Moneta Markets Review: Key Findings for 2022

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Moneta Markets is a new brand under parent company Vantage Group, which offers traders the MetaTrader suite of platforms as well as a basic web and mobile app. While it does support a decent range of third-party features, Moneta Markets has lackluster research and educational offerings, and its pricing is average.

Moneta Markets pros & cons

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  • Moneta Markets has regulatory status in one tier-3 jurisdiction and is part of Vantage Group, which holds licenses in two tier-1 jurisdictions.
  • Holds indemnity insurance to provide protection in addition to its regulatory coverage.
  • DupliTrade is available for social copy-trading.
  • Offers the MetaTrader suite alongside its own proprietary platforms WebTrader and AppTrader.

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  • Moneta Markets is not a good choice for low-cost trading.
  • Some modules on Moneta Markets site were outdated, and some simply did not load.
  • The WebTrader platform and related mobile AppTrader lack integrated trading tools.
  • Offers a smaller range of markets than leading multi-asset brokers.
  • Despite providing Trading Central add-ons and branded Moneta TV daily video content, Moneta Markets lacks comprehensive, quality market research.
  • There are over 100 educational videos in the Moneta Markets Masters Course, but there is a distinct absence of in-depth written articles.

Overall Summary

FeatureMoneta Markets
Overall 4 Stars
Trust Score 83
Offering of Investments 3.5 Stars
Commissions & Fees 4.5 Stars
Platforms & Tools 4 Stars
Research 3.5 Stars
Mobile Trading Apps 3.5 Stars
Education 3.5 Stars

Is Moneta Markets safe?

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Trust Score

Moneta Markets is considered average-risk, with an overall Trust Score of 83 out of 99. Moneta Markets is not publicly traded, does not operate a bank, and is authorised by two tier-1 regulators (high trust), zero tier-2 regulators (average trust), and one tier-3 regulator (low trust). Moneta Markets is authorised by the following tier-1 regulators: Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Learn more about Trust Score.

Regulations Comparison

FeatureMoneta Markets
Year Founded 2009
Publicly Traded (Listed) No
Bank No
Tier-1 Licenses 2
Tier-2 Licenses 0
Tier-3 Licenses 0
Trust Score 83

Offering of investments

The range of markets available will depend on which Moneta Markets entity and platform you use, with up to 266 symbols available across various CFD markets including forex, shares, indices, commodities, and metals.

Cryptocurrency: Cryptocurrency trading is available at Moneta Markets through CFDs, but not available through trading the underlying asset (e.g. buying Bitcoin). Note: Crypto CFDs are not available to retail traders from any broker’s U.K. entity, nor to U.K. residents.

The table below summarizes the different investment products available to Moneta Markets clients.

Moneta Markets offering of investments:

FeatureMoneta Markets
Forex Trading Yes
CFD Trading Yes
Tradeable Symbols (Total) 266
Forex Pairs (Total) 45
US Stock Trading (Non CFD) No
Int’l Stock Trading (Non CFD) No
Social Trading / Copy-Trading Yes
Cryptocurrency (Physical) No
Cryptocurrency (CFD) Yes
Crypto Disclaimer (UK) Note: Crypto CFDs are not available to retail traders from any broker’s U.K. entity, nor to U.K. residents (except to Professional clients).

Commissions and fees

Trading costs at Moneta Markets vary depending on which of its three account options you choose: the commission-based STP and Moneta Prime accounts, or the commission-free True ECN account. Moneta Markets’ STP account is an expensive option for forex trading, while pricing for its True ECN account is closer to the industry average with tighter spreads and a commission of $6 per round-turn lot. Overall, Moneta Markets’ pricing can’t compete with the best forex brokers.

Spread-only accounts: The STP account boasts an average spread of 1.22 pips for the EUR/USD pair for the month of August 2021.

Commission-based accounts: The True ECN account features an average spread of 0.15 pips for the EUR/USD pair (during August 2021), and a commission of $3 per side for every 100,000 units (or $6 per round-trip standard lot). This brings the all-in cost for the True ECN account to roughly 0.75 pips, which is slightly below the industry average.

