Updated Jun 29 2022
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Overview | |
Capital.com is a global broker specialising in CFD Trading with an offering of more than 4000+ assets. |
Forex.com is a global broker headquartered in the U.S and part of StoneX (publicly traded company on NASDAQ) that specialises in offering CFDs based on commodities, currencies, indices, stocks, ETFs, shares, bonds and cryptocurrencies. |
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Licenses | |
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🏛 Financial Regulators | |
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Status | |
Operational | Operational |
Recent News | |
Recently granted ASIC license | N/A |
Key Data | |
⌛ Account Opening Time | |
1 day | 1 Day |
📋 Documents Required | |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
All documents must be under the account holder's name. |
📍 Year Founded | |
2016 | 2001 |
💳 Minimum Deposit | |
$, €, £ - 20 | $100 |
💰 Payment Methods | |
💵 Account Base Currencies | |
5 - USD, GBP, EUR, PLN, AUD. | 6 - GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, JPY, CHF. |
🗽 Available to U.S Citizens | |
No | Yes |
❌ Restricted Countries | |
US, SY, IR. | None |
📊 STP Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 DMA Account | |
No | Yes |
📊 ECN Account | |
No | Yes | Assets |
📚 Available Assets | |
📙 Stocks | |
1,000 Real Stocks / 3,800+ CFDs | 4,500+ |
📘 Currency Pairs | |
140 | 93 |
📗 Commodities | |
33 | 35 |
📕 Indices | |
37 | 24 |
📔 ETFs | |
115 | 700+ |
💸 Cryptocurrencies | |
27 (Not available in the U.K) | 5 |
📒 Bonds | |
N/A | 14 |
📓 Options | |
N/A | N/A |
📗 Futures | |
N/A | N/A |
📝 Notes: | |
The majority of Capital.com's assets are CFDs with the exception of their new stock investing account offering where users can buy / trade real shares (Not available in Australia). |
All of Forex.com’s assets are CFDs. |
Trading Experience |
📈 Minimum Stock Trade Size | |
Varies by Stock (Eg: 0.1 units of Tesla) | Varies per share (eg: 0.3 AMZN shares) |
📉 Minimum ETFs Trade Size | |
Varies by ETF (Eg: 1 units of XLK) | Varies per ETF (eg: 5 contracts of XLK) |
📈 Minimum Crypto Trade Size | |
Varies by Crypto (Eg: 0.01 BTC) | Varies per Cryptocurrency (eg: 0.01 BTC) |
📉 Minimum FX Trade Size | |
$1,000 | $1,000 (0.01 Lots) |
📈 Minimum Commodities Trade Size | |
Varies by Commodity (Eg: 0.1 Troy ounces of Gold) | Varies per commodity (eg: 1 contract of Gold) |
📉 Minimum Bonds Trade Size | |
N/A | Varies per Bond (eg: 1 contract of Euro Bobl) |
📈 Minimum Futures Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
📉 Minimum Options Trade Size | |
N/A | N/A |
💪 Retail Leverage | |
Up to 1:30 | Up to 1:30 |
💪 Professional Leverage | |
Up to 1:500 | Up to 1:500 |
✍ Customisable Leverage | |
Yes | No |
🎲 Deleveraged Trading | |
Yes (Not available in Australia) | Yes |
🎓 Demo Account | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 IOS App | |
Yes | Yes |
📱 Android App | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 4 | |
Yes | Yes |
📺 MetaTrader 5 | |
No | Yes |
💻 Web trader | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 TradingView Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
💻 Proprietary Platform | |
Yes | Yes |
📊 Multi-chart Tools | |
No | Yes |
👬 Copy Trading | |
No | No |
👫 Social Trading | |
No | No |
🔑 Guaranteed Stop-loss | |
Yes | No |
🔨 Trailing Stop-loss | |
No | Yes | Fees |
💰 Inactivity Fee | |
No | Yes, $15 monthly after 1 year of inactivity. |
💰 Deposit Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Withdrawal Fees | |
No | No |
💰 Commissions | |
No | Yes depending on account type.
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Spreads |
📈 EUR/USD | |
Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips | Dynamic - From 0.8 Pips |
📉 SP500 | |
Dynamic - From 70 Pips | From 60 Pips |
📈 GOLD | |
Dynamic - From 55 Pips | From 50 Pips |
📉 TSLA (Stock CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $3.30 | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📈 XLK (ETF - CFD) | |
Dynamic - From $0.97 | Dynamic - Market Spread |
📉 BTC | |
Dynamic - From $130 | From $120 | Research and Analysis |
⭐ Watchlists | |
Yes | Yes |
🔭 Stock Screener | |
Partial - "Discover" tool with limited capabilities | No |
🗓 Economic Calendar | |
Yes | Yes |
📜 Integrated Newsfeed | |
Yes | Yes |
📡 Reuters Feed | |
No | Yes |