Capital.com is a CFD broker that offers CFD trading on forex pairs, stocks, commodities, indices and cryptocurrencies. Learn more about CFDs here. The regulatory authority CySEC supervises Capital.com. Thanks to this regulation, the broker can legally offer its services in Europe. When measuring the spread for the EUR/USD currency pair, the broker charges around 0.6 pip, the minimum deposit is set at $20. The broker’s website is available in 24 languages.
Capital.com Review – Broker overview
| Minimum deposit | 20 USD |
| Platform | their own |
| Regulated broker | Yes |
| Regulations | FCA, CySEC |
| Demo account | Yes |
Special features and advantages
| Price alerts |
Trading platform
Capital.com has its own trading platform that you can access directly from a web browser. This platform offers approximately 70 technical indicators and several drawing tools that can be used for technical analysis. The platform allows you to have multiple windows of different underlying assets open at the same time. A price alert function is also available on the platform, which will alert you when a price you specify is reached, e.g. in the platform (pop-up window).
Capital.com fees (spreads)
Just like any other CFD broker, Capital.com charges a spread fee. For the current value of this fee, please visit Capital.com’s website. We have prepared a small comparison table here, where you will find the amount of Capital.com spread fees on popular currency pairs compared to 2 other popular CFD brokers.
EUR/USD | EUR/USD | USD/JPY | GBP/USD | AUD/USD |
| Plus500* | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
| XTB* | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 1.7 |
| Capital.com** | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
**the spread value was gathered from the broker’s trading platform 22/06/2021
Capital.com – Review summary
Capital.com must adhere to the strict regulatory guidelines of the CySEC regulatory authority. The broker offers a good number of CFD assets (mainly stocks and cryptocurrencies), the fees (spreads) it charges are also quite solid and can compete quite handily with other popular CFD brokers.
Advantages
- Relatively strict regulation
- Wide asset range
- Low spreads
- Low minimum deposit
- Demo account
Disadvantages
- No social trading
- No option to use MetaTrader, although their own platform is quite good
