Capital Spreads Review
User Rating: 10
Overnight Financing Costs: +/-2% of the underlying currency base rate
Key Spreads and Margin Requirements:
FTSE100 Daily: Spread: 1 (5)* Margin Requirement: 30Dow Jones Daily: Spread: 2 Margin Requirement: 50
GBP/USD Spot: Spread: 2 Margin Requirement: 60
EUR/USD Spot: Spread: 1 Margin Requirement: 40
Gold Spot: Spread: 4 Margin Requirement: 100
US Crude Futures: Spread: 5 (10)* Margin Requirement: 130
UK Shares Rolling Daily: Spread: 0.20% Margin Requirement: 3%
US Shares Rolling Daily: Spread: 0.20% Margin Requirement: 5%
* - Spreads in brackets indicate 'out of market hours' spreads.
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About Capital Spreads
One of the web's larger spread betting brokers, Capital Spreads has carved out a reputation for itself for offering slim spreads across a diverse range of markets, and is the broker of choice for countless professional traders throughout the UK. Recently making the leap into CFD trading, Capital Spreads has a distinctive pedigree as one of the most cost-effective, wide-ranging brokers on offer, with spreads on over 2,500 different markets.
Capital Spreads offers traders access to a wealth of trading resources and market data, including a detailed events calendar, which marks out notable trading events that might impinge on market movements and a series of free webinars, detailing the basics of how to get started for new traders, all designed to make it easier for traders to keep on top of goings on, learn the ropes and make informed trading decisions.
Notable Benefits
One of the most significant benefits of Capital Spreads, and an advantage over much of the competition, is its excellent customer support division, which is particularly responsive and swift insofar as responding to customer queries is concerned. Fully functional demo accounts plus small deposit thresholds make Capital Spreads newbie-friendly, while automatic guaranteed stop losses are designed to protect your deposited amount and minimize the impact of wayward positions.
Incentives & Bonuses
Aside from the extensive resources available to Capital Spreads customers, traders are also able to deposit via debit cards with no cost associated, with just a 2% charge incurred to cover the processing costs of credit card deposits. Furthermore, consistently slender spreads make it more possible to trade profitably, and the ongoing customer service functions ensure an effective support network should you encounter any problems.
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Capital Spreads Customer Reviews
There are 6 customer review(s).
Review by IndependentInvestor on 2013-01-28
Rating: 10Capital Spreads website update
Some changes that have been made to the Capital Spreads website over the weekend. They have tidied up the homepage; introducing new logo and colour palette, and also changed the way customers login to their account. Take a look around.
Review by New Trader on 2012-02-02
Rating: 10Superb Platform
I'm quite new to trading and I'm just learning but I have to say that I found CapitalSpreads' platform very easy to use.
Review by Angie king on 2011-11-02
Rating: 10The Best !
I have been a customer of Capital Spreads for 3 years and wont even consider changing. Customer service is excellent. The platform is really easy to use and user friendly, without any unnecessary flashing lights etc. I have never had any problems with them and would give them a solid 10 !
Review by Samuel on 2010-08-22
Rating: 9Tight Spreads
I've been spread betting for over two years now with Capital Spreads and with their tight spreads and great customer service I won't be looking for another account in the nearest future, would be great if they could add more markets to trade, especially AIM shares.
Review by David Jones on 2009-08-04
Rating: 10The Best Spreads
I have several spread betting accounts and find Capital Spreads the best choice for several reasons: they have the best spreads in the market, you only need to deposit a small amount to open a trade, and the girls on the call team are really helpful.
Review by AhaTrader on 2008-10-18
Rating: 10Trading is good with CapitalSpreads
I'm quite new to investing and particularly to financial spread betting. I had 3k to invest and decided to give spread betting a try (I like that it's tax free unlike share dealing, as I already have share ISA account). Capital Spreads have very competitive spreads on all markets and since I trade about 4 times a day I find it particularly important (don't like wasting my money on commission). I went for a training session with CityIndex and have to say CapitalSpreads' trading platform is by far better than CityIndex's as it's very easy to open and close bets and they also have quite good graphs package, you can easily use candlesticks and lots of technical analysis indicators. So there's no need in buying a graphs drawing package from the third party. Over all I'm really enjoying my experience and it's fun.