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for Best Execution & Lower Cost

The Global Prime ECN offers cutting edge and high performance technology while leveraging our ten years of trading relationships to give you direct and anonymous access to a truly unique and diversified mix of liquidity.

For the first time ever you’ll have access to the same level of transparency as institutional traders, including; which bank filled your trade, the slippage, speed, order book and tick charts showing market impact. Oh yeah, and we provide detailed trade receipts for all of your trades.

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Global Prime ECN Features

The Global Prime ECN account is for traders who demand absolute performance from their broker.

Tight ECN spreads from 0.0 pips

Extensive and diverse liquidity mix comprising 3 prime brokers, 20+ tier-1 bank, non-bank market makers ensure our spreads rank among the top brokers globally across the products that we offer.

Better execution to lower your slippage

We hold our trading counterparties to a high standard. By maintaining fill ratios with our LPs of greater than 90% and using ‘no last look’ when supported, we execute your trades in record fast time for reduced slippage on your trades.

Protection through anonymous trading

We execute all orders through a single tag, meaning LPs see one client - Global Prime. Liquidity providers cannot reject your trades because you’re too sharp or reverse engineer your proprietary trading system.

Characteristics of institutional and retail ECNs

For Institutional Traders

  • Central limit order book (CLOB) allowing trading as price maker or price taker.
  • Basically an OTC version of an exchange that uses external liquidity from banks and other market makers for a diverse and competitive liquidity mix.
  • Trades are executed anonymously
  • The ECN is responsible for matching trades done between participants.
  • Institutional ECN examples: HotSpot FX, FXALL, EBS, FastMatch and TraderTools.

For Retail Brokers and Traders

  • Quote driven order book where traders can trade as (price) taker only.
  • Multiple bank and non-bank liquidity providers ‘aggregated’ into a best bid / best offer, and streamed to traders for them to execute against (as taker).
  • Trades are executed anonymously.
  • Orders are executed with liquidity providers and not B-booked.
  • The broker does not run a B-book or make money from traders' losses.

Institutional + Retail

Global Prime entered a strategic joint venture with Institutional ECN provider ‘TraderTools’ in 2020 and now offers this as a standalone product to its institutional clients.

  • This partnership makes Global Prime one of the world’s only institutional and retail broker ECNs.
  • Global Prime can provide direct ECN access to any of these institutional ECNs via FIX API or GUI - for institutional clients only. Minimum requirements apply.
Global Prime Technology

Is Global Prime really an ECN broker?

Global Prime aggregates liquidity from tier-1 banks, non-bank market makers and (institutional) ECNs.

  • All Global Prime trades that exceed our prime broker minimum are executed with a liquidity provider. See Best Execution page for more information.
  • Since we back-to-back hedge all trades and don’t internalise any risk (excluding small tickets which are batch hedged), plus we provide trade receipts to prove exactly how every order was executed and with whom, we’re confident we’re doing the right thing by our clients and delivering a genuine ‘retail broker ECN’.
Global Prime ECN Execution

Trade receipts give you peace of mind we are with you, not against you

Spread & Order Book

Provides detailed data about the order book for easy analysis

  • Make smarter trading decisions
  • Trade like an insider, not a stranger

Trades Slippage

You'll be able to see and understand any slippage on the trade

  • Gain trading strategy insights
  • See how it impacts your portfolio

Tick Charts

Discover quotes across tiers before, during and immediately after the trade

  • Feel confident in your trades
  • Be confident that you got a great price

Fills & Liquidity Providers

Confirm your trade was sent to market and the liquidity provider who filled the trade

  • Know you're in good hands with us
  • Proof we are on your side!
 

Global Prime ECN vs Market Maker or ‘ECN pricing’

We trade with, and not against you. But what does this even mean?

 

Global Prime
ECN

Market Maker
‘ECN Pricing’

No conflict of interest between you making money and broker profitability?
Wants clients to trade profitably?
Does not make money from your losses?
Does not make hedge execution decisions based on client trading behaviour or account profitability?
Does not benefit from wider spreads causing stop out of retail traders.
Does not benefit from interbank stop hunting.

Your questions, answered.

What is the ECN advantage? Right Arrow

Our cutting edge ECN technology enables us to leverage 10 years of trading relationships to provide clients anonymous access to a unique and diverse pool of liquidity.

This means that you can rest assured that we have built the ultimate trading environment that couples industry leading technology with years of trading experience which has culminated in Global Prime being recognised as the 'traders brokerage'.

Why is an exclusively ECN broker beneficial? Right Arrow

An exclusively ECN broker is beneficial as it means that you can focus on your trading and not your broker. In an industry that is full of brokers whose models are predicated on profiting from clients losses, our true ECN model stands in stark contrast to these practices by providing for accountability, transparency and honesty including post trade transparency.

Is there any conflict of interest between Global Prime and clients? Right Arrow

There is no conflict of interest between Global Prime and our clients. Why? Because we do not profit from clients losses. Our goal is to serve the clients needs before our own by delivering the best product to our clients. On the contrary, when you win, we win.

Does Global Prime profit from client losses? Right Arrow

Unequivocally, No.

Are Global Prime’s LP’s aware of my identity? Right Arrow

No, your personal identity is completely anonymous to our LP’s.

What does STP and NDD mean? Right Arrow

STP = straight through processing, which means that your trades are executed automatically by way of our ECN with no manual intervention.

NDD = No dealing desk which refers to a broker that does not market make rather, by way of our ECN we provide clients access to our network of LP’s, enabling every trade to be taken to the real market.

Compare Our Account Features

Commission Free

Our new lowest fee model. Trade EURUSD from 0.4 pips round turn with no added commissions


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Spreads + Commission

Traditional ECN fee model with spreads from 0.0 pips and $7/lot commission.


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Spread From 0.4 Pips 0.0 Pips
Commission $0 $7 per round turn lot
Starting Deposit $200 $200
Platforms MT4, TraderEvolution, TradingView MT4, TraderEvolution, TradingView
Server Location New York New York
Execution speeds from 1ms 1ms
Micro lot trading(0.01)
100+ Markets 100+ Markets FX, Indices, Commodities, Digital Currencies, Shares, Bonds 100+ Markets FX, Indices, Commodities, Digital Currencies, Shares, Bonds
One Click Trading
Trading Styles Allowed All All
Order Distance Restriction None None
Suitable For All Traders All Traders

Benefits of World Class Trading

Tight Spreads

You'll be able to trade on competitive rates and leverage our global reach.

Liquidity

Deep liquidity through ECNs and dark pools. Get the ECN advantage.

Range of Markets

Get access to the world's most liquid markets. Trade 24 hours a day.

Radical Transparency

Trade Receipts - the easy way to verify your trades.

No Restrictions

We've got you covered: technical, fundamental, news, and EA friendly.

Low Latency

Fast execution speeds from as low as 1ms. Competitive pricing

We serve traders like you
from 196 countries*

Spreads From

0.0 Pips

Execution From

1 MS

Trade Markets

24/5

Deposit & Withdrawal

$0 Fee

Multiple Instant Payments

Fund your account with over 15+ instant deposit methods. AUD, EUR, GBP, JPY, SGD or USD - save on conversions!


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