Account types, read on a handset
Exness account types when the phone is the only screen: Standard, Cent, Pro, Raw Spread, Zero
Standard and Standard Cent ask for no minimum to start; Pro, Raw Spread and Zero sit behind a higher one, set by region. That much is easy to read anywhere. The harder question on a handset is the one after it — where any of it becomes visible once the account exists and an order is a thumb-press away. A phone shows one thing at a time, and the type is never the thing it shows.
Not a settings screen
Where a phone actually shows which type is trading
There is no toggle to hunt for. The type was fixed when the trading account was created inside the Personal Area, and no menu in any mobile terminal can widen or narrow what it charges. It becomes visible in exactly two places, and both of them appear only when an order is being sent.
The quote line
The pair of prices at the top of the instrument. The gap between them is the spread, and on Standard and Standard Cent that gap is the whole of what the broker charges — one figure, already on screen, nothing else to add to it.
The confirmation ticket
The panel that opens over the chart before a position exists. On Raw Spread and Zero a commission per lot is charged beside the spread, so the ticket is where a second, separately charged figure has to be noticed rather than assumed away.
Neither of them is labelled “type”
Pro is the case that catches people out: professional tier, commission-free, so its ticket looks exactly like a Standard one. The account number identifies it, not the shape of the screen.
Zero, only where it applies
On this one the quote line can sit at nothing for a while — that is the arrangement on selected top instruments for much of the trading day, with a commission alongside it. Step outside that set of instruments, or outside those hours, and the line widens again on the very same account, with nothing on the screen announcing that it has.
Counted by what has to be read
How many figures each type puts in front of a thumb
A display that shows a handful of lines at a time makes the count of numbers a real property of an account, not a pedantic one. Sorted by how much has to be read before the confirm button:
| Account | Figures to read before confirming | What that means on a small display |
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| Standard | One — the spread inside the quote. Spread-only, no commission; the default account, and no minimum deposit. | The cost is already on the line being watched; nothing further down the ticket adds to it |
| Standard Cent | One, on the same spread-only basis, with balances and volumes counted in cents | The figure is small enough to misread, which is a digit problem rather than a pricing one |
| Pro | One. Professional and commission-free, on a higher minimum deposit set by region | Reads identically to Standard; the difference is in the terms behind it, never on the ticket |
| Raw Spread | Two — raw pricing, plus a commission charged per lot | The second figure has to be found on the ticket; a scrolled-past ticket hides half the cost |
| Zero | Two, and one of them comes and goes with the instrument and the hour, with a commission beside it | Worth a glance at the quote line each time, because the covered hours are not signposted in the app |
Swipe the table sideways →
The regional minimum for the professional accounts is shown on the official Exness website and inside the Personal Area. Required margin, the value of one price step, spread cost and swap can be worked out per instrument in the trading calculator before any ticket is opened.
The field that costs the most attention
The volume field on a thumb keyboard, and why cent volumes read wrong at first glance
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A hundredth of a lot and a whole lot look alike at a glance
A lot is a standard trade size, and everything smaller is written as a fraction of it — a fraction that lives entirely in the punctuation, typed on a keyboard where a wrong tap is not obvious.
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On a Cent account the same digits mean something else
Balances and volumes there are counted in cents of the account currency, so a figure that would be substantial elsewhere is not, and a figure that looks trivial is proportionate. Nothing is being converted behind the scenes — the unit itself is different, and only the account tells you which unit is in force.
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Read the account number, then the volume — in that order
The habit that survives a small screen is checking which account the ticket belongs to before deciding whether the volume in it is large or small. On a handset those two facts are rarely visible together, so they get read in sequence instead.
Leverage is a per-account setting
Trading with more money than the deposit behind it multiplies losses exactly as it multiplies gains. Each trading account carries its own leverage setting, changed in the Personal Area rather than in the mobile terminal, and the maximum available depends on the instrument, the region and the funds in the account. Leverage in detail →
Practise the typing first
A demo account runs on the same handset, with the same ticket and the same keyboard, before any deposit exists.
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What a narrow header can hold
“Standard” and “Standard Cent” shorten to the same string in a title strip
The strip across the top of a mobile terminal has room for a few characters, and the two spread-only names begin identically. Whatever is cut off is cut off silently. This is why the identifier that survives a small screen is the number, not the name.
Worth knowing before it matters
- The account number is unique and never truncates. It is short, it is on the sign-in screen, and it is the thing to match against the Personal Area when there is any doubt about which of two accounts is in front of you.
- No menu lets you filter by type. The terminal's own account list is a list of numbers; nothing in it groups Standard apart from Standard Cent, so recognising the number is the only reliable move on a narrow display.
- A cropped screenshot rarely settles a question. When something about a position has to be checked, the part that identifies which account it belongs to is the number — and on a hand-width screen that is exactly the strip most likely to be left out of the picture.
- Write it down somewhere the phone is not. If the handset is the whole setup, the number and the platform it was created for are worth keeping outside it as well, because recovering them means signing in to the Personal Area on the device that is currently the problem. The platform matrix explains what that second value decides.
One thing at a time
There is no second window to hold a comparison open
A pricing page and a live ticket cannot be on screen together here. Switching away to check something puts the ticket out of sight, and coming back may find the quote moved. The practical consequence is not that comparison is impossible — it is that comparison has to finish before the ticket opens, and whatever survives the switch has to be legible inside the ticket itself.
Two things make that workable. The type is decided once, at creation, so it is never a live decision; and the ticket, once open, only has to be checked for the figures that type is known to produce — one on Standard, Standard Cent and Pro, two on Raw Spread and Zero. That is a memory task small enough for a screen showing a handful of lines.
Quick answers
Answers for a trader with one screen, one battery and no desk
Can the account type be seen or changed inside the mobile app?
Seen indirectly, changed never. The type is fixed to the trading account when that account is created in the Personal Area, and no setting in any terminal alters it. What the app shows is the consequence — the spread on the quote line, and a separate commission on the ticket for Raw Spread and Zero.
Which type is easiest to read on a phone?
Standard, if the count of figures is what decides it: one number carries everything, and nothing has to be added in the head while a ticket is open. Pro asks the same of the eye. The other two are not harder to trade, but they do put a second line on the ticket that has to be read rather than skipped past.
The header only says “Standard” — is this the Cent account or not?
The header cannot settle it, because both names start with the same word and a narrow strip truncates what follows. Match the account number instead: it appears on the sign-in screen of the terminal and beside the account in the Personal Area, and it is unique to one trading account.
Does a small screen change what any of the five costs?
No. Standard, Standard Cent and Pro keep it in the quote line; Raw Spread and Zero put a commission line on the ticket beside it. Which of the two a trader is looking at is a property of the account, never of the glass.
Is a deposit needed before any of this can be looked at?
No. A demo account with virtual funds opens on the same handset before any money moves, and Standard and Standard Cent accept any starting amount when it does. The professional accounts — Pro, Raw Spread and Zero — show their regional minimum in the Personal Area and on the official Exness website.
All five open from the same handset
Nothing in the sequence needs a second device: the registration, the verification photograph and the account creation form all run on the phone that will later carry the charts, and any of the five types can be opened from it. Full registration walkthrough →
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