Top 5 winners for professional traders in 2025
Best broker for professional traders – Interactive Brokers
Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) holds the number one spot for professionals in 2025. It offers a growing selection of specialty in-house trading platforms, a wide range of markets, low trading costs, and advanced trading tools for sophisticated traders and professional investors.
Access to a wide variety of complex order types and the ability to perform advanced technical analysis from its vast selection of indicators (including custom indicators that you can code) makes IBKR’s Trader Workstation (TWS) platform a powerhouse. The only downside is that it's the most complex trading platform I’ve ever tested, and it requires practice and patience to navigate. That said, once you master how to use the platform, you gain access to an almost endless variety of features and tools, including dedicated forex layouts and the ability to trade various currency pairs. You can even settle trades in other currency denominations.
Active traders and high-volume professional investors can also access deeper discounts through IBKR’s tiered pricing program, depending on your monthly trading volumes. While IBKR doesn't offer market-maker execution, its agency-execution model should meet the needs of most professional traders, as it combines low spreads with a low per-trade commission. The only downside is if you are trading less than a standard lot (100,000 units) the minimum per trade commission can make IBKR expensive.
Otherwise, IBKR's all-in costs (spreads plus per-trade commission) are among the lowest in the industry. This combination of competitive pricing and active trader discounts, wide selection of markets, and platforms with advanced trading tools helps solidify IBKR's top ranking in this category.
Read my Interactive Brokers review to learn more.
Well-regulated, highly rated overall broker - IG
| Company |
Overall Rating |
Minimum Deposit |
Tradeable Symbols (Total) |
 IG
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 |
£250.00 |
19537 |
IG (LON: IGG) is not only a great choice for professional traders but also our top-ranking broker for 2025. IG is also the most trusted broker with the highest Trust Score on ForexBrokers.com, thanks to its large number of global regulatory licenses.
IG’s platforms cater well to day traders, with helpful features like the ability to drag to modify your stop-loss and limit orders straight on charts, coupled with integrated signals that you can copy to a trade ticket in one click. IG can handle large orders as a market maker while also providing agency execution via its Forex Direct account offering. There are also active trader discounts available for high-volume traders, and IG offers high-quality research and related resources across its platforms, including news headlines from top-tier sources and expert analysis from in-house staff.
IG is a true multi-asset broker offering forex, CFDs, stocks, and exchange-traded derivatives across numerous market centers (including in the U.S. via its tastyfx brand).
Learn more by reading my IG review.
Best platform suite – Saxo
| Company |
Overall Rating |
Minimum Deposit |
Tradeable Symbols (Total) |
 Saxo
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|
$0 |
70000 |
Saxo has an award-winning platform suite, which includes SaxoTraderGO for web and mobile, and SaxoTraderPRO for desktop. Saxo’s platform suite stands outs out for its ultra-modern minimalist design, but it still packs plenty of complexity under the surface, blending an intuitive platform experience with the functionality and tools that professional traders expect from the best brokers.
Saxo also offers high-quality research with global market analysis from its in-house team and headlines from top-tier news sources. Traders gain access to sophisticated order types and order management, allowing you to switch instrument types directly from within the same trade ticket. For instance, if you are trading the EUR/USD but want to quickly switch to trading forex options, you can do that with just a few clicks within the same trade ticket window.
While its minimum commission could be a factor for budget traders, if you trade over 100,000 units (one standard lot), Saxo provides transparent pricing and is capable of handling large orders for the most active traders. Furthermore, if you have a larger account, Saxo’s VIP and Platinum accounts offer additional discounts on forex spreads.
Check out our Saxo review to learn more.
Great commissions - CMC Markets
| Company |
Overall Rating |
Minimum Deposit |
Tradeable Symbols (Total) |
 CMC Markets
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$0 |
11925 |
CMC Markets (LON: CMCX) offers a consistently low average spread across account types. Its FX Active account features ultra-low spreads and a low per-trade commission, making it excellent for professional traders and investors.
CMC Markets also has an excellent platform suite. Its web-based NextGeneration app, which is also available for mobile, has a modern feel and and offers advanced features like integrated chart patterns for advanced technical analysis within its robust charting package. I like that you can easily sort through over 10,000 symbols to trade across global markets, including forex and CFDs. CMC Markets also quotes currency pairs both ways, so you can trade EUR/USD or the USD/EUR, which will have an inverse price and view on a chart.
In addition to complex order types and Guaranteed Stop-Loss Orders (GSLOs) for an added premium, CMC Markets also delivers a good balance of quality market research and news headlines from top-tier publications. Furthermore, in addition to having the best effective spreads based on our testing, its active trader program can discount your trading costs even more, which is an attractive feature for high-volume professional traders.
Read my CMC Markets review.
Great for MetaTrader and TradingView – FOREX.com
| Company |
Overall Rating |
Minimum Deposit |
Tradeable Symbols (Total) |
 FOREX.com
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$100 |
5500 |
Part of StoneX Group (NASDAQ: SNEX), FOREX.com is a highly trusted brand and well-rounded broker, offering an excellent selection of markets to trade alongside a diverse platform suite, which includes MetaTrader, TradingView, and its proprietary platform for web and mobile trading.
FOREX.com also caters well to professional traders, thanks to its various account types that range from spread-only and commission-based, depending on whether you need market-maker execution or agency execution. This helps FOREX.com cater well to client’s needs, regardless of their trading strategy. Likewise, you can deploy manual trading or algorithmic trading using MetaTrader 4 (MT4) or MetaTrader 5 (MT5), or via TradingView using Pine Script language and their integrated Alerts for generated trading signals. In addition, FOREX.com has integrated trading signals from Trading Central within its web platform, helping professional traders more easily identify and copy trading opportunities in real-time.
It’s worth mentioning that FOREX.com has an outstanding educational course, with both beginner, intermediate, and advanced subject matter.
Learn more by checking out my FOREX.com review.
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