FXGT

FXGT built its identity around one idea: a single MT5 account that holds forex and crypto side by side. Most brokers treat the two as separate worlds — separate platforms, separate accounts, sometimes separate companies. FXGT collapsed them, and for an automated trader that decision changes what is possible from one terminal. This profile is written for one reader — someone about to point an EA at a live FXGT account — and it focuses on the choices the data tables above don’t make for you: which account fits your system, what your real cost per trade works out to, and where FXGT’s crypto-hybrid focus is the right call versus where another broker fits better. We rank brokers on EA-relevant data, not on what they pay us; see how we choose in our best MT5 brokers for EA trading guide.

Why FXGT’s crypto + forex hybrid breadth matters for an EA

The defining feature of FXGT is that a single MT5 account spans both asset classes — 50+ forex pairs and 60+ crypto pairs in the same terminal, under the same balance and margin. For a discretionary trader that is a convenience. For an EA trader it is structural, because automation does not switch contexts the way a human does. If you run one EA on EUR/USD and another on BTC, doing that at a forex-only broker means two terminals, two accounts, two funding flows, and two reconciliations — and your account equity is fragmented across venues where margin can’t be shared. On FXGT, both EAs draw on one balance, one margin pool, and one set of leverage rules.

That unified pool is the real advantage. A portfolio of EAs is only diversified if its components are uncorrelated, and forex and crypto are about as different as two retail asset classes get — crypto trades 24/7 with no weekend gap, forex respects session liquidity and closes Friday. Running both from one account lets the quieter book cushion the louder one inside a single equity curve, the way drawdown on one strategy is offset by gains on another without you manually moving cash between brokers. Crypto markets never close, which suits an always-on EA, but it also removes the weekend pause that forex-only systems rely on — confirm your crypto EA’s risk model assumes continuous exposure before you deploy it. Negative balance protection is active, so a violent crypto gap can’t push the account below zero; verify it is live on your specific account type first.

Match the account type to your EA

FXGT’s account range is wide, and choosing wrong is the most common way a live account underperforms an EA’s published numbers. The account sets your cost structure, and cost structure is the line between profit and loss for anything that trades often. Use this picker, then read the account notes below it:

Mini — learn live execution at the lowest entry

The Mini account ($5 minimum, $0 commission) is the place to run a real EA on real market data with almost nothing at stake. The value is not the tiny deposit itself — it is that live execution exposes what a backtest never shows: how FXGT names its symbols (a suffix can silently stop an EA from trading), how the minimum lot interacts with your EA’s risk sizing, and how fills behave around the Friday forex close and through a crypto weekend. Run a catalogued EA on Mini for a full week, including a weekend, before you scale. The getting started guide walks that demo-week routine end to end.

PRO and ECN — cost-efficient homes for frequent trading

The PRO account ($3/lot commission, sub-pip raw spreads) and the ECN account are the right default for any high-frequency system — scalping, grids, and anything trading more than ~50 positions a month. The logic is total cost: a tight raw spread plus a transparent fixed commission is cheaper and more predictable than a wider all-in spread once trade frequency climbs. If your EA’s edge is measured in fractions of a pip, a raw-spread account is not optional. The ECN account suits traders who want the rawest available conditions; both are built for systems where execution cost is the dominant variable.

Crypto Max — the crypto-focused account

The Crypto Max account is the one to note if your EA’s primary market is crypto rather than forex. It is structured for crypto exposure with the leverage and margin treatment those instruments need, and it pairs naturally with FXGT’s crypto funding rails. If you are running a grid or trend system on BTC or ETH as your main book, this is the account designed around it rather than a forex account with crypto bolted on.

Standard+ — the simple middle ground

The Standard+ account is the commission-free, all-in-spread option for lower-frequency forex and crypto EAs that trade a few times a week and target larger moves. For a swing or trend system the spread is a rounding error against the move size, and the single-number simplicity is easier to reason about than spread-plus-commission. Do not use it for a scalper — the all-in spread will erode a fast system’s edge.

