CPT Markets review.

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of CPT Markets, scored 6.2 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews. The firm is not one company but a cluster of them: the international cptmarkets.com site is operated by CPT Global Limited, while separate entities carry separate licences for separate regions. The firm UK Limited is the FCA register-regulated arm, originally incorporated as Citypoint Trading Ltd in London in 2008 (Companies House number 06707165), per the firm’s own UK page. The firm (PTY) Limited holds the South African FSCA authorisation, CPT Mena Financial Services LLC holds the UAE licence, and the firm Limited holds the Belize authorisation, all named on the firm’s own regulatory-licences page.

The single thing worth knowing before anything else: which of these entities actually opens a reader’s account determines which regulator, and which protections, apply. The FCA-regulated UK entity is a separate company from the South Africa, UAE and Belize entities and is not mentioned anywhere in the international site’s own legal disclaimer, so a client assuming the FCA’s stronger UK retail protections apply group-wide may in fact be onboarded to the Belize or South Africa entity instead.

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Facts List

• The FCA register shows FRN 606110 held by CPT Markets UK Limited, status Authorised, effective 31 July 2014, tied to Companies House company 06707165.
• The FSCA register shows FSP 45954 held by CPT Markets (PTY) Ltd, status Authorized.
• The UAE Capital Market Authority register lists CPT Mena Financial Services LLC as company CP-0001163, status Active, with cptmarkets.com given as its website; the register uses this CP code rather than the licence number CPT Markets quotes on its own page, so the company is confirmed and that specific number is not.
• The Financial Services Commission Belize LicenSys register lists CPT Markets Limited as registration 6616058, status Active, registered 1 January 2025.
• Companies House confirms CPT Markets UK Limited as company 06707165, a Private Limited Company incorporated 25 September 2008, status Active.
• We checked 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and the Financial Services Commission Mauritius, and CPT Markets does not appear on any of them.
• The FCA register separately lists two sites named after this firm as unauthorised: cptmarketsig.com, which it flags as a clone of an authorised firm, and cpttrades.com, which it names outright as a clone of CPT Markets. Neither is the firm reviewed here.
• CPT Markets UK Limited’s own page lists only MetaTrader 4 under “Platforms,” while the internationally-run CPT Global site additionally advertises MetaTrader 5, its own app, its own desktop platform, and a TradingView charting partnership.
• The firm’s own South Africa registration number is given as “2014 / 214730 / 07” on most of its country versions of the site but as “2014 / 214730 / 10” on its Vietnamese-language root page, for what is presented as the same entity.
• The firm’s Cyprus entity, CPT Operation Limited, carries a company registration number (HE 459315) on the firm’s own page but no financial regulator is named for it anywhere in the evidence.

How CPT Markets is licensed, entity by entity

Each region-facing brand sits under a different regulator. The FCA’s own register confirms CPT Markets UK Limited holds FRN 606110, authorised since 31 July 2014. The FSCA’s own register confirms FSP 45954 belongs to the firm (PTY) Ltd. The UAE Capital Market Authority’s own register confirms CPT Mena Financial Services LLC is active as CP-0001163, listing cptmarkets.com as its site, though it does not carry the specific licence number the firm quotes on its pages. The Belize Financial Services Commission’s own register confirms the firm Limited as registration 6616058, active since 1 January 2025. Two further entities in the evidence, the firm (PTY) Limited’s South African company filing and CPT Operation Limited’s Cyprus company filing, have not yet been checked against their respective company registries, so those two remain unverified rather than confirmed or denied.

What CPT Markets’ own documents say about risk

The firm’s risk disclosure states: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.” The same set of pages that carries this clause also markets negative balance protection, describing client funds as “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection,” while the risk disclosure itself separately states “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit.” Those two statements point in different directions, and the evidence gathered here does not resolve which one governs a given account. The same risk disclosure also states that CPT “does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete,” meaning the firm disclaims responsibility for the accuracy of the account, fee and platform details published on its own site.

Account tiers on CPT Markets’ own comparison page

CPT Markets’ own account page lists three tiers. Classic is STP execution with variable spreads and no commission, open to Forex, Stocks, Metals, Indices, Commodities and Crypto, with unlimited accounts per client. ECN is direct-liquidity execution with volume-based commission, but excludes Stocks and Crypto in favour of Futures and Energies. Prime is hybrid ECN/STP execution with floating spreads, no commission, and is capped at one account per client, unlike the other two tiers. All three list leverage up to 1:1000 and a minimum trade size of 0.01 lot on the firm’s own page, though no minimum deposit figure appears on any of the fetched account pages.

Key Takeaways

CPT Markets is not one company. The brand spans the firm UK Limited (FCA), the firm (PTY) Limited (FSCA, South Africa), CPT Mena Financial Services LLC (licensed companies register, UAE), the firm Limited (FSC Belize), and CPT Operation Limited in Cyprus, which carries a company number but no financial regulator anywhere in the evidence. Which of these a reader actually opens an account with depends on which country site they land on, and the protections attached to each licence are not interchangeable.

What the registers show for CPT Markets

• The FCA register confirms FRN 606110 for CPT Markets UK Limited, status Authorised, effective 31 July 2014, and ties it to Companies House number 06707165. That licence covers only the UK entity; the international cptmarkets.com site is run by CPT Global Limited and its South African, UAE and Belize entities, per the firm’s own pages, and none of those three is mentioned in the UK entity’s page.
• The FSCA register confirms FSP 45954, status Authorized, for CPT Markets (PTY) Ltd.
• The UAE Capital Market Authority register confirms CPT Mena Financial Services L.L.C. as CP-0001163, status Active, listed since 2025, with cptmarkets.com given as its website. The register publishes that CP code rather than the licence number the firm quotes elsewhere, so the company checks out on the register but the specific number does not.
• The FSC Belize LicenSys register confirms CPT Markets Limited under registration number 6616058, licence type covering trading in securities as agent and as principal, managing securities and arranging transactions, status Active, registered 1 January 2025.
• Companies House confirms CPT Markets UK Limited as company 06707165, incorporated 25 September 2008, status Active. Companies House is a company registry, not a financial regulator, so it confirms the company’s existence and nothing about its licence to trade.
• Nobody has yet looked up the South African CIPC entry or Cyprus Registrar of Companies record HE 459315 for CPT Operation Limited, so those two remain unchecked rather than confirmed or denied.
• The firm’s own pages give two different South African company numbers for what is presented as the same entity: 2014/214730/07 on most country versions of the site and 2014/214730/10 on the Vietnamese-language root page.

