AvaTrade Promo Code 206997 is a single code string that carries a stated 20% discount on trading fees at AvaTrade, and it is entered while you are creating your account rather than applied later at a checkout. Most people now start that registration on a phone, which changes the practical problem: the code field is not always visible on a narrow screen, and the route you take — the mobile app or a mobile browser — affects how easy it is to find. This article deals with the phone side of the job: where the field tends to hide, which route gives you more control, and what to do when no field appears at all.
Why the device you sign up on matters
A promo code, partner code or referral code — and the same string, 206997, is presented under more than one of those labels — does one thing from the signup side. It tags your account as having arrived under that code. There is no second offer hiding behind the second label. What matters is whether the tag actually attaches, and whether the benefit applies in your region under the entity that onboards you.
That makes the signup screen the critical moment, because codes of this type are almost always attached when the account is created and not retroactively. On a desktop, an optional extra field is usually visible in the same view as everything else. On a phone, optional fields are the first thing a responsive layout collapses. They get tucked under an expandable link, pushed below a scroll fold, or moved to a later step in a multi-screen flow. Nothing has been removed; it has been rearranged, and the rearranging is exactly what causes people to complete registration without ever entering 206997.
App versus mobile browser
Both routes can get you to a live AvaTrade account, but they behave differently during registration, and the difference is worth understanding before you start.
The case for a mobile browser
A mobile browser renders the same registration pages a desktop browser would, just narrower. That has three practical advantages when a code is involved. You can zoom out to see the whole form at once and spot an expandable link labelled something like promo code or partner code. You can request the desktop version of the site from the browser menu if the mobile layout is hiding the field. And you can screenshot a confirmation screen and keep the page open in a tab while you check something else.
A browser also makes it easier to read the terms attached to the code itself rather than only the general account terms. Promotional conditions are usually documented separately, and separate documents tend to open in new tabs — easy in a browser, clumsier inside an app's embedded viewer.
The case for the app
An app flow is generally smoother for the parts of registration that phones are good at: taking photographs of identity documents, using the camera rather than uploading files, and moving through a guided sequence of questions one screen at a time. Regulated brokers require verification documents and an assessment of your trading experience before an account goes live, and a phone camera is the most convenient way to supply the first of those.
The trade-off is visibility. A guided one-screen-at-a-time flow shows you only what the designer decided to show at that step, which means an optional code field can pass by in a single tap if you are moving quickly. If you use the app, slow down at each step and read the full screen before pressing continue.
A reasonable hybrid
There is no rule saying you must do everything in one place. Starting registration in a mobile browser, where you can hunt for the code field with the whole page in view, and then finishing document capture wherever the flow takes you, is a sensible compromise. The goal is simply that 206997 is attached before the account is funded.
Where the field usually hides on a small screen
The field may sit under an expandable link rather than being visible by default. On phones, that pattern shows up in a handful of predictable places.
Behind a small chevron or plus sign next to text such as "have a code?" — tappable but easy to read as decoration
At the very bottom of a form, below the submit button, where a narrow screen puts it out of sight until you scroll past what looks like the end
Inside an "additional information" or "optional details" accordion grouped with other non-mandatory entries
On a later step of a multi-screen flow, after the identity and suitability questions rather than before them
Hidden behind the on-screen keyboard, which can cover the lower third of the display once a text input has focus
The keyboard problem deserves a mention of its own. When you tap into a field, the keyboard slides up and the page often scrolls itself to keep the active input visible. Anything that was below it is now behind the keyboard. Dismissing the keyboard and scrolling again before you decide no code field exists is a small habit that catches a lot of missed fields.
Applying the code on a phone, step by step
Begin registration with AvaTrade and select the account type you intend to use. The range is Demo, Standard and Swap Free (Islamic), so the choice is short.
Work through the identity and suitability questions, uploading or photographing the verification documents requested.
Before advancing past each screen, dismiss the keyboard and scroll the full page, expanding any collapsed sections, and look for a field labelled promo code, partner code, referral code or similar.
Type 206997 into that field manually, with no spaces before or after it.
Complete registration, then check whether the code shows as accepted on the confirmation screen or in your account settings.
Take a screenshot of that confirmation and keep it. If a question arises later, that record is the strongest thing you will have.
If no field appeared at any point, contact AvaTrade support before depositing and ask whether the code can be attached to a newly opened account.
The final step is the one most often skipped. Once an account is funded and trading, adding a code afterwards is generally harder or impossible, so asking early costs nothing and keeps the option open.
Mobile-only quirks worth knowing about
Phones introduce a few entry problems that simply do not exist on a keyboard and mouse.
Copy and paste on mobile frequently picks up a trailing space or an invisible character from the surrounding text. Typing 206997 by hand avoids that entirely, and it is only six digits.
Autocorrect and predictive text can interfere with short alphanumeric strings. Check the field reads exactly 206997 after you type it, not something the keyboard helpfully adjusted.
Autofill sometimes drops a stored value into the wrong field on a compressed layout. Re-read the whole form before submitting.
App sessions can time out or lose state if you switch away to check a message. Restarting a partly completed flow is where a previously entered code most often disappears.
A patchy mobile connection can submit a form that looks accepted but has not registered. If you cannot see a confirmation, assume nothing and verify in your account settings.
What to confirm before you fund, on any device
Attaching the code is the mechanical part. Understanding what it does is the part no amount of careful tapping resolves, because AvaTrade does not charge commission on platform trading. The cost of a trade sits in the spread — the gap between the buy and sell price — with quoted spreads including 0.9 pips on EUR/USD and 1.5 pips on GBP/USD, and both fixed and variable spreads offered depending on the market.
At a broker with a visible per-trade commission, a 20% discount is arithmetic you can check: you pay 80% of the usual charge and the saving shows up as a line item. At a no-commission, spread-based broker there is no obvious line item to cut by a fifth. The reduction could narrow the spread, apply to some separate charge, or work another way. Exactly how it is applied is not established, so treat 20% as the stated headline and confirm the mechanism with AvaTrade directly.
Two questions settle most of it: what charge does the discount reduce, and does it apply to accounts in my region under my regulating entity. Whether the code is available across all of AvaTrade's regulated regions is not established, and neither is any minimum deposit, expiry date or new-customer restriction. A short pre-signup message resolves most of that list in one exchange.
Keep the code in proportion
AvaTrade is an online brokerage offering forex and CFD trading across shares, bonds, indices, ETFs, commodities and cryptocurrencies, with spread betting additionally available to UK and Ireland residents. It is reported to operate under several authorities including the Central Bank of Ireland, ASIC, the BVI Financial Services Commission, the FSA and the FSCA, with client funds held in segregated accounts and negative balance protection offered.
That multi-entity structure has more effect on your experience than any percentage. Leverage runs up to 1:30 under CBI, ASIC and FSCA, and up to 1:400 under BVI regulation — and which applies is set by where you live and which entity onboards you, not by preference. There is also no ECN or raw-spread account, no cent or micro account, no VIP tier and no managed account option, which rules the broker out for some strategies regardless of pricing.
So enter 206997 while you still can, take the screenshot, and confirm with support what the discount actually reduces. If the account only makes sense with the reduction applied, the discount is doing too much of the decision-making — and that is true whether you signed up on a phone or anywhere else.
Trading carries a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Evaluation fees are generally non-refundable unless the provider's terms state otherwise. Nothing here is financial advice.
Promotional terms, eligibility and values are set by the provider and can change at any time. Always confirm the current terms on the official site before signing up or completing a purchase.