Easy-Forex's HQ is in Limassol, Cyprus. They have an office in Chicago that sends out things like W-2 forms for taxes.
Easy-Forex was the first brokerage I used, and I'm afraid I can't recommend them at all. Their charting software sucks - with the old system (which you can still use) it was all web-based, but there was no way to save your charts. So every time you logged in you had to reset all your charts and indicators, which rapidly became a major pain in the behind. The new website isn't any better - it's very flashy (no pun intended) but super slow to load, and my laptop is no slouch. Sometimes I want to log in quickly and move on a trade, and I just can't do it because it takes to freaking long.
Another huge complaint is that you can't set stop losses and take profits close to the current price. This means you often have to have far more risky stops than you would like, while at the same time you can't scalp a few pips. This is extremely frustrating, I mirror all my trades using Metatrader and there have been many times where if I had been able to set the s/l or t/p that I wanted I would have had a win, but with Easy-Forex I am forced to set a wider t/p which is missed by a pip or two, then I get a reversal and stopped out. Painful. I have had many trades that should have been wins that have turned into losses.
The final gripe I have is that if you carry a trade over, you get charged a fee. The relative interest rates of the two currencies don't matter at all. Where some companies would pay you interest if you were say, long on EUR/JPY, Easy-Forex always charges a fee. It eats up your profits from a given trade pretty quickly.
That's it from me. I've switched to Alpari US now, though I haven't traded with them yet. Take it from me though, stay away from Easy-Forex.
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