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Moneta Markets Prime account commissions
Moneta Markets average spreads
Moneta Markets STP account commissions
Moneta Markets ECN account commissions

Moneta Markets pricing summary:

FeatureMoneta Markets
Minimum Deposit $50.00
Average Spread EUR/USD – Standard 1.22 (August 2021)
All-in Cost EUR/USD – Active 0.75 (August 2021)
Active Trader or VIP Discounts No
Execution: Agency Broker No
Execution: Market Maker Yes

Mobile trading apps

Moneta Markets offers the MetaTrader suite of platforms (from the brand’s parent company), as well as its own simple AppTrader mobile app. Moneta Markets’ AppTrader mobile app remains very basic, and MetaTrader comes with no extra add-ons beyond the default platform suite, making Moneta Markets a laggard compared to the best MetaTrader brokers.

Apps overview: Moneta Markets provides its own AppTrader platform as well as the full MetaTrader mobile platform suite (MT4 and MT5), all available on Google Play for Android and on Apple’s App Store for iOS devices.

AppTrader is developed by PandaTS, the same developer that helps power the Moneta Markets web platform, while MetaTrader is developed by MetaQuotes Software Corporation.

Ease of use: Though AppTrader is easy to use, there just isn’t much going on in the app and there remains plenty of room for improvement. I’d like to see Moneta Markets mirror some of the web platform’s features on its AppTrader mobile app to more closely unify the experience across devices.

Charting: Charts within AppTrader appear to resemble those available in the web version, except with no indicators and no drawing tools. Also, charts cannot rotate into landscape mode, and watchlists do not sync with the web version. For comparison, Saxo Bank and TD Ameritrade (U.S. citizens only) are examples of brokers that have nearly perfected the art of creating a synced experience across devices (even trend lines are synced across platforms).

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Moneta Markets MetaTrader 4 mobile app watchlist
Moneta Markets MetaTrader 4 mobile app charts
Moneta Markets MetaTrader 4 mobile app economic calendar
Moneta Markets MetaTrader 4 mobile app contract specifications
Moneta Markets MetaTrader 4 mobile app news headlines
Moneta Markets mobile app charts
Moneta Markets mobile app contract specifications
Moneta Markets mobile app settings
Moneta Markets mobile app watchlist

Moneta Markets mobile trading:

FeatureMoneta Markets
Android App Yes
Apple iOS App Yes
Alerts – Basic Fields Yes
Watch List Yes
Watch List Syncing No
Charting – Indicators / Studies 30
Charting – Draw Trendlines Yes
Charting – Trendlines Moveable No
Charting – Multiple Time Frames Yes
Charting – Drawings Autosave Yes
Forex Calendar Yes

Other trading platforms

Moneta Market’s WebTrader platform has a clean layout, but a shallow selection of features. For example, there are no news headlines available, and only four watchlist columns.

Platforms overview: Moneta Markets offers you two choices of trading platforms: the MetaTrader platform suite (MT4 and MT5) developed by MetaQuotes Software Corporation, and the PandaTS-powered Moneta Markets WebTrader app.

Charting: Charts at Moneta Markets are just OK, providing six types, ten drawing tools, 48 indicators, and nine timeframes. The panning and zooming were less smooth than I expected but not terrible, such as when using the dedicated zoom buttons. Brokers like FOREX.com and eToro provide a more comprehensive charting package.

Trading tools: WebTrader offers just a handful of tools, such as Trading Central’s Market Buzz, Featured Ideas, and Economic Calendar. However, these features are not integrated within the platform, and simply redirect to open in a new tab from external link. Fully integrating these tools within the platform is a crucial long-term fix, as it would provide a measurably smoother WebTrader experience, and would allow traders to stay focused on the markets.

Platform usability: The first thing I noticed on the WebTrader platform is the smooth HTML5 that is now the industry standard for web-based trading apps. The platform is also incredibly easy to navigate. While beginners may find the WebTrader platform suitable for their needs, more demanding traders will not. For example, complex order types such as a trailing stop-loss are simply not available on WebTrader.

Sentiment data: The Trader’s Trend section below the order ticket displays sentiment data, but lacks detail beyond a simple percentage ratio of bears to bulls. For comparison, CMC Markets also zooms in on details like the sentiment of its most successful traders, with corresponding daily percentage change information.

