Capital.com Forex Review 2026
82% of retail FX and CFD accounts lose money.
Capital.com - At a Glance
- Established
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Vasileiou Makedonos, 8, KINNIS BUSINESS CENTER, 1-3rd floor, 3040, Limassol, Cyprus
- International Offices
- United Kingdom, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bahamas, Lithuania, Italy
- Publicly Traded
- No
- Broker Type
- Market Maker
- Regulation
- FCA (United Kingdom), CySEC (Cyprus), ASIC (Australia), CMA UAE (UAE), SCB (Bahamas), FSA Seychelles (Seychelles)
- Segregated Client Funds
- Yes
- Negative Balance Protection
- Yes
Applies wherever you sign up, with losses capped at your account balance. Not available if you are classified as a professional client.
- Banking License
- No
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Polish, Arabic, Hungarian, Dutch, Romanian
- Customer Support
- Email, Phone, Live Chat
- Customer Support Hours
- 24/7
- Demo Account
- Yes
- Swap Free Account
- Yes
- Joint Account
- No
- Corporate Account
- Yes
- Managed Account
- No
- PAMM / MAM Trading
- No
- Social / Copy Trading
- No
- Minimum Deposit
- $10
USD 10 or equivalent for bank cards and Apple Pay. Wire transfers require 50 EUR or equivalent. Minimum withdrawal is 20 for bank cards.
- Payment Methods
- Bank Transfer, Credit/ Dedit Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Skrill, Neteller, USDT, MTN, Moov, Airtel, Khipu, Webpay, Mach, PSE, Thai QR, Orange
- Account Currencies
- GBP, EUR, USD, AUD, PLN, NOK, CZK, DKK, HUF, SEK, CHF, MXN, HKD, AED
- Maximum Leverage
- 1:30 (FCA, CySEC and ASIC retail), 1:200 (Bahamas entity), 1:500 (UAE entity). Up to 1:500 for professional clients where available
- Bonuses
- Varies
Deposit and trading bonuses are prohibited for retail clients under ASIC, CySEC and FCA rules, so they are not available on those entities. Offered through the Seychelles entity where local rules permit.
- Contests
- Varies
Trading competitions are restricted for retail clients under ASIC, CySEC and FCA rules. Available through the Seychelles entity where local rules permit.
- Markets & Products
- Forex, CFDs, Spread Betting
- Currency Pairs
- 120+ FX pairs, spot and forwards
- Minimum Lot Size
- 0.01
- Maximum Lot Size
- 1000
- Decimal Pricing
- 5 decimals
- Order Types
- Market orders, plus pending orders to open: limit orders to open and stop orders to open. Risk management orders are stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop-loss and guaranteed stop-loss. Guaranteed stops carry a fee charged only if triggered. Trailing stops move only in the favourable direction and cannot reverse, and are not guaranteed against slippage. Positions can be partially closed.
- Execution Type
- Market maker
- Margin Call Level
- 100% and 75% of required margin (two notifications)
- Stop Out Level
- 50% of required margin
- Hedging
- Yes
- Scalping
- Yes
- Spread Type
- Variable
- Spread From
- 0.6 pips
- Commission
- No commission
- Overnight / Swap Fees
- Yes
- Deposit Fee
- No
- Withdrawal Fee
- No
- Currency Conversion Fee
- Yes
- Account Maintenance Fee
- No
- Inactivity Fee
- No
No inactivity fee. Capital.com does reserve the right to close an account it considers dormant, which under its main entities means no trading for six months.
- Custody Fee
- No
- Trading Platforms
- Web, Mobile, TradingView, MetaTrader 4 (MT4), MetaTrader 5 (MT5)
- Mobile App
- Yes
- API Access
- Yes
- VPS Hosting
- No
- Automated Trading
- Yes
How Capital.com's costs compare
The marker is the median of every active broker we rate, computed from the same structured data as the reviews. Headline from-spreads are the broker's advertised best case; your account type and instrument change them.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong regulatory oversight
- Fast and easy account opening
- Low minimum deposit requirements
- Multiple account currency options
- Supports TradingView, MT4, and MT5
- Low trading fee
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- Demo account for practice trading
- Great customer support service
Cons
- Limited product range
- No integrated social/copy trading feature
- Inactivity fee after a year
