AVATrade (founded in 2006 as AVAFX) is part of Dublin-based AVA Capital Markets Ltd. and offers clients trading currencies, stocks, commodities and indices. AVATrade is regulated and monitored by the Irish financial supervisory authority IFSC. AVATrade offers also a trading platform with either MetaTrader 4 or the in-house platform AVATrader. HotForex is a broker relatively unknown. This broker enables trading with both CFDs and Forex. According to its own statements, the broker can employ more than 140 employees around the world, serves more than 350,000 customers, supports 22 languages and has won more than 20 awards. The broker is regulated by CySEC.