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Cent Trading Account

Trade live markets at a hundredth of the usual position size. Your balance is held in cents, so a small deposit goes further and every mistake costs proportionately less. Same MT5 server, same liquidity, same leverage as our other accounts.

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$10

Minimum deposit

1:1000

Maximum leverage

0.01

Minimum lot size

1/100

Contract size

Overview

What is a Cent Account?

A cent account is a live trading account whose balance is denominated in cents rather than dollars. Deposit ten dollars and your MT5 terminal shows a balance of 1,000. Contract sizes shrink by the same factor, so one lot on a cent account represents 1,000 units instead of the standard 100,000.

Everything else is identical to a standard account. Orders route to the same liquidity providers on the same server, spreads widen and tighten with the real market, swaps apply as normal, and weekend gaps hit you exactly as they would on any other account. It is real money and a real market — only the scale is different.

That makes it a practical middle ground between a demo account, where perfect fills teach you nothing about slippage, and a fully funded account, where a sizing error is expensive. At Absel Markets you can open one from USD 10.

How to open a cent account in 3 simple steps:

Register and verify your identity by submitting the required documentation.
Fund your account with a minimum of USD 10 using any of our deposit methods.
Select the cent account type. Your MT5 login and password are issued once the account is approved.

How it works

How your balance works

Your deposit is converted into cents at a fixed rate of 100 cents to the dollar. The conversion is one-directional in appearance only — when you withdraw, the balance converts back at exactly the same rate. Profit and loss is settled in USD.

Because both your balance and your position sizes are scaled by the same factor, your percentage returns are identical to what they would be on a standard account. A strategy that returns 4% in a month returns 4% here too — the absolute figures are just a hundred times smaller.

$10You deposit

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1,000Shows in MT5

$100You deposit

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10,000Shows in MT5

$500You deposit

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50,000Shows in MT5

1.00Lot on a cent account

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0.01Lot on a standard account

Why it helps

Advantages of a Cent Account

The value of a cent account is not that it is cheap. It is that it lets you make the mistakes every trader makes at a scale where they teach you something instead of ending your account.

0.01

Minimum trade size

Position sizing becomes granular enough to risk a sensible percentage of a small balance, rather than being forced into oversized trades.

1:1000

Full leverage

The same maximum leverage available on our Standard and ECN accounts, across every instrument we offer.

Live

Real market conditions

Genuine spreads, genuine slippage and genuine execution latency. Demo accounts hide all three.

MT5

Same platform

The same terminal, the same charts and the same expert advisor files you would run on any other account.

Strategy testing

Testing a strategy or expert advisor live

Backtests and demo accounts share a common weakness: they assume your order gets filled at the price you asked for. Live markets do not work that way. Spreads widen around news, liquidity thins at the session rollover, and a strategy that looks profitable in the strategy tester can lose money the moment real execution is involved.

A cent account closes that gap. Run the same expert advisor file you intend to deploy, on the same server, against the same order book — at a hundredth of the exposure. If the edge survives a month of live fills at cent scale, it is far more likely to survive at standard scale.

Because leverage, minimum lot size and the platform itself are unchanged, no part of your strategy needs rewriting when you move up. Only the account number changes.

Next step

Moving to a Standard or ECN account

There is no fixed period you must spend on a cent account. When your position sizing is consistent and your strategy has held up across a few different market conditions, you can open a Standard or ECN account from within the client portal and fund it directly.

Cent, Standard and ECN accounts can be held at the same time under one client profile, so you can keep testing new ideas at cent scale while trading your established strategy at full size. Funds move between your accounts through the client portal without a new application.

If you are unsure which tier suits you, our support team can walk through the differences with you before you commit.

FAQ

Any questions? We're here to help.

A cent account is a live trading account whose balance is expressed in cents rather than dollars, at a fixed rate of 100 cents to the dollar. Contract sizes are scaled down by the same factor, so one lot represents 1,000 units instead of 100,000. Your orders go to the same liquidity providers on the same MT5 server as every other Absel Markets account — only the denomination and the position size differ.

Your deposit is multiplied by 100. A USD 10 deposit appears as a balance of 1,000, and a USD 100 deposit appears as 10,000. Withdrawals convert back at exactly the same rate, so nothing is gained or lost in the conversion. Profit and loss is settled in USD.

USD 10. This is the lowest entry point of any Absel Markets account type, compared with USD 100 for a Standard account and USD 500 for an ECN account. You can fund it using any of our supported deposit methods, all of which carry no deposit fee.

The denomination and the contract size. A cent account is held in cents with a 1,000-unit contract size; a standard account is held in US dollars with a 100,000-unit contract size. Leverage, platform, execution model, minimum lot size and available strategies are the same on both. Spreads on a cent account start from 2.3 pips against 0.7 pips on a Standard account, which covers the cost of maintaining the cent structure at much smaller ticket sizes.

No. A demo account uses simulated money and, on most platforms, simulated fills — orders execute at the requested price regardless of what the real market is doing. A cent account uses real money routed to real liquidity providers, so you experience genuine spreads, slippage and execution latency. That difference is the entire reason cent accounts exist.

Up to 1:1000 across every instrument, which is the same maximum available on our Standard and ECN accounts. Leverage at this level magnifies losses as well as gains and can consume your entire balance from a small adverse move. We strongly recommend sizing your positions from your stop loss rather than from the maximum margin the platform will permit.

Yes. Expert advisors, algorithmic trading, hedging and scalping are all permitted, with no strategy restrictions. Because the platform and minimum lot size are identical to a standard account, the same EA file runs on both without modification — making a cent account a practical way to validate an EA against live execution before scaling it up.

Cent accounts cover forex, metals, indices and crypto CFDs. Cent instruments carry a .c suffix in the MT5 Market Watch, for example XAUUSD.c. Not every instrument in our full range is available at cent scale — the complete list is visible in your terminal once the account is open, and our support team can confirm availability for a specific symbol.

Yes. All account types can be held simultaneously under a single client profile, so you can trade your established strategy at full size while testing new ideas at cent scale. Funds can be moved between your accounts through the client portal without submitting a new application.

Withdrawals work exactly as they do on any other Absel Markets account. Your cent balance converts back to US dollars at the same fixed rate of 100 cents to the dollar, and requests are processed within 24 hours through the same methods available for deposits.

Start small. Trade for real.

Open a cent account from USD 10 and put your strategy against a live market at a hundredth of the exposure.

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