Exness Account Types — What the Word Account Means Here (Jordan)

Where a trading account stops behaving like a bank account

• The account is found by a login number issued by the trading platform, not by a name-and-branch pair.
• The base currency is chosen when the account is created and stays with that account; balance, required margin and results are all counted in it.
• The type chosen at creation decides where the cost of trading sits — inside the quote as a spread, or beside it as a commission per lot.
• Standard and Standard Cent carry no separate commission and open with no minimum initial deposit; Pro also carries no commission.
• Raw Spread and Zero state part of the price separately: up to $3.50 per side per lot on Raw Spread, from $0.20 per side on Zero.
• Nothing here behaves like a statement line: a spread is part of the price an order fills at, so it is never listed as a separate charge.

Where the price of each account type sits

The number, not the name

A current account is found by a name and a set of digits printed on a card or a statement. A trading account is found by a login number the platform issues when the account is created; the terminal asks for that number, a password and a server, and everything after that happens against the number.

Nothing in that number encodes a branch, a country or a queue position. It is an address inside the platform, and it is the only thing a terminal needs in order to know whose positions it is showing.

The currency is a property of the account, not a display setting

In a banking app the currency of a screen is often a view: the same money is shown converted, and the conversion is undone by switching the view back. On a trading account the base currency is chosen while the account is being created and then belongs to that account. Balance, required margin and the result of a closed position are all counted in it, and none of them is a converted view of something else.

That is what makes the reading of a trading account unambiguous. A figure on the screen is not the same money shown differently; it is the account's own unit, and the currency question is answered by the account rather than by the screen.

Why a price list can be attached to an account at all

A current account has a tariff, but a tariff describes services: transfers, cards, statements. Here the account type describes how a market price reaches the trader. On Standard, Standard Cent and Pro the whole price sits inside the quote as the spread. On Raw Spread and Zero part of it is pulled out and stated per lot, which is why those two carry spreads from 0.0 pips and a commission line at the same time.

So a choice between five variants is not a choice of service level. It is a choice of where the same cost is written down.

What a statement would never show

A statement lists events: money in, money out, a charge with a date beside it. A spread produces no such line. It is the distance between the two prices quoted at the moment an order fills, so it is already inside the fill price by the time anything is recorded.

A commission on Raw Spread or Zero does appear as its own amount, which is exactly why those two feel more familiar to a reader arriving from banking — and why the other three can look as though trading there costs nothing when it does not.

Reading a trading account with banking vocabulary

Account terms are set by the broker and can change; the table describes how to read them, not what they are on a given day.

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