Spreads and total cost: how to actually compare Mini vs PRO

This is the calculation most traders skip, and it decides which FXGT account is cheaper for your EA. Total cost per round-turn is spread (in account currency) + commission — never spread alone.

• Mini / Standard+: ~1.2 pips spread on EUR/USD, $0 commission. On a standard lot that is roughly $12 per round-turn, all in.
• PRO: sub-pip raw spread (call it ~0.2 pips, ≈ $2) plus $3/lot commission ≈ $5 per round-turn.

For a swing EA taking 10 trades a month, the difference (~$70/month) is immaterial against the size of the moves it targets — the commission-free account’s simplicity wins. For a scalper taking 200 trades a month, the same per-trade gap compounds to roughly $1,400/month, which can be the entire edge. Run the maths on your EA’s documented trade frequency before you pick, and remember the published backtest figures in the EA catalogue are measured on Exness retail-spread tick data — each EA profile documents how its spread compatibility holds up across the participating brokers, so treat them as a costed hypothesis your Mini-account demo week confirms.

What STP execution means when your EA fires an order

FXGT runs an STP (straight-through processing) model: your orders are passed to liquidity providers rather than filled against an in-house dealing desk. For an EA, the property that matters is that market orders fill at the available price without the requote loop a pure market-maker can apply at candle close. The trade-off versus a true ECN broker like TitanFX is latency: STP routing is a notch slower than NY4-colocated ECN, which matters for sub-second scalpers but is invisible to the vast majority of EAs trading on M5 and higher timeframes. For most of mt5depot’s catalogue, FXGT’s STP execution model is more than adequate; only a latency-critical high-frequency strategy should prefer a pure-ECN venue.

Platforms: MT5 only — and an honest caveat

FXGT supports MT5 and nothing else. For a crypto-hybrid broker that is the correct choice — MT5 is the modern terminal, with a better strategy tester, native economic calendar, and the multi-asset margining that makes a unified forex-plus-crypto account work. But it carries a real con worth flagging: a large number of older EAs are compiled as .ex4 for MetaTrader 4 only and cannot run on FXGT at all. Unlike HFM or Exness, which still support MT4, FXGT gives you no path for a legacy MT4 system — if your EA is .ex4-only, this is the wrong broker and you should stop here. For MT5-native EAs it is a non-issue. The MT5 mobile app monitors positions but, like every mobile terminal, cannot run an EA — automation needs the desktop terminal, ideally on a VPS.

Funding and withdrawals on an active EA account

FXGT processes withdrawals in same day to 1 business day across bank wire, cards, Skrill, and — the relevant part for this audience — crypto in 30+ assets (BTC, ETH, USDT, and more). For a trader whose EAs run on crypto, funding and withdrawing in the same asset class removes a conversion step and the fees that come with it. Same-day-to-one-business-day processing is reliable and workable; it is broadly in line with HFM and slower than the instant rails at Exness, a difference that only matters if you actively cycle profits out of a high-frequency account week to week. For most EA traders compounding inside the account, it is a non-issue.

Is FXGT the right broker for your EA?

FXGT is the clear pick for a crypto or hybrid EA trader, and the case is specific: one MT5 account holds both forex and crypto under a shared margin pool, the $5 Mini account lets you learn live execution at near-zero risk, and the PRO and ECN accounts give a cost-efficient home for frequent trading once a strategy proves out. If your portfolio spans asset classes, no other broker in this catalogue lets you run it from a single account as cleanly.

Where it is not the first pick: a legacy MT4 system simply cannot run here, so an .ex4-only trader should choose HFM or Exness instead; and a trader who wants maximum regulatory breadth and the longest track record will prefer the FCA-licensed brokers, since FXGT is younger (2019) with a narrower regulatory footprint. FXGT’s own caveats are honest and worth weighing — the all-in spread is mid-pack for pure-forex scalpers, and the smaller balance sheet means a capital-conscious trader should spread risk across the catalogue rather than concentrate it here.