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Moneta Markets MT5 desktop trading platform
Moneta Markets MT5 desktop trading platform charts
Moneta Markets MT5 desktop trading platform news headlines
Moneta Markets DupliTrade copy trading
Moneta Markets web trading platform Trading Central Market Buzz
Moneta Markets web trading platform Trading Central featured ideas

Moneta Markets trading platform:

FeatureMoneta Markets
Virtual Trading (Demo) Yes
Proprietary Platform No
Desktop Platform (Windows) Yes
Web Platform Yes
Social Trading / Copy-Trading Yes
MetaTrader 4 (MT4) Yes
MetaTrader 5 (MT5) Yes
cTrader No
DupliTrade Yes
ZuluTrade No
Charting – Indicators / Studies (Total) 48
Charting – Drawing Tools (Total) 10
Charting – Trade From Chart Yes
Watchlists – Total Fields 4
Order Type – Market No

Market research

Moneta Markets provides access to good third-party content from Trading Central, but does not otherwise provide much in the way of in-house research, and therefore trails the industry average in this category, far behind research leaders Saxo Bank and IG.

Research overview: Moneta Markets hosts videos from its Moneta TV series, but otherwise its research content is sourced almost entirely from third-party sources – such as the suite of research tools from Trading Central and streaming headlines from FxWirePro – with little-to-no in-house content.

Market news and analysis: Daily market briefings are available on the broker’s YouTube channel under the Moneta TV series powered by Trading Central. Both video series follow a consistent daily template with a high-level overview of key market movements. Though a bit plain, the videos are quick snippets that I found to be useful and easy to digest. I would like to see these videos integrated into the platform, which would make them easier for traders to consume.

Trading Central: Moneta Markets provides access to several third-party research tools from Trading Central, such as Market Buzz, Featured Ideas, and the Economic Calendar. To access these tools, however, clients will need to maintain an account balance of at least $500. For comparison, some of the best forex brokers offer such content and premium tools for all live account holders. Furthermore, these tools are not directly integrated into the trading platform.

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Moneta Markets daily market analysis
Moneta Markets market sentiment

Moneta Markets research:

FeatureMoneta Markets
Daily Market Commentary Yes
Forex News (Top-Tier Sources) Yes
Autochartist No
Trading Central (Recognia) Yes
Delkos Research No
Social Sentiment – Currency Pairs Yes
Economic Calendar Yes

Education

Moneta Markets’ educational content doesn’t offer much beyond the videos available in its Masters Course. The Masters Course covers multiple asset classes, and deftly explores a variety of topics and categories with brief video clips for beginners, and longer videos for more advanced concepts.

Learning center: The Moneta Markets Masters Course features a total of 114 videos that range from just a few minutes to about ten minutes long, many of which I found to be useful.

Room for improvement: I’d like to see Moneta Markets add more content (such as webinars) to its YouTube channel. It would also benefit from an expansion of its published written content, which would help to fill the gap in its educational offering.

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Moneta Markets TV research
Moneta Markets TV YouTube channel
Moneta Markets TV

Moneta Markets education:

FeatureMoneta Markets
Has Education – Forex or CFDs No
Client Webinars No
Client Webinars (Archived) No
Videos – Beginner Trading Videos Yes
Videos – Advanced Trading Videos Yes
Investor Dictionary (Glossary) No

Final thoughts

Moneta Markets is a Cayman Islands-regulated broker that is backed by its larger parent company Vantage Group, which is a trusted broker regulated in tier-1 jurisdictions.

Testing Moneta Markets left me with a clear takeaway; to compete with the best forex brokers, it needs to enhance its offering in multiple categories. Moneta Markets currently trails the industry average in its research and educational content, and lags behind the best forex brokers in key categories such as trading costs and the availability of mobile trading apps and platforms.

About Moneta Markets

Moneta Markets is a brand of Vantage International Group Limited. Moneta Markets holds its client’s funds at National Australia Bank (NAB), as part of its Cayman Islands offering regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). The brand also holds a license with the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC). Moneta Markets was founded in 2019 and is part of the Vantage Group of companies. With entities that hold regulatory statuses in Australia and the United Kingdom, the group has a history since 2009 (see our Vantage review for more).

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