easyMarkets Crypto Review 2027: Fees, Coins and Regulation

The firm is headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, with an Australian arm in Sydney. It has remained privately owned and independent. Sponsorship of a leading Spanish football club has given the brand wide recognition in recent years.

Its product philosophy has barely changed: tell the client the cost and the maximum loss before the trade is opened.

About 20 crypto CFDs are available, including:

• Bitcoin, ether and XRP
• Litecoin, bitcoin cash and stellar
• Solana, cardano, dogecoin and other popular coins

All are CFDs. You speculate on price and never own a coin.

Most brokers quote a variable spread that tightens in quiet markets and widens in busy ones. On its own platform, easyMarkets quotes a fixed spread that stays the same regardless of conditions during trading hours.

Bitcoin is fixed at about 85 pips, with no commission. In dollar terms that is roughly $85 per coin.

It depends on what you value. A fixed $85 is several times the $10 to $25 that low-cost brokers average on bitcoin. In normal conditions you pay much more.

The benefit appears in abnormal conditions. When news hits and variable spreads balloon, a fixed spread does not move. You also know the exact cost before every trade. For a beginner making small, infrequent trades, certainty can be worth more than the saving.

For a small fee paid when opening a trade, you can buy the right to cancel it within a set window of one, three or six hours. If the trade is losing when you cancel, the loss is returned and you forfeit only the fee.

It works like short-term insurance. The fee rises with volatility, so on crypto it is not trivial. It is best kept for moments of known risk.

Another small tool pauses the quoted price for a few seconds so you can execute at the rate you saw, even if the market has moved. It is a comfort feature for manual traders.

The minimum deposit is $25. Higher account tiers with somewhat tighter fixed spreads require larger deposits.

A beginner buys 0.05 BTC with a stop-loss $1,000 below entry. The fixed spread costs about $4.25. The maximum loss is $50 plus the spread, guaranteed, even if bitcoin drops $3,000 in a minute on bad news. At a variable-spread broker the entry might cost under $1, but the stop could be filled far lower in such a move. The fixed model charges more every day in exchange for protection on the worst day.

UK retail clients cannot be offered crypto CFDs. The broker does not accept clients from the United States.

Within the European Union the retail ceiling for crypto is 1:2. Through the offshore entities, leverage ranges from 1:100 to as much as 1:400. A guaranteed stop limits the loss on a single trade, but high leverage still allows an account to be emptied over a handful of them.

• The easyMarkets web platform and app, where the fixed spreads and special tools live
• MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, with variable or fixed spreads depending on account
• TradingView, integrated for trading from charts

The key point is that the guaranteed stop, dealCancellation and Freeze Rate belong to the proprietary platform. MetaTrader accounts follow more conventional terms.

The in-house platform is designed for clarity. The trade ticket shows the amount at risk, the margin and the cost. Charts are provided by TradingView. An inside-viewer shows what share of clients are buying or selling each market.

Experienced traders may find it limited. Its audience is people placing considered, manual trades.

The firm was early to offer accounts whose base currency is bitcoin, quoted in a micro-bitcoin unit. Clients can deposit coins and trade all markets with the balance held in crypto, avoiding conversion to dollars. The balance then rises and falls with bitcoin itself, which adds a layer of risk on top of trading results.

The crypto markets here can be traded on weekdays and, for most coins, at weekends. Fixed spreads apply during the platform's trading hours, and the schedule is listed for each instrument.

Cards, bank transfers, e-wallets and crypto are accepted. Withdrawals are processed within a business day in most cases.

A learning centre provides courses, e-books and videos from first principles. Along with the risk tools, this makes the firm one of the more beginner-friendly in our ranking.

Customer service operates around the clock on trading days through chat, phone, email and messaging apps. Each client is assigned a relationship manager.

A free demo with virtual funds shows the fixed spreads and lets you try the cancellation tool without cost.

The guaranteed stop is the everyday tool and should be on every trade, since it costs nothing extra. Cancellation makes sense for a short, defined risk, such as holding through an interest-rate decision. Using both on the same trade is rarely worth it: the stop already caps the loss, and the cancellation fee is then paying for the same protection twice.

AvaTrade and Plus500 also court beginners and have similar bitcoin costs, without the free guaranteed stop. Low-cost brokers such as IC or Eightcap are far cheaper per trade and offer no such protection. The choice is between price and certainty.

It suits you if you:

• Are new to leveraged trading and want your maximum loss fixed in advance.
• Trade small sizes occasionally.
• Like knowing the cost before you click.

It is not suited to scalpers, high-volume traders or anyone seeking the tightest spreads or real coins.