Clones using the CPT Markets name

We searched 1441 warning-list entries mirrored from the CYSEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius lists, and CPT Markets appears on none of them. That search does turn up two other sites in the same naming space that a reader could easily mistake for this firm: the FCA register lists cptmarketsig.com as Unauthorised and names it a clone of an authorised firm, without confirming which one; it separately lists cpttrades.com, styled “the firm & Trades,” as Unauthorised and names it a clone of the firm specifically. Neither is the firm under review, but both sit close enough to the brand to catch out a reader searching by name.

What CPT Markets charges

The figures below come from the earlier published review, not from a firm page we fetched: no deposit or withdrawal fees, an inactivity fee of $50 a month after 90 days without a trade, and overnight or swap charges on positions held past 5pm EST. That same earlier review states an ECN account commission of $4 per round-turn lot, but CPT Markets’ own account comparison page lists the ECN commission only as “Basado en volumen” (volume-based), with no fixed figure given. On accounts, the firm’s page sets out three tiers: Classic (STP execution, spreads shown as “Variables,” no commission, unlimited accounts), ECN (direct liquidity, spreads “Desde 0.0 pips,” volume-based commission, no stocks or crypto), and Prime (hybrid execution, floating spreads, no commission, capped at one account per client). The same account page contradicts its own marketing copy: the prose describes Classic as offering spreads “from 0.0 pips,” while the comparison table on the same page assigns that figure to ECN and lists Classic as merely “Variable.”

Platforms CPT Markets actually offers

CPT Markets UK Limited’s own page lists only MetaTrader 4 under “Platforms.” The international CPT Global site adds MetaTrader 5, described on its dedicated platform page as a multi-asset platform for currencies, stocks, futures and crypto, plus the firm’s own CPT Proprietary App and CPT Desktop Platform, and a charting partnership with TradingView. Our earlier review names cTrader as one of the firm’s three main platforms, but across the ten country root pages and the dedicated platform pages we fetched, cTrader is not mentioned anywhere; only MT4, MT5 and the two CPT-branded apps appear.

Terms that bind a client

• The risk disclosure states: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.”
• The same risk disclosure warns “It is possible to lose more than your initial deposit,” on pages that elsewhere market funds as “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection.” The two statements point in different directions on what actually caps a client’s losses.
• The legal disclaimer states: “CPT does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such,” meaning the firm does not stand behind the accuracy of its own published rates and features.
• The site’s /terms, /spreads and /risk-disclosure URLs returned 404 when probed for the UAE, Indonesian and Australian country sites.

Support and other loose ends

CPT Markets’ contact page lists live chat available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, an international support email, and a toll-free phone line, alongside separate registered addresses in London, Johannesburg, Dubai, Belize City and Nicosia for its various entities. Our earlier review states the firm cannot onboard residents of Australia, Canada, Israel, Belgium or New Zealand; the firm’s own legal disclaimer, served to and geo-verified for Australian visitors among others, names only the USA, North Korea and unspecified other unlawful jurisdictions as restricted, so a reader in one of those five countries relying on the older review would be working from an outdated restriction.

Licenses & Regulation

CPT Markets is not one company but a brand spread across four regulated entities plus at least one more that carries no regulator at all. The register checks below cover the four licensed entities directly; two South African company-number checks were not run, and the Cyprus company register had no page for the fifth entity’s registration number, so those three gaps are reported as gaps, not as findings either way.

The four licences behind the CPT Markets brand

The FCA register shows FRN 606110 held by CPT Markets UK Limited, status Authorised, effective 31/07/2014, with a linked Companies House number of 06707165. Companies House itself confirms that number as the firm UK Limited, a private limited company incorporated 25 September 2008 and currently Active, though Companies House is a company registry rather than a financial regulator, so it confirms the company’s existence and never a licence to trade.

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority register shows FSP 45954 held by CPT Markets (PTY) Ltd, status Authorized. The UAE Capital Market Authority register lists CPT Mena Financial Services L.L.C. as CP-0001163, status Active, listed since 2025, with cptmarkets.com given as its website, which is the site this review covers; the register publishes that CP code rather than the licence number the firm itself quotes, so the company is confirmed on the register and the number the firm cites is not. The Financial Services Commission of Belize’s LicenSys register shows CPT Markets Limited at registration number 6616058, covering Trading in Securities as Agent, Trading in Securities as Principal, Managing Securities and Arranging Transactions in Securities, status Active, registered 2025-01-01.

Which entity a client actually signs with

These four licences do not cover the same footprint. CPT Markets UK Limited serves UK clients under the FCA licence; the international cptmarkets.com site that the UAE-listed entity operates is run by CPT Global Limited alongside the South African, UAE and Belize entities, per the firm’s own pages. The FCA-regulated UK company is not named anywhere in the international site’s legal disclaimer and does not appear on CPT Global’s own “Regulatory Licences” page alongside the South Africa, UAE and Belize entities. A client who opens an account expecting FCA protection because the brand is FCA-authorised somewhere could in practice be onboarded to the Belize or South African entity instead, which carry different regulatory protections. The evidence also shows CPT Markets UK Limited’s own page listing only MetaTrader4 under “Platforms,” where the internationally operated site advertises MetaTrader 5 plus CPT’s own app and desktop platform, another sign the UK entity and the international brand are not offering an identical service.

Two entities the register checks could not reach

A sixth entity, CPT Operation Limited, is registered in Cyprus; the evidence gives a company number for it but names no financial regulator anywhere in the evidence for this entity, so it is not shown here as a licence. The Cyprus Registrar of Companies check for that number found no page in the mirror we use, which lags the official register, so that is recorded as not checked rather than as an absence. CPT Markets (PTY) Limited’s South African company registration was not looked up directly either; the CIPC company register only answers a person in a browser, so this remains a gap in what was checked, not a fact about the firm. That gap is sharpened by an inconsistency in the firm’s own paperwork: its South African company number appears as “2014 / 214730 / 07” on most of the country versions of the site fetched but as “2014 / 214730 / 10” on the Vietnamese-language root page, for what is presented as the same entity.

