Forex Pairs Available at Wealth Securities

Wealth Securities does not offer forex pairs. It is a Philippine brokerage licensed by the SEC and a trading participant of the Philippine Stock Exchange, and its product line is built around PSE-listed equities, not currency pairs. If you opened an account expecting NAS100, NAS100 or NAS100, that expectation will not be met here. What you get instead is a well-capitalized local stockbroker with a real regulatory footprint, and a currency-pair question that points somewhere else entirely.

That gap is worth examining rather than glossing over. Let us check the claim that a Philippine broker is somehow a natural home for forex trading, because the two halves of that sentence rarely belong together.

What The Platform Actually Offers

Wealth Securities Online and the WealthSec Mobile app are delivery channels for PSE-listed equities. According to the PSE trading participant record, the instrument list verified at review stops there - other instruments are not confirmed. There is no currency list, no pip pricing, no swap table, and no position sizing in lots.

For readers who came looking for a pair-by-pair breakdown, the honest answer is that the list is empty and the reason is structural. A PSE trading participant settles real shares through a clearing house. A retail forex broker quotes a contract for difference against an offshore liquidity provider. Those are different businesses with different licences, and no amount of marketing copy merges them.

Where Filipinos Actually Trade FX

According to SEC Philippines guidance, the SEC regulates securities, CFDs and investment solicitation, and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas oversees FX transactions and leverage. The SEC does not currently issue local retail forex or CFD dealer licences, which is why most Filipinos who trade currency pairs do so with offshore-regulated brokers holding FCA, ASIC or CySEC authorisation.

That is a legal structure, not a scandal. Retail forex and CFD trading is legal for individuals in the Philippines; what the SEC polices is unregistered solicitation. Selling or soliciting investments without SEC registration is unlawful, and the commission publishes advisories against unauthorised firms at sec.gov.ph. The practical upshot for a Filipino reader is straightforward: the licence check you run on a forex broker will be against a foreign register, not a local one.

Comparing The Two Cost Structures

This is where a stockbroker and an FX broker diverge most sharply, and where a lot of first-time buyers get surprised. Wealth Securities charges about 0.25% commission plus 12% VAT plus PSE, SCCP and transfer fees, and a sell order adds the 0.6% stock transaction tax. The exact minimum was not verified at review. An offshore FX broker typically charges nothing per trade in commission terms and instead takes a spread.

Read that table slowly, because the two columns are not competing for the same peso. A 0.25% commission on a PHP 100,000 stock purchase is a rounding error against a year of holding. A 1-3% conversion cost on every FX deposit is a recurring drag that compounds with each top-up. Most brokers in this space quote the spread and stay quiet about the conversion, which is the number worth asking about before you fund anything.

If your interest genuinely sits in currency pairs rather than PSE equities, this is the point to widen the search. Judging a forex broker comes down to strong regulation at the FCA, CySEC or ASIC level, segregated client funds, transparent fee schedules published without footnotes, a track record long enough to survive at least one market shock, and support you can actually reach during your own waking hours. Those five criteria do more work than any leverage figure on a landing page.

Costs You Notice Later

The commission line is the visible one. The invisible ones are the conversion spread on each deposit, the inactivity or custody charge some brokers apply to dormant accounts, and the withdrawal fee that appears only when you try to take money out. An offshore broker's advertised zero-commission account is not free; the cost has moved into the spread and the conversion. The industry standard is to disclose the all-in cost, and a broker that will not is telling you something.

The Regulatory Layer

Wealth Securities is genuinely licensed. It is an SEC Philippines-licensed broker and dealer, and a PSE trading participant, with no SEC or PSE enforcement actions verified at review. The firm was incorporated in 1986, ranks among the highest-capitalized local brokers, was named Best Retail Broker (Philippines) in the Asiamoney Brokers Poll 2023, and is headquartered at PSE Tower in BGC, Taguig. That is a solid local profile.

What that licence does not cover is retail forex or CFD dealing, because the SEC does not issue that licence category today. That is a scope limit on the permission, not a mark against the company. The same logic applies in reverse when you evaluate an offshore broker: a CySEC or FCA licence is meaningful within its jurisdiction, and the practical protections it gives a client sitting in Manila are mostly about fund segregation and complaint routes rather than local enforcement.

Tax sits in the same category of things to understand rather than fear. Forex and CFD profit is treated as ordinary income by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, not as a separate capital-gains category, reported under Other Taxable Income on the annual return. Only realised, closed-trade net gains count, and net losses may be claimable as itemized deductions. Resident individuals face TRAIN-law progressive rates running from 0% up to PHP 250,000 and bracketed up to 35% above PHP 8,000,000; non-residents pay a flat 25% on Philippine-sourced income.

Licence limits the list, not the fit

A year from now the currency list at Wealth Securities will still be empty, because that is what its licence permits. What will matter is whether you matched the right broker to the right product before you funded the account, not after.

Right for you if: you want a Philippine-licensed route into PSE-listed equities, you value broker-assisted service alongside an online platform, and you are comfortable settling in PHP through local bank transfer. The firm's 1986 incorporation date and its capital position among local brokers are the kind of stability markers that matter for a long holding period.

Not for you if: currency pairs are the actual goal. In that case the sensible move is not to abandon online trading but to screen offshore brokers on regulation tier, fund segregation, published all-in costs, longevity and live support. Compare at least three on those five points, verify each against its regulator's public register, and only then fund. The pair list you were looking for exists, just not at this address.