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CFDs come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 71% of accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. You should understand how CFDs work and consider if you can take the risk of losing your money.

CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 76% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

76% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.

Account Types

Skilling offers three main types of accounts: Standard, Premium and MT4. All trading accounts share similar features, such as leverage; number of assets to trade; scalping or negative balance protection, however there are some differences also.

Skilling also offers Professional and Corporate accounts. Please contact our customer service for details on how to apply here.

Standard

Skilling Standard account is the ideal type for beginners. A zero commission account available on Skilling trader and Skilling cTrader, with spreads from 0.8 pips.*
*Other fees may apply. Additional conditions apply for crypto CFDs.

Premium

Skilling Premium Account differs from the standard one mainly on the spreads (from 0.1 pips) and it is also subject to trading volume commissions ($35/million dollar volume). Given the low spreads, the starting deposit is higher ((€5000 or *an average monthly trading volume of $10,000,000 (100 lots)).

MT4

Metatrader 4 (or MT4) is the most famous trading platform for forex retail traders. It has been developed for any type of trader but especially within the forex community it has a 90% of market share. It is now available at Skilling for Web, Desktop, Android or iOS.

If you decide to use the web option, then you won’t need to download metatrader. But if you do prefer the desktop version, you can download it directly from Skilling.

Corporate (Entity) accounts

Normally all accounts opened with Skilling are regarded as Retail accounts.
A retail account in trading is the type of account used by individual traders, where they trade financial instruments with a personal account. However, it’s also possible to open a Corporate account with Skilling.

The Corporate account will be opened in the name of a legal entity, and then it will be categorized as seen fit according to the account-types above. I.e, it can be either a Standard, Premium or MT4 account, and obviously the Professional status can be applied if the criterias are met.