Step 1: Register on the Exness site
Go to exness.com and click Register. Select South Africa as your country of residence, enter your email address and create a password. This opens your Exness Personal Area, where you manage demo and real accounts.
Step 2: Verify your email and phone number
Confirm the code Exness sends to your email and phone. Exness uses phone or email verification to protect account access.
Step 3: Complete your profile
Add your full legal name, date of birth and address exactly as they appear on your documents, and answer the trading experience questions. Use your real details, because withdrawals only go to payment accounts in the same name.
Step 4: Upload your verification documents
Upload:
- Proof of identity (South African ID or passport)
- Proof of address (recent utility bill or bank statement)
Step 5: Open a trading account
In your Personal Area, choose Open account and pick the account type: Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread or Zero. Choose MT4 or MT5 (Exness Terminal and the Exness Trade app run MT5 accounts).
Step 6: Set your currency and leverage
Select ZAR as the account currency if you will fund in rand. The account currency cannot be changed later. Set your leverage; you can change it in your Personal Area, and lower leverage limits how fast losses build.
Step 7: Fund your account
Choose a deposit method in the Payments area, for example internet banking or Ozow, and check the minimum shown for that method before you confirm.
Step 8: Practise, then trade
Open a demo account in the same Personal Area if you want to test the platform first, then log in to your live account and start with small position sizes.
