Sign-up by thumb

Opening an account with nothing but the phone in your hand (Philippines)

The form is short and the fields are ordinary. What decides whether this takes ten minutes or three days is one step in the middle — the identity check, which is done with your camera and is unforgiving about light, glare and impatience.

Registration happens only on the official exness.com, reached either through the Exness Trade app or in a browser by typing the address yourself. The form asks for an email, a password and a country, then lets you pick an account type — Standard names no minimum initial deposit, so nothing has to be paid at this point. Real trading additionally needs verification, the identity check Exness runs beforehand. A demo account skips that entirely: virtual balance, an email and a password, no documents, no time limit.

Which parts are taps, and which are not

Step	What it needs from you	Where it can stall
Reaching the right page	Typing the address yourself	Following a forwarded link instead
Email and password	An address you can open today	A confirmation sitting unread in another app
Choosing an account type	A decision, not a payment	Guessing before you have sized a trade
The identity check	Light, a flat surface, a steady hand	Glare, blur, a cut-off corner
Setting up the app	A minute	Nothing much
A first deposit	An amount you decided in advance	Letting the screen suggest the figure

The camera step, done properly the first time

Almost every delay people report at this stage is a photograph problem, and every one of them is preventable in the thirty seconds before the shutter.

Daylight, indirectly

Near a window, not facing a lamp. A ceiling light directly overhead is the usual source of the bright patch that swallows half a document.
Flat surface, plain background

A table, not your palm. Held in a hand the document bends, and a bend produces a shadow across exactly the line that matters.
All four corners inside the frame

With a margin. Filling the frame edge to edge is the commonest reason a picture comes back for a second attempt.
Check the photo before sending, at full zoom

Pinch in on the small print. If you cannot read it on your own screen, the picture is not going to be readable at the other end either.

What to do while the check is pending

Waiting is the right moment for the free part of the path. Open a demo account in the same app, find the four screens, place practice orders, watch one run overnight. None of that depends on the verification finishing, and by the time it does you will have spent the wait building the habits that a real account will need on day one.

What not to do while waiting: decide a deposit figure. That number belongs to a calm moment with the safety page open, not to the mild impatience of a pending status. And nothing about the process ever requires sending documents, passwords or codes to anyone through a chat — the official account screens are the only place any of it belongs.

Five things this site cannot do for your sign-up

Open the account. This is an independent guide; registration happens only on exness.com.
See your application. No status, no balance and no document ever reaches these pages.
Speed the check up. A good photograph does that; nothing else does.
Ask you for money. It collects nothing at all — any request for payment in this site's name would not be from here.
Choose your amount. Many people lose money when they start trading, and the figure you set is the part that is yours to control.

Questions about opening from a phone

Can the whole sign-up be done on a phone?

Yes — the app covers the form, the identity check and the account screens. A browser on the same phone reaches the same place.

How do I make sure I am on the real page?

By typing exness.com yourself rather than following a link. On a small screen a lookalike address is very hard to spot.

Does opening an account cost anything?

The form takes no payment. Standard names no minimum initial deposit; the professional types have a region-based minimum shown before anything is paid.

Do I need documents for a demo account?

No. A demo needs an email and a password, and carries no time limit.

What is verification for?

It is the identity check Exness runs before real trading. It belongs to the real account path only.

My photo was rejected. What is usually wrong?

Glare, a bend, a cut-off corner, or motion blur. Flat surface, indirect daylight, all four corners in frame, then zoom in and read it yourself before sending.

Should I deposit straight after registering?

Nothing forces it. The practice stage costs nothing and has no deadline attached to it.

Can I pick the account type later?

Accounts are listed side by side and another can be added; see the account types page for what the line actually changes.

Who do I ask if a step will not complete?

Exness support — the only desk that can see an application. It runs 24/7 in the app and the Exness personal area.

What should the first session after approval be?

A quiet one: check which account is open, place nothing, and re-read the order-screen page before the first real order.

What comes after the form

The practice account

Where the waiting time goes, at no cost.

Start practising

The money section

How deposits and withdrawals work from the phone, in both directions.

Read the order

The first order

Four fields, one confirm, and the check before your thumb lands.

See the screen

The version with no documents at all

A demo account needs an email and a password, runs on virtual money and never expires — the whole app, minus the paperwork. The button opens the official exness.com sign-up through a partner link.

Open a free demo at Exness