General Features

Dukascopy Bank SA offers currency and precious metal trading (all together referred to as "Forex") to retail and institutional clients. Dukascopy Bank SA Forex trading services are optimised for professional trading activity:

  • Equal liquidity and quotes for all clients
  • All types of trading are allowed (including news trading, scalping etc)
  • Accounts can be opened in USD, CHF, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, CZK, DKK, HKD, HUF, ILS, JPY, MXN, NOK, NZD, PLN, RON, CNH, SEK, SGD, TRY, XAU and ZAR
  • Multiple funding facilities available, including Credit and Debit Cards, Wire Transfers and Bank Guarantees
  • Each client is protected up to CHF 100'000 against insolvency risk of Dukascopy Bank by esisuisse

Depending on the account size and monthly traded volume, different trading commissions and overnights are applied.

The minimum deposit for accounts with both Dukascopy Bank SA and Dukascopy Europe is 100 USD. Several additional features are available depending on the client profile and the type of account:

Account size (USD) Services
SWFX technology JForex API FIX API Bank guarantees
Starting from 100*
Over 1'000
Over 100'000
  • **ECN accounts with the minimum deposit of USD 100 are available only for the clients of both Dukascopy Bank SA and Dukascopy Europe

Lot Size

Instrument Lot Size Step
Currency pairs10001
XAU/USD11
XAG/USD5010
XPT.CMD/USD11
XPD.CMD/USD10.1
BTC/USD0.010.01
ETH/USD10.1
LTC/USD101
USA30.IDX/USD0.10.1
DEU.IDX/EUR0.10.1
CHI.IDX/USD0.10.1
HKG.IDX/HKD0.10.1
COPPER.CMD/USD201
GAS.CMD/USD101
COFFEE.CMD/USX50010
SUGAR.CMD/USD1010
COTTON.CMD/USX600100
OJUICE.CMD/USX30020
SOYBEAN.CMD/USX400400
DOLLAR.IDX/USD100100
NLD.IDX/EUR2020
SGD.IDX/SGD1010
BUND.TR/EUR101
UKGILT.TR/GBP101
USTBOND.TR/USD101
SOA.IDX/ZAR11
VOL.IDX/USD101
CEMEXCPO.MX/MXN20002000
ALFAA.MX/MXN20002000
LABB.MX/MXN10001000
VOLARA.MX/MXN10001000
AMXL.MX/MXN10001000
TLEVISACPO.MX/MXN10001000
KIMBERA.MX/MXN500500
ORBIA.MX/MXN500500
BOLSAA.MX/MXN500500
VESTA.MX/MXN500500
ALSEA.MX/MXN500500
MEGACPO.MX/MXN500500
BBAJIOO.MX/MXN500500
GMEXICOB.MX/MXN500500
WALMEX.MX/MXN500500
GCARSOA1.MX/MXN500500
Q.MX/MXN250250
LIVEPOLC1.MX/MXN250250
KOFUBL.MX/MXN250250
GCC.MX/MXN250250
RA.MX/MXN250250
FEMSAUBD.MX/MXN100100
PINFRA.MX/MXN100100
OMAB.MX/MXN100100
GFNORTEO.MX/MXN100100
ARCA.MX/MXN100100
GRUMAB.MX/MXN100100
PEOLES.MX/MXN100100
GAPB.MX/MXN100100
ASURB.MX/MXN5050
ELEKTRA.MX/MXN2525
Other Indices and Stocks11

There is no maximum lot size limitation, except available liquidity, marginal requirements and maximum instrument exposure.

Trading Hours

Most of the instruments are traded on a 24 hour basis without interruption, from market opening on Sunday, 21:00 GMT during Summer Time (22:00 GMT during Winter Time) until market close on Friday, 21:00 GMT during Summer Time (22:00 GMT during Winter Time). The following instruments have trading breaks during the trading session:

Instrument Trading Breaks
Summer Time Winter Time
XAU/USD1 21:00 – 22:00 22:00 – 23:00
XAG/USD1 21:00 – 22:00 22:00 – 23:00
USD/HUF 20:00 – 22:00 21:00 – 23:00
EUR/HUF 21:00 – 06:00 22:00 – 07:00
USD/RON 21:00 – 05:30 22:00 – 06:30
EUR/CZK2 21:00 – 22:00 22:00 – 23:00
USD/ILS2 21:00 – 05:00 22:00 – 06:00
USD/THB2 18:00 – 00:00 19:00 – 01:00
  • 1Instrument is not tradable from 17:00 till 21:00 during Summer Time (from 18:00 till 22:00 during Winter Time) on US national holidays.
  • 2Instrument may have low liquidity / temporary or full absence of prices.

Special trading conditions

Due to limited available liquidity during off market hours, trading might be interrupted, as well as special trading conditions are applied to the following instruments:

Instrument Maximum spread, points* Off Market Hours
Summer Time Winter Time
USD/PLN 250 18:00 – 07:00 19:00 – 08:00
EUR/PLN 350 18:00 – 07:00 19:00 – 08:00
USD/TRY 500 18:00 – 07:00 19:00 – 08:00
EUR/TRY 500 18:00 – 07:00 19:00 – 08:00
  • *Dukascopy reserves the right to increase the maximum spread under certain market conditions.

Please be advised, that following instruments are not available for managed accounts, but for individual traders only: EUR/CZK, EUR/HUF, EUR/PLN, EUR/TRY, TRY/JPY, USD/CZK, USD/HUF, USD/ILS, USD/PLN, USD/RON, USD/THB, USD/TRY, XAG/USD, XAU/USD, and ZAR/JPY.

Wider spreads during "off market hours" or a market gap after trading break can significantly decrease the equity on your account and can trigger a margin cut or equity stop loss level.

Platform Specification

The Dukascopy Bank SWFX Trading Platform is a unique technology with specific features for advanced traders. The Platform provides special functions and tools that have been created in order to suit sophisticated needs and provide additional protection to clients against market spikes. Dukascopy Bank strongly recommends that you become familiar with the DEMO platform before you start live trading.

Entering in CFD trading is speculative and may result in a substantial loss, which may exceed your entire investment. The potential loss may theoretically be unlimited.

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