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GMO Click Securities review: is it safe for gold trading?

Founded 2005 · Tokyo, Japan · TSE: GMO Financial Holdings · Local Japan broker

Score (other countries)
Not offered
Best score
63 · Japan
Tier 1–2 for you in
1 / 22 countries
Trader Voice
74
Platforms
Own
On this page
  1. Is GMO Click Securities safe?
  2. Regulation and licences
  3. Which company holds your account
  4. Trading gold
  5. Fees, deposits and withdrawals
  6. Regulatory record
  7. Score breakdown
  8. Pros and cons
  9. What traders say
  10. Trader evidence
  11. Questions
  12. Alternatives

Is GMO Click Securities safe?

GMO Click Securities is a 21-year-old broker headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with a listed parent (TSE: GMO Financial Holdings). The group has 1 regulated companies (JFSA). How safe it is for you depends on which one opens your account: in 1 of the 22 countries we cover that is a Tier 1–2 regulated company.

Regulation and licences

CompanyRegulatorRegulator tierLicenceRetail clients
GMO Click Securities, Inc.Financial Services Agency ↗
Japan
Tier 1 · strictestPending checkYes

Each regulator name links to its own public register. Search the exact company name from your account agreement there before you deposit. How to verify a licence

Which company holds your account

GMO Click Securities assigns clients to different companies depending on where they live. This is the company, regulator and score you would get in each country we cover.

If you live inYour account is held byRegulatorScoreRank
Other countriesNot accepted———
United StatesNot accepted———
United KingdomNot accepted———
EU / EEANot accepted———
AustraliaNot accepted———
CanadaNot accepted———
SingaporeNot accepted———
MalaysiaNot accepted———
IndonesiaNot accepted———
ThailandNot accepted———
VietnamNot accepted———
PhilippinesNot accepted———
IndiaNot accepted———
JapanGMO Click Securities, Inc.JFSA T1B635 / 21
Hong KongNot accepted———
UAENot accepted———
South AfricaNot accepted———
KenyaNot accepted———
NigeriaNot accepted———
South KoreaNot accepted———
TurkeyNot accepted———
MongoliaNot accepted———
BrazilNot accepted———

Scores are provisional until our cost, news-spread and withdrawal tests are in. T1 = strictest regulator tier, T5 = company registration only. Licence details pending register check.

Trading gold with GMO Click Securities

Platforms
Own platform
Minimum gold order
0.1 lot (10 oz)
Swap-free account
No
Minimum deposit
$0
Round-trip cost, 1 lot XAUUSD
Not measured yet
Spread widening at NFP
Not measured yet
Withdrawal time
Not measured yet
Overnight swap, 1 lot long
Not measured yet

Cost, news-spread and withdrawal tests run on live accounts from our gold cost lab. Results appear here as each broker is tested. Gold pip value calculator · Margin calculator

Fees, deposits and withdrawals

What the broker publishes about deposits, withdrawals and fees. These are the broker’s own terms, collected from independent reviews and the broker’s pages, not our lab measurements.

Minimum deposit
None (from 1,000 currency units)
Inactivity fee
None
Deposit fee
Free by quick deposit
Withdrawal fee
Free
Withdrawal time
Next bank business day in most cases
Account types
FX Neo · CFD (gold, indices)
Raw account commission
No commission; costs are in the spread
Payment methods
Quick deposit from Japanese banks · Bank transfer
  • Japanese domestic broker: leverage capped at 1:25 for retail FX
  • Trustpilot has almost no reviews for Japanese brokers, so we use Minkabu, Japan's largest FX review site

Checked 2026-11-05. Terms change; confirm on the broker’s site before you deposit.

Regulatory record

  • Regulator order2012 · Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Japan FSA) · GMO Click Securities, Inc.

    Business improvement order over inadequate management of its trading systems

    Source ↗

Fines and regulator orders in the last five years reduce the protection score: −4 each, up to −12. Self-reported breaches that were compensated, and public warnings, are shown but not scored.

Score breakdown

GMO Click Securities only takes clients in countries where it has a local company, so its score depends on the country. See the table above.

Full methodology and data rules →

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Parent company is listed (TSE: GMO Financial Holdings), so its accounts are audited and public.
  • Retail clients can be served by Tier 1 regulated companies (JFSA).
  • 21 years in business.

Cons

  • Licence details come from the broker’s own pages; our register check is not finished.
  • Only accepts clients in the countries where it holds a local licence.
  • Does not accept residents of 21 of the 22 countries we cover.
  • No MetaTrader 5.
  • No swap-free account.

What traders say

The Trader Voice score sits beside our expert score and is never mixed into it. It combines public review scores with ratings from our own readers.

Trader Voice

74

Expert score (best, Japan): 63

Public reviews

74

Minkabu FX 4.2/5 from 71 reviews

Source, 2026-11-05 ↗

Our readers

No reader ratings yet. Be the first below.

What reviewers praise

  • Convenient one-click trading tools
  • Clear design for beginners
  • Tight spreads

What reviewers complain about

  • Little news and seminar content
  • No 24-hour support

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Trustpilot scores reflect who a broker invites to review, so we temper them with the share of one-star reviews. Reader ratings count after an account is 72 hours old; one rating per account per broker. Full methodology and data rules

Trader evidence

What readers report from their own accounts: how long withdrawals took, complaints whose evidence our editors checked, and corrections to our data. Nobody can pay to remove a complaint.

Median withdrawal time

—

No reports yet

Arrived within 24 hours

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Verified complaints

0

0 resolved

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Questions

Is GMO Click Securities safe for gold trading?

GMO Click Securities is a 21-year-old broker headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with a listed parent (TSE: GMO Financial Holdings). The group has 1 regulated companies (JFSA). How safe it is for you depends on which one opens your account: in 1 of the 22 countries we cover that is a Tier 1–2 regulated company.

Is GMO Click Securities regulated?

Yes. GMO Click Securities, Inc. is regulated by Financial Services Agency (Japan). These details are from the broker’s legal pages and our register check is still pending.

Which countries does GMO Click Securities not accept?

Of the countries we cover, GMO Click Securities does not accept residents of United States, United Kingdom, EU / EEA, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Hong Kong, UAE, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, South Korea, Turkey, Mongolia, Brazil.

Does GMO Click Securities offer MT4, MT5 or TradingView for gold?

GMO Click Securities offers its own platform. The minimum gold order is 0.1 lot.

Does GMO Click Securities have a swap-free account?

Not that we could confirm.

What is the GMO Click Securities minimum deposit?

$0 on the standard account, according to the broker.

Alternatives

Data checked: November 2026 · Sources: [1]

CFDs are complex instruments and carry a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Ratings are our opinion, based on the data and rules described in the methodology. They are not investment advice.