Mobile Trading

1. Dukascopy - 4 Stars
2. Saxo Bank - 4 Stars
3. TD Ameritrade - 4 Stars
4. IG - 4 Stars
5. CMC Markets - 4 Stars
6. Interactive Brokers - 4 Stars
7. GAIN Capital (FOREX.com) - 4 Stars

While nearly all forex brokers have offered mobile apps for years, the competition continues to increase as clients demand many of the same features in mobile that are normally found on desktop and web platforms. 

The global use of mobile devices to access online services, ranging from email to social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, has continued to grow exponentially in recent years.

To determine the best forex brokers for mobile trading in 2018 we focused on identifying mobile experiences that were bug-free, cleanly designed, and provided a wide range of features.

To determine the best forex brokers for mobile trading in 2018 we focused on identifying mobile experiences that were bug-free, cleanly designed, and provided a wide range of features. Additionally, we looked for brokers who have been able to create a seamless experience between their mobile apps and their desktop and/or web-based platforms.

First place goes to Dukascopy Bank, whose SWFX Trader app comes with more research and pattern recognition tools than any other broker we reviewed. The app also includes an impressive array of charting capabilities, complex order types, and other advanced features such as depth of book, all packed into a clean user design.

Saxo Bank took second place with its SaxoTrader GO mobile app. SaxoTrader GO is highly responsive and provides traders a unified experience with its web-based platform, offering unique features such as syncing trend lines, indicators, and watch lists. In addition, the broker’s native integration of trading signals and pattern recognition, powered by Auto Chartist, are also automatically synced with its web-platform.

Like Saxo Bank, TD Ameritrade also provides a feature-rich, unified platform experience. Advanced order visualizations, syncing watch lists, and charts that support over 300 indicators are just a sampling of the functionality available to clients.

Meanwhile, IG took fourth place for its mobile app which integrates pattern recognition and comes with robust charting that stays neatly organized even when loaded with numerous concurrent indicators.

CMC Markets followed in fifth place as its mobile app offers unique features such as the ability to subscribe to future news events. Charting in the app comes packed with technical indicators and drawing tools available in landscape mode.

Interactive Brokers and FOREX.com finished sixth and seventh, respectively. Both brokers boast robust mobile offerings that will impress the vast majority of fx traders.