Verification record
tastyfx review
The entity behind tastyfx, its licence, and how to confirm both yourself.
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tastyfx is a real firm and not an outright scam, though enough is unverified here that we would want the gaps closed before recommending it. Regulated by CFTC; National Futures Association (NFA), offering tastyfx Platform, TradingView, MetaTrader 5, ProRealTime.
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
- CFTC; National Futures Association (NFA)
- Regulator tier
- Tier 1
- Register entry
- NFA BASIC, NFA ID 0509630
- Client money segregated
- Yes, subject to US retail forex customer-funds requirements
- Held at
- Qualifying US financial institutions
- Negative balance protection
- No
- Compensation scheme
- No
- Audited by
- Independent external auditors; audited financial statements publicly disclosed under NFA requirements
- Not available to
- United States clients only; availability subject to eligible US residency and state restrictions
A licence is the first thing a fake broker cannot produce, so it is the first thing to check.
tastyfx lists its regulation as CFTC; National Futures Association (NFA).
Check the licence yourself: NFA BASIC.
The company behind the brand
- Legal entity
- tastyfx, LLC
- Company number
- NFA ID 0509630
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Founded
- 2019
- Publicly listed
- No
- Parent company
- IG Group Holdings plc
- Employees
- 2,000+ group-wide
- Also trades as
- tastyfx; formerly IG US
Deposits and withdrawals
- Deposit methods
- ACH, bank wire, debit card
- Withdrawal methods
- ACH, bank wire, debit card where eligible
- Deposit time
- Debit card generally immediate; ACH typically 1-3 business days; wire generally same or next business day
- Withdrawal time
- Typically 1-5 business days depending on method
- Minimum withdrawal
- $1
- Local payment methods
- ACH bank transfer
What it costs to trade
- Spread from
- 0.0 pips
- EUR/USD spread
- Approx. 0.8 pips, Standard minimum pricing
- GBP/USD spread
- Approx. 1.0 pip, Standard minimum pricing
- Commission
- $0 Standard/Prime; $5 per lot Zero+
- All-in cost, EUR/USD
- Approx. 0.8 pips Standard
- Spread type
- Variable
- Overnight swap
- Both: overnight funding may be charged or credited
- Deposit fee
- None internally
- Withdrawal fee
- Generally none internally; bank charges may apply
- Currency conversion
- Applicable conversion rate/spread
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.
tastyfx lists a minimum deposit of $1. 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
- $1
- Account types
- Standard, Zero+, Prime, Demo, Corporate, Joint, IRA
- Account currencies
- USD
- Islamic account
- No
- Demo account
- Yes
- Professional account
- Yes, Prime/institutional and corporate configurations
- Minimum trade size
- 1,000 currency units / 0.01 standard lot
- Time to open
- Typically a few minutes, subject to verification
Markets and execution
- Markets
- Spot Forex
- Currency pairs
- 85+
- Total instruments
- 85+
- Crypto CFDs
- No
- Maximum leverage
- 1:50
- Execution model
- Market maker / principal with hedging arrangement through IG Markets Ltd
- Execution speed
- Approx. 15ms
- Order types
- Market, limit, stop, stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop and platform-specific advanced orders
- Servers
- US/global IG Group trading infrastructure
Leverage is capped at 1:50, which is the retail limit under tier-one regulation. It is a protection rather than a restriction: it caps how quickly a position can move against your balance.
tastyfx covers spot forex. A wider range matters less than depth in the instruments you actually trade.
Funding options: ach, bank wire, debit card. 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
- tastyfx Platform, TradingView, MetaTrader 5, ProRealTime
- Own platform
- Yes
- Mobile app
- Both proprietary and third-party
- Browser trading
- Yes
- Automated trading
- Yes, MT5 Expert Advisors and automated strategies
- Copy trading
- No
- Indicators
- 30+ proprietary indicators; extensive TradingView, MT5 and ProRealTime libraries
- Third-party tools
- TradingView, MetaTrader 5, ProRealTime
- API access
- Yes
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.
TradingView integration lets you trade from charts you may already use, removing the need to run a second platform for analysis.
Support and education
- Support hours
- 24 hours a day from 3 a.m. Saturday to 5 p.m. Friday ET
- Contact channels
- Live chat, email, phone, Help Centre
- Languages
- English
- Telephone
- +1 312 981 0498
- helpdesk.us@tastyfx.com
- Live chat response
- Typically within minutes
- Education
- Extensive: forex education, trading guides, platform tutorials, webinars, strategy content and educational articles
- Research
- Market analysis, economic commentary, technical analysis, TradingView/ProRealTime tools and market news
Information is regularly updated. Last compiled from tastyfx's own website on 26 August 2026.
Questions people ask about tastyfx
Is tastyfx a real registered company?
Yes. At tastyfx, the company you would be contracting with is tastyfx, LLC, registered as NFA ID 0509630 and based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. 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 tastyfx regulated, and by whom?
tastyfx holds CFTC; National Futures Association (NFA), which we grade as tier 1. 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 tastyfx trade under any other names?
tastyfx also appears as tastyfx and formerly IG US. 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.