AA Global FX
For traders in the United States

Deriv Said No.
Here Is What You Can Trade

The United States was missing from the country list. Nothing is wrong with you, and nothing is wrong with the link. US law blocks most brokers from taking American clients, and there are three legal routes that work instead.

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Why you were blocked
Dodd-Frank
US brokers must be CFTC registered and NFA members. Most offshore brokers skip it.
What still works
ES & NQ
Index futures are open to you, and they are the exact markets this site teaches.
Never do this
No VPNs
Residency is checked at withdrawal. The account trades fine, then the money is frozen.
The reason, in plain English

Why Every Broker
You Have Seen Says No

it is a licensing decision, made long before you clicked the link.

An expensive licence

Serving US retail traders means CFTC registration and NFA membership. Deriv, XM and Exness all decided the cost was not worth it, so they exclude the US instead.

The VPN trap

Brokers check residency at withdrawal, not at signup. Trade well for six months, then get suspended and denied the payout. It is the most expensive mistake a US trader makes.

It is not a downgrade

Fewer brokers and lower leverage is protective. Lower leverage is a big reason US retail traders last longer than offshore ones: the same mistake costs less.

Pick one, in this order

Three Legal Routes

ranked by how closely they match what we teach on this site.

1. Index futures (best fit)

The S&P 500 E-mini (ES) and Nasdaq 100 E-mini (NQ) are wide open to US traders, and they are the markets our strategies were built on. Nothing about the method changes.

See the strategy guides →

2. A funded futures account

Futures prop firms are US companies and welcome American traders. Pay for an evaluation, prove you follow rules, trade their capital. Topstep, Apex Trader Funding and MyFundedFutures all work this way.

How prop firms actually work →

3. NFA-regulated forex

If you specifically want spot forex, five brokers can legally serve you: FOREX.com, OANDA, Interactive Brokers, tastyfx and Charles Schwab. Expect lower leverage than offshore ads promise.

Whichever route you pick

You Still Need
A Chart You Can Read

a futures broker gives you an order ticket. It does not give you a chart you can mark structure on, and that is where every setup on this site actually gets found.

TradingView

It is what our own ES and NQ analysis is drawn on, it is open to US traders, and the free plan is genuinely enough to start. Upgrade only when you need more indicators or alerts.

Open a free TradingView account →

What to set up first

Add ES1! and NQ1! to a watchlist, set the timezone to New York, and put a session marker on 09:30 to 11:00. That single view is where the killzone setups appear.

Then mark it up

Previous day high and low, the overnight range, and the opening range. Three lines. If you cannot see a sweep of one of them, there is no trade, and that is a complete answer.

Affiliate disclosure: the TradingView link above is a partner link. If you subscribe through it they pay us a commission, at no extra cost to you. The free plan costs you nothing and we recommend starting there.

The part people miss

Your Strategies
Do Not Change

price is price. A liquidity sweep at the New York open looks the same on the Nasdaq E-mini as it does anywhere else, because the same institutions are behind both.

What carries over, unchanged

AMD entry trainer

Practise spotting the manipulation leg before you risk a cent. Free, no signup.

Open the trainer →

5-minute candle simulator

Play a buy setup and a sell setup candle by candle, and see where the entry really was.

Play the simulation →

Pre-trade checklist

The desk version. Run every live ES or NQ setup through it before the order ticket.

Run the checklist →

Frequently asked questions

Can US residents open a Deriv account?
No. Deriv does not accept clients resident in the United States, and neither do XM, Exness or most offshore brokers. Under the Dodd-Frank Act a broker serving US retail traders must be registered with the CFTC and be a member of the NFA, which most offshore brokers choose not to do. It is a licensing decision, not something wrong with your application.
Can I use a VPN to trade with an offshore broker from the US?
You should not. Brokers verify residency at withdrawal rather than at signup, so an account can trade normally for months and then fail verification when you try to take money out. Their terms allow suspension, denied withdrawals and permanent closure. You risk the profits and the deposit.
What can US traders legally trade instead?
Three routes: futures (the S&P 500 E-mini ES and Nasdaq 100 E-mini NQ are the closest match to what we teach), a funded account through a US futures prop firm such as Topstep, Apex Trader Funding or MyFundedFutures, or spot forex through one of the NFA-regulated brokers: FOREX.com, OANDA, Interactive Brokers, tastyfx and Charles Schwab.
Do the strategies on this site work on ES and NQ futures?
Yes, directly. The AMD model, session structure, opening range strategy and fair value gap entries were all built on index futures in the first place. A liquidity sweep at the New York open reads the same on the Nasdaq E-mini as anywhere else, because the same institutions are behind it.
Is lower US leverage a disadvantage?
It feels like one and it is not. Lower leverage is a large part of why US retail traders survive longer than offshore ones: the same mistake costs less, so you get more attempts at learning the method.

Start with the method, not the broker

the free course teaches the read that works on ES, NQ and everything else. Learn it on a demo first, then choose between your own small futures account and a funded challenge.

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