Warning-list search and lookalike sites

A search of 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and the FSC Mauritius found no match for CPT Markets on any of them. Before relying on that clean result, the search was run against a firm known to already be listed, across eight registers, to confirm an empty result means absence rather than a broken search. The same FCA register that authorises CPT Markets UK Limited separately lists two other domains as Unauthorised: cptmarketsig.com, which the register describes as a clone of an authorised firm without confirming which one, and cpttrades.com, which the register describes specifically as a clone of CPT Markets. Neither listing concerns the firm reviewed here; both concern sites trading on a similar name, and a reader searching for CPT Markets should be careful not to land on either one.

What CPT Markets UK Limited’s terms say about closing a client’s position

The firm’s own risk disclosure states: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.” That gives the firm authority to liquidate a client’s open positions the instant margin falls short, with no warning and no chance to add funds first. The same set of pages markets negative balance protection, describing client funds as “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection,” while the risk disclosure states elsewhere that “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit.” Those two statements point in opposite directions on the same question, and nothing in the evidence resolves which one governs a client’s account. Separately, the firm’s legal disclaimer states: “CPT does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such,” which extends to the site’s own published rates and account terms.

How to Trade

CPT Markets offers three account tiers, and its own comparison page is the source for how they differ. Classic runs on STP (no dealing desk) execution, with the spread column marked “Variables” and no commission charged. ECN runs on direct liquidity execution, with spreads listed as “Desde 0.0 pips” and commission described only as “Basado en volumen” (volume based), with no fixed figure given on that page. Prime runs a hybrid ECN/STP model, spreads marked “Flotante” (floating), and no commission. All three allow a minimum trade size of 0.01 lot and leverage up to 1:1000. Classic and ECN allow an unlimited number of accounts per client; Prime caps a client at one account.

The same account page contradicts itself on this point elsewhere. Its own marketing prose describes the Classic account as spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commissions, while the comparison table on that identical page assigns “from 0.0 pips” to the ECN account instead and lists Classic spreads as merely “Variable.” A reader cannot tell from the firm’s own page which tier actually carries the tightest advertised spread.

Our earlier review reported an ECN commission of $4 per round turn lot. CPT’s own account page gives no such fixed figure for ECN, listing it only as volume based, so we cannot confirm the $4 figure against the firm’s current page.

What CPT Markets lets a client trade

Across the firm’s country root pages, CPT Markets lists forex (majors, minors and exotics, described as trading 24/7), commodities (energy instruments plus hard and soft commodities), indices (including the S&P 500, DAX and Nikkei 225), stocks (CFDs on shares listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ and HKEX), cryptocurrencies (including BTC and ETH), and precious metals (gold and silver, listed separately from general commodities). Futures and energies appear specifically as tradable products on the ECN account. The ECN account’s own product list excludes stocks and crypto, offering forex, metals, energies, indices and futures instead.

Crypto access carries its own restriction: the firm’s root page states that cryptocurrency exchange services are strictly prohibited for residents and entities of FATF blacklisted and grey listed jurisdictions, naming Russia, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar among others. Separately, the firm’s legal disclaimer states CPT does not provide services to residents of jurisdictions where doing so would contravene local law, naming the United States and North Korea specifically, plus any other jurisdiction that deems the activity unlawful.

Platforms and what changes by entity

The international CPT Global site lists MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, a CPT branded proprietary mobile app and a CPT branded desktop platform, plus a charting partnership with TradingView described as giving access to real time stock data and a stock screener. But CPT Markets UK Limited, the FCA regulated entity, lists only “MetaTrader4” under its own Platforms section, with no mention of MT5, the proprietary app or the desktop platform. A trader onboarded through the UK entity may not get the fuller platform lineup the international site advertises.

Our earlier review described cTrader as one of the firm’s three main trading platforms. None of the firm’s own pages we fetched, across ten country root pages and the dedicated platform pages, mention cTrader; only MT4, MT5, the CPT app and the CPT desktop platform appear there.

The terms that bind an open position

CPT Markets’ risk disclosure states plainly: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.” That means a position can be liquidated the instant margin runs short, with no warning and no chance to top up first.

The same risk disclosure also states “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit,” on pages that elsewhere market negative balance protection and describe client funds as “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection.” Those two statements point in different directions, and it is not clear from the firm’s own pages which one actually governs a client’s account.

The risk disclosure adds a further caveat over the site’s own content: “CPT does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such.” A client cannot treat the rates, features or terms shown on the site as reliable without checking them independently. For anyone using CPT’s copy trading feature, a separate disclaimer warns that “trade execution timing, pricing, and results may differ from those of the strategy provider due to market conditions, liquidity, execution latency, and account specific settings,” with past performance stated as no guide to future results.

Account Types

CPT Markets sells three accounts on its own account comparison page: Classic, ECN and Prime. None of the three lists a minimum deposit figure on that page, so none is given here.

The three tiers on CPT Markets’ own account page

• Classic runs on STP (no dealing desk) execution. The comparison table on CPT Markets’ account page lists its spread simply as “Variables” and charges no separate commission. It carries the full product list: Forex, Stocks, Metals, Indices, Commodities and Crypto. Minimum trade size is 0.01 lot, leverage runs up to 1:1000, and a client can open an unlimited number of Classic accounts.
• ECN runs on direct-liquidity ECN execution. The same table gives its spread as “from 0.0 pips” and its commission as volume-based, with no fixed per-lot figure published. The ECN account drops Stocks and Crypto from the tradable list and adds Futures and Energies alongside Forex, Metals and Indices. Minimum trade size and leverage match Classic, at 0.01 lot and up to 1:1000, and the account count is likewise unlimited.
• Prime runs on a hybrid ECN/STP execution model, with spreads listed as “floating” and no separate commission. It carries the same full product list as Classic (Forex, Stocks, Metals, Indices, Commodities, Crypto), the same 0.01 lot minimum and the same leverage ceiling of 1:1000. The one hard difference: a client is capped at one Prime account, where Classic and ECN allow as many as a client wants to open.

Where CPT Markets’ own page disagrees with itself

The marketing copy at the top of that same account page describes the Classic account as offering spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commissions. The comparison table lower on the page tells a different story: it assigns “from 0.0 pips” to the ECN account, not Classic, and lists Classic’s own spread as merely “Variable”. Read the prose and a visitor would pick Classic for the tightest spread; read the table on the same page and that spread belongs to ECN instead. CPT Markets has not published anything that resolves which of its own two descriptions is the one a Classic account actually gets.

