BKS Fintech has two MetaTrader account types, a Standard account and our market leading, The ECN account. BKS Fintech does not charge a commission on Standard accounts but instead applies a spread mark up of 0.6 pip above the Raw inter-bank prices received from our liquidity providers. BKS Fintech ECN account shows the raw inter-bank spread received from our liquidity providers. On this account we commission of $7 per standard lot round turn.

Below are commission rates for different base currency accounts:

BKS Fintech allows clients to open an account with as little as USD $200 or currency equivalent.

Our mission is to provide traders with the lowest spreads and fastest executions possible across over 285 Forex products including Forex, precious metals, stocks, futures and other commodities. We have invested heavily in technology and establishing strong relationships with the largest and most reliable price providers in the market.

To find more about products offering click here: range of products.

We also strongly suggest to thoroughly read our Product Disclosure Statement and Account Terms available for the attached costs, risks and your responsibilities before deciding to trade with us.

This is one of the most frequently asked questions. The difficult part in understanding ECN and STP meanings is that those have been interpreted differently by many people. There are three main business models used by Forex brokers which differ by the way the transactions are handled and orders are executed: ECN, STP and Market Makers.

ECN: ECN stands for 'Electronic Communication Network' which is simply a technical term that is used to describe how banks and liquidity providers connect to each other to form a bid and offer price. In the Forex industry, it can be used to identify providers who use this type of pricing mechanism in order to offer raw interbank pricing to retail traders. Under this model your broker will stream raw prices and your trades will be offset with another client, a liquidity provider or held internally by the broker. This usually results in faster trade execution. This is distinct from order execution that may result in an offsetting order placed with a liquidity provider.

STP: This term stands for Straight Through Processing and is used when a Forex and CFD provider processes all trades at market prices obtained from liquidity provider(s) not on prices created by the broker themselves. This is not dissimilar to the ECN pricing model in that there is no dealing desk intervention when the trade is processed.

Market Maker: In Australia all Forex and CFD providers including BKS Fintech have the market making authorisation on their AFS licence, however many do not consider themselves market makers. Typically, market makers operate a dealing desk in order to create their own prices, these prices can be based on their own proprietary trading positions or overall risk exposure and may not reflect the prices in the underlying market.

BKS Fintech is the issuer of the products it provides. We consider ourselves to be a forex provider offering the ECN pricing model as we source our pricing from external unrelated liquidity providers via an ECN, these prices are passed onto you with no dealing desk intervention. In order to provide you with better price certainty and to ensure fast execution speed we do not hedge each and every position with our liquidity providers. We do this in order to provide you with a better overall trading experience.

Opening an account is simple. Click on the Open a Live Account link and complete your application form.

Once your on-line application form has been approved by our accounts team you will be emailed your trading account login details and password.