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Brokers for Scalping — What We Can and Cannot Tell You

Compiled by the traderpublic research desk

Scalping opens and closes many positions inside seconds or minutes, so the cost of one round trip — spread plus commission — matters more than anything else on a broker's brochure. A page that ranks brokers for scalping should therefore rank them on those costs.

We do not publish those costs yet. Rather than invent them, this page shows the records we do hold, ranked by our published desk score, and names every scalping fact that is still missing so you can see the gap instead of guessing at it.

Trading CFDs carries a high risk of losing money. Scalping multiplies the number of times you pay the spread, which increases that risk rather than reducing it.

Broker records we publish

Ordered by the traderpublic desk score on each record. Records our desk has not scored are not ranked here.

This order is our published desk score. It is NOT a scalping ranking: no spread, commission or execution figure on this page has been measured, so nothing here says one broker scalps better than another.

  1. Rank12 licences verified

    FxPro Global Markets Limited

    Record updated 2 Sept 2026

    4.7 out of 5
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    Your capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.

    Licences verified2 of 2 checked against the register
    Score breakdown
    • Licence and oversight5 / 5
    • What you can trade4 / 5
    • Desktop and web platform5 / 5
    What the desk recorded
    • The broker is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK regulator for financial services firms, under licence number 509956, listed as authorised.
    • The broker is authorised by CySEC, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission for investment firms, under licence number 078/07, listed as authorised.
  2. Rank23 licences verified

    Capital.com

    Record updated 2 Sept 2026

    4.3 out of 5
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    Your capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.

    Licences verified3 of 3 checked against the register
    Score breakdown
    • Licence and oversight5 / 5
    • What you can trade4 / 5
    • Desktop and web platform4 / 5
    What the desk recorded
    • The broker is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, with licence number 793714 recorded as authorised.
    • The broker is authorised by CySEC in Cyprus, with licence number 319/17 recorded as authorised.
  3. Rank33 licences verified

    HF Markets (SV) Ltd

    Record updated 2 Sept 2026

    4.3 out of 5
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    Your capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.

    Licences verified3 of 3 checked against the register
    Score breakdown
    • Licence and oversight5 / 5
    • What you can trade4 / 5
    • Desktop and web platform4 / 5
    What the desk recorded
    • The broker is authorised by the FCA, the UK regulator for financial services firms, with licence number 801701.
    • The broker is authorised by CySEC, the Cyprus regulator for investment firms, with licence number 183/12.
  4. Rank42 licences verified

    Tickmill Ltd

    Record updated 24 Sept 2026

    4.3
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    Your capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.

    Licences verified2 of 3 checked against the register
    Score breakdown
    • Licence and oversight5
    • What you can trade4
    • Desktop and web platform4
  5. Rank51 licences verified

    TF Global Markets (STL) Limited

    Record updated 2 Sept 2026

    4.3 out of 5
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    Your capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.

    Licences verified1 of 1 checked against the register
    Score breakdown
    • Licence and oversight4 / 5
    • What you can trade5 / 5
    • Desktop and web platform4 / 5
    What the desk recorded
    • Authorised by CySEC, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, under licence number 215/13.
    • This authorisation carried the status "authorised" when checked on 2 September 2026.
  6. Rank63 licences verified

    Eightcap

    Record updated 24 Sept 2026

    4
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    Your capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.

    Licences verified3 of 4 checked against the register
    Score breakdown
    • Licence and oversight4
    • What you can trade4
    • Desktop and web platform4

Use it to compare at a glance, then read the licence trail under each broker below — that is the part our desk checked against the regulator's register.

FxPro Global Markets Limited4.7 out of 5Capital.com4.3 out of 5HF Markets (SV) Ltd4.3 out of 5Tickmill Ltd4.3TF Global Markets (STL) Limited4.3 out of 5Eightcap4
Made up Scalping allowedNoYesYesNoYesYes
Made up Min. deposit$25$500$500$100$10$200
Made up Currency pairs90+50+90+90+40+60+
Made up FX optionsNoYesNoNoYesNo
Made up CryptoYesYesNoYesNoYes
Licences we verified233213
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What decides a scalping account — and what we have not measured

Each row is a fact a scalper decides on. None is published on our records yet, so each is marked unpublished rather than left blank.

  • Scalping permitted by the account termsnot published
  • Automated strategies (EAs) permittednot published
  • Average spread on a major pairnot published
  • Commission per lotnot published
  • Execution model (ECN / STP / dealing desk)not published
  • Typical order execution timenot published

Licences we checked ourselves

This is the part of the page that rests on evidence: each licence number was read from the regulator's own public register on the date shown.

FxPro Global Markets Limited

  • CySEC (CY) — 078/07 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FCA (GB) — 509956 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗

Capital.com

  • ASIC (AU) — 513393 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • CySEC (CY) — 319/17 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FCA (GB) — 793714 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗

HF Markets (SV) Ltd

  • CMA_KE (KE) — 155 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • CySEC (CY) — 183/12 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FCA (GB) — 801701 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗

Tickmill Ltd

  • CySEC (CY) — 278/15 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FCA (GB) — 717270 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FSA_SC (SC)

TF Global Markets (STL) Limited

  • CySEC (CY) — 215/13 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗

Eightcap

  • ASIC (AU) — 391441 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • CySEC (CY) — 246/14 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FCA (GB) — 921296 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
  • FSA_SC (SC)

Frequently asked questions

Does every broker allow scalping?

No. Some prohibit it outright and others impose a minimum holding time in the account terms. We do not yet publish this per broker, so check the account terms before you deposit.

Why is the cost table empty?

Because traderpublic renders only what our research hub publishes, and the hub does not send trading-cost fields yet. We will not type numbers in ourselves.

Is the order on this page a scalping ranking?

No. It is our published desk score, which covers licensing and the broker overall. Treat it as a starting point, not a scalping verdict.

How this ranking is put together

The order on this page is the research desk's published score for the whole broker, tie-broken by the number of licences we verified against a regulator's own register. It is not a score for this category, because we have not measured this category.

  • Every licence is read on the regulator's own register, and the date we read it is printed beside it
  • A product term is only marked available or not offered when the desk checked it and cited a source
  • A term nobody has checked stays labelled as unchecked rather than being dropped from the page
  • Written-in values exist only where the research hub publishes no field, and each one is labelled where it appears

Read the full methodology, including every page that carries a written-in value

What this page established, and what it did not

This page ranked brokers on the score the research desk publishes for the whole firm, and showed the licence trail behind each one. That much is checked: every licence number here was read on the regulator's own register, on the date printed beside it.

It did not establish who is best for Scalping. No field on this site measures that yet, so the page marks the gap instead of filling it, and labels every value that was written in rather than checked. Treat the order as a starting point for your own checks, not as a recommendation.

Other broker pages on this site

Each one states its own criterion and its own gaps.

Who did the work on this page

This page is compiled by the traderpublic research desk from the broker records published on this site. The desk reads regulator registers and brokers' own terms pages, and records the date of every reading.

On this page the desk verified the licence trail of every broker listed, and published a score only where it had one to publish.

We publish no individual byline for a compiled category page. The work is the desk's, and naming a single author would suggest a judgement one person made.