Fees beyond the account tables

An earlier review of the firm, not a page we fetched from CPT Markets directly, reported no deposit or withdrawal fees, an inactivity charge of $50 a month after 90 days without a trade, and overnight financing on positions held past 5pm EST. We have no CPT Markets fee schedule of our own to check those figures against, so they are reported here as that earlier review’s claims, not as something CPT Markets’ own site states.

That same earlier review put the ECN account’s commission at a fixed $4 per round-turn lot. That does not match what CPT Markets’ own account page says: its table lists the ECN commission as volume-based, with no fixed figure given at all. The two sources disagree, and since the firm’s own page is the more recent and more direct source, the $4 figure should not be taken as current.

What each tier locks a client out of

Choosing ECN over Classic or Prime means giving up Stocks and Crypto entirely, in exchange for Futures and Energies that the other two tiers do not offer. Choosing Prime means giving up the option to run more than one account under that tier, a restriction neither Classic nor ECN carries. Beyond the tier a client picks, CPT Markets’ own site also states that cryptocurrency exchange services are off the table for residents and entities of jurisdictions FATF has blacklisted or grey-listed, including Russia, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar, which narrows the Crypto product line on Classic and Prime for clients based there.

Negative Balance Protection

CPT Markets’ own pages advertise negative balance protection as part of its client fund arrangements, describing client money as “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection.” The same pages carry a Risk Disclosure stating plainly that “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit.” Both statements come from the firm’s own site, and they say opposite things about the one question that matters most here: whether an account can go negative. We report both as published, because the firm published both, and leave the contradiction for what it is rather than resolving it in either direction.

What the risk disclosure actually says about margin

The same Risk Disclosure sets out what happens when an open position runs against a client’s funds: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.” That is a stop-out clause with no warning period and no obligation to give the client a chance to add funds first. Nothing in the evidence gathered from CPT Markets’ pages specifies a stop-out percentage, a margin call threshold, or how the firm calculates the point at which a position is forced closed; the clause states the power to close without notice and stops there.

Leverage across CPT Markets’ account types

CPT Markets’ own accounts page lists leverage of up to 1:1000 on each of its three account types, Classic, ECN and Prime. Leverage of that size means a comparatively small adverse move can consume the margin held against a position, which is what makes the stop-out clause above and the negative balance question that follows it relevant to an account opened on any of the three tiers, not just one.

The promise sits next to a disclaimer that undercuts it

The same site that markets negative balance protection also carries a general disclaimer on its published material: “CPT does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such.” That line is not specific to the negative balance claim, it covers the site’s content generally, but it applies to the same pages that state the protection exists. A reader relying on the negative balance protection claim is relying on a page the firm’s own legal disclaimer says not to rely on.

Which CPT Markets entity actually holds the account

Negative balance arrangements, where a firm actually stands behind them, are typically a feature of the specific regulated entity and the account agreement a client signs, not of a marketing page shared across a group’s whole website. CPT Markets operates as more than one company: CPT Markets UK Limited holds FCA authorisation (FRN 606110, confirmed on the FCA register), while CPT Markets (PTY) Limited (FSCA, FSP 45954), CPT Mena Financial Services LLC (UAE CMA) and CPT Markets Limited (FSC Belize, registration 6616058) are separate entities regulated separately. The FCA-regulated UK entity is not named anywhere in the international site’s legal disclaimer, which instead names the South Africa, UAE and Belize entities. A client who opens an account through the international site’s onboarding flow may end up contracted with the Belize or South Africa entity rather than the FCA one, and the negative balance protection wording quoted above appears on the pages those entities operate, not on a page we confirmed belongs to CPT Markets UK Limited specifically.

What we did not find

We read CPT Markets’ terms and quoted the clauses that bind a client on margin close-outs, but the fetched pages did not include a standalone negative balance protection policy, a defined stop-out level, or a clause specifying what happens to a negative balance once a position is closed out, whether it is written off, invoiced to the client, or something else. The Risk Disclosure’s own words, that a client can lose more than the initial deposit, are the clearest statement CPT Markets’ own pages make on the point, and they run against the protection the firm markets elsewhere on the same site.

Trading Instruments

CPT Markets runs three account tiers, and the firm’s own comparison page for the UAE market is the clearest source on what each one actually offers. Classic is built on STP (NDD) execution, the comparison table marks its spread column as “Variables” and its commission as none, and it carries the fullest instrument list of the three: Forex, Stocks, Metals, Indices, Commodities and Crypto. ECN runs on direct-liquidity ECN execution, with the spread column reading “Desde 0.0 pips” and commission listed as “Basado en volumen” (volume-based, no figure given), but the tradable list drops Stocks and Crypto and adds Futures and Energies instead. Prime sits on hybrid ECN/STP execution, spreads marked “Flotante” (floating), no commission, and the same full six-asset list as Classic, but it is capped at one account per client where Classic and ECN allow unlimited accounts.

That same account page has an internal contradiction worth flagging: the marketing copy above the table describes the Classic account as having spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commissions, while the table underneath assigns that “from 0.0 pips” figure to the ECN account and marks Classic’s own spread as merely “Variable”. Anyone comparing tiers on price should read the table, not the prose above it, since the two disagree on which account is actually the tightest-spread one.

What CPT Markets lists as tradable

Across the firm’s country root pages, CPT Markets advertises forex majors, minors and exotics trading 24/7, commodities covering energy plus hard and soft commodities, indices including the S&P 500, DAX and Nikkei 225, precious metals (gold and silver) listed as their own category separate from general commodities, and cryptocurrencies including BTC and ETH pairs. Stock CFDs on NYSE, NASDAQ and HKEX-listed names appear on the markets page. Futures and energies show up specifically as ECN-account instruments on the accounts page rather than as general-site categories.

Crypto access carries its own carve-out: the root page states that cryptocurrency exchange services are strictly prohibited for residents or entities of FATF blacklisted and grey-listed jurisdictions, naming Russia, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar as examples among others. That sits alongside a broader restriction that CPT does not serve residents of jurisdictions where offering its services would break local law, naming the USA and North Korea specifically, plus any other jurisdiction that deems the activity unlawful.

Where the account tiers narrow the asset list

The instrument range is not uniform across accounts. ECN account holders cannot trade Stocks or Crypto on that tier at all, trading Forex, Metals, Energies, Indices and Futures instead, per the same the firm’s UAE accounts page comparison table. Classic and Prime both carry the full six-category list. Prime’s restriction is structural rather than product-based: a client is limited to one Prime account, while Classic and ECN allow opening as many accounts as the client wants.

