- Sign-up is now a clear nine-step journey with visible progress
- Ends with a welcome screen and a first-run checklist
- Every field, validation rule and translation carried over unchanged
Updated 11 October 2026. The first version of this post listed the steps wrongly. The list below is the rail shown on the sign-up page today. The diagram below was drawn from the earlier list and will be redrawn.
Signing up to CFIN now runs as a clear nine-step journey ("Step 1 of 9") on the homepage registration flow, ending with a welcome screen and a first-run checklist. The whole flow has been restyled in the new design, but every field, validation rule and language translation from the previous version has been kept exactly as it was.
The nine steps, in order
- About you
- Are you eligible?
- Choose a password
- Open your broker account
- MT5 account
- Billing address
- Your account size
- How you want to start
- Confirm and activate
After step 9 you see a welcome screen and a first-run checklist. Some steps need something you have to go and get first, such as the broker account and its MT5 login, so it helps to have those ready. The steps are described one by one in The registration journey, step by step.
Why
Registration involves several genuinely separate steps — eligibility, a broker account, billing details and more — and showing clear progress through them reduces uncertainty about how much is left.
Rebuilding the look without touching the underlying checks meant we could improve the experience without any risk to the accuracy or safety of sign-up itself.
What you need to do
If you're part-way through registering, you'll see the same information requested, now presented as a clearer, numbered journey with visible progress.
In detail
- A first-run checklist appears once your account is set up, pointing you toward the dashboard pages most worth visiting first.
- Every field validation and every language translation already in place before the redesign has been kept exactly as it was.
- The waitlist and consent steps, where applicable, still require an explicit, non-pre-ticked choice, enforced on our servers rather than just in your browser.
Why the step count is real
The step count is shown because registration genuinely does involve that many distinct stages — it isn't broken up artificially to look more thorough than it is.
Every validation rule and every translation already in place before the redesign was carried through unchanged, so what's actually required to open an account hasn't shifted at all.