AvaTrade is a Forex and Contracts for Difference (CFD) broker located in Dublin, Ireland. The company offers trading in numerous markets, including currencies, commodities, stock indices, stocks, exchange-traded funds, options, cryptocurrencies, and bonds through its trading platforms and mobile app.
AvaTrade was founded as Ava FX in 2006 by Emanuel Kronitz, Negev Nosatzki, and Clal Finance Ltd.​ At the founding of the company, Kronitz and Nosatzki guided AvaGroup, a group of professional financiers who were aspiring to create a customer service oriented Forex broker.

​ In 2013, AvaFX changed its name to AvaTrade, to reflect the company's expansion beyond forex brokerage services to a broader range of financial services, including stocks, indices (including Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500), raw materials and bonds.
Since 2013, AvaTrade has had more than 200,000 registered client accounts in more than 150 countries, executing more than 2 million orders per month.​

In July 2010, AvaTrade acquired ArtCo, a Japanese Forex broker. In March 2011, the company acquired the non-American clients of the eForex broker. In June 2011, it acquired the clients and goods of clients outside the European Union from Finotec Trading UK Limited. In July 2014, AvaTrade confirmed that it has acquired the Australian clients of YouTradeFX, a Sydney-based broker.

AvaTrade is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with its owner company in the British Virgin Islands, and with offices and sales centers in Spain, Tokyo (Japan), Milan (Italy), Paris (France), Sydney (Australia), Shanghai (China) and Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

Regulation
AvaTrade is a company regulated in the European Union by the Central Bank of Ireland, in Australia by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), in the British Virgin Islands by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission, in South Africa by the Financial Services Board (FSB) and in Japan by the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the Financial Futures Association and the Futures Markets Association. The company offers its services to traders in all countries of the world with the exception of the United States, Belgium and New Zealand. Its strongest markets are the European Union, the Middle East and Asia.

According to the opinions about AvaTrade, its website is characterized by a very wide Forex investment offer, so you can invest in the most popular pairs such as EUR / USD, GBP / USD and USD / JPY, as well as in several pairs categorized as exotic.