Platforms tied to what can be traded

MetaTrader 5 gets its own page describing it as a multi-asset platform covering currencies, stocks, futures and crypto, downloadable across app store, Google Play, Windows and Android. MetaTrader 4 is also listed on the international root pages, alongside a CPT-branded proprietary mobile app and a CPT-branded desktop platform, plus a charting partnership with TradingView giving access to real-time stock data and a stock screener. But CPT Markets UK Limited’s own page, the entity actually holding the FCA licence, lists only “MetaTrader4” under its Platforms heading. There’s a gap between what CPT Global’s international site advertises for asset access and platform choice and what the FCA-regulated UK entity’s own page confirms it provides.

Where the marketing and the risk disclosure pull apart

The same root pages that market crypto, stocks, commodities, indices and forex also carry a Risk Disclosure stating plainly that “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit,” on pages that elsewhere promise funds are “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection.” Those two statements sit side by side without reconciling which one governs a client’s account. The same disclosure adds that “CPT does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such”, which extends to the asset and account descriptions covered above: the firm’s own legal language tells a reader not to take its published product pages at face value without checking further.

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What platforms CPT Markets actually offers

The international site lists MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 alongside two branded builds of its own, a CPT Proprietary App and a CPT Desktop Platform, both listed separately from MT4/MT5 under the site’s Downloads section. MT5 gets its own dedicated page describing it as a multi-asset platform covering currencies, stocks, futures and crypto, downloadable through the App Store, Google Play, Windows and Android. The site also states that CPT Markets has partnered with TradingView, giving access to real-time stock data and TradingView’s Stock Screener.

That lineup does not match what CPT Markets UK Limited, the FCA-regulated entity, shows on its own page: under “Platforms” it lists only MetaTrader4. Nothing on that page names MT5, the CPT app, the CPT desktop platform or TradingView. A client onboarded through the FCA entity, which is the entity carrying the FCA’s regulatory protections rather than the Belize, South Africa or UAE entities, may be getting a narrower platform offering than the international marketing pages promise.

A platform that appears to have been dropped

The earlier published review described cTrader as one of three main platforms, with detail on its features. None of the pages fetched for this review mention cTrader at all: not the ten country root pages, not the dedicated platform page, nothing. Only MT4, MT5, the CPT Proprietary App and CPT Desktop Platform turn up across the current site. A trader picking CPT Markets specifically for cTrader access, on the strength of an older review, would find it isn’t there.

Account tiers and what each one can actually trade

CPT Markets’ own accounts page sets out three tiers with different execution models and different product access rather than a single platform experience with cosmetic pricing differences layered on top. Classic runs on STP (NDD) execution, with the comparison table on that page marking its spread column “Variables” and no commission; it covers Forex, Stocks, Metals, Indices, Commodities and Crypto. ECN runs on direct-liquidity ECN execution, with the same table showing spreads “Desde 0.0 pips” and commission “Basado en volumen” (volume-based, no fixed figure given); its tradable list drops Stocks and Crypto and adds Energies and Futures instead. Prime runs Hybrid ECN/STP execution, spreads marked “Flotante” (floating), no commission, and offers the same full asset range as Classic, but caps a client at one Prime account, where Classic and ECN allow an unlimited number.

The same accounts page contradicts itself on where the tightest spread actually sits. Its marketing prose describes the Classic account as offering spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commissions, but the comparison table on that identical page assigns “from 0.0 pips” to the ECN account instead and lists Classic as merely “Variable.” A reader comparing tiers on CPT’s own page cannot tell from that page alone which account carries the advertised tightest spread.

Instrument coverage and where it narrows

Across the root pages CPT Markets advertises Forex (majors, minors and exotics, described as trading 24/7), Commodities covering energy and hard and soft commodities, Indices including the S&P 500, DAX and Nikkei 225, Stocks as CFDs on NYSE, NASDAQ and HKEX-listed names, Cryptocurrencies including BTC and ETH, and Precious Metals listed as its own category separate from general commodities. Futures and Energies show up specifically as ECN-account instruments on the accounts page rather than as firm-wide offerings. Stocks and Crypto, as above, are absent from the ECN tier’s own tradable list. Crypto trading carries a further restriction: the firm’s site states that cryptocurrency exchange services are strictly prohibited for residents or entities of FATF blacklisted and grey-listed jurisdictions, naming Russia, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar among others.

Reachability of the supporting pages

When our review process probed the /terms, /spreads and /risk-disclosure URLs on the AE, ID and AU country sites, all three returned a 404 page-not-found. That leaves country-specific terms, spreads and risk-disclosure documents unreachable at the locations a reader would expect to find them on those markets, on top of the account-page inconsistency over where the advertised 0.0-pip spread actually applies.

Special Offers

Our evidence for this review has no promotions page, no bonus terms and no discount code for CPT Markets. What we do have is the firm’s own account comparison page, which is where a promotional rate would normally show up if one existed, plus a handful of contract clauses that touch on pricing and execution. Neither describes anything that reads as a welcome offer, a deposit match or a limited-time credit.

What CPT Markets’ own account page shows instead of an offer

The firm’s account comparison table lists three tiers, Classic, ECN and Prime, and prices all three through spreads and commission rather than through any promotional structure. Classic carries no commission and a spread column marked “Variables”; ECN carries a volume-based commission (“Basado en volumen”) against a spread column marked “Desde 0.0 pips”; Prime carries no commission and a “Flotante” (floating) spread, with the account capped at one per client where Classic and ECN allow unlimited accounts. None of the three is presented on that page as a promotional or introductory rate, and the page gives no expiry date, deposit threshold or code attached to any of them.

The same page is internally inconsistent about where its tightest spread actually sits: the marketing text above the table describes Classic as offering spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commission, while the comparison table itself assigns “from 0.0 pips” to the ECN account and gives Classic only the word “Variable.” A reader drawn in by the “from 0.0 pips” language in the prose and expecting that rate on the account with no commission would be reading the wrong row.

Copy Trading: a disclaimer, not a promotional program

CPT Markets’ Copy Trading disclaimer warns that “Trade execution timing, pricing, and results may differ from those of the strategy provider due to market conditions, liquidity, execution latency, and account-specific settings,” and adds that “Past performance is not indicative of future results.” That is the only Copy Trading-related text in the evidence, and it reads as a standard risk disclaimer attached to a feature, not as a bonus, rebate or fee waiver tied to using it.

