Capital Spreads

Capital Spreads is one of the UK's leading spread betting companies and pride themselves on offering great value for money. They offer an upgraded and more sophisticated trading platform that is now able to compete with that of City Index. Unfortunately there is no live chat facility, but they do possess some of the best value spreads in the market with low margin requirements and a wide range of markets. Along with the tight spreads they have 24 hour trading, a platform that is intuitive and training and education facilities among the best in the industry. Account set up is fairly stress free, taking approximately 10 minutes to be up and running.

Capital Spreads offer a strong list of daily, rolling daily and futures indices that includes major markets but, also, those such as Brazil Index, Russel 2K and Ireland Top 20. They provide a brief explanation of each market above the list of products offered within that market. Below this list they have a brief explanation of Rolling and Futures contracts.

Capital Spreads has an impressive list of FX Pairs, upon which users are able to trade outside of the core opening hours as Capital Spreads quotes the major FX pairs overnight. They also offer a number of quarterly currencies including EUR/GBP, GBP/USD and USF/JPY with spreads starting from 6 points.

Their commodities section offers a wide range to choose from, including Orange Juice, Cotton and Lean Hogs as well as the major commodities such as Gold and Oil. 

• Indices
• Shares
• 40+ FX Pairs
• Commodities
• Metals
• Bonds/STIRS

The Capital Spreads trading platform is available via HTML so no downloads are necessary. It has been designed with the user in mind and so is intuitive and easy to navigate. As a user you will encounter a split screen layout. On the top trading screen you can view all the available markets for trading. On the bottom half of the screen you can click through tabs to view your Open Positions, Trade History, Order Book and Account Transactions. You have the option to resize the split screen mode by dragging the bar that separates the two screens.

The trading screen has features which allow you set up a list of markets you wish to monitor, review market information on a particular market and gain access to technical analysis and charting tools, while providing 24 hour trading and Guaranteed Stops.

The mobile platform is available on Android and iPhones giving traders the ability to monitor the latest prices and market movements, open and close positions and set up stop losses and orders.

Capital Spreads offer a free demo account as well as an interactive walkthrough of the platform – including opening a trade, closing a trade and placing an order. The education provided is great, consisting of educational videos, a user manual, trading glossary, interactive spread betting tutorial and seminars and webinars free of charge. Upon depositing £100 users can also request their personal guide to spread betting and trading the financial markets.

As mentioned Capital Spreads offer a free demo account and there is no minimum opening deposit for the live account. They offer deposit accounts with the option to hold an account in either Sterling, US Dollar or Euro. They also provide corporate accounts.