR/USD observed on the base Silver tier in June and July 2026; tier discounts up to 75% |
| Maximum leverage | 1:200 across all tiers |
| Instruments | Six asset classes (forex, metals, commodities, indices, shares, crypto); no instrument count published |
| Swap-free available | Yes, as a standalone account type |
| Retail loss rate | Not published |
Pros and cons
We tested HighMarkets during June and July 2026: opened an account, worked through the client portal, ran the demo environment on web and mobile, used the support channels, and checked the licence on the Seychelles FSA register. Where we could not verify something, we say so.
What works:
- The legal entity is disclosed without evasion: DXA Seychelles Limited, Seychelles registration 8438281-1, registered office at the Abis Centre, Providence, Victoria, Mahe. Licence SD218 appeared on the FSA’s capital markets register in July 2026.
- No entry on any major regulator’s warning list and no recurring pattern of serious complaints, as of our July 2026 checks.
- TradingView charting inside the web platform, behaving as it does in TradingView proper.
- Leverage capped at 1:200 rather than the 1:1000 some offshore rivals advertise, with a 5% stop-out uniform across every tier.
- The swap-free account is a standalone type with full market and platform access, not a stripped-down variant.
- A legible discount ladder: Gold takes 50% off Silver’s spread and 40% off its swap; Platinum takes 75% and 60%.
- Client agreement, complaints policy, bonus terms and risk disclosure all published and downloadable.
What does not:
- One offshore licence and nothing else. No tier-one authorisation and so no investor compensation scheme. Client-money segregation is described as standard practice within the licence framework; we could not independently confirm it.
- We did not complete a withdrawal. Testing ran on the demo environment and functional checks of the portal, so the claim that matters most remains untested.
- Almost nothing about money is published: no minimum deposit, no payment-method list, no fee schedule, no processing times, no inactivity fee disclosure. The public deposit link redirects to a login page.
- No MT4 and no MT5, so expert advisors have nowhere to run.
- In July 2026 we found no established Trustpilot presence of any size for the highmarkets.com domain — no complaints history, but no track record either.
- No retail loss rate published and no founding year declared.
Company information
HighMarkets is a brand, not a company. The operating entity is DXA Seychelles Limited, and the broker says so openly rather than burying it in a footer. In June 2026 the registration number 8438281-1 and the registered address were both published and checkable — a low bar, but one many CFD brands do not clear. What is not published is a founding year: no incorporation date, no operating history to point at. That matters, because operating history is one of the few things an offshore broker can offer in place of tier-one supervision.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Trading name | HighMarkets |
| Operating legal entity | DXA Seychelles Limited |
| Company registration number | 8438281-1 (Seychelles) |
| Registered office | Abis Centre, Providence, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles |
| Regulator | Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA) |
| Licence number | SD218 |
| Service | Contracts for difference on global markets |
| Target markets | Gulf and wider Arab region, plus selected Asian markets |
| Excluded jurisdictions | United States, Canada, European Union, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia |
The excluded-jurisdiction list is the most consequential row for a UK, EU or Australian reader. The European Union is excluded outright: if you are an EU resident, this broker does not onboard you. The United Kingdom is not on the list, and HighMarkets publishes a UK support number alongside Gulf and Asian ones. So a UK resident can open an account — but with a Seychelles entity, under Seychelles supervision, with no FCA authorisation anywhere in the group and no FSCS cover. That is legitimate and common, and also materially different from a UK-regulated account, with the difference borne entirely by the client.
Who this broker suits (and who it does not)
The clearest fit is a trader who already charts in TradingView, trades a modest account, and values a clean platform over breadth of choice. The web terminal will feel immediately familiar, the discount ladder gives a visible path to lower costs as volume grows, and the 1:200 ceiling with a uniform 5% stop-out suits someone who wants the defaults working against over-leveraging. It also suits traders who specifically need swap-free terms, since this is a full account type rather than a toggle applied to a restricted instrument list.
It does not suit anyone who needs regulatory protection where they live. EU residents are excluded by the broker’s own policy. UK and Australian residents get no FCA or ASIC oversight, no compensation scheme and no ombudsman route — recourse runs through the broker’s complaints policy and then the Seychelles FSA. It does not suit algorithmic traders, because there is no MetaTrader. And it does not suit money you cannot afford to lose: CFDs are leveraged products, most retail accounts trading them lose money, and here no compensation scheme stands behind the account if something goes wrong at the firm rather than in the market.
