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Best CFD Brokers in Pakistan 2025

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Michael MacKenzie

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Michael MacKenzie

Michael is a writer and editor with over a decade in journalism and publishing. His niche lies in editing and fact-checking content in the financial services sector, with a focus on online brokers and trading platforms. Michael previously reported on politics and economics in the Middle East and edits books for established publishers.

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James Barra

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James Barra

James is an investment writer with a background in financial services. As a former management consultant, he has worked on major operational transformation programmes at prominent European banks. James authors, edits and fact-checks content for a series of investing websites.

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Tobias Robinson

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Tobias Robinson

Tobias is a partner at DayTrading.com, director of a UK limited company and active trader. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry and contributed via CySec to the regulatory response to digital options and CFD trading in Europe. Toby’s expertise and dedication to financial education make him a trusted voice in the industry, including a BBC investigation into digital options.

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Updated

Jul 2, 2025

Here we list the best CFD brokers that are available to traders in Pakistan, following our hands-on tests.

The State Bank of Pakistan deals with financial regulation but unfortunately does not regulate CFD providers at all. To stay safe, only trade with the brokers we have tested and recommend here.

How DayTrading.com Chose The Top Brokers For CFD Traders In Pakistan

To identify the best CFD brokers in Pakistan, we filtered our database of 227 to find only those that accept traders in Pakistan, offer CFD trading, and then established their overall rating by evaluating these critical factors:

How To Choose A CFD Broker In Pakistan

CFD trading in Pakistan is high-risk owing to the nature of the financial product, so you need to have confidence in the broker you deal with.

Over decades of combined experience trading, our experts agree on these as the most important features in a great CFD broker:

Trust

If we had to choose one indispensable thing to look for in a broker it would be reliability. That’s why at DayTrading.com we use our Regulation & Trust Rating system to evaluate brokers according to their regulatory status, track record, transparency on trading conditions, and our personal experience testing them.

You should register with a broker that has a strong trust rating to protect against the huge number of scams and fraudulent brokers that target CFD traders online.

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has warned against this surge of fraudulent activity, noting that they often use social media and mimic legitimate companies’ branding to lure investors.

The SECP does not provide its own list of verified CFD brokers, but you can sign up with a reliable international broker and ensure you’re not dealing with a scam broker by taking these steps:

Markets

You should look for a broker that offers a good range of CFD markets to trade, particularly in areas that you’re interested in and familiar with.

For day traders in Pakistan, that often means short-term plays on the Pakistani rupee (PKR), or stocks on the Pakistan Stock Exchange.

However, we’ve found that few international brokers offer PKR and Pakistani company shares, though we have found important commodities like sugar (Pakistan is among the world’s largest sugarcane producers) and indexes with exposure to Pakistan such as the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Small-Cap ETF.

Pricing

You should choose a CFD broker with low fees to get maximum value for your Pakistani rupees and increase your chances at profit.

This is especially true for day trading, as you’ll often have to open and close numerous positions throughout the day and pile up commission charges while with each trade.

The spread – the gap between the bid and ask price at which you buy and sell an asset – is just as significant, as it acts as a baked-in fee on every trade, so you should research this cost when choosing a broker.

In my experience, CFD brokers often prominently advertise their minimum spreads, but it’s the average spread that’s most important.

Many great brokers are transparent about average spreads and publish this information on their sites; if not, you can often get an idea by trading on a demo account and observing the spread under normal trading conditions.

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Charting Platforms

Whether you stay plugged into markets from 9am to 5pm every day or make quick plays on your mobile app while on the move, you’ll need to use a platform to study price movements and execute trades so you should choose a good one.

We’ve found that the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms have been the industry standard for decades, and are powerful and intuitive enough for both beginners and experienced traders to enjoy using them.

However, many of our testers now gravitate toward newer options with slicker interfaces and integrated features. TradingView has emerged as a strong contender in recent years thanks to its host of useful research tools – you can easily check economic news and calendars for Pakistan and seamlessly click over to charts for specific assets to execute CFD trades, for example.

Leverage

Leverage is one of the most important features of CFDs as it allows you to boost your trading position and profit potential by using borrowed funds.

Since this also magnifies risk, we always suggest that traders limit their leveraged trades to manageable amounts, especially while trading volatile instruments.

Regulators in Europe and elsewhere have set limits at 1:30 for major forex pairs and 1:5 for individual stocks, for example, though you will find that brokers in Pakistan aren’t bound by these rules and may offer far higher limits.

It’s incredibly important to be aware of a broker’s rules for trading CFDs with leverage, so I always check for the amount of leverage available, whether it is flexible, what stop-out limit the broker imposes, and whether there are safeguards for traders such as negative balance protection.

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Account Options

With the wrong broker, it can be slow and expensive to fund your account using Pakistani rupees, so you should always consider this before signing up.

Pakistani rupees are not the most widely available account base currency, but you might find a cheap way to convert PKR to USD or another currency through a digital payment service.

Payoneer and Moneygram are two popular options in the country, but with the introduction of a Pakistani crypto council in 2025, you might also consider using brokers that accept Bitcoin payments and other crypto tokens for account funding.

You may also want to consider other important account options, such as whether an Islamic account is available.

These accounts do not impose interest charges on trades that remain open overnight, so they may be suitable for the many Pakistani traders who follow Islamic principles.

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