Fee items carried over from the earlier review

Four fee-related figures in this evidence set came from the previously published review CPT Markets is being rewritten from, not from a page we fetched ourselves, so we cannot attribute them to the firm’s own site. That earlier review reported no deposit or withdrawal fees, an inactivity fee of $50 a month after 90 days without trading, overnight or swap charges on positions held past 5pm EST, and an ECN commission of $4 per round-turn lot. None of these four is framed as a promotion or a conditional discount in what was reported to us, and the ECN figure specifically conflicts with CPT’s own account page, which gives the ECN commission only as volume-based with no fixed dollar amount.

Put together, the account structure the firm publishes is a standard spread-and-commission model across three tiers, and nothing in the pages we fetched or the fee items carried over from the earlier review describes a bonus, cashback scheme or promotional credit attached to opening or funding an account.

Opening an Account

What follows is built from the account structure, the legal disclaimers and the restrictions the firm does state, not from a step by step signup flow we watched happen.

Which entity actually opens the account

The brand name covers more than one company, and which one signs up a given reader depends on where they are. CPT Markets UK Limited, FCA reference 606110, confirmed on the FCA register as Authorised with an effective date of 31/07/2014, serves UK clients and is also Companies House company 06707165, confirmed on that register as a Private limited Company incorporated 25 September 2008 and currently Active. CPT Mena Financial Services LLC, the entity named on the firm’s UAE legal page, is confirmed on the UAE Capital Market Authority register as CP-0001163, status Active, with cptmarkets.com given as its website. CPT Markets (PTY) Ltd, also named on that UAE legal page, holds FSCA authorisation FSP 45954, confirmed as Authorized. CPT Markets Limited is on the Belize Financial Services Commission’s LicenSys register, registration number 6616058, licensed for Trading in Securities as Agent, Trading in Securities as Principal, Managing Securities and Arranging Transactions in Securities, status Active, registered 2025-01-01. The international site’s own legal disclaimer names CPT Mena Financial Services LLC, CPT Markets (PTY) Ltd and CPT Markets Limited together, but does not name CPT Markets UK Limited alongside them. A reader who opens an account expecting the FCA entity’s protections could in fact be onboarded to the Belize or South African company instead, and the account confirmation itself is the only place that would say which one.

Account tiers to choose between

CPT’s own account comparison page lists three tiers. Classic runs on STP execution, carries no commission and is described in the comparison table as having “Variables” spreads, with an unlimited number of accounts permitted per client. ECN runs on direct ECN liquidity, is described as commission “Basado en volumen” (volume based) with spreads “Desde 0.0 pips” in the table, and also allows unlimited accounts, but its tradable list on that page excludes Stocks and Crypto, offering Forex, Metals, Energies, Indices and Futures instead. Prime runs a hybrid ECN/STP model, carries no commission, is listed with “Flotante” (floating) spreads, and is capped at a maximum of one account per client, unlike the other two tiers. None of the three pages gives a minimum deposit figure. Worth flagging: the same account page’s marketing prose describes the Classic tier as having spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commissions, while the comparison table on that identical page assigns that “from 0.0 pips” figure to the ECN account instead and calls Classic’s spread merely “Variable”, so which tier actually carries the tightest advertised spread is not consistent even within the firm’s own page.

Who CPT Markets will not open an account for

The firm’s own legal disclaimer states it does not provide services to residents of jurisdictions where doing so would contravene local law, and names the United States of America and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea specifically, alongside a general catch all for “any other jurisdiction” that would deem the activity unlawful. Separately, cryptocurrency exchange services are stated as strictly prohibited for residents or entities of FATF blacklisted and grey listed jurisdictions, with Russia, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar given as examples rather than an exhaustive list. It is worth noting that our earlier review claimed CPT Markets also turns away residents of Australia, Canada, Israel, Belgium and New Zealand, but the firm’s own current disclaimer, served to and geo tailored for Australian visitors among others, names none of those five countries as restricted. A reader in any of those five markets going by the firm’s own published terms would not be excluded on that basis.

What we could not verify about verification itself

We probed for dedicated Terms, Spreads and Risk Disclosure pages on the AE, ID and AU country sites at their expected URLs. The AE and ID pages came back with a “page not found” response; the AU risk disclosure page came back with an empty, 0-byte body instead, on more than one attempt. Either way, the identity checks, proof of address requirements or account tiers requiring extra documentation that a firm would typically set out in those documents are not something we can report here. The risk disclosure text we could read states plainly that “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit,” a warning that sits oddly next to the same site’s marketing claim of negative balance protection with client funds “fully segregated,” and a prospective client relying on one or the other for what actually happens to their account after opening it would not get a consistent answer from CPT’s own pages.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Our evidence here is thin on the mechanics of actually moving money. CPT Markets’ own account-comparison page and country pages, which our review process fetched across ten geo variants, describe execution models, spreads and instrument lists in detail but none of the fetched pages set out a deposit or withdrawal method, a processing time, or a rail-specific fee. The figures below on fees and payment methods carry from the earlier published review this one replaces, not from a CPT Markets page we read directly, and that distinction matters more here than almost anywhere else in the review: withdrawal terms are exactly the kind of detail that changes without notice and that a reader most needs verified first-hand.

What the earlier review said CPT Markets charges

The prior review reported that CPT Markets applies no deposit or withdrawal fees. It also reported an inactivity fee of $50 a month once an account goes 90 days without a trade, and overnight or swap charges on positions held past 5pm EST. None of these figures appear on the account, legal or contact pages our review process fetched, so they are carried here as what the earlier review found, not as something CPT Markets’ current site states.

The same earlier review put ECN account commission at $4 per round-turn lot. CPT Markets’ own account comparison page, fetched directly for this review, lists the ECN account’s commission field as “Basado en volumen” (volume-based) with no fixed dollar figure given. That is a direct conflict between the figure from our earlier review and the firm’s own current page, and where the two disagree the firm’s own page is the one to trust; the $4 figure should be treated as stale rather than as CPT Markets’ current pricing.

Payment methods CPT Markets is said to support

The earlier review listed bank transfer, credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Maestro), and e-wallets (Neteller, Skrill) as funding methods. No payments page for CPT Markets turned up among the pages fetched for this review, so none of that list is corroborated by anything the firm currently publishes; it is reported here only as what the earlier review claimed, with no processing times, minimum amounts, or currency handling attached to any of the three methods.