Licensing and regulation
HighMarkets operates under exactly one licence held by one entity. We verified it in July 2026 through the Seychelles FSA’s own register, in the capital markets section covering supervised entities.
| Regulator | Country | Licence number | Legal entity | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Services Authority (FSA) | Seychelles | SD218 | DXA Seychelles Limited | Securities Dealer |
A Seychelles Securities Dealer licence is issued under the Securities Act 2007 and is the category intended for firms that hold client money and execute trades on clients’ behalf. It carries obligations: minimum capital, client-money handling requirements and periodic reporting. Following amendments effective in 2024, the minimum authorised capital for new applicants is USD 100,000. That filters out the smallest operators, but it is a threshold, not a safety net.
Where this sits in the supervisory hierarchy matters more than the licence’s existence. The Seychelles FSA is an offshore regulator, not the FCA and not ASIC, and the practical gap is what happens when a firm fails. A UK client of an FCA-authorised broker has FSCS cover; an EU client of a CySEC firm has the Investor Compensation Fund. Offshore licences of this class carry no equivalent. If DXA Seychelles Limited became insolvent, no scheme pays you back — your recourse is the insolvency process and whatever segregation was actually in place.
On segregation we have to be precise, because this is where reviews of offshore brokers overreach. Segregating client funds from company funds is standard practice expected within the Securities Dealer framework. We found no specific public statement from HighMarkets confirming its own arrangements and could not verify them independently, so confirm it from the client agreement before depositing. Treating “expected within the framework” as “confirmed in place” is the elision that gets traders hurt. The credit we do give is that HighMarkets declares one licence with one verifiable number and claims no authorisations it does not hold.
Opening an account and verification
Account opening in June 2026 was quick. Registration asks for full name, email and telephone number, then moves to tier selection between Silver, Gold, Platinum and the swap-free account, with each tier described before you commit. Verification follows the sector norm: proof of identity and proof of address. These are the standard checks any licensed broker must run.
The portal is clean and consolidates account management, funding, withdrawal requests and open positions in one place. The demo account is available immediately, before any deposit, on live prices. Given how much commercial detail only appears after registration, opening a demo is the practical way to see what you are actually being offered.
Account types
There are four account types: three tiers plus a standalone swap-free account. The tiers are built on discounts rather than different execution models.
| Feature | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intended for | Beginners and traders building experience | Active traders | Experienced traders |
| Spread discount | None (baseline) | 50% off Silver | 75% off Silver |
| Swap discount | None (baseline) | 40% off Silver | 60% off Silver |
| Maximum leverage | Up to 1:200 | Up to 1:200 | Up to 1:200 |
| Stop-out level | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Minimum lot size | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Platform | Web + mobile app | Web + mobile app | Web + mobile app |
Leverage, stop-out and minimum lot size are identical across all three tiers; only cost changes. That is a good design decision, because upgrading changes your economics without changing your risk parameters. The problem is the qualification requirement: no minimum deposit is published for any tier and no volume threshold for moving between them, so you cannot work out from the public site what it takes to climb the ladder.
Swap-free accounts
The swap-free account is a fourth standalone type rather than a modifier bolted onto a tier. Positions held overnight are not charged the usual financing swap, and market access and platform features are retained in full — not a restricted instrument list or a cut-down terminal, which is a common compromise elsewhere. Simulating an overnight hold on the demo environment, we saw no swap accrual. The audience is broader than often assumed: traders avoiding interest for religious reasons, and equally anyone running multi-week positions where nightly financing compounds into a meaningful drag.
| Aspect | Detail |
|---|---|
| Availability | Standalone account type |
| Overnight swap | Not charged on positions held over |
| Market access | Full, as on standard accounts |
| Platform features | Retained in full |
| Substitute administration charge | Not detailed on public pages; adjusted terms indicated in the client agreement |
That last row is the one to press on. Many brokers replace swap charges with a flat administration fee, often triggered after a set number of nights, and it can quietly exceed the swap it replaced. We found no detailed public disclosure of any such charge here. That is not evidence it does not exist — it is evidence it is not published.
