Depositing from United States
The answer is never a brand name. It is your country × the broker: the entity your address gets, the protection behind it, and what the CFTC and NFA (forex), the SEC and FINRA (securities) says. All 40 verdicts for United States are computed below, checked on October 22, 2026.
Facts checked on October 22, 2026
The US is the strictest door in this dataset: retail forex brokers must be CFTC-registered and NFA members, and most offshore brands simply do not accept US residents. Off-exchange binary options sold to US residents are not legal. If a platform with no NFA registration is offering you leverage from a US address, the platform is the problem.
The legal routes: CFTC/NFA-registered forex dealers, SEC-regulated brokers for stocks and ETFs, and regulated futures brokers.
$200 (about $200). US minimums are genuinely low at legal brokers; $200 is where costs stop dominating the account, same arithmetic as everywhere.
Minimums and rails checked on October 22, 2026. Advertised minimums are the platforms' own published figures — accepted minimums, not viable ones.
| Broker | Verdict for a resident | The entity that would hold the account | Protection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exness | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| XM | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Deriv | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| FBS | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| HFM (HotForex) | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Octa (OctaFX) | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| AvaTrade | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Pepperstone | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| IC Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| FP Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Tickmill | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Plus500 | Deposit has real protection | Plus500US Financial Services LLC (CFTC / NFA (US)) | US-regulated (CFTC/NFA or SEC/FINRA rules on client money; no compensation fund for forex losses) |
| eToro | Deposit has real protection | eToro USA Securities Inc. (SEC / FINRA (US, securities)) | US-regulated (CFTC/NFA or SEC/FINRA rules on client money; no compensation fund for forex losses) |
| Capital.com | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| XTB | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| IG | Deposit has real protection | tastyfx LLC (CFTC / NFA (US)) | US-regulated (CFTC/NFA or SEC/FINRA rules on client money; no compensation fund for forex losses) |
| Quotex | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Pocket Option | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Olymp Trade | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Binomo | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| IQ Option | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Axi | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| LiteFinance | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| FXTM | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Vantage | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| RoboForex | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| JustMarkets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Headway | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| PU Prime | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Moneta Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| ThinkMarkets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| CMC Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| OANDA | Deposit has real protection | OANDA Corporation (CFTC / NFA (US)) | US-regulated (CFTC/NFA or SEC/FINRA rules on client money; no compensation fund for forex losses) |
| FOREX.com | Deposit has real protection | GAIN Capital Group LLC (CFTC / NFA (US)) | US-regulated (CFTC/NFA or SEC/FINRA rules on client money; no compensation fund for forex losses) |
| Interactive Brokers | Deposit has real protection | Interactive Brokers LLC (SEC / FINRA (US)) | US-regulated (CFTC/NFA or SEC/FINRA rules on client money; no compensation fund for forex losses) |
| Admirals | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| BlackBull Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Fusion Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| MultiBank Group | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| easyMarkets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
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The free check gives you the verdict for one country and one broker. The Deposit Safety Kit gives you the complete walkthroughs: how to verify the entity in the broker's own legal footer, where on your regulator's site the register and the warning lists live, how to read a compensation scheme, and the first-withdrawal test protocol — deposit small, withdraw first, then decide.
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Sources: the brokers' own legal and entity pages as published on the check date; the Reserve Bank of India Alert List; the UK Financial Conduct Authority Register and Warning List; the Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers; Bappebti (Indonesia) licensed and blocked lists; CVM (Brazil) declaratory acts; the FSCA (South Africa) FSP register; the Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) licensee list; the Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) advisory list; SECP/PMEX (Pakistan) membership; SEC Nigeria and Central Bank of Nigeria publications. Affiliate bounty figures from the programs' own published terms (Exness, XM, Plus500, eToro affiliate pages). If a fact has moved since our check date, the regulator's or broker's own publication wins — and write to help@doogex.com so we can correct ours.