What CPT Markets’ own pages establish instead

The three account tiers on CPT Markets’ own comparison page, Classic, ECN and Prime, are described in terms of execution model, spread type and tradable instruments, not in terms of funding rails. The page distinguishes them on minimum trade size, leverage up to 1:1000, and account-count limits (Classic and ECN allow an unlimited number of accounts per client, Prime is capped at one), but says nothing about what it costs to fund or empty any of them.

Two clauses from the firm’s risk disclosure bear on what a client actually keeps, separate from any transfer fee. The disclosure states plainly that “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit,” on the same pages that market funds… fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection. Those two statements point in different directions, and the review has no way to say which one governs a live account. The disclosure also warns that “if you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice,” which sets the terms under which a position, and the funds behind it, get closed out without any prior chance to top up.

The jurisdictional split that matters for withdrawals

CPT Markets operates under four separate licensed entities: CPT Markets UK Limited under the FCA, CPT Markets (PTY) Limited under South Africa’s FSCA, CPT Mena Financial Services LLC under the UAE’s CMA, and CPT Markets Limited under Belize’s FSC. Which entity a client is onboarded to determines which regulator’s rules, if any, apply to how that client’s funds are held and returned, and the evidence here does not show a single, group-wide deposit or withdrawal policy that spans all four. A reader assuming the FCA’s stronger UK framework protects their funds needs to confirm which of the four entities their account actually sits with, since the international site’s own legal disclaimer does not name the UK entity at all.

Searching for CPT Markets, and finding something else

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and the FSC Mauritius, and CPT Markets does not appear on any of them. Two other sites do, both built around the same brand name: cptmarketsig.com, which the FCA register lists as unauthorised and names as a clone of an authorised firm without confirming which one, and cpttrades.com, which the FCA register lists as unauthorised and names specifically as a clone impersonating CPT Markets. Neither of those two domains is the firm reviewed here, but a reader typing “CPT Markets withdrawal” into a search engine is exactly the kind of person who could land on one of them by mistake, and a clone site’s deposit and withdrawal flow exists to take money in, not pay it back out.

Customer Support

CPT Markets lists a single international contact point across its country versions of the site, and it is available around the clock: the firm’s own contact page gives live chat as available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, an international support email at support@cptmarkets.com, and a toll-free international phone line at 400-842-8992. There is no channel-by-channel service level or response-time commitment anywhere in the pages we fetched, so a reader knows how to open a conversation but not how long CPT Markets says it will take to close one.

Which CPT Markets entity actually deals with a complaint

The brand operates through separate registered companies, and the address a complaint reaches depends on which one the client was onboarded to. The firm’s own UK page gives CPT Markets UK Limited’s contact as info@cptmarkets.co.uk, with a registered address at Level 7, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AA. Its other country versions of the site give three further registered addresses for the other licensed entities: CPT Markets (PTY) Limited at 6 Kikuyu Road, Sunninghill, Johannesburg, 2191 Gauteng, South Africa (a Regus address); the CMA entity at Madina Mall 14-0, 245-743, Muhaisanah Fourth, Dubai, UAE; and CPT Markets Limited at New Horizon Building, Ground Floor, 3½ Miles Philip S.W. Goldson Highway, Belama Phase 1, Belize City, Belize. A fifth address, for CPT Operation Limited in Nicosia, Cyprus, appears on the international root page with no financial regulator named against it anywhere in the evidence. The FCA register confirms FRN 606110 as held by CPT Markets UK Limited alone, and that entity is not named in the international site’s own legal disclaimer alongside the South Africa, UAE and Belize companies. A client who assumes the FCA-regulated UK company stands behind their account, when they were in fact onboarded to the Belize or South African entity, is dealing with a different company and a different complaints route than the one the FCA licence covers.

Terms that constrain a client before a complaint even starts

CPT Markets’ own Risk Disclosure, published on the international root pages we read, states: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.” That leaves no contractual window in which a client under margin pressure can top up funds or contact support before a position is closed. The same Risk Disclosure separately warns “It is possible to lose more than your initial deposit”, on pages that elsewhere market negative balance protection as fully segregating client funds; the two statements point in different directions on whether a client’s losses are capped, and nothing in the evidence resolves which one governs a given account. The firm’s Legal Disclaimer also states “CPT does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such”, which extends to the site’s own published rates and features, not just general commentary. A client raising a support ticket over a figure quoted on the website is, by the firm’s own disclaimer, relying on something CPT has already said not to trust without independent checking. The Copy Trading disclaimer we read adds a further limit specific to that product: “Trade execution timing, pricing, and results may differ from those of the strategy provider due to market conditions, liquidity, execution latency, and account-specific settings”, which pre-empts complaints about a copied trade performing worse than the trader being followed.

The names to avoid when searching for CPT Markets support

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, CYSEC and FSC Mauritius, and CPT Markets does not appear on any of them. That same FCA-mirrored data names two other sites in the same naming space that a support search could easily surface by mistake. The FCA register lists cpttrades.com, styled “CPT Markets & Trades”, as Unauthorised and identifies it as a clone of an authorised firm. It separately lists cptmarketsig.com as Unauthorised and also a clone of an authorised firm, without confirming which firm that one is impersonating. Neither of these sites is CPT Markets, the firm under review here, and neither appears anywhere in CPT Markets’ own contact or support pages; a reader who reaches either while looking for CPT Markets support is not talking to this broker.

Prohibited Countries

CPT Markets’ own legal disclaimer, published on the firm’s international root pages, states that CPT does not provide services to residents of jurisdictions where offering would contravene local law and names two jurisdictions directly: the United States of America and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Everything beyond those two names is folded into a catch-all: any other jurisdiction deeming the activity unlawful. That catch-all does the real work of the clause, and it names nobody, so a reader cannot check their own country against it from the text alone.

What CPT Markets’ own page actually restricts

The two named exclusions, the USA and North Korea, are the only jurisdictions the firm’s own root page puts a name to. The page was fetched serving Australian visitors, among others, and imposes no restriction on Australia, Canada, Israel, Belgium or New Zealand in its own text.