Fees and trading costs
Spreads
HighMarkets publishes no fixed spread table. Pricing is variable and follows market conditions, with tier discounts applied on top. The figures below are our own observations across demo sessions and live price monitoring during June and July 2026 on the base Silver tier. They are indicative and will vary with liquidity and time of day. We have set them against three brokers commonly compared with this one.
| Instrument | HighMarkets (observed) | XM Standard | Exness Standard | Evest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | About 1.4 pips | 1.6 pips | 1.1 pips | 1.5 pips |
| GBP/USD | About 1.8 pips | 2.1 pips | 1.5 pips | 1.9 pips |
| USD/JPY | About 1.6 pips | 1.6 pips | 1.2 pips | 1.7 pips |
| AUD/USD | About 1.7 pips | 1.8 pips | 1.3 pips | 1.8 pips |
| USD/CHF | About 1.7 pips | 1.9 pips | 1.4 pips | 1.8 pips |
| Gold (XAU/USD) | About 30 cents | 35 cents | 25 cents | 32 cents |
| Oil (WTI) | About 5 cents | 5 cents | 4 cents | 5 cents |
Silver-tier pricing is mid-pack. It undercut XM Standard on most pairs and sat marginally wider than Evest, but Exness Standard was tighter on every instrument in the table. As a base-tier commission-free spread, about 1.4 pips on EUR/USD is reasonable for a market-execution model, not competitive. The discounts change that: Platinum’s 75% reduction brings the effective EUR/USD spread towards the raw-spread territory of much larger brokers, with Gold’s 50% in between. That is where HighMarkets becomes genuinely cost-competitive — but only for traders who reach those tiers, and the thresholds are unpublished. Spreads also widened around major economic releases, which is normal everywhere.
Commissions
HighMarkets prices through the spread with tiered discounts rather than a separate per-lot commission, and we found no indication of a fixed per-lot charge on Silver, Gold or Platinum. Individual instruments may carry their own terms, so check the contract specifications inside the portal.
Overnight financing
Swaps are charged on positions held past the daily rollover and track prevailing interest rates on the currencies involved. The tiered discount applies here too: Gold takes 40% off the Silver rate, Platinum 60%. For a swing trader holding for days, that can matter more than the spread saving. Traders avoiding financing charges altogether have the swap-free account instead.
Non-trading fees
This is the weakest part of the cost picture, and the weakness is disclosure rather than price. There is no public schedule of deposit or withdrawal fees; payment detail appears only inside the portal. The broker states a general principle of no hidden charges, which is intent rather than a schedule. Sector norms suggest deposits are likely free from the broker’s side with payment-processor charges possible on top, but we did not verify that. Nor is an inactivity fee publicly declared — absence of publication is not absence of the fee.
Cost verdict
The pricing model is sound and the ladder rewards the traders it should; a Platinum account here is competitively priced against the wider market. The failure is that a prospective client cannot establish any of this before registering — not the minimum deposit, not the tier thresholds, not the funding costs, not the dormancy terms. Pricing you cannot check before committing is not pricing you can compare.
Desktop platforms
There is no downloadable desktop application. HighMarkets runs a proprietary full-screen web terminal in the browser, and that is the entire desktop offering. It did not feel like a compromise: the layout gives charts real room, and across a week of testing in June and July 2026 we saw no chart-loading lag and no dropped server connections.
The charting is TradingView’s, and it is the platform’s strongest card. In an extended session we loaded several indicators onto EUR/USD and moved from one-minute up to daily timeframes; redraw was immediate at every step with no lag repainting candles, and trendlines and Fibonacci levels were precise. This is the actual charting engine, not a badge on a marketing page.
The gap is MetaTrader — neither MT4 nor MT5 is available. For discretionary traders that is a preference question. For anyone running expert advisors, copy-trading tools or custom MQL indicators, it is not: that workflow does not exist here, and charting quality does not substitute for it.
