What does a retail client actually pay to hold a EUR/USD position at easyMarkets, and which company is on the other side of that account? The logo is not the answer. The schedule is.
On 2 October 2026 the European account page at easy-markets.com answered the cost question in a table. Easy Forex Trading Ltd prints EUR/USD from 0.6 pips on its own web platform and on TradingView, marks that spread Fixed, sets commission at zero and asks for a minimum deposit of 25 US dollars. The same table then prints four more EUR/USD floors. All four are marked Floating.
A client who stops at "spreads from 0.6 pips, no commission" has read the EU homepage and missed the row under it. Only one column is Fixed. MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 are not that column.
Five EUR/USD floors on one page
The page is the EU forex-account schedule, culture code eu, canonical URL under /eu/about/forex-account/. Retrieved on 2 October 2026, the columns run as follows.
| Ticket | Spread type | EUR/USD | Commission | Minimum deposit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web, app and TradingView | Fixed | from 0.6 pips | 0 | 25 USD |
| MT4 Standard | Floating | from 1.2 pips | 0 | 25 USD |
| MT4 VIP | Floating | from 0.6 pips | 0 | 25 USD |
| MT5 Standard | Floating | from 1.2 pips | 0 | 25 USD |
| MT5 VIP | Floating | from 0.6 pips | 0 | 25 USD |
Every column also shows 0.01 lot minimum size, 1:30 maximum leverage and zero account fees. Gold, as XAU/USD, runs the other way: from 0.40 US dollars on the fixed web ticket and from 0.19 on both VIP columns. Fixed is not the tightest ticket on every market.
"From" is the word that does the legal work. A floor is not a quote. The page does not print a single EUR/USD spread the desk promises to hold at 0.6 for the session.
Two EU documents still on the legal page disagree with that table. The costs policy of 30 October 2025 says the spread is fixed on every platform except MT5, and that there is no separate commission because the spread is a markup on the parent company's mid-rate. The currency KID, version 1.3 the same day, repeats that line and then allows fixed spreads to widen in very rare thin liquidity. The account table marks MT4 as Floating too. Three sources, one firm, three accounts of MT4.
The EU homepage is blunter still. It says EUR/USD from 0.6 pips with no commission on all platforms, and it says fixed spreads do not change during trading hours. The fixed-spreads URL canonicalises to the EU path, but the shell that loaded was the international culture, and that copy says the spreads never change in any conditions. It still uses Bitcoin at 20,000 dollars as the illustration. When the homepage and the KID disagree, the KID is the one that reserves a widening.
The contract behind the ticket
For a client who stays on the EU site, the contracting party is Easy Forex Trading Ltd. The CySEC register entry, opened on 2 October 2026, lists licence 079/07, licence date 29 May 2007, company registration 203997, and the office at Kolonakiou 25, Zavos Kolonakiou CTR, Block B, Office 101, Linopetra, 4103 Limassol. Telephone +357 25 828 899. The register's public email is koula@easy-markets.com.
One footer sentence is easy to misread. It says the firm is authorised by CySEC "at 19 Diagorou Str. CY-1097 Nicosia". That is the commission's address, not the company's. The next sentence, the investor-information sheet (version 1.4, October 2025) and the register all put the office in Linopetra. Client support on that sheet is eusupport@easy-markets.com. The currency KID sends complaints to eucomplaints@easy-markets.com.
The register records reception and transmission, execution, and dealing on own account, each against categories marked 2, 4 and 9. The October 2025 investor sheet calls those money-market instruments, currency and rate derivatives, and contracts for difference. Dealing on own account matches the about page, which calls the firm a market maker. The costs policy says the spread is the markup on a parent's mid-rate, and it does not name the parent.
The bare domain easymarkets.com did not resolve on 2 October 2026. A DNS lookup returned NXDOMAIN. The live host is www.easy-markets.com, and easy-forex.com redirects there. CySEC's approved-domain line for this firm includes easy-markets.com, easy-forex.com, easymarkets.eu and emarkets-global.com. The dead unhyphenated .com is not on it.
