Best CFD brokers in Austria

• 30 CFD brokers with a verified licence serve residents of Austria: 30 serve under an EU passport.
• Top pick by Coinish Score: IG (78/100, Editor Rating 4.2/5).
• Lowest advertised EUR/USD all-in cost: 0.1 pips (Deriv), across 16 brokers that publish one.
• No minimum deposit: Deriv.

Ranked by Coinish Score: half the Editor Rating for the entity that serves residents of Austria, half Market Signal. Brokers without enough verified data for a rating are placed by Market Signal and labelled; brokers with neither are listed last. How we rate

Of the 30 CFD brokers on this list, 23 serve Austria from a CySEC licence in Cyprus (FxPro, eToro, FOREX.com and 20 more), 2 serve Austria from a BaFin licence in Germany (IG and CMC Markets), 2 serve Austria from a CBI licence in Ireland (Interactive Brokers and AvaTrade) and 1 serves Austria from a Bank of Latvia licence (Dukascopy); 2 more are licensed by MFSA and CMVM.

ESMA's product intervention measures cap retail CFD leverage at 30:1 on major currency pairs, down to 2:1 on cryptocurrencies. In Austria, FMA (Austria) applies them through its own product-intervention rules. The 5 that publish the regulator-required loss figure report that 51% (eToro) to 75% (XM) of retail CFD accounts lose money; the median is 73%.

Advertised all-in EUR/USD costs on this list run from 0.1 pips (Deriv) to 1.5 pips (Orbex) across the 16 that publish one.

• Search the company name on the FMA (Austria) register (fma.gv.at); for a firm licensed elsewhere, on its home regulator's register too (CySEC, BaFin and CBI for most of this list).
• Check which company your contract is with. IG, for example, onboards residents of Austria through IG Europe GmbH (BaFin licence 148759), and the name on the account-opening documents should match the list.
• Look for the percentage-of-accounts-that-lose-money warning on the broker's site. A firm marketing CFDs to residents of Austria without it is probably not using its regulated entity.

Yes, with a licensed provider. Brokers need MiFID II authorisation from an EEA regulator; firms authorised elsewhere in the EEA may serve residents under the European passport. The FMA permits CFDs for retail clients only under defined conditions (FMA-PIV, in force since 2019).

Sources: fma.gv.at, bafin.de

By Coinish Score, IG (78/100, Editor Rating 4.2/5), through IG Europe GmbH (BaFin licence 148759). FxPro (72) and eToro (72) follow. The score rates the company that would serve you in Austria, so the same brand can rank differently in another country.

Under the FMA-PIV, CFDs sold to retail clients come with leverage limits, a margin close-out, negative balance protection and a ban on incentive schemes. Binary options can't be sold to retail clients at all.

Source: fma.gv.at

Yes. A firm authorised under MiFID II in one EEA country can serve residents of the others once its home regulator has notified them. All 30 on this list reach Austria that way, most from Cyprus (23), Germany (2) and Ireland (2).

The home regulator supervises the firm and its compensation scheme applies, while FMA (Austria) can still set conduct rules for clients in Austria.

Source: bafin.de

If a broker fails, the compensation scheme of the regulator that licenses it applies, not one chosen by where you live. For this list: Investor Compensation Fund (Cyprus): 90% of covered claims, up to €20,000 for clients of CySEC-licensed investment firms (23 on this list); Entschädigungseinrichtung der Wertpapierhandelsunternehmen (EdW): 90% of the claim, up to €20,000 per investor for clients of BaFin-licensed investment firms (2 on this list); Investor Compensation Company (ICCL): 90% of the loss, up to €20,000 per investor for clients of CBI-licensed investment firms (2 on this list); Latvian investor protection (Latvijas Banka): up to €20,000 per investor for clients of Bank of Latvia-licensed investment firms (1 on this list). Compensation covers missing client money and assets after a firm's failure, never trading losses.

Sources: cysec.gov.cy, e-d-w.de, investorcompensation.ie, bank.lv