Mobile apps
The mobile app is built as an extension of the web terminal rather than a separate product, so there is no second interface to learn. Navigation is quick, quotes are clearly presented, and the essential order and position-management functions are present. Simplicity is the trade-off: the app handles positions away from a desk but does not reproduce the full analytical environment, so a heavy technical trader will treat it as a monitoring tool rather than a primary terminal.
| Criterion | Detail |
|---|---|
| Platforms available | Proprietary mobile app + web terminal |
| Charting | Powered by TradingView tools |
| Live pricing | Available, clearly presented |
| Account management | Through the client portal |
| Best suited to | Beginner and intermediate traders |
| MT4 / MT5 | Not available |
Trading tools
HighMarkets offers CFDs across six asset classes. It publishes no total instrument count anywhere, which makes precise comparison with other brokers impossible, but it does set out the categories clearly.
| Asset class | Coverage | Examples listed |
|---|---|---|
| Forex CFDs | Majors, minors and some exotics | EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, USD/TRY |
| Metals CFDs | The most-traded metals | Gold, silver, platinum |
| Commodity CFDs | Energy and selected commodities | Crude oil, natural gas |
| Index CFDs | Major global indices | S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, DAX 40, FTSE 100 |
| Share CFDs | Listed global companies | Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Nvidia |
| Crypto CFDs | Leading digital assets | Bitcoin, Ethereum |
On the demo account the forex book covered majors and minors with some exotics such as USD/TRY, shares ran to large-cap global names, and the index list included the benchmarks most retail traders actually trade. Everything is traded as a CFD, so you take a position on price movement without owning the underlying asset — that allows positions in both directions and requires a working understanding of leverage.
Order execution
We placed a series of trades during June and July 2026 and found execution quick and consistent, with market orders filling close to instantly in normal liquidity. The important qualifier is that this ran on the demo environment, which mirrors live market conditions but is not a funded account. We have no live-account fill data, no measured slippage figures and no median latency to report.
Within that limit, stability was genuinely good. The terminal never froze, prices never visibly lagged and charts updated smoothly. In one deliberate stress session we opened and closed gold positions in rapid succession: no freezes, no rejected orders, no delayed confirmations.
Slippage happens at every broker around major economic releases and when spreads widen, and nothing here is exempt. The uniform 5% stop-out is a floor under a bad outcome, not protection against one.
Deposits
We can tell you very little here with confidence, and that is itself the finding. Payment methods are shown inside the client portal after registration, and when we tried to reach deposit detail from the public site the link took us to a login page. There is no published methods list, no published minimum and no published fee schedule. Given the broker’s target markets and normal sector practice, cards, bank transfer and e-wallets are the likely options — but that is an expectation, not a finding.
| Aspect | What is stated |
|---|---|
| Where payment methods appear | Inside the client portal after registration |
| Fee principle | Broker states no hidden charges; no schedule published |
| Likely categories | Cards, bank transfer, e-wallets (expected, not verified) |
| Base currency | Expected to include US dollar; not confirmed |
| Public deposit minimum | None published |
Gating payment detail behind registration is not by itself a warning sign, since brokers commonly tailor methods by country. It does mean registering before you can see a basic commercial term, which for an offshore broker with no operating history is a larger ask on trust than it would be elsewhere.
Withdrawals
Withdrawals are requested through the client portal and processed according to the policies in the client agreement. We did not complete a withdrawal cycle during this review. Our testing ran principally on the demo account and on functional checks of the portal, so we have no processing time, no fee and no confirmed method list to report. On a broker where the money side is the main open question, that is the largest gap here.
| Aspect | What is stated |
|---|---|
| Where withdrawals are requested | Client portal |
| Withdrawal-to-source policy | Expected to apply as standard anti-money-laundering practice; not confirmed |
| Bonus conditions | Governed by the published bonus terms in the legal section |
| Complaints policy | Published and downloadable |
| Processing time | Not published; not tested |
| Withdrawal fees | Not published; not tested |
Positively, HighMarkets publishes its complaints-handling policy, bonus terms and client agreement openly and in downloadable form. That gives a client a written reference defining rights and obligations if a dispute arises, and detailed published policies are an inconvenience to fraudulent operators rather than an asset. It is a meaningful signal, but not a substitute for a tested withdrawal.
