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EagleFX moved its client accounts to LHFX in March 2025. The domain later stopped pointing at LHFX and now forwards to a Hugo's Way signup page carrying EagleFX affiliate tracking.

Last verified 5 August 2026 · how we check

EagleFX no longer exists as a broker. Client accounts were moved to LHFX in March 2025, and the domain has since been repurposed: it now forwards to a signup page at a different broker, with tracking parameters that identify EagleFX as the referring partner.

If you arrived here searching for EagleFX, the important part is that the page you land on when you type the address is not a continuation of the firm you were looking for.

Three stages, in order

Stage one: an operating broker. EagleFX ran as a forex and crypto broker advertising ECN/STP execution and 24/7 support.

Stage two: migration to LHFX, 28 March 2025. The site carried this notice:

EagleFX Has Merged with LHFX. As of March 28, 2025, all EagleFX client accounts and funds have been securely migrated to LHFX. If you already created an LHFX account with the same email, your accounts have been seamlessly merged.

That notice was still on the domain in July 2026.

Stage three: an affiliate redirect, some time after July 2026. Typing the address today does not reach a notice at all. It forwards to:

https://users.hugosway.com/signup?utm_source=eaglefx&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=eaglefx

A signup form at Hugo’s Way, a different broker, with campaign parameters marking the visitor as an EagleFX referral. Somebody is being credited for sending you there.

Why the third stage matters

The first two stages are ordinary. Brokers consolidate, and a migration notice left standing for over a year is reasonable conduct.

The third is a different thing. The residual search traffic for a dead brand, people looking for a firm they used to trade with, is being routed into a signup funnel at an unrelated company as tracked referrals. The visitor is not told the brand no longer exists, is not shown the migration notice, and is not asked whether they wanted a different broker.

Somebody controls that domain and is monetising a name that customers still trust enough to type. A brand does not stop being an asset when the business behind it stops. It becomes a cheaper asset, and the traffic keeps arriving.

We have no way to establish who arranged this or what LHFX knows about it, and we are not going to guess. The redirect is a documented fact; the intent behind it is not.

Regulatory position

We searched the FCA register directly, checked 11 August 2026. It returns one matching entry: an unauthorised firm listed as EAGLEFXPRO, at postcode E14 5AB in London. That is the whole record. The register gives no website, no company number and no date for it, so there is nothing in the entry that ties the name to eaglefx.com, and we are not claiming that it does. A similar name is a reason to look, not a finding.

What the entry does establish is narrower and still worth knowing: someone traded under that name at a London address, and the FCA judged them to be doing regulated business without permission. If you were solicited by anything calling itself EagleFX Pro, that is the firm the FCA is describing. The register is public and searchable at fca.org.uk/consumers/warning-list-unauthorised-firms.

LHFX states it is regulated by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority of South Africa under licence 52816. That is the firm’s own claim, and it is checkable: the FSCA register is public, and licence 52816 can be searched by anyone whose account was migrated there. Verify it before relying on it, because a licence number printed on a homepage and a licence current in the register are different things.

The destination of that redirect is worth knowing about before you follow it. On 7 November 2025 the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles published a notice saying the company behind hugosway.com never held authorisation to deal in securities, and that it had been struck off and dissolved as of 1 April 2025. The site is still live and still taking deposits. Our Hugo’s Way review sets out the notice and the client agreement alongside each other.

So the chain ends at a signup form belonging to a company that stopped legally existing a month after EagleFX went quiet.

Something else the domain reveals

The archive holds captures of eaglefx.com going back to August 2000, which is long before the broker existed. The domain was bought secondhand.

That is worth knowing in general terms rather than as an accusation. A domain’s age gets used as a trust signal in this industry, and the age of a domain says nothing about the age of the business operating on it. Here the gap is about two decades.

What the domain shows

The traffic line is the one that separates this case from the other closures we have documented. KOT4X and OspreyFX still draw thousands of organic visits a month to their notices, because search engines index a page that answers the query.

EagleFX records none. A domain that answers every request with a redirect to another company’s signup form has nothing for a search engine to rank, so the organic traffic collapses to nothing while the direct traffic, people typing the name from memory or from an old bookmark, continues. Those are the visitors the redirect is built for, and they are the ones least likely to know the brand is gone.

If you had an account

If your funds were migrated to LHFX, that is the firm holding them, and your relationship is now with a company you did not originally choose. Verify the FSCA licence yourself, read LHFX’s current terms rather than the ones you agreed with EagleFX, and check which entity your account actually sits under.

If you did not follow the migration, contact LHFX with your EagleFX account details and keep the correspondence. The notice said accounts and funds moved automatically, and merged with an existing LHFX account where the email matched.

Do not use the current eaglefx.com link to get anywhere. It leads to a signup form at a third company, not to your money.

Ignore recovery offers. Anyone contacting you claiming they can retrieve EagleFX funds for an upfront fee is running a separate fraud.

What this case shows

Three firms appear in this story and none of them is in a register we can verify directly. The one that now holds the migrated client money claims a licence we could not confirm by machine. The one collecting the redirect traffic claims nothing we could find at all.

For closures that ended differently, see KOT4X, OspreyFX and MyFundedFX.

That is the practical difference between trading with a supervised entity and trading with an unsupervised one. It is not visible while withdrawals are being paid. It becomes visible when the business changes hands, and by then the choice about which register the firm sits in was made long ago; see the methodology.

Sources

• Internet Archive — eaglefx.com merger notice, June 2025 capture
• LHFX — company site stating FSCA licence 52816
• ASIC Financial Services Licensee Register
• CySEC — register of Cypriot investment firms