Markets.com Overview

The operation of Markets.com is handled by the Financial Services Company, Safecap Investments Limited. Their authorization and regulations come from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), under 092/08 (license number) and also from South Africa’s Financial Services Board (FSB) under no. 43906, authorizing them to provide Financial Services.

 

In 2012, the London Investor Show Forex offered Markets.com the “Best Customer Service” award. They also received the “Best Broker in Customer Service Europe” award from Global Banking & Finance Review, in addition to the many other awards they have received in previous years.

Accounts

Markets.com stands out amongst global trading platforms and is clearly one of the best brokers you would find around nowadays. The company spreads are very competitive, and they offer generous trading leverage which rises to 1:300 – for just $100 as a minimum deposit.

With the upload of all required compliance documents, traders can take just a few minutes to set up a standard Markets.com account.

Equity trade, oil, gold, stocks, CFDs, commodities, currency, cryptocurrency (icluding: Bitcon, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dash). trades are all available on Markets.com.  Over 2,000 CFDs are available, across all the different classes of assets.

CFD (Contracts for Difference) offer traders all the profits of having a specific commodity position, stock or index – without actually owning the underlying instrument. This enables the trade of price changes of numerous equity and commodity markets by clients, with immediate execution and leverage. In such trade, a client makes a CFD commitment at a particular price. When the position closes, the price difference is settled in cash – the name CFD or “Contract for Difference” is drawn from this process.

Markets.com offers trade options which are absolutely free from commissions (zero fees) – together with some of the industry’s most competitive spreads, falling to around 1.7 pips on benchmark currency pairs such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY!

Forex leverage rises to 1:300, 1:200 for indices and commodities, and 1:10 for stocks – traders can use small $5,000 funded accounts to open positions as large as $100,000 on numerous shares.

An impressive feature on Markets.com is their unlimited demo account for newbies or other traders looking to practice certain trade strategies before executing them on real accounts. This offers traders the benefit of viewing possible outcomes before engaging in financial commitments with a real account.

Features

Traders on Markets.com benefit from using chart analysis, oscillators, indicators and other alerts offered by the broker to expertly assess the financial markets so as to make high-quality predictions on the possible direction of assets with regards to the current condition of the market.

Promotions and Offers

Markets.com is driving towards giving their clients the power to sign up very quickly with self-activation online, without live assistance from customer support. As part of this process, new clients would be provided some messages and walk-through tips wherever necessary, including added bonuses on certain occasions.

Deposits/Withdrawals

Markets.com deposits can be made through many different media, including local payment methods, Skrill (Moneybookers), PayPal, Neteller, credit cards, and wire transfers.

Withdrawals are made into bank accounts by simply logging in and clicking the withdrawal tab in your Markets.com trading account.

Education

Thorough schooling on CFD and Forex trading is available on Markets.com.

Markets.com traders have valuable daily Forex briefings in the section for News and Research, presenting them with details of the current condition of the foreign exchange market. The renowned technical analysis provider, Trading Central, provides analysis which guides the Forex and CFD traders of Markets.com to identify and exploit market momentum.

Also, traders can be provided complete coverage and analysis on commodities, stocks, and indices, to keep them ahead and help them understand how volatile markets work. There is an additional Autochartist tool through which traders can get quick visual and audio alerts. Signing up for this tool gives you alerts on completed and emerging patterns as soon as they are identified or alerts to highlight the emergence of Fibonacci patterns.  These alerts come along with appropriate graphs and charts.

With the Autochartist tool, traders also get better risk and volatility assessment of their trade instruments using the PowerStats feature.

Moreover, the Markets.com website is available in 15 different languages, from Arabic and French to German, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Slovakian, Portuguese, Swedish and Norwegian.

Customer Support

We can confidently regard the support services of Markets.com as the most accessible we have come across, having offices in 21 different locations across the globe. Added to having 24/5 access to their representatives by live chat or email, the broker’s main office can be reached using an online form.

Conclusion

Markets.com falls within the industry’s most sophisticated platforms with amazing features and tools for trade. The representatives of the broker have a mastery of so many languages, they offer competitive spreads and generous leverage. They also provide very current and informative educational offerings.