Our initial margin rates start at 3.33% for major FX pairs including EURUSD, USDJPY, USDCAD, EURJPY and more. If you qualify as an Elective Professional client, our initial margin rates start at 1.5% for major FX pairs.

See a full list of our FX margin rates for retail clients.

Read more about FX margins for retail clients here

Both our SaxoTraderGO and SaxoTraderPRO platforms offer you a fast and intuitive forex trading experience.

However, if you’d like some help getting started, we’ve put together a short guide on how to trade forex on SaxoTraderGO, which highlights the key features you’ll need.

Derive the value of potential price improvements on every trade. Assume greater control of your trading, and achieve an optimal balance between fill ratio and price level through our fully customised orders.

Saxo offer a variety of orders, including Market, Limit and Stop orders. To learn more please see Orders and Execution Statistics.

To learn more about how Saxo executes orders on behalf of its clients, please refer to our Order Execution Policy.

Whereas the FX spot market is for immediate currency trades, the FX forward market is the market for trading currencies for delivery at some point in the future. FX forward outrights enable you to agree a price today (the FX forward price) at which two currencies will be exchanged on a predetermined date in the future. FX swaps likewise enable you to agree a price today at which two transactions will be executed. An FX swap is a simultaneous purchase and sale, or vice versa, of one currency for another currency with two different value dates; two parties agree upon a currency exchange on one day and simultaneously agree to unwind or reverse that transaction on a specified date in the future.

At Saxo, we provide full electronic access to trade Forex forward outrights and Forex swaps in 130 currency pairs with maturities from 1 day to 12 months.

To understand the FX forward outright trading conditions please click here.

For more information on FX swaps please click here

NDFs are tradable offline only through the Global Sales Trading desk. An initial FX margin requirement of 9% is applicable (8% maintenance margin) and 1% interest rate margin (subject to change). There is a minimum trade size of USD 100,000 or equivalent and a Net Open Position (NOP) limit of 3 million USD. A higher margin requirement may apply depending on the level of exposure. Prior to trading this product an addendum to Saxo’s General Business Terms must be signed.

NDFs are tradeable offline only with maturities from 1 day to 12 months.

The following currency pairs are available to trade: USDBRL, USDCLP, USDCOP, USDCNY, USDIDR, USDINR, USDKRW, USDPEN, USDPHP, USDTWD.

Find more information about our general charges here.

You can review our trading conditions for Forex here.