Customer support
HighMarkets runs three support channels — telephone, email and live chat — plus a contact form. Availability is tied to market hours, five days a week, with no weekend cover and no 24/7 claim. The phone provision is more developed than the broker’s size suggests, with separate numbers for several Gulf countries, some Asian markets and the United Kingdom. Set against that is the broker’s own disclosure that no physical offices exist behind those numbers.
| Channel | Availability | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Telephone | Market hours, five days a week | Dedicated numbers including a UK line |
| Trading days | Best for detailed queries | |
| Live chat | Market hours, five days a week | Fastest for urgent questions |
| Contact form | On the contact page | Requests only basic details |
We used the contact form to ask about the swap-free account and the nature of its adjusted terms; it asked only basic information, a low-friction route compared with brokers that bury contact options. Communication through the available channels was orderly and clear. We did not record response times, so we cannot give a measured figure for how fast this desk answers — precisely the number that separates a good support operation from an adequate one.
Research and education
The centre of gravity is a Support Hub organised into clear categories: getting started, account and payments, trading on the platform, risk management, platform and technology, technical support, and trading basics. A new client can find a specific answer without wading through unrelated material. Beyond the hub, the two useful tools are an earnings calendar covering upcoming reports from major listed companies and a market holidays page listing non-trading days.
What is missing is depth. There are no graded courses, no regular webinars, no analyst commentary and nothing resembling the trading academies older brokers maintain. The Support Hub explains how the platform works; it does not teach you to trade. The integrated TradingView tools partly compensate on the analysis side, but they are a charting environment, not an education programme.
Fund safety and protections
Protection here comes from the licence framework and from platform mechanics. From the licence: the Securities Dealer category imposes capital requirements — USD 100,000 minimum authorised capital for new applicants after the 2024 amendments — plus client-money handling obligations and periodic reporting. Segregation is standard expected practice within that framework; confirm HighMarkets’ own arrangements from the client agreement rather than assuming them. From the platform: the 5% stop-out applies uniformly across every account type, and the 1:200 leverage ceiling works in the same direction.
| Safety feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Regulatory framework | Seychelles FSA Securities Dealer licence SD218 |
| Capital requirement | USD 100,000 minimum for new applicants (2024 Seychelles framework) |
| Client fund segregation | Standard practice within the licence framework; not independently confirmed |
| Investor compensation scheme | None |
| Stop-out level | 5%, uniform across accounts |
| Maximum leverage | 1:200 |
| Legal documents | Published and downloadable (client agreement, complaints policy, risk disclosure) |
The row that governs the others reads “none”. Offshore-licensed brokers do not carry the compensation funds that exist in the EU or the UK. A regulatory framework and sensible platform mechanics reduce the risk of losing money through a margin spiral; neither does anything if the firm itself fails.
Independent reputation record
Searching in July 2026, we found no established Trustpilot presence of any real volume for the highmarkets.com domain. For a brand this young that is expected rather than suspicious, but the absence of a complaints record is not the same as a clean one.
| Aspect | What we found in July 2026 |
|---|---|
| Trustpilot presence | Still forming; no substantial independent review volume |
| Regulator warning lists | No listing found on any major regulator’s warning list |
| Legal transparency | High — entity, registration number and licence all published |
| Pattern of serious complaints | None observed |
Verdict
HighMarkets scores 4.9 out of 10. The platform is better than that score suggests and the disclosure around money is considerably worse, and that split is the whole story of this broker.
| Category | Weight | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Regulation and licensing | 25% | 4.0 |
| Trading costs | 20% | 6.0 |
| Withdrawals and fund access | 20% | 3.5 |
| Platforms and execution | 15% | 6.5 |
| Customer support | 10% | 5.5 |
| Research and transparency | 10% | 4.5 |
| Overall | 100% | 4.9 |
Two categories hold the result down. Withdrawals and fund access scores lowest at 3.5, because we did not complete a withdrawal and the broker publishes no methods, processing times or fee schedule. Regulation and licensing scores 4.0: the licence is real, verifiable and honestly represented, but it is one offshore licence with no compensation scheme behind it and no independently confirmed segregation. Under our rating methodology those two carry 45% of the total between them, and no amount of platform quality offsets them.
Trading CFDs on leverage carries substantial risk to your capital, and most retail accounts lose money trading these products. Consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money, and never trade with funds you cannot afford to lose. HighMarkets publishes no loss-rate figure of its own, so the general CFD risk warning applies without a broker-specific number attached.
