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What you can do with Exness

Exness is TakeProfit’s CFD broker, integrated into the platform’s trading stack. Once your account is connected, you can do all of the following without leaving your workspace:
  • Trade CFDs — on your Exness account, without leaving the chart.
  • Place orders from the Order form — market, limit and stop orders, with Take Profit and Stop Loss.
  • Trade directly on the chart — drag entry, TP, and SL levels, or right-click to place an order at any price.
  • Track your account — balance, open positions, PnL, and order history in the Account widget.
  • Earn up to 40% of your fees back — the optional Cashback program.
Your funds always stay with Exness — TakeProfit is the interface that places and manages the orders.
Get up to 40% cashback. Trading works with any connected Exness account. Cashback is paid on an account registered under TakeProfit, at a rate that depends on the account type. See how to create your account →

Connect with API Keys

  1. Open the API Management page in your Exness account.
  2. Create a new API key and give it a name.
  3. Under Scopes, choose Trading → Full access.
  4. Copy the API Key, the API Secret and your Exness Account ID.
  5. Paste them into TakeProfit and click Connect.
  6. After a successful connection, your account data will automatically sync.
The account has to be opened on the Exness platform, since that is what issues API keys. Sub-accounts created for MT4 or MT5 cannot issue them, so check the platform when you open the account rather than after — this applies to demo accounts too. The full procedure, including the optional IP allowlist, is on the Exness Cashback page.

Practice with a demo account

Want to test a strategy before putting real capital behind it? Connect an Exness demo account. It connects just like a live one because Exness uses the exact same API for both. Simply create an API key with Trading → Full access and paste it into TakeProfit to start trading from the order form and chart with virtual funds. Demo accounts must be opened directly on the Exness platform. Sub-accounts created specifically for MT4 or MT5 cannot issue API keys, and each API key links to a single account.
An Exness demo account is the only way to practise on an instrument you trade through TakeProfit’s own order form — Bybit and Binance connections are live-only. Lime offers its own demo, used from the Lime widgets rather than the order form. See Brokers & Exchanges.

When an API key expires

Exness lets you set an expiry date on an API key. An expired key stops working on the broker side, so the connection goes quiet until you replace it. You don’t need to disconnect the account and set it up from scratch: create a new key in your Exness API Management with the same scopes, then use Update API Key on the connected account and paste in the new credentials.

Margin & Leverage

Exness sends no Margin Call or Stop Out notification. A stop out arrives as an ordinary position close, with nothing to announce it, so watch the margin level in the Account widget yourself.
Exness sets your leverage, and it cannot be changed from TakeProfit. There is no single maximum — accounts with Unlimited leverage are supported. During Exness’s Higher Margin Requirements windows, leverage is temporarily reduced. TakeProfit shows the reduced value while that is in force, so what you see is what applies to the order you are about to place. Margin mode and position mode are managed in your Exness account rather than here.

Frequently asked questions

The CFD instruments available on your Exness account. Exness market data is on the charts and in Platform Search even before you connect — connecting adds order routing on top.
Market, Limit and Stop orders. Stop-limit and trailing stop orders are not supported.Take Profit and Stop Loss can be attached when you place any order type, and added or edited on a position that is already open. See Using Order Entry for what each field does.
TP/SL always covers the whole position rather than part of it, it always closes at market, and a position holds one TP/SL pair at a time.
Through Cashback. The account has to be registered under TakeProfit, and the rate depends on the account type — 40% on Standard and Standard Cent, 25% on Pro, and a fixed amount per lot on Zero and Raw Spread.
No. Exness sets your leverage, and it is changed in your Exness account. During Exness’s Higher Margin Requirements windows the reduced value is what TakeProfit shows.
In the Account widget — it shows equity, available balance, unrealized PnL, positions, open orders, and trade history, all synced with your broker. See Track Your Account.
No. You pay Exness’s standard spread and commission, and TakeProfit doesn’t add its own. With Cashback you get part of those costs back.
Yes, with an Exness demo account. Connect it with API keys exactly as you would a live account and trade CFDs with virtual funds — see Practice with a demo account. Demo trading isn’t available on Bybit or Binance.
Keys exist only for a trading account opened on the Exness platform. If the account is on that platform and the option still isn’t there, ask Exness support.
Quantity on Exness is in lots, not in units or currency, and the minimum is usually 0.01.
Only the price and the TP/SL can be edited. Cancel the order and place it again at the size you want.
Stop orders on Exness trigger on the last price only.
Exness sends no Margin Call or Stop Out notification, so a stop out appears as an ordinary position close. Watch the margin level in the Account widget.