In the HTML served for several EU pages this session, the retail-loss sentence still contained the token [EURISKPERCENTAGE]. A browser script may fill it. The markup did not. Pepperstone's EU page stated 72.9 per cent, IC Markets (EU) Ltd 72.52 per cent, and Tickmill Europe Ltd 73 per cent. On the easyMarkets pages checked here, the number was a placeholder.
Where 0.6 pips sits against two Limassol peers
The chart uses one figure, the EUR/USD spread in pips, and it does not pretend the three numbers were measured the same way. easyMarkets is the web and TradingView floor, 0.6, with zero commission. Pepperstone is the Standard-account minimum, 1.0, also with no FX commission. IC Markets is the average its EU costs page publishes, 0.1, on a book that then charges commission. Rank the bars alone and the all-in cost comes out wrong.
The peer is Pepperstone EU Limited, not the Bahamas company a generic pepperstone.com URL can open. The EU pricing page states HE 398429, CySEC licence 388/20, and 195 Makarios III Avenue, Neocleous House, 3030 Limassol. EUR/USD there is Razor minimum 0 and average 0.1, Standard minimum 1 and average 1.1. Standard FX has no commission. Razor adds from 3.50 US dollars per lot per side. Those pips were read on 2 October 2026. The Pepperstone review was not the source.
IC Markets (EU) Ltd states HE 356877 and CySEC licence 362/18, office at 86 Franklinou Roosvelt, Office 401, 3011 Omonoia, Limassol. The costs page calls 0.1 pips the average EUR/USD spread, then says that 0.1 in a worked example is for the exercise only and that the platform starts from 0.0. Commission is specific: 3.50 dollars per standard lot per side on MT4 in US dollars, 7.00 round turn, and 3 dollars per 100,000 dollars per side on cTrader. The IC Markets review is not the source.
Tickmill is not on the chart. Its EU pages give no pair-level EUR/USD spread. Tickmill Europe Ltd states CySEC licence 278/15, at Spyrou Kyprianou 77, 5th floor, 3076 Limassol. Classic is commission-free with spreads from 1.6 pips, and 1.6 is not identified as EUR/USD. Raw is from 0.0 pips and 3 dollars per lot per side, 6 dollars round turn on one EUR/USD lot. A costs example uses 0.2 pips and calls itself illustrative. The Tickmill review is a separate piece.
A round turn, with the arithmetic shown
IC Markets states, on that same EU page, that one standard lot has a pip value of 10 US dollars. Apply the convention once, spread crossed a single time, and the floors become dollars. This is multiplication, not a figure any of the three firms published as an all-in cost.
| Ticket, 2 Oct 2026 | Spread used | Spread cost | Commission, round turn | All-in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| easyMarkets web / TradingView | 0.6 pip floor, fixed | 6 USD | 0 | 6 USD |
| easyMarkets MT4 or MT5 Standard | 1.2 pip floor, floating | 12 USD | 0 | 12 USD |
| Pepperstone EU Standard minimum | 1.0 pip | 10 USD | 0 | 10 USD |
| Pepperstone EU Standard average | 1.1 pips | 11 USD | 0 | 11 USD |
| Pepperstone EU Razor average | 0.1 pip | 1 USD | from 7 USD | from 8 USD |
| IC Markets EU headline average, MT4 USD | 0.1 pip | 1 USD | 7 USD | 8 USD |
| IC Markets EU, same average, cTrader | 0.1 pip | 1 USD | 6 USD | 7 USD |
At the published floor, the easyMarkets web ticket is the cheapest line in that grid, and it is the column marked Fixed. On MT4 Standard or MT5 Standard the floor is 1.2 pips, 12 dollars before any swap, wider than Pepperstone's Standard average. VIP on either MetaTrader platform returns to a 0.6 floor, but the column is Floating, so 0.6 is a minimum the firm can widen.
IC's 8-dollar line depends on the 0.1 average being the spread a client actually meets. The same page says the platform can print from 0.0. At a zero spread the MT4 round turn is the 7-dollar commission, one dollar more than the easyMarkets web floor, not less. Pepperstone Razor has the same shape: a thin average spread plus a commission the page describes as "from" 3.50 per side.
None of these dollars include overnight financing. easyMarkets charges a swap on weekdays, with a triple charge on Wednesday, and points clients at the platform for the daily rate. No EUR/USD swap point is printed in the EU costs policy. Leaving it out is the point.
The undo button, and what the EU legal set contains
easyMarkets made its name on a paid right to cancel a losing trade. On the EU legal map of 2 October 2026 that product is absent: no dealCancellation file under the EU culture, which does carry the costs policy, the leverage policy and the easyTrade terms. A Seychelles and international terms PDF, filename-dated 8 August 2024, is still in the wider library, and the Australian homepage meta description still names the feature. The book under licence 079/07 does not publish current terms for it.
What remains on the site is a news post from 15 April 2020, "dealCancellation Now Gives You 6 Hours to Undo Trades". It says the tool was extended to windows of 1, 3 or 6 hours, that it unwinds losing trades for a fee, and that the firm's data team had counted more than 30,000 activations to that date. Those are 2020 claims, not a 2026 price.
Nikos Antoniades, named there as chief executive, said: "We have been exploring extending dealCancellation's duration for some time, working with our technology, trading and client experts." Alex St. Louis, chief information officer, said on the same page: "Despite the challenges, we were able to extend dealCancellation's time frames to 1, 3 and 6 hours." Neither line is a 2026 EU price. The EU legal set no longer carries the product.
What the EU pages offer instead are two different controls. Negative-balance protection is described as standard, at no extra charge. The stop-loss add-on is not that. The EU page, still reachable through a URL containing the word "free", calls it a premium feature switched on with a wider spread, on the web platform, the app and TradingView. It does not print the extra pips. The currency KID agrees: execution at the chosen rate, without slippage, costs a higher spread, and a stop without the feature can slip.
easyTrade is not a renamed cancellation button. The EU terms of 30 October 2025 describe a short-dated vanilla option. The client pays a premium up front, the premium is not refundable, and the loss stops at that premium. It has to sit inside free balance and in the account currency. Durations are 1, 3 or 6 hours, the same menu as the 2020 post, with zero spot spread, on the easyMarkets platform. The premium is spent. It does not return a CFD loss.
Costs that are not the spread
Retail leverage on major currencies is 1:30. Non-major currencies and gold are 1:20, major indices 1:20, other commodities 1:10, shares 1:5, cryptocurrencies 1:2. Margin under 50 per cent starts a close-out, least profitable first. The public table does not lift the 1:30 cap on VIP.
Elective professionals are a different schedule and should not be folded into the retail one. The policy allows, on proprietary platforms, up to 1:400 on major and non-major currencies and on gold, and on MT5 a maximum of 1:2000 on those currency instruments. That is a classification outcome, not the account a new client opens from the 25-dollar table.
Dormancy is priced in dollars. Twelve months without a transaction brings a 25 US dollar fee, or the full balance if smaller, and nothing at a zero balance. It repeats every six months. A closed account with no payment details on file is charged 5 dollars a month. Deposits and withdrawals carry no commission. The deposit page, canonical on the EU path, lists cards, online banking, e-wallets, bank wire and crypto, with the fee column marked free.
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The currency KID puts a ceiling on the compensation scheme. Easy Forex Trading Ltd is in the Investor Compensation Fund. The total for each investor may not exceed 20,000 euros, whatever the number of accounts or the currency. The fund pays in a default, up to that cap. It does not pay trading losses.
The same KID shows its age in one passage. The scenario block is labelled EUR/USD, with a 100,000 euro notional at 1.10000 and 1:30, so margin of 3,333.33 euros. The prose above that table still walks through an ether position. The usable line is earlier: 10,000 euros of EUR/USD at 1:30 needs 333.33 euros of margin.
Which easyMarkets answers the door
A residence notice sends EU and EEA clients to Easy Forex Trading Ltd, Australia to Easy Markets Pty Ltd, the international site to EF Worldwide Ltd in the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles to EF Worldwide Ltd under SD056, as the notice prints it. The about page adds Australian licence 246566. The international footer adds BVI licence SIBA/L/20/1135, registration 2031075, and Blue Capital Markets Group, and says EF Worldwide has appointed Easy Forex Trading Ltd as representative. This review checked CySEC for 079/07 only.
In this session the fixed-spreads URL, the company URL and the deposit URL bounced from /eu/ to /int/ even where the canonical link stayed on /eu/. The brand does not change when the contracting party does. The Equiti review is a different firm with the same kind of split between the name on the front and the company on the contract.
The EU about page dates the firm to 2001 and the rebrand from easy-forex to 2016. It says loss once stopped at the amount put in. The 2026 documents support a narrower reading: negative-balance protection, a 50 per cent close-out, and an easyTrade premium that caps loss at the premium. A CFD can still exhaust the balance. The protection is against a debit, not against a loss.
Verdict
This review scores the EU book 3.6 out of 5. The licence is real, dated 2007, and matched to the Limassol office the register still lists. Commission on the published table is zero. On the column marked Fixed, the 0.6 pip EUR/USD floor is tighter than Pepperstone EU's Standard minimum of 1.0, and at a 10-dollar pip it is a 6-dollar round turn. A client who will actually trade on the web, the app or TradingView can see that floor before the argument starts.
The score stops there because the spread is described three ways. The homepage freezes it in trading hours. The KID allows a rare widening and confines the variable spread to MT5. The account table marks MT4 Floating as well. The retail-loss percentage arrived as a token. The cancellation product is a 2020 post plus a Seychelles file, not an EU schedule. The stop-loss add-on is an unpublished wider spread, behind a URL that used to say free.
What would move the score is ordinary publishing: one EUR/USD spread per ticket, not a "from"; one sentence on whether MT4 is fixed; a filled loss percentage; and either a live EU price for the undo tool or a statement that EU clients do not have it. Until then, treat the web column as a 0.6 pip floor with zero commission, and treat every MetaTrader column as floating.
Questions the schedule answers
Who is the EU contract with?
Easy Forex Trading Ltd, CySEC licence 079/07, dated 29 May 2007, registration 203997, office in Linopetra, Limassol. That is the register entry checked on 2 October 2026. An Australian, international or Seychelles choice on the same website points at a different company. The brand stays. The contract does not.
What is the EUR/USD spread?
On the EU account table of 2 October 2026, from 0.6 pips and marked Fixed on the web, the app and TradingView. From 1.2 pips on MT4 Standard and MT5 Standard. From 0.6 pips on both VIP columns, both marked Floating. Commission is zero on all five. "From" is a floor, not a live quote for the session.
Is there a commission, and what does it cost to start?
The account table shows commission of zero and account fees of zero. The costs policy says the charge sits inside the spread, as a markup on the parent mid-rate, and that deposits and withdrawals carry no commission. The minimum deposit on every column is 25 US dollars. The minimum size is 0.01 lot.
Can a losing trade still be cancelled for a fee?
Not on any EU legal document in the set retrieved on 2 October 2026. A 15 April 2020 news post still describes dealCancellation with 1, 3 or 6 hour windows. Current EU easyTrade terms use those windows for a non-refundable option premium, which is a different contract. The stop-loss add-on is a wider spread, and the page does not state the extra pips.
What is the retail leverage, and what happens near a loss?
Major FX is 1:30 for retail clients, including VIP on the public table. Margin below 50 per cent starts an automatic close-out. Negative-balance protection is standard for retail. The Investor Compensation Fund cap in the currency KID is 20,000 euros per investor. That cap is not a refund of trading losses. Professional leverage is a separate classification, with a much higher MT5 ceiling.
This is analysis of published schedules, not a recommendation to open an account or to trade. CFDs and options can lose the money put in. Spreads, commissions and financing rates change, and the pages cited were retrieved on 2 October 2026. Capital is at risk.