If you want a clean TradingView-based terminal, swap-free terms and moderate leverage, and you are trading an amount you would be prepared to write off entirely, HighMarkets is a coherent choice within the offshore category. If you need regulatory protection where you live, a compensation scheme, an audited withdrawal record or MetaTrader, this is not the broker.
Is HighMarkets trustworthy?
Is HighMarkets a scam?
Based on our checks, no. HighMarkets operates through a declared and registered legal entity, DXA Seychelles Limited, licensed by the Seychelles FSA under number SD218, which we confirmed on the authority’s own register in July 2026. Registration number and address are published, and the legal documents are publicly downloadable. We found no listing on any major regulator’s warning list and no recurring pattern of serious complaints. Not being a scam is a floor, though, not a recommendation.
Is it actually licensed?
Yes. Licence SD218 is issued to DXA Seychelles Limited and we verified it on the Seychelles FSA’s official register in July 2026. It is a Securities Dealer licence under the Securities Act 2007, the correct category for a firm holding client money and executing trades. It is an offshore licence, not a tier-one one.
Can UK or EU traders open an account?
Not if you are in the EU — the European Union appears on the broker’s own excluded-jurisdictions list, alongside the United States and Canada. The United Kingdom is not on that list and HighMarkets publishes a UK support number, so a UK resident can open an account, but only with the Seychelles entity. There is no FCA-authorised entity in the group, which means no FSCS cover, no Financial Ombudsman route and none of the FCA conduct protections including the retail leverage cap.
Are there withdrawal problems?
We found no evidence of withdrawal problems, and no evidence that withdrawals work smoothly either, because we did not complete one. Withdrawals are requested through the client portal under the policies in the client agreement, and the broker publishes a complaints-handling procedure. Across this sector most withdrawal disputes trace back to incomplete KYC documents or to bonus terms accepted without reading, so finish verification before requesting funds.
Is my money protected?
Partially, and less than at a tier-one broker. The licence framework imposes capital requirements and client-money obligations, and the 5% stop-out and 1:200 ceiling limit how badly a margin position can deteriorate. But there is no investor compensation scheme, and we could not independently confirm the broker’s segregation arrangements. Deposit accordingly.
Frequently asked questions
Which trading platform does HighMarkets offer?
A proprietary full-screen web terminal that runs in the browser with no download required, plus a mobile app. Charting is powered by TradingView. Neither MetaTrader 4 nor MetaTrader 5 is available, so expert advisors and custom MQL indicators are not supported.
Does HighMarkets offer a swap-free account?
Yes, as a standalone account type alongside Silver, Gold and Platinum. Overnight swap is not charged on positions held over, and full market access and platform features are retained. The public pages do not detail whether a substitute administration charge applies in place of the swap, so check the contract specifications and client agreement before opening one.
What is the maximum leverage?
1:200, uniform across the Silver, Gold and Platinum tiers. That is moderate for an offshore broker, where 1:1000 is not unusual. Leverage magnifies losses as readily as gains.
What is the minimum deposit?
HighMarkets does not publish one. The required amount is set inside the client portal when you open an account and is not stated on the public pages for any tier. Confirm the figure through support or during registration before transferring funds.
What does it cost to trade?
Cost is built into a variable spread rather than a separate per-lot commission. On the base Silver tier during June and July 2026 we observed roughly 1.4 pips on EUR/USD, 1.8 on GBP/USD and about 30 cents on gold. Gold-tier accounts take 50% off those spreads and 40% off swaps; Platinum takes 75% and 60%. The tier qualification thresholds are not published.
What can I trade?
CFDs across six asset classes: forex, metals, commodities, indices, shares and cryptocurrencies. Listed examples include EUR/USD and USD/TRY, gold and silver, crude oil and natural gas, the S&P 500 and FTSE 100, Apple and Nvidia, and Bitcoin and Ethereum. No total instrument count is published.
How do I verify the licence myself?
Go to the Seychelles Financial Services Authority website, open the supervised-entities section covering capital markets, and search for DXA Seychelles Limited or for licence number SD218. It gives independent confirmation before you deposit anything.
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