Worked example
Practising on TitanFX's numbers
This is an exercise sheet, not a review. We are going to take three things that TitanFX 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
TitanFX 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. TitanFX offers 3 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.
- StandardThe entry rung. Whatever the published spread applies to, it is almost always this one — so this is the rung your arithmetic above describes.
- BladeA higher rung usually trades a tighter spread for a commission, a larger deposit, or a status test. Convert both pricing models to money per lot before you decide either is cheaper.
- DemoA higher rung usually trades a tighter spread for a commission, a larger deposit, or a status test. Convert both pricing models to money per lot before you decide either is cheaper.
Account names as published: Standard, Blade, Demo. Platforms listed: MT4, MT5.
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 TitanFX's lines, each with a plain reading.
| Regulator | Entity on the register | Number | What that means for a beginner |
|---|---|---|---|
| VFSC (Vanuatu Financial Services Commission) · Vanuatu | Titan FX Limited | Company No. 40313 | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
| BVI Financial Services Commission · British Virgin Islands | Atlantic Markets Limited | SIBA/L/23/1124 | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
| FSC Mauritius · Mauritius | Titan Markets | GB20026097 | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
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. 3 lines are offshore registrations; treat those as a company address rather than as supervision.
The record behind these numbers
- Titan FX Limited is registered in Vanuatu under company number 40313 and is licensed as a securities dealer by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission, with a registered office in the Govant Building, Port Vila.
- The group also lists Atlantic Markets Limited under BVI Financial Services Commission licence SIBA/L/23/1124 and Titan Markets under FSC Mauritius licence GB20026097.
- Titan FX states all client funds are fully segregated from company funds and held in separate bank accounts.
- Titan FX is a member of the Financial Markets Association of Vanuatu, a self-regulatory body for VFSC-licensed dealers.
- Vanuatu, BVI and Mauritius authorisations are offshore regimes and are not equivalent to FCA, ASIC or CFTC/NFA supervision.
What we could not verify
The following are unconfirmed and are deliberately left blank rather than estimated: founding year; minimum deposit; maximum leverage; EUR/USD spread; negative balance protection. 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
PipMentor does not rank brokers, does not award badges and does not tell you where to open an account. This page exists so the arithmetic you learn in the curriculum has real numbers to bite on.