How FXGT compares to the rest of the catalogue

Briefly, against the other catalogued brokers: FXGT is the only one purpose-built for forex and crypto from one account, which is its reason to exist. It trails Exness on raw spread (1.2 vs 0.7 pips) and withdrawal speed, and trails HFM on regulatory breadth and track record; against pure-ECN TitanFX it concedes execution latency but offers crypto breadth TitanFX doesn’t; and it is in the same younger, narrower tier as Axiory on regulation while winning decisively on crypto. The full side-by-side is in our best MT5 brokers for EA trading comparison, and the criteria behind these judgements are set out in how to choose a broker for EAs.

Opening an FXGT account for EA trading, step by step

1. Open the account through the link on this page. Using our IB link costs you nothing extra and is how mt5depot funds this catalogue (see the transparency note below).
2. Choose your account type by strategy — Mini to learn, PRO or ECN for scalp/grid, Crypto Max for a crypto-first book, Standard+ for low-frequency swing. You can open more than one.
3. Download the MT5 desktop terminal from FXGT after registration. There is no MT4 option, and the mobile app cannot run EAs.
4. Fund the documented minimum for your EA, not your full bankroll, and run a one-week demo or Mini-account trial first — across a weekend if your EA touches crypto.
5. Set up a VPS before going live so the EA runs 24/7 next to the broker’s servers rather than on a home machine that can sleep or disconnect.

How FXGT’s unified forex + crypto margin works for an EA

FXGT’s distinguishing feature on this catalogue is that it lets a single account trade 50+ forex pairs and 60+ crypto pairs under one margin book, on MT5. For a trader running EAs across both asset classes that sounds convenient, and it can be — but the mechanics deserve a closer look before you point an automated system at it, because a unified margin book changes how risk propagates.

One margin pool means one failure can pull on the other. When forex and crypto positions share the same account equity, a sharp crypto drawdown reduces the free margin available to your forex EA, and vice versa. Two EAs that are individually safe can, on a unified account, push each other toward a margin call during a correlated stress event — a risk that simply does not exist when each strategy runs on its own account. If you run a forex EA and a crypto EA together here, size them as if they share a single risk budget, because they do.

Crypto trades when forex sleeps. Crypto markets run 24/7, so an FXGT account holding crypto positions is exposed across the weekend when the forex side is closed. An EA built and backtested on forex’s five-day week may behave unexpectedly when its account equity is being moved by weekend crypto volatility it never modelled. The cleanest approach for most users is to keep forex and crypto automation on separate FXGT accounts so their margin and their risk windows stay independent.

The upside, used deliberately. Where the unified model genuinely helps is testing: you can prototype both a forex and a crypto EA in the same environment, with the same broker plumbing, MT5 build, and symbol conventions, before deciding whether to split them. Use the unified account to learn how each EA behaves; use separate accounts to run them for real. That separation is the single most important risk decision an FXGT user running mixed automation will make.

EA rules: which strategies FXGT allows

FXGT permits Expert Advisors on MT5 and allows the strategy styles most catalogued EAs use — scalping, hedging, and grid systems are not prohibited. The practical caveats are asset-driven rather than rule-driven: a scalper needs the tighter PRO or ECN spreads to keep its edge, and a grid or martingale EA pointed at crypto is operating in a 24/7, several-times-more-volatile market than the forex pairs it was likely designed for. There is no MT4 path, so any .ex4-only EA cannot run here at all. Confirm your specific EA’s permitted strategies and the symbol conventions on a Mini-account trial before you scale.

How mt5depot earns money

A money page should say plainly how it is funded, so here is the honest version: FXGT is a primary revenue partner for mt5depot. When you open an account through the IB link on this page, mt5depot earns an introducing-broker (IB) commission from FXGT on your trading activity, and FXGT is one of the brokers that commission matters most from. It still costs you nothing extra — your spread and commission are identical to opening directly, and there is no markup on our side.

