General Features

Dukascopy Bank SA offers trading of currencies and precious metals (all together referred to as “Forex”) to private individuals and institutional clients. The accounts can be opened in eight different currencies – USD, CHF, EUR, GBP, JPY, CAD, AUD and SGD. Different funding facilities (including Bank Guarantees, Custodian services, etc) are available.

Dukascopy Bank  SA Forex trading service is optimized for institutional trading activity. Recommended deposit size for this type of trading is considered more than 50 000 USD. Minimal deposit size is variable depending on the client profile and type of account:

	Services
Account size (USD)	SWFX technology	Trading API	Bank guarantees	Third banks custodian services
over 250.000
over 100.000
over 5.000
under 5.000	Dukascopy Bank SA opens accounts less than 5,000 USD only for Swiss residents. For non-Swiss residents such option is available with Dukascopy Europe, EU subsidiary of Dukascopy Bank SA (Read more)

Prices and liquidity are equal for all clients. Depending on account size and monthly traded volume, different trading commissions and overnights are applied. Dukascopy Bank accepts all types of trading (including news trading, scalping etc).

Lot Size

The minimal acceptable order size is 1000 units of the primary currency or 1 unit for gold. There is no maximum lot size limitation, except available liquidity and marginal requirements. 

Settlement Procedure

Settlement activities are conducted on a daily basis and include all post-trade operations such as trade settlements, rollovers, volume commissions and daily P&L conversions and other end-of-day amendments (please refer to Overnight policy for related information on value date and overnights). Settlement procedure is applied at 21:00/22:00 GMT and is carried out automatically in the account's base currency. Account balance is updated on a daily basis after settlement procedure. Clients are able to track balance history in various reports through the trading platform or through the web based entry.

Platform Specification

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.

To learn more about Dukascopy Bank ECN Accounts, please write us: info@dukascopy.com, call us: +41 (0) 22 799 4888 or alternatively ask for a call-back.