Sri Lanka — Choosing an Account, and Opening a Second One
The order in which the account choice is actually made, what cannot be changed afterwards, and how to add another account without touching the first.
Open Exness Account →The account choice on Exness is made in three moves, in this order: base currency, then how the cost is charged, then the tier. Standard and Standard Cent open with no minimum initial deposit and carry $0 commission, so the spread is the whole entry cost. Pro keeps $0 commission with tighter spreads from 0.1 pips, while Raw Spread and Zero move part of the cost into commission for spreads from 0.0 pips. Adding another account later does not replace the first.
Deciding, then opening
- Decide the base currency before the account type. It is chosen when the account is opened and stays with that account.
- Start from how the cost is charged. Standard and Standard Cent open with no minimum initial deposit and carry $0 commission, so the spread is the only entry cost.
- Standard Cent prices balances and trades in cents, which is the tier to pick when the point is to rehearse with real money at a small size.
- Pro keeps $0 commission with tighter spreads from 0.1 pips; Raw Spread and Zero move part of the cost into commission for spreads from 0.0 pips.
- The professional tiers carry a region-based minimum initial deposit, so read the figure the sign-up screen shows rather than assuming one.
- Adding an account later does not replace the first: one profile holds up to 100 MT4 and 100 MT5 accounts, 200 in total, under one login.
- Open the new account from the Personal Area, then connect it in the platform - the trading password is issued per account, not per profile.
Reading the tiers as a cost decision, not a status
The tiers are not a ladder to climb. Standard and Pro charge $0 commission, which means the spread is the whole entry cost and the arithmetic before an order is one multiplication. Raw Spread and Zero quote spreads from 0.0 pips and charge commission instead - up to $3.50 per side per lot on Raw Spread, from $0.20 per side on Zero - so the same arithmetic has a second term.
Which is cheaper depends on the size traded, not on the tier's name. The comparison that matters is spread plus commission on the volume you actually send, worked out on both tiers, at the hour you actually trade.
Opening a second account instead of changing the first
A base currency, an account tier and a swap-free setting all belong to a specific trading account. Changing any of them is done by opening another account, not by editing the existing one, and the profile has room: up to 200 accounts under the same login.
That makes experimenting cheap. A second account on a different tier can be opened and connected in the same platform, and the two sit side by side in the account list. The first account keeps its history, its number and its password.
Choosing, then opening
- Decide the base currency before anything else. It is chosen when the account is opened and cannot be swapped on that account afterwards.
- Decide how the cost should be charged. All-in-the-spread on Standard and Pro, or split between spread and commission on Raw Spread and Zero.
- Pick the tier that matches. Standard for a first live account, Standard Cent to rehearse with real money at cent-sized volume, Pro for tighter spreads without commission.
- Read the deposit line the sign-up screen shows for the professional tiers: their minimum initial deposit is region-based rather than a single published figure.
- Open the account from the Personal Area. It appears in the account list with its own number and its own trading password.
- Connect it in the platform using that account's own password on the server it belongs to, then confirm the header shows the new account number.
One profile carries up to 100 MT4 and 100 MT5 accounts, 200 in total, all under a single login.