Eightcap review

Is Eightcap regulated where you live?

Eightcap is regulated in every country it serves here. The Eightcap company that takes you on usually depends on where you live, and your leverage and protections come from the company that opens your account and its regulator. In Germany, Eightcap usually places you with Eightcap EU Ltd, and CySEC in Cyprus regulates that company. In Brazil, you usually get the global company, Eightcap International Ltd, licensed by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority. That global company gives more leverage, up to 500:1 on EUR/USD, and fewer protections than the UK, EU and Australian companies.

Even if the global company takes you on, the group also holds licences from ASIC, the FCA and CySEC. Those regulators check who owns and runs the group and hold the group’s companies in their countries to their rules on capital and client money, though those rules protect only those companies’ clients. The last column gives what the global company’s own terms say about your country.

These figures were checked between 4 October 2026 and 17 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Forex basket at the global company

Every forex pair in the basket carries 500:1 at the global company. The spread is given only as a minimum per account type, and overnight financing isn’t published for any of them. Contract size and lot limits are the same on all eight.

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These figures were checked on 14 September 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Crypto basket at the global company

Every coin in the crypto basket is capped at 20:1, and neither account type charges a commission on it.

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These figures were checked on 14 September 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Account maximum against instrument ceilings

The account maximum of 500:1 holds on forex and some commodities only. Crypto stops at 20:1 and shares at 5:1 (maximum leverage).

These figures were checked between 14 September 2026 and 30 September 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Costs it publishes

Eightcap publishes its spreads as "as low as 1.0 pips" on one account and "from 0.0 pips" plus a commission on the other. It names no benchmark for its overnight charge and no mark-up on top. The global company does state an inactivity fee: 10 units of the account currency each month after 12 months without a trade. Its UK company says it charges none.

A cost comparison on Eightcap’s own site shows figures labelled as averages. They’re credited to a third party on a single date, and none of them can be cited or checked (compare providers).

These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Funding

Funding by card and bank transfer is open in every country Eightcap serves. Crypto is the exception, covered in the next table. The comparison page sets these facts beside every other broker’s. Because the broker can change these terms and those in the by-country table below at its own discretion, always double-check them on the broker’s own website before you deposit.

These figures were checked between 10 September 2026 and 27 September 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Funding, by country

Funding differs by country in two ways. Three countries have a local payment rail Eightcap accepts: BPAY in Australia, Pix in Brazil and PromptPay in Thailand (payment rails). Crypto deposits are open only where the Seychelles company serves, so you can’t pay in crypto from the UK, Australia or the six EU countries.

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These figures were checked between 27 September 2026 and 16 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Platforms and tools

Platforms differ by company, and this table is the global one. The EU company offers MetaTrader 5 and TradingView but not MetaTrader 4, and the UK company’s site names TradingView and no MetaTrader platform.

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These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

What you can trade

You can trade 819 instruments at Eightcap, 591 of them shares. It offers no bonds, options or futures.

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These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

More markets don’t always mean a better broker for you. Leverage, overnight financing, execution and costs often affect a trade more (what matters besides the market count).

Every company in the group

The group’s legal-documents page names four global companies, in the Bahamas, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Saint Vincent. Eightcap doesn’t say which of them you’d be routed to, so you can’t tell in advance whose terms would govern your account. Its own sign-up defaults to the Seychelles company for international applicants. That company’s client agreement names only United States citizens and tax residents as ineligible and doesn’t mention any of the countries covered here. The Bahamas company is on the Securities Commission of The Bahamas’ list of licensed firms, trading contracts for difference.

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These figures were checked between 4 October 2026 and 17 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.