That last point matters because it contradicts our earlier review here, which states that CPT Markets cannot onboard residents of Australia, Canada, Israel, Belgium or New Zealand. We cannot reconcile the two: the firm’s own currently-fetched page names only the USA and North Korea, while the earlier review names five different countries and does not include either of those two. Restating the earlier review’s claim in our own words: an earlier published review reported a five-country exclusion list that does not appear anywhere in the CPT Markets pages we fetched. A reader relying on that older list could wrongly believe they are locked out of an account they can, per the firm’s current site, actually open, or the reverse.

Crypto access carved out separately

CPT Markets’ root page treats cryptocurrency trading as a distinct restriction from the general jurisdictional exclusion. The page states that cryptocurrency exchange services are “strictly prohibited” for residents and entities of FATF blacklisted and grey-listed jurisdictions, and gives Russia, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar as examples, with the wording “including but not limited to” leaving the actual list open-ended and tied to whatever FATF’s blacklist and grey list contain at a given time rather than to a fixed set the firm publishes itself. This restriction sits on top of, not instead of, the general USA/DPRK exclusion: a resident of a FATF grey-listed country who is not from the USA or North Korea could in principle open an account for other instruments while still being shut out of crypto specifically.

Which CPT Markets entity a client actually lands with

The prohibited-countries clause we quoted above comes from the internationally-operated site run by CPT Global Limited, whose disclaimer names three regulated entities: the FSCA-regulated CPT Markets (PTY) Limited in South Africa, the CMA-regulated CPT Mena Financial Services LLC in the UAE, and the FSC Belize-regulated CPT Markets Limited. The separately-regulated CPT Markets UK Limited, FCA reference 606110, is not mentioned anywhere in that international disclaimer, and the international site’s country-of-residence exclusions accordingly say nothing about which of the group’s four regulated entities a given applicant would actually be onboarded to. A client assuming that the FCA’s stronger protections apply across the group could in practice be routed to the Belize or South Africa entity, which sit under different regulatory regimes.

What we could not check

The site’s /terms, /spreads and /risk-disclosure URLs returned 404 for the UAE, Indonesian and Australian country versions of the site when we tried to fetch them, so we could not locate a fuller or more current client-facing restrictions document for those markets beyond the root-page disclaimer quoted above. We are not asserting that no such list exists; we are reporting that the pages we tried to fetch at those addresses were not there. We also searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and the FSC Mauritius, and CPT Markets does not appear on any of them. That search covers only the registers we mirror, not a global check of every jurisdiction’s own prohibited-persons rules, so it says nothing about which countries CPT Markets itself has chosen not to serve.

Conclusion

CPT Markets is not one broker but a brand stitched across four regulators. CPT Markets UK Limited holds FCA authorisation, FRN 606110, effective since 31 July 2014, and is the same company registered at Companies House as number 06707165. CPT Markets (PTY) Limited holds FSCA authorisation, FSP 45954, in South Africa. CPT Mena Financial Services LLC sits on the UAE Capital Market Authority’s register as CP-0001163, though the register publishes that CP code rather than the licence number the firm itself quotes, so the company is confirmed there and the number is not. CPT Markets Limited holds Belize FSC registration 6616058. Four separate legal entities, four separate regulatory regimes, and the firm’s own pages are explicit that the FCA-regulated UK company is not the same entity as the ones licensed in South Africa, the UAE or Belize. A reader who opens an account expecting FCA-grade protection needs to check which entity is actually onboarding them.

What CPT Markets charges

The strongest part of this review rests on the account pages we fetched rather than on our earlier review’s fee claims, which is why fees score highest of any category here. CPT Markets’ own account comparison page lists three tiers: Classic, running on STP execution with variable spreads and no commission; ECN, running on direct liquidity with spreads described as “from 0.0 pips” and commission described only as “Basado en volumen” (volume-based, no fixed figure given); and Prime, a hybrid ECN/STP account with floating spreads, no commission, and a cap of one account per client where Classic and ECN allow unlimited accounts. That same account page contradicts its own marketing copy: the prose describes the Classic account as offering spreads “from 0.0 pips” with no hidden commissions, while the comparison table on the identical page assigns “from 0.0 pips” to the ECN account instead and lists Classic spreads as merely “Variable.” A number carried over from the earlier review we rewrote here, an ECN commission of $4 per round-turn lot, does not appear on the firm’s own current account page at all, which instead gives no fixed figure. We report that discrepancy rather than the number itself.

Platforms, and a discrepancy worth flagging

CPT Markets’ international pages advertise MetaTrader 5, a CPT-branded proprietary app, and a CPT-branded desktop platform, alongside a charting partnership with TradingView. But CPT Markets UK Limited’s own page, the one FCA-regulated clients actually deal with, lists only MetaTrader 4 under “Platforms.” A UK client signing up on the strength of the international site’s fuller platform lineup may not get it. Separately, our earlier review we rewrote described cTrader as one of the firm’s three main platforms; no firm page we fetched, across ten country root pages and the dedicated platform pages, mentions cTrader at all. We report that as a discrepancy in the earlier text, not as a claim about what CPT Markets currently offers.

Terms that bind a client

CPT Markets’ risk disclosure states plainly: “If you do not hold sufficient funds to meet your margin requirements, we may close your open positions immediately and without notice.” That same risk disclosure also states “it is possible to lose more than your initial deposit,” on pages that elsewhere market negative balance protection with funds “fully segregated, supported by negative balance protection.” The two statements sit uneasily together, and a client cannot tell from the site alone which one actually governs their account. The disclosure adds that CPT “does not represent that the material provided here is accurate, current or complete, and therefore shouldn’t be relied upon as such” of its own published content.

Warning lists and support

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the FCA, CySEC and the FSC Mauritius, and CPT Markets appears on none of them. That count matters because two lookalike domains do appear on the FCA register: cptmarketsig.com, which the FCA register lists as an unauthorised clone of an authorised firm without naming which one, and cpttrades.com, which the FCA register names outright as a clone of CPT Markets. Neither is the firm reviewed here, but a reader searching the brand name could land on either. Support runs a 24/7 live chat plus email and a toll-free international phone line, alongside registered addresses in London, Johannesburg, Dubai, Belize City and Nicosia, reflecting the same multi-entity structure that runs through the regulatory picture.

CPT Markets holds genuine licences from the FCA, FSCA, Belize FSC and the UAE CMA, carries no match on the 1,441 warning-list entries checked, and prices its Classic and Prime accounts with no commission, but its own account page contradicts itself on which tier gets the tightest spread and its UK entity offers only MT4 against the fuller platform lineup shown internationally: CPT Markets scores 6.2 out of 10.

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