Why choose Trading.md
Five things that set us apart, plus the list of what we do not do. We would rather you learn them now, not after opening an account.
The Trading.md team
An ordinary beginning
The company's founder started studying the markets in the autumn of 2009 and has traded on a live account since January 2010. The first broker he worked with turned out to be a fraud — but that only became visible after almost two years of practice and a burned account.
The lesson was that brokers are not interchangeable. They differ above all in what they want from the client. Trading is hard even with a good partner; with a bad one, it becomes impossible.
The gap became visible then too: Moldova had no representative office or partner of a regulated broker serving Moldovan clients. Exchange activity existed — but through offshore firms and schemes. What was missing was access to the real, regulated market. Everything you read below started from there.
We remember how much we wished, in our first years on the markets, that there were someone to explain. But someone trustworthy!
Not one partner, but a list
A firm representing a single broker has a single answer to every question. We work with several partners, and that changes the conversation: we do not convince you one fits — we start from what you want to do and compare what each one offers.
Directions differ. Someone trading short-term looks for low execution costs and fast platforms. Someone buying shares for ten years looks for custody and exchange access. It is rarely the same partner. And if your needs change in a year, you change the partner — our support stays.
- Partners for trading, and partners for real investing.
- Conditions we negotiated for clients, at no extra cost over the public rates.
- Comparison on real data: platforms, costs, instruments, deposit and withdrawal methods.
- Changing or adding a partner stays possible at any time, with the same support from us.
Regulated partners only
The first selection rule, from 2018 to today: the partner must be regulated by at least one top-tier financial authority (Tier 1). Before becoming a partner, each one is tested by us, the way we know how, with our own money, sometimes for two years.
- Every partner page shows the licences, the registration numbers and the link to the conduct authority's public register.
- Your money never passes through our accounts — the account is opened directly with the partner, in your name.
Partner banks
Not just brokerage companies. The difference is not cosmetic. A bank is supervised as a bank: a different level of capital requirements, bank custody of assets, an account that can hold several currencies. For anyone who wants to hold shares and funds long-term, it matters.
- Bank custody for the assets you hold, not just a trading account.
- Prudential banking supervision, on top of capital-market regulation.
- A multi-currency account and banking services alongside the investment account.
Moldova's financial system
Almost everything online about the exchanges is written for another country: a different tax regime, a different bank, different transfer rules.
Our site has a whole section dedicated to the local market — the institutions, the exchanges, government securities, taxation, currency-risk hedging for firms — besides the access to international markets through the regulated partners.
- How trading gains are taxed in the Republic of Moldova and which declaration is filed.
- The role of the NBM and the CNPF, what each regulates and what is changing in the legislation.
- The Moldova Stock Exchange, the international exchange in authorisation, government securities through eVMS.
- Currency-risk hedging for Moldovan firms that import or export.
The whole field on one site
Trading.md covers every exchange activity relevant to its users: not just trading but investing too, not one broker but several, not only brokers but banks as well, all regulated, not only international markets but the local one too, different platforms, every asset class traded on the exchanges, the analysis tools, plus the education and technical support around them.
- Education from the first steps to specialisations, as a course, a consultation or free material.
- A glossary of 356 terms, suitability tests, calculators, charts, an economic calendar.
- A library of books and guides, including our own material written for the reader in Moldova.
- Analysis tools for trading and for investing, in the same interface.
People in Chisinau, not a contact form
An international broker's support answers in English, at a help centre in another country, following a script. We are a few bus stops away, in central Chisinau, and we speak your language.
We are traders and investors first, employees of a company second. We have been through document verification, through rejected transfers, through platforms that will not start. That is why our support does not stop at "contact the broker".
- Assisted account opening, step by step, document verification included.
- Remote technical assistance, with screen sharing, for platform install and settings.
- Mediation with the partner if a deposit or withdrawal problem appears.
- Education built on years of our own market practice, not on translated textbooks.
What we do not do
A reason to trust is worth as much as the list of things refused. These are ours.
We are not a brokerage company
We do not open accounts, execute orders or hold anyone's money. The account is opened directly with the regulated partner, in your name, and the money sits there.
No signals, no money management
We do not tell you what to buy and when. We take no money under management and run no client accounts. The decisions are yours; we explain how they are made.
We do not promise profit
Nobody can. Any return figure you see somewhere as a promise is an alarm signal, not an offer. Past results do not indicate future ones.
What working with us costs you
The question comes early and deserves a straight answer, not a sales page.
The free education
The articles, guides, the glossary, the suitability tests and the analysis tools are open to anyone, with no account and no conditions.
The courses and consultations
They are paid services, with the price shown on each page. The first consultation — the needs assessment — is free.
The intermediation
It adds nothing to what you pay the partner. We receive a share of the trading costs the partner collects.
From the first conversation to the first account
The needs assessment
A free conversation, online or at the office, about what you want to do and what fits you. No obligations.
Choosing the partner
We show you the partners covering the chosen direction, with their real conditions. The decision stays yours.
Opening the account
We assist with registration, document verification and installing the platform.
Education and support
Courses if you want structure, free material if you want your own pace, support when a problem appears.
What people ask us
No. We are an education and intermediation firm. The trading account is opened directly with one of the regulated partners, and your money stays there, not with us. The Republic of Moldova has no local brokerage companies offering access to the international exchanges — it has intermediation firms, and that is our activity.
Start with a conversation, not a deposit
The first consultation is free and involves opening no account. We talk about what you want to do, tell you what is possible and what is not, and the decision stays yours.
Risk note. Trading and investing on the financial markets carry the risk of losing capital. Past results do not indicate future ones. Trading.md offers no investment recommendations or trading signals and does not manage client funds.
Some of our partners offer leveraged instruments, including contracts for difference (CFDs). According to the standardised warnings published in the European Union under the ESMA rules, between 74% and 89% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs. The exact percentage differs from company to company and is shown on each partner's page.
Trading.md is operated by Royal Consulting S.R.L., IDNO 1012600000608, based in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. The company holds no authorisation from the National Commission for Financial Markets and provides no investment services.