Capital.com’s client trading volumes surged in 2025, reflecting intensified market activity during a year of macroeconomic divergence, commodity swings and broad cross-asset repricing.
In a new activity summary released Tuesday, the fintech group reported $3.42 trillion in client trading volume, up 92.1% from $1.78 trillion in 2024, with trades executed rising 87% to 224.8 million.
The company is pitching the surge as proof of scale, and a stress test of risk controls and platform resilience.
Growth surge, but the pitch is “better decisions”
Capital.com said the jump in volumes coincided with “monetary policy divergence” across major economies, commodity-price swings and greater sensitivity to headline macro data.
The firm’s message, however, is that it is not trying to encourage more frequent trading, but rather building decision-support features and a more structured risk framework for clients trading in volatile markets.
Chief executive Rupert Osborne framed 2025 as a period of “cross-asset repricing,” arguing that access should come with tools that promote disciplined engagement and clear risk definition.
He said the company has been embedding “structured risk discipline” into the platform’s architecture and focusing on reducing cognitive bias, the tendency for emotion and shortcuts to distort trading choices when markets are moving fast.
Capital.com also stressed that trading volumes are influenced by market conditions and do not indicate future performance.
Regionally, the company said the Middle East accounted for roughly 50% of total trading volume, while Europe ranked second, with volumes up 73% year-on-year.
It also reported that crypto CFD trading volume rose 150% year-on-year and that the platform now offers more than 450 crypto CFDs.
The company broadened its product universe to over 5,000 markets, extending coverage by roughly 500 instruments year-on-year.
Risk controls, behaviour signals, and what 2026 priorities imply
One metric Capital.com highlighted was stop-loss usage: 22.59% of global positions were opened with a stop-loss attached in 2025, up from 22.01% in 2024.
A stop-loss is an order designed to limit losses by closing a trade if the price moves against the trader beyond a chosen level.
The company said it monitors stop-loss usage as a proxy for predefined risk parameters, adding that adoption was highest among Zoomers and Millennials.
The activity data also pointed to gold as the most actively traded instrument globally by both volume and trade count during 2025.
Capital.com said gold trading skewed heavily intraday, with 73.8% of gold trades closed within one hour and 95.9% within 24 hours.
On product and operations, Capital.com said it expanded charting and analytical tools, enhanced trade journaling for post-trade review, and upgraded infrastructure and monitoring to maintain execution stability during peak windows.
It also said its roadmap includes behavioural analytics and AI-assisted tools aimed at improving risk definition and real-time exposure monitoring, positioned as “behavioural infrastructure,” not predictive trading signals.
Looking ahead, Capital.com listed 2026 priorities including boosting stop-loss adoption, expanding AI-driven behavioural safeguards, improving transparency around “decision-quality” metrics, and continuing measured geographic expansion within regulatory frameworks.
The company added that it received authorisation from Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority in 2025.
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