Execution you can measure
Average round-trip under 30 milliseconds, with slippage statistics published rather than described. Symmetrical slippage means positive slippage is passed on to you, not kept.
Judge a broker on month six, not day one
Sign-up offers are easy to compare. What actually matters is how the account behaves once you are trading size, holding overnight, and asking for your money back.
Costs without asterisks
Every instrument has a published typical spread, commission and swap rate. We do not widen spreads at rollover or during news to recover margin.
Withdrawals that clear
Requests before the daily cut-off are processed the same business day. No extra verification steps introduced at withdrawal time that were not required at deposit.
Your capital, ring-fenced
Segregated client accounts at tier-one banks, reconciled daily, with negative balance protection so you can never owe more than you deposited.
Support that answers
24 hours a day, five days a week, in multiple languages, staffed by people with dealing-desk experience rather than a generic ticket queue.
Education without the upsell
Course material that teaches risk management and market structure, and states plainly that most retail accounts lose money on leveraged products.
How we stack up against the industry norm
A candid comparison against the typical retail brokerage model. Verify each ACSFX Markets column entry against your final operating model before publishing.
| Consideration | Typical retail broker | ACSFX Markets |
|---|---|---|
| Order handling | Often internalised against the client | Straight-through to aggregated liquidity |
| Spread disclosure | "From" spread rarely available | Typical and minimum spread both published |
| Commission | Hidden inside a widened spread | Stated per lot, separately from spread |
| Slippage | Negative slippage passed on, positive kept | Symmetrical — both directions passed on |
| EAs | Yes allowed | Yes allowed |
| Withdrawal processing | Two to five business days, extra checks common | Same business day before cut-off |
| Inactivity fee | Charged from first month | None in the first three months |
| Negative balance | Client liable in some jurisdictions | Reset to zero for retail accounts |
Where the latency actually goes
Most "fast execution" claims describe the platform, not the path. Ours describes the whole round trip: from your terminal to our matching layer, out to the liquidity provider, and back with a fill.
- Servers co-located in the same data centres as our liquidity providers
- Redundant network paths with automatic failover
- Capacity headroom sized for news-event message spikes, not average load
- Continuous monitoring with published uptime figures
Where the milliseconds are spent