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Exness Account Types — When the Choice Starts to Matter · Bangladesh

Reading a chart, reading an instrument specification, checking when a market is open and learning where the order ticket sits all work the same whichever account type is behind them. The choice starts to matter at one identifiable point.

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For a long first stretch the account type changes nothing at all. Reading a chart, reading an instrument specification, checking when a market is open and finding your way around the order ticket work exactly the same whichever Exness account type sits behind them. The type starts to matter at one point: the first order that costs money. From then on it decides how that cost is charged — as a spread on its own, or as a spread with a commission beside it — and how small a position will be accepted.

What the account type does not change

Where the account type is silent, and where it speaks

What is being doneDoes the account type change it?What decides it instead
Reading a chart and placing indicators on itNoThe platform build that is open
Reading an instrument specificationNoThe instrument itself
Checking whether an instrument is open right nowNoThe session calendar of that instrument
Finding the order ticket, pending orders and historyNoThe platform layout
Placing the first order that costs moneyYesThe cost structure attached to the account
Choosing the size of that orderYesThe smallest volume the account will accept

The part of the work that is identical everywhere

A chart does not know which account is looking at it. Timeframes, drawing objects, saved templates and indicators live in the platform installation on the device, and they behave the same whichever account is connected. The same is true of the ticket: the fields, the pending-order types and the place where history is listed do not change with the type.

The instrument is even more indifferent. Contract size, minimum volume, tick and quote precision are properties of the instrument, published in its specification, and they read the same from every account. So does the session calendar: an instrument is open when the market for it is open, and no account setting moves that.

Together these cover most of what there is to learn early on. Time spent there is not spent in advance of a decision — it is simply work that the decision never touches.

The moment the choice arrives

The moment is not registration and it is not the first time the platform opens. It is the first order with money behind it, because that is the first time the account has to charge for something.

Before that point the question has no inputs. A cost structure is only cheaper or dearer relative to a position size and a rate of trading, and neither of those exists as a number yet. Choosing earlier is not an early decision; it is the same decision made without the two figures it depends on.

The point is easy to recognise from the other side too. As soon as an order is being sized rather than watched, both figures are suddenly available, and the comparison becomes arithmetic instead of guesswork.

Reading order: instrument first, account second

The instrument specification fixes the numbers that turn a price move into money: contract size, minimum volume, tick. Those come first because they are true regardless of the account, and because they set the smallest sensible unit of everything that follows.

Only after that does the account type have anything to say, and what it says is narrow: how the cost of that movement is charged, and how small a position it will take. Read in the other order, the account type looks like the important choice; read in this order, it turns out to be the last step rather than the first.

A sequence that leaves the choice until it has inputs

  1. Set up the chart that will actually be looked at — a timeframe, one or two indicators, nothing more.
  2. Open the specification of every instrument on the watchlist and write down contract size, minimum volume and tick.
  3. Note the session hours of those instruments against the clock you keep, so it is clear which of them can be watched at all.
  4. Work out what one unit of movement is worth at the smallest volume the instrument allows: that figure comes from the instrument, not from the account.
  5. Only now compare cost structures, using the position size and the rate of trading that steps one to four have made concrete.

Steps one to four give the same answer on every account type. Only step five depends on which type is open.

Questions that can be answered now, and questions that cannot

QuestionAnswerable now?What the answer needs
What is this chart pattern doing?YesThe chart, from any account type
How large is one contract in this instrument?YesThe instrument specification
Is this market open at this hour?YesThe session calendar of the instrument
Where is a pending order placed?YesThe platform layout
What will one round turn cost?Not yetA position size, then a cost structure
Which account type should be opened?Not yetThe same two inputs as the line above

The line where the answer turns from yes into not yet is the point at which the account type starts to matter.

Frequently asked questions

Does the account type change how a chart behaves?
No. Timeframes, objects, templates and indicators belong to the platform installation, so a chart looks and works the same whichever Exness account type is connected to it.
Does the account type change an instrument's contract size?
No. Contract size, minimum volume, tick and quote precision are properties of the instrument and are published in its specification. They read the same from every account.
Does the account type change when a market is open?
No. Session hours and the daily rollover are set by the market for each instrument, and no account setting moves them.
At what point does the account type first make a difference?
At the first order that costs money. From that order onwards the type decides how the cost is charged — a spread on its own, or a spread with a commission beside it — and how small a position will be accepted.
Can the interface be learned before an account type is chosen?
Yes, and none of it has to be relearned afterwards. Where the ticket is, how a pending order is set and where the history sits are properties of the platform.
Which two inputs does the choice actually need?
A typical position size and how often positions are opened. Until both exist as figures, one cost structure cannot be called cheaper than another, because cheaper is only defined relative to those two.

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