LMAX Global – FX trading excellence

LMAX Global offers direct access to the LMAX Exchange central limit order book and peer-to-peer institutional liquidity, delivering transparent price discovery and competitive spreads to clients worldwide, including broker dealers, money managers, MT4/5 brokers and professional traders:

• Tighter spreads on streaming, firm limit order liquidity
• Transparent execution with no ‘last look’ rejections
• Strict price/time priority order matching
• Real-time reports & reconciliation via web or FIX Drop Copy
• Streaming, full order book firm market data
• Access to margin facility and competitive financing rates
• Global exchange infrastructure based in Equinix LD4, NY4, TY3 and SG1

Instruments

Clients have access to our liquidity pools globally and are able to trade over 100 instruments: FX, metals, equity indices, commodities and crypto CFDs:

• LMAX Global UK – trading instrumentsview
• LMAX Global EU – trading instruments view
• LMAX Global NZ – trading instruments view

Trading hours

• BST ‐ Trading Hours Schedule ‐ Sunday 30 March 2025 to Saturday 25 October 2025 download
• DST ‐ Trading Hours Schedule ‐ Sunday 9 March 2025 to Saturday 29 March 2025 download

Connectivity

24-hour professional access with optimum connectivity, ensuring highest quality of trade execution

Access

API trading more

LMAX Global Application Programming Interface (API) technology enables clients to automate their trading strategies and use our customisable client libraries (Java, .NET) or our FIX protocol for their integration.

LMAX Global API FAQs

FIX/API users benefit from:

• Free direct access to all our markets
• Ultra-low latency, anonymous trading
• Secure protocol
• Access up to 20 levels of market depth (via FIX only)
• Access to a knowledgeable API technical support team
• Risk-free testing in the demo environment

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Read API requirements - more

To use LMAX Global APIs, you must:

• Enter into a license agreement with LMAX Global - the LMAX Global API Agreement is entity specific which you will find on the New Clients page of the regional section.
• Have access to the expertise to implement complex computer programs in the supported languages.
• Understand you will be charged an inactivity fee if the minimum trading thresholds are not met.

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Request API libraries - more

.NET	Please send an email to [email protected] to request our LMAX .NET API
FIX	Please send an email to [email protected] to request our FIX Protocol library
Java	Please send an email to [email protected] to request our LMAX Java API

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Web trading more

Our web trading technology delivers clients:

• Direct access to all our markets
• Low latency, anonymous trading
• Streamlined efficient and superior execution
• Easy to use and feature-rich professional User Interface

More details about web trading can be found in our Trading Manual on the new clients page under the different entities. close

Mobile trading more

Get fast, mobile access to all LMAX Global markets, pricing and up-to-the-minute FX news.

The LMAX Global Trading app, available for Android™ and iOS®, is seamlessly integrated with all LMAX Global markets, delivering fast trading access, the very latest VWAP FX market data and up to the minute, vital, global FX news – at the touch of a screen.

• Available for iOS and Android

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The app puts powerful trading tools in the palm of your hand. FX and CFD trades can be placed and managed on any Android™ or iOS® device, smartphone or tablet, through an orderly, intuitive interface.

Trade features

• Access to a wide range of instruments: rolling spot FX, metals, indices, commodities & crypto currencies
• Up to 15 levels of market depth
• Transparent price discovery, no ‘last look’ rejections with strict price/time priority order execution

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• Multiple order types, including take profit and stop-loss contingent orders, to manage your risk
• 1-click trading, close, cancel or partial close position
• Real-time account status information to manage your positions
• Monitor key markets, with real-time prices, via your own customisable ‘Watchlist’
• Trade securely and with ease using touch ID

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Real-time account status information

• Account balance
• Open position
• Working orders

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• Trading history
• Activity and account notification

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Charts

• Track markets and trends using live & historical data
• Interactive charts (zooming/panning)
• Wide selection of timescale intervals

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• Long tap enable/disable detail tooltip

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VWAP features

• Real-time, no ‘last look’ VWAP prices for specified order size
• Prices for all LMAX liquidity pools (London LD4, New York NY4, Tokyo TY3 and Singapore SG1)
• Up to 20 levels of market depth for all instruments

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• Simple switching between instruments and venues

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We deliver fast, secure and flexible access to help optimise trading.

News features

• Global economic news
• Global FX insights with market research, analytics and opinion delivered in audio, video & report format
• Global economic calendar for advanced warning of important economic events

The app is free to download and use with either a live or demo LMAX Global account (register for a free demo account via the app or at www.lmax.com/demo).

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Technology partners

We are integrated with all major technology and MT4/5 bridge providers: