Worked example
Practising on FXDD's numbers
This is an exercise sheet, not a review. We are going to take three things that FXDD publishes — a spread, a ladder of account types and a list of licences — and turn each of them into something you can do arithmetic with. By the end you should be able to repeat the whole exercise on any firm you come across, which is the actual skill being taught.
The figures we are working from
Nothing below is our estimate. Where a firm has not published something, or we could not read it on a source we trust, the box says so instead of guessing — a habit worth copying when you build your own broker notes.
Exercise one — turn the spread into money
FXDD does not publish a EUR/USD spread we were able to verify, so there is no honest arithmetic to do on this page. Do not substitute a number you read on a comparison site: an unverified spread quietly becomes an unverified cost, and then an unverified plan. Use one of the other examples on the practice index for this exercise and come back to this file for the account ladder below.
Exercise two — read the account ladder
Account tiers are a pricing structure dressed as a status ladder. FXDD offers 0 rungs. Read them as a question — what does each rung ask of me, and what does it give back? — rather than as a set of prizes to climb towards.
Exercise three — what this licence list means for you
A long licence list is not automatically a good sign. What matters to a beginner is a narrower question: which entity would hold my money, and who supervises that entity? Those are often not the same as the impressive name at the top of the list. Here are FXDD's lines, each with a plain reading.
| Regulator | Entity on the register | Number | What that means for a beginner |
|---|---|---|---|
| MFSA · Malta | Triton Capital Markets Ltd | Class 2 Investment Services Licence | a mid-tier regulator: real supervision and a register, usually with a smaller or capped compensation scheme — no longer active |
No top-tier line appears on this file. That does not make the firm illegitimate, but it does mean the compensation-scheme and capital-rule protections a beginner usually assumes are present are not evidenced here.
The record behind these numbers
- The MFSA published a notice that Triton Capital Markets Ltd (Malta company C 48817, formerly FXDD Malta Limited, LEI 549300GVL196DN9P3377) requested and the MFSA accepted the surrender of its Class 2 Investment Services Licence with effect from 25 August 2026, describing the surrender as entirely voluntary and not the result of regulatory action.
- Finance Magnates reported in August 2026 that FXDD was left without EU authorisation after the surrender, and that Belgium's FSMA had recorded 24 March 2026 as the end date for Triton's cross-border permission in Belgium.
- FXDD's own website (fxdd.com /pe/en/about, checked September 2026) still states that FXDD Malta holds a Category 3 licence from the MFSA - stale after the surrender notice.
- FXDD's company page says the brand adopted MetaTrader starting with MT3 in 2003, later MT4 and MT5, and reports 22 years of industry experience and 450,000+ clients.
What we could not verify
The following are unconfirmed and are deliberately left blank rather than estimated: hq: current HQ not verified after the Malta licence surrender; legalEntities: no currently active licence found for the brand; media report it unregulated, not verified on a register; minDeposit: not verified; maxLeverage: not verified; spreadEurusd: not verified; accountTypes: not verified; instruments: not verified from a legal page; segregatedFunds: own site headline claims segregation under the former Malta licence; T&C not verified; negativeBalanceProtection: not verified; publiclyListed: current ownership unclear (media name Currency Mountain Malta LLC as Triton's direct owner). Confidence in this file overall: medium. When you build your own notes on a firm, keep a list like this one — the gaps are more useful than the figures, because they tell you what to go and check.
Run the same exercise on another firm
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