The most important Currencies Trade worldwide
CapTrader gives you direct access to the spot forex market - and therefore the opportunity to buy and sell currencies. Take advantage of CapTrader's broad foreign exchange portfolio, which includes 29 currencies worldwide and a total of 100 currency pairs.
You can also tell how much we care about your trading experience by the technology we provide: With the FXTrader Trading Tool use within the Trader Workstation TWS a solution specially tailored to sophisticated currency trading.
Direct access to interbank rates
Currency conversion
Tradable around the clock
ECN-like market structure
Multi-asset display
over 100 tradable currency pairs
Multiple test winner
Free account maintenance
Global trade
Excellent platforms
More ideal Access to foreign exchange
Thanks to low spreads (from 0.1 pips for major currency pairs), you can profit from even the smallest fluctuations in currency pairs.
Your forex orders are not executed via a dealing desk, but are settled by liquidity providers, among others. This ensures a very liquid interbank market. As a CapTrader customer, you have unrestricted access to international forex trading - and thus to the top class of trading.
No hidden price spreads
No markups/surcharges
Exclusively transparent and fair order fees
Use a wide range of currency pairs
Note: Leveraged Forex trading is only available to persons residing outside the EU (EEA). Persons residing within the EEA can perform leveraged forex trading only via Forex CFDs realize.
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Advantages of the Forex Trading with CapTrader
The tight spreads and strong liquidity at Interactive Brokers that you enjoy as a CapTrader client are a result of the combination of quote streams from 16 of the world's leading forex dealers, which together hold a market share of over 60%¹ of the global interbank market. This allows us to provide you with price quotes with an accuracy of 1/10 PIP.
Direct access to interbank rates
No hidden quote spreads, no swings, no hidden commissions (kick-backs). We rely entirely on the bundling of real-time based quotes from 16 of the world's leading banks in FX trading, and charge a transparent, low-cost commission, preventing conflicts of interest from FX platforms acting as dealers on one account.
ECN-like market structure
The Interactive Brokers order book gives you the opportunity to place orders off-market or between markets, and to trade with other clients² as well as with liquidity provider banks.
Currency conversion and cash forex
Interactive Brokers offers you the possibility to convert foreign exchange and/or trade foreign exchange with leverage. All IB accounts have currency conversion privileges that allow you to convert one currency to another without using leverage effects. The Cash Forex Option is available for suitably qualified clients and requires additional trading permissions. It allows you to make leveraged foreign exchange transactions.
Multi-asset display
Conduct Forex spot trades with various assets – such as Forex futures, Forex options, and other asset classes like stocks, bonds, and futures – in parallel via the same system and even within the same window.
Automatic position renewal overnight
Large-volume positions are automatically extended or renewed overnight (tom-next swaps). No commission or other fee is charged for this service. Just as in our spot trading, the renewal prices are direct best price quotes from our interbank partners.
29 currencies that can be exchanged
Currently, you can trade 29 currencies with CapTrader. These include: USD, AUD, CAD, CHF, CNH, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, HUF, ILS, JPY, MXN, NOK, NZD, PLN, RUB, SEK, SGD, ZAR, and KRW (with a special conversion feature).
FXTrader
Use our optimized FXTrader for trading on the foreign exchange markets. The functional spectrum of this tool includes price quotes based on real-time streams, upward and downward indicators, as well as the display of trading volumes, open transactions, executions, positions and average prices plus P&L.
Safe and stable
Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates have more than $7 billion in combined shareholders' equity.
Smarter broker for Forex Trader
Use our optimized FXTrader for trading on the foreign exchange markets. The functional spectrum of this tool includes price quotes based on real-time streams, upward and downward indicators as well as the display of trading volumes, open transactions, executions, positions and average prices plus P&L.
Spreads are provided with interbank quality
FXTrader supports more than 20 order types
You can change the layout of the FXTrader individually
Forex trading in TradingView
TradingView offers a variety of features and tools to help you implement your trading strategies effectively. TradingView allows you to trade directly from your web browser, but desktop and mobile apps are available.
Compared to our Trader Workstation (TWS), TradingView offers a less complex but still powerful trading interface
More than 20 chart types, over 110 drawing tools and powerful charting tools
Over 400 integrated indicators, 13 alarm conditions and a community with over 100 million users.
Exclusive: FX Auto Swap Program
We have developed a mechanism for clients holding large forex positions that offers more advantageous holding costs when positions are held overnight. This program is not designed for clients holding long balances in a single currency and would not benefit them.
This facility is associated with corresponding and offsetting positions in the forex market. This program allows customers to benefit from our participation in the interbank foreign exchange swap market, which typically offers significantly tighter spreads on interest rates than those available in the retail deposit market.
Open a securities account now and use Forex trade
Foreign exchange is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. Take advantage of the exchange rates with a custody account at CapTrader and hedge equity risks in your portfolio.
Frequently asked questions about the Forex trading
For more information, please see our FAQs and in the Help Center
How to trade currencies/foreign exchange?
You can find a brief introduction to forex trading at CapTrader here: Foreign exchange trading
In addition, there is also a short step-by-step guide on how to exchange Euros for US dollars.
For more information on trading foreign currency, please also use our comprehensive Media library, in which there are some videos about forex trading.
How do I deposit foreign currencies?
For each deposit, regardless of the selected currency, a so-called deposit note is required in your account management (Client Portal). You can get instructions on how to do this on our site here: Deposit note.
What are virtual FX positions?
A virtual FX position is a note of the system, as you have exchanged currencies in the past via the routing destination "IDEALPRO". This is actually intended for speculative currency trading. However, your money was of course exchanged normally for you. If you don't actually want to use your currencies for speculative purposes, but e.g. for investing in stocks, you can simply remove the virtual position without making an actual trade. To do this, go to your account window in your TWS (coin stack icon) and right click on the position in the "Virtual FX Positions" area. Then select "Adjust Position or Average Rate" and then set both values to zero. Then click "Ok" and the virtual position will disappear automatically after a short time.
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