Verification record
Markets.com review
The entity behind Markets.com, its licence, and how to confirm both yourself.
Last checked
Markets.com is not a scam, and the checks that would show one all came back clean: the licence is real, the entity behind it is named, and the regulator's own register confirms both. Regulated by CySEC (092/08); FSCA (46860); SVG registration (27030 BC 2023), offering Markets.com Web Platform, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5.
Our rating
One rating, identical across our sites - only the way it is shown changes. It averages six assessments: regulation, trading costs, platforms, markets, support and education.
Regulation and safety
- Regulated by
- CySEC (092/08); FSCA (46860); SVG registration (27030 BC 2023)
- Regulator tier
- Tier 1
- Register entry
- CySEC register, licence 092/08
- Client money segregated
- Yes
- Held at
- Regulated banking institutions
- Negative balance protection
- Yes
- Compensation scheme
- Investor Compensation Fund up to €20,000 for eligible CySEC clients
- Audited by
- Independent external auditors
- Not available to
- United States, Canada, Belgium, Japan and other restricted jurisdictions
A licence is the first thing a fake broker cannot produce, so it is the first thing to check.
Markets.com holds a tier-one authorisation from CySEC. That matters more than any headline spread: it determines your leverage cap, whether losses can exceed your deposit, and what happens to your money if the firm fails.
CySEC licences passport across the EU and follow the 1:30 retail leverage cap, with the Investor Compensation Fund covering eligible claims.
The FSCA licenses derivative providers in South Africa without a fixed retail leverage cap, so headline leverage is often higher than an FCA or ASIC entity may offer.
Check the licence yourself: the CySEC register of investment firms, the FSCA list of regulated entities.
The company behind the brand
- Legal entity
- Safecap Investments Limited
- Company number
- HE 186196
- Headquarters
- Nicosia, Cyprus
- Founded
- 2008
- Publicly listed
- No
- Parent company
- Finalto Group
- Employees
- Approx. 300
- Also trades as
- Markets.com; Markets
Deposits and withdrawals
- Deposit methods
- Visa, Mastercard, bank wire, Skrill, Neteller, Zotapay and regional methods
- Withdrawal methods
- Visa/Mastercard, bank wire, Skrill, Neteller and applicable original funding method
- Deposit time
- Instant for cards/e-wallets; bank wire typically 1-3 business days
- Withdrawal time
- Typically 2-7 business days depending on method
- Minimum withdrawal
- $5 Skrill/Neteller; $10 cards; $100 wire transfer
- Local payment methods
- Zotapay and region-specific payment methods
What it costs to trade
- Spread from
- 0.6 pips
- EUR/USD spread
- 0.6 pips
- GBP/USD spread
- 0.9 pips
- Commission
- $0
- All-in cost, EUR/USD
- 0.6 pips
- Spread type
- Variable
- Overnight swap
- Both: overnight swaps charged/credited
- Inactivity fee
- $10/month after 3 months inactivity
- Withdrawal fee
- None; minimum withdrawal requirements apply
- Currency conversion
- 0.6%
Costs matter less than whether you can withdraw, but an offer that looks impossible usually is.
Spreads from 0.6 pips suggest an all-in account, where the broker's fee is built into the price rather than charged separately. There is usually no commission on top, which makes the cost easier to predict.
Quoted spreads are best-case figures on the most liquid pair, in normal conditions. What you actually pay widens around news and at the session open.
Markets.com lists a minimum deposit of $100. Treat it as the cost of opening an account, not the cost of trading one - position sizing on a small balance is what tends to cause damage.
Accounts
- Minimum deposit
- $100
- Account types
- Retail, Professional, Islamic, Demo
- Account currencies
- USD, EUR, GBP
- Islamic account
- Yes
- Demo account
- Yes
- Professional account
- Yes
- Minimum trade size
- 0.01 lots
- Time to open
- Typically a few minutes; document verification up to 24 business hours
Markets and execution
- Markets
- Forex, Shares, Indices, Commodities, ETFs, Bonds, Cryptocurrencies
- Currency pairs
- 50+
- Total instruments
- 2,000+
- Crypto CFDs
- Yes
- Maximum leverage
- 1:30
- Execution model
- Market maker
- Execution speed
- Under 1 second
- Order types
- Market, limit, stop, stop-loss, take-profit, guaranteed stop-loss
- Servers
- Global data-centre infrastructure
Leverage is capped at 1:30, which is the retail limit under tier-one regulation. It is a protection rather than a restriction: it caps how quickly a position can move against your balance.
Markets.com covers forex, shares, indices, commodities, etfs, bonds, cryptocurrencies. A wider range matters less than depth in the instruments you actually trade.
Funding options: visa, mastercard, bank wire, skrill, neteller, zotapay and regional methods. Check withdrawal routes as well as deposit ones - they are often not the same, and the difference only becomes apparent when you try to take money out.
Platforms and tools
- Platforms
- Markets.com Web Platform, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5
- Own platform
- Yes
- Mobile app
- Both proprietary and third-party
- Browser trading
- Yes
- Automated trading
- Yes, through MT4/MT5
- Copy trading
- No
- Indicators
- 80+
- Third-party tools
- Trading Central, TipRanks
- API access
- No retail API
MetaTrader 4 remains the most widely supported platform for expert advisors. If you rely on an existing EA, this is usually the deciding factor.
MetaTrader 5 handles more asset classes and order types than MT4, but expert advisors are not compatible between the two - an MT4 EA will not run on it.
Support and education
- Support hours
- 24/5
- Contact channels
- Live chat, email, phone
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Telephone
- +357 22 278807
- support@markets.com
- Live chat response
- Typically under 2 minutes
- Education
- Extensive: educational articles, webinars, trading guides, platform tutorials and glossary
- Research
- Extensive: market news, analyst recommendations, sentiment, technical analysis and fundamental data
Information is regularly updated. Last compiled from Markets.com's own website on 26 August 2026.
Questions people ask about Markets.com
Is Markets.com a real registered company?
Yes. At Markets.com, the company you would be contracting with is Safecap Investments Limited, registered as HE 186196 and based in Nicosia, Cyprus. A registration number is checkable in the register of the country that issued it, and a broker that will not give you one is telling you something.
Is Markets.com regulated, and by whom?
Markets.com holds CySEC (092/08); FSCA (46860); SVG registration (27030 BC 2023), which we grade as tier 1. A licence number is the part worth checking, because it is the thing a cloned site copies and the thing the regulator's register will not confirm.
Does Markets.com trade under any other names?
Markets.com also appears as Markets.com and Markets. This matters when you are checking a licence or a warning list, because a search for one name will not always find what was published about another.