Pocket Broker Account Types and Features

Demo and live accounts

The documented division is a single one: a demo balance, with virtual money, and a real balance, with deposited money. The two live in the same sign-up and a selector switches between them.

Before any comparison, it is worth recording what the comparison has that is concrete. The company's official pages describe a single account in which the user chooses which balance to trade with. It is not two sign-ups, two apps or two histories — it is the same account in two modes.

Switching mode

The switch is made with the balance selector at the top of the trading screen, and that is where the platform's most trivial mistake lives: confirming an order in the wrong mode. Checking costs two seconds and avoids an unnecessary loss — and in the other direction, it avoids the frustration of celebrating a result that was fictional. How the practice side works is set out on the demo account page; what matters here is the contractual difference between the two states.

What changes when the money is real

The contract changes, not the screen. With a real balance, in come the verification requirement, the withdrawal rules, the currency chosen at sign-up and, where there is one, the conditions of any bonus accepted. It is those clauses — and not the interface — that produce most user questions. It is worth getting to know the demo mode before any decision about money, because it costs nothing and shows the whole of the mechanics.

One sign-up, two modes: virtual and real. The difference that matters is not visual, it is contractual — verification, currency, a minimum withdrawal of 10 dollars and the real possibility of losing the amount risked.

Account tiers

Here it is necessary to be direct: the company does not publish a ladder of account tiers. There are no balance bands, tier names or lists of features unlocked by level on any official page.

This is the most searched question on the subject and the one that generates the most invented text. It is worth explaining what was checked and why the answer comes out as it does.

What was checked

The primary sources consulted for this guide are the home page, the About Us page, the Public Offer, the Payment Policy, the Risk Policy and the official Android app listing. None of them presents a table of account tiers with deposit bands and corresponding benefits. What appears in those documents is the demo/real pair, the money minimums and the verification and withdrawal rules.

Why there are so many tables about

Lists of tiers with names, deposit amounts and advantages circulate in reviews, videos and promotional pages. They may describe something that existed or that exists on the screen; the point is that they are not supported by a public document of the company, and for that reason cannot be treated as a commitment. In a choice of platform, an advantage that is not written into a document cannot be held to afterwards.

What to do with that gap

1. Treat any tier table you find at third hand as unconfirmed information, the detailed ones included.
2. If a tier benefit is decisive for you, confirm it on the company's official pages before anything else — and check whether it appears in contractual text or only in a promotional piece.
3. Base the comparison on what is documented: minimums, currency, verification, timings and access channels.

It is a less exciting answer than a colourful table of tiers, and it is the only one that holds up against a primary source.

No ladder of tiers is published on any official page of the company. Tier tables put out by third parties cannot be confirmed and, not being in the contract, cannot be held to.

Features by account

The features the documentation ties to the account are few and clear: cross-platform access, switching between balances and a set of money rules. The rest is not specified.

Since there are no published tiers, the question "what does each account unlock" changes shape. What can be answered from a primary source is what the account offers in any state.

What comes with the account, documented

• Access through the same surfaces. Browser, the Android app published on Google Play, direct APK and a Telegram bot, all advertised on the home page. No official iPhone listing and no desktop program could be confirmed.
• A single credential. The same email and password pair opens every surface, with the balance and history following the account rather than the device.
• The full asset catalogue. The more than a hundred global assets the platform advertises do not appear, in any official document, as conditional on an account tier.
• The same money rules. Minimum withdrawal, withdrawal currency and the verification requirement are written down without distinction of tier.

Features mentioned without documentation

Copy trading, tournaments, courses and an indicator library are frequently presented as advantages of particular tiers. No official page consulted describes those features or ties them to balance bands. The honest treatment is the same as before: they may exist on the screen, they cannot be promised here. The catalogue of what the platform actually publishes is on the page about the broker.