Because FXGT is a primary partner, you should hold this page to a higher standard, not a lower one — so here is the counterweight stated plainly: FXGT is a newer, narrower-regulated broker than HFM or Exness, it is MT5-only, and its crypto breadth carries the unified-margin risks described above. We list it because its forex + crypto hybrid genuinely fits a specific reader, and we have tried to make its limits as visible as its strengths on this page. Exact IB commission terms are commercial and may change, so we describe the relationship rather than quote a rate; confirm any figure that matters to you with FXGT directly. An account you abandon in a month is worth nothing to either of us, which is why the honest caveats above are in your interest and ours.

Who can open an FXGT account — country and region restrictions

FXGT accepts offshore clients across most regions, but by regulation it does not accept clients in the United States, Canada, the EEA, Japan, or Iran. EEA retail traders are declined rather than routed to a local entity, and the offshore Seychelles entity documented here is intended for non-EU English-speaking traders. Confirm your country is serviced before you fund, because an EA can only ever compound the capital you were actually able to deposit.

FXGT’s regulatory footprint is narrower than the multi-jurisdiction brokers on this catalogue, which is the honest counterweight to its asset breadth and USDT-friendly funding. Retail accounts still carry segregated client money and negative balance protection, but the narrower regulatory base is a real consideration to weigh against your own risk tolerance — especially for a crypto-heavy book — before transferring funds.

Risks and what to confirm before you fund

Leverage up to 1:1000 is a tool, not a target — size your risk as if it were capped, because an EA that over-positions on high leverage fails by drawdown. If your EA trades crypto, weight that warning heavily: crypto volatility can be several times forex’s, gaps happen 24/7 with no weekend pause, and a grid or martingale system that survives EUR/USD can be destroyed by a single BTC move. Before deploying, confirm three things on your specific account: that negative balance protection is active, that your country is serviced (the restricted regions are listed under who can open an account above), and that your EA’s permitted strategies match how it trades. The detailed testing process behind every figure we publish is on our methodology page.

FAQ

Is FXGT good for EA / automated trading? Yes — especially for hybrid systems. FXGT allows EAs on MT5, holds forex and crypto in one account, and its Mini and PRO accounts cover the two most common EA needs: learning live execution cheaply and trading frequently at low cost. STP execution suits EAs on M5 and higher timeframes.

Which FXGT account is best for an EA? Mini ($5, $0 commission) to learn live execution at near-zero risk, PRO ($3/lot, sub-pip) or ECN for scalping and grids, Crypto Max for a crypto-first book, and Standard+ for low-frequency swing systems. Match the account to your EA’s trade frequency and asset class.

Can I run an MT4 EA on FXGT? No. FXGT is MT5-only, so legacy .ex4 EAs that were compiled for MetaTrader 4 will not run here. If your EA is MT4-only, choose an MT4-supporting broker like HFM or Exness instead.

Can I trade crypto and forex from the same FXGT account? Yes — that is FXGT’s defining feature. A single MT5 account holds 50+ forex pairs and 60+ crypto pairs under one balance and margin pool, which is what makes it the catalogue’s pick for hybrid EA portfolios. Funding and withdrawals are supported in 30+ crypto assets.

Is FXGT regulated and safe? FXGT holds FSA Seychelles and FSC Mauritius licences with negative balance protection on retail accounts. That is a narrower regulatory footprint than the FCA-licensed brokers in this catalogue, so capital-conscious traders should spread risk rather than concentrate a large balance here.

Next steps

If FXGT fits your EA — particularly a crypto or hybrid one — open the account by strategy and start with a demo or Mini-account week before funding live. From there, browse the EA catalogue for a system matched to your risk tolerance, set up a VPS, and compare FXGT against the full field in the best MT5 brokers for EA trading guide. The traders who last are the ones who verified on a small account first.