Leading online broker Capital.com has published its 2025 trading platform activity summary, reporting $3.42 trillion in client trading volume for the year.

Trading volumes increased 92.1% year-on-year, rising from $1.78 trillion in 2024 to $3.42 trillion in 2025. The number of trades executed grew 87%, from 120.2 million to 224.8 million.

While Capital.com didn’t break out Q4 volume results, a quick look back at H1 2025 and Q3 2025 would indicate that Q4 2025 trading volumes at Capital.com topped a record $1 trillion.

The company said that the results reflect accelerated trading activity alongside continued investment in structured risk management, platform resilience and decision-support tools, reinforcing the Group’s ambition to build a platform ‘Built for Better Decisions.’

Capital.com added that trading volumes are influenced by prevailing market conditions and do not indicate future performance.

Rupert Osborne, CEO, Capital.com UK, said,

“2025 was marked by sustained macroeconomic uncertainty and cross-asset repricing. In that environment, our priority was not simply scale, but strengthening operational resilience and deepening a structured decