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TabTrade review
The entity behind TabTrade, its licence, and how to confirm both yourself.
Last checked
TabTrade is not a scam, and the checks that would show one all came back clean: the licence is real, the entity behind it is named, and the regulator's own register confirms both. Regulated by Financial Services Commission Mauritius (FSC), Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding Underwriting), Licence GB26206419, offering MetaTrader 5.
Our rating
One rating, identical across our sites - only the way it is shown changes. It averages six assessments: regulation, trading costs, platforms, markets, support and education.
Regulation and safety
- Regulated by
- Financial Services Commission Mauritius (FSC), Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding Underwriting), Licence GB26206419
- Regulator tier
- Tier 2
- Register entry
- FSC Mauritius Online Public Register
- Client money segregated
- Yes
- Held at
- Top-tier banks
- Negative balance protection
- No
- Compensation scheme
- No statutory investor compensation scheme
- Audited by
- Independent external auditors
- Not available to
- Australia, New Zealand, United States, Iran, North Korea, FATF/UN-sanctioned jurisdictions and jurisdictions where services would contravene local law
A licence is the first thing a fake broker cannot produce, so it is the first thing to check.
TabTrade's licence is offshore (FSC). Offshore entities typically offer higher leverage and lighter reporting, and compensation schemes do not apply - the trade-off is protection, not price.
An FSC licence (Mauritius or Belize, depending on the entity) is an offshore authorisation with lighter reporting duties than a tier-one regulator.
Check the licence yourself: the Mauritius FSC register of licensees.
The company behind the brand
- Legal entity
- TabTrade (Mauritius) Ltd
- Company number
- 236339
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Australia
- Founded
- 2026
- Publicly listed
- No
- Parent company
- Independent
- Employees
- 10-50
- Also trades as
- TabTrade
Deposits and withdrawals
- Deposit methods
- Visa, Mastercard, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Skrill, Neteller, cryptocurrency, 50+ local payment methods
- Withdrawal methods
- Visa, Mastercard, bank transfer, Skrill, Neteller, cryptocurrency and applicable local payment methods
- Deposit time
- Instant for cards, Apple Pay/Google Pay, Skrill, Neteller and most local methods; crypto within 1 hour; bank transfer 1-2 business days
- Withdrawal time
- Typically 1 business day processing; cards 1-3 business days; Skrill/Neteller 1-2 business days; bank transfer 2-5 business days
- Minimum withdrawal
- No minimum
- Local payment methods
- 50+ local payment methods
What it costs to trade
- Spread from
- 0.0 pips
- EUR/USD spread
- 0.03 pips (Edge)
- GBP/USD spread
- 0.04 pips (Edge)
- Commission
- $3.50 per side / $7 round turn (Edge)
- All-in cost, EUR/USD
- Approx. 0.73 pips
- Spread type
- Variable
- Overnight swap
- Both: swaps charged/credited; swap-free account available
- Inactivity fee
- No inactivity fee
- Currency conversion
- Conversion rate may include a currency conversion fee
Costs matter less than whether you can withdraw, but an offer that looks impossible usually is.
A quoted spread from 0.0 pips is a raw-spread figure, which almost always means a separate commission per lot. Compare the two together - a "zero spread" account with a high commission can cost more than a wider spread with none.
Quoted spreads are best-case figures on the most liquid pair, in normal conditions. What you actually pay widens around news and at the session open.
TabTrade lists a minimum deposit of $0. Treat it as the cost of opening an account, not the cost of trading one - position sizing on a small balance is what tends to cause damage.
Accounts
- Minimum deposit
- $0
- Account types
- Standard, Edge, VIP, Swap-Free
- Account currencies
- AUD, CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, SGD, USD
- Islamic account
- Yes
- Demo account
- Yes
- Professional account
- Yes, VIP
- Minimum trade size
- 0.01 lots
- Time to open
- Minutes
Markets and execution
- Markets
- Forex, Shares, Indices, Commodities, Metals, Futures CFDs, Cryptocurrencies
- Currency pairs
- 81
- Total instruments
- 1,173
- Crypto CFDs
- Yes
- Maximum leverage
- 1:1000
- Execution model
- Market execution / ECN-style institutional execution
- Execution speed
- Under 30ms
- Order types
- Market, limit, stop, stop-limit, stop-loss, take-profit
- Servers
- Equinix LD5, London
Leverage up to 1:1000 is available on this entity. High leverage does not increase your expected return - it increases position size for the same deposit, and shortens the move needed to close you out.
TabTrade covers forex, shares, indices, commodities, metals, futures cfds, cryptocurrencies. A wider range matters less than depth in the instruments you actually trade.
Funding options: visa, mastercard, bank transfer, apple pay, google pay, skrill, neteller, cryptocurrency, 50+ local payment methods. Check withdrawal routes as well as deposit ones - they are often not the same, and the difference only becomes apparent when you try to take money out.
Platforms and tools
- Platforms
- MetaTrader 5
- Own platform
- No
- Mobile app
- Third-party (MetaTrader 5 app)
- Browser trading
- Yes
- Automated trading
- Yes; MT5 Expert Advisors, backtesting and VPS support
- Copy trading
- Yes, TabTrade Social
- Indicators
- 38+ built-in MT5 indicators plus custom indicators
- Third-party tools
- Beeks VPS, NYC Servers, Myfxbook Economic Calendar
- API access
- Yes, institutional/API connectivity available
MetaTrader 5 handles more asset classes and order types than MT4, but expert advisors are not compatible between the two - an MT4 EA will not run on it.
Support and education
- Support hours
- 24/7
- Contact channels
- Live chat, email, phone, WhatsApp
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Telephone
- +1 838 368 3303
- support@tabtrade.com
- Live chat response
- Typically under 1 minute
- Education
- Extensive: educational articles, trading basics, how-to guides, platform tutorials and trading glossary
- Research
- Market news, analysis and Trading Tabloid
Information is regularly updated. Last compiled from TabTrade's own website on 26 August 2026.
Questions people ask about TabTrade
Is TabTrade a real registered company?
Yes. At TabTrade, the company you would be contracting with is TabTrade (Mauritius) Ltd, registered as 236339 and based in Melbourne, Australia. A registration number is checkable in the register of the country that issued it, and a broker that will not give you one is telling you something.
Is TabTrade regulated, and by whom?
TabTrade holds Financial Services Commission Mauritius (FSC), Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding Underwriting), Licence GB26206419, which we grade as tier 2. A licence number is the part worth checking, because it is the thing a cloned site copies and the thing the regulator's register will not confirm.
Does TabTrade trade under any other names?
TabTrade also appears as TabTrade. This matters when you are checking a licence or a warning list, because a search for one name will not always find what was published about another.