The feature that really does change state

There is one item that genuinely changes as the account moves forward, and it is not a bonus: it is identity verification. The Public Offer requires scanned copies of an identity document and of proof of address; the Payment Policy details the requirement of a full copy of all the pages of the document and reserves to the company the right to ask for utility bills, bank confirmation or an image of the card. The period is 10 business days from the request, extendable to 30 days. A verified account and an unverified one are, in practice, the two states that most affect a user's life — the step by step is in account verification.

Access, a single credential, the asset catalogue and the money rules apply to the whole account, with no documented distinction of tier. The division that produces a real effect is between a verified and an unverified account.

Choosing a tier

With no published ladder, the real choice is a different one: how long to stay in practice mode and on what conditions to move to the real balance. A written criterion settles it better than a deposit figure.

The question "which account should I choose" usually comes from the expectation that a higher tier delivers better conditions. Since that is not documented, the useful criterion shifts axis.

A friendly start

The demo mode is free and requires no deposit, which makes it the only starting point with no cost. Entry to the real balance, in turn, has a very low barrier — the Public Offer mentions 0.1 dollars and the home page presents 5 dollars as the smallest deposit allowed. Notice the side effect of that ease: a low barrier encourages skipping the practice, and that is exactly where most of the avoidable loss happens.

Criteria that stand in for the tier ladder

Those six answers describe the account better than any tier does. The currency in particular deserves attention before any decision: since the withdrawal follows the currency of the deposit, the choice made at sign-up comes back at the end of the story. The limits are set out in minimum withdrawal and limits.

Value for money, honestly

If the benefit of a tier is not written into a document, it does not go into the value-for-money sum — it goes into the promises column. The defensible calculation takes account of what is documented and what is known: how much it costs to get in, how much you need to have in order to withdraw, in what currency, with what timing and with what paperwork. And, before all of that, the amount you can lose without your month changing, because the total loss of the amount risked is a real possibility in every contract.

With no published tiers, choose by criteria: minimum entry, minimum withdrawal, matching currency, the paperwork required and the timing. A benefit with no document is a promise, not a comparable advantage.

Feature caveats

Three caveats close the comparison: an advertised feature is not a contracted feature, a large balance does not buy safety, and the documented basics matter more than any tier.

They hold for this platform and for practically any other of the same format.

Marketing and contract are different documents

The reading rule is a short one: what is in a contractual document can be required; what is in a banner, a video or a review cannot. The Payment Policy makes that explicit when it records that fees and commissions are set by the company and may change at any time, at its discretion, even with the platform advertising 0% commission on deposits and withdrawals.

How to check a tier promise

1. Look for the benefit by name inside the official documents, not on promotional pages.
2. If it does not appear there, treat it as unconfirmed, however detailed the table you saw may be.
3. Be wary of any special condition offered by an intermediary, a group or an "account manager", the platform publishes no agency programme with those characteristics, and a request for your password never comes from legitimate support.

The basics are worth more

A low deposit, a known minimum withdrawal, a matching currency, paperwork in order and a free practice mode are, together, more informative than any ladder of tiers. Whoever has command of those five points understands the whole account.

The Brazilian context

One caveat comes before all the others for anyone reading from Brazil. Pocket Option itself states, on its home page, its About Us page and its payment-methods page, that it does not provide service to residents of Brazil, alongside the countries of the European Economic Area, the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and Japan. On 4 October 2021 the CVM published an alert recording that Pro Trade LTD, Pocket Option and Gembell Limited had no authorisation from the agency to take on clients, and by Ato Declaratório CVM 19.121, of 28 September 2021, it ordered the immediate suspension of the circulation of any public offering to investors resident in Brazil; whether that act remains in force could not be confirmed. The full picture is in regulation.

All the information, platform data and regulatory statements on this page were checked in September 2026 on Pocket Option's own site and in the alert published by the CVM in 2021; both the platform's terms and a regulator's position may change at any time.

Confirm a benefit in a document, not in an advertisement, and put the documented basics first. And remember the context: the operator states that it does not serve residents of Brazil, and the CVM recorded the absence of authorisation in 2021.