I’m thinking about opening with Exness. I’ve been checking reliability scores and reading review threads, but I care more about how it behaves over time than a single good week. If you traded there for 3 to 6 months, how steady were MT4/MT5 during busy news hours? Did you see disconnects, freeze, or odd requotes? For withdrawals, what were your usual speeds by method and day of week, and did that stay consistent?
On costs, I’m looking at spread plus commission minus rebate, then adding slippage and any funding fees. If you kept logs, what did your real cost per lot look like on your main symbols? Would you stick with Exness after a quarter, and why?
If you have timestamps or simple metrics you can share, what do they show?
Stable most weeks small hiccups during nfp
Rebates shaved costs but spreads matter more
Look at three things over a quarter. Track server uptime and platform disconnects with a simple ping tool and MT log exports. Record withdrawal requests with timestamps to approval and receipt by method. Save chat transcripts and count time to first useful answer. For cost, build a sheet with spread, commission, and rebate per symbol, then compare to slippage on fills. A broker can look cheap and still cost more if you get slipped. Run a micro test for two weeks and collect fifty trades.
I ran Exness for three months on a small account.
Most days smooth. Two short MT5 disconnects around CPI.
Card withdrawals hit same day for me. Skrill was quicker but the fee ate part of the gain.
Live chat answered fast, email took about a day. Skrill withdrawal reached me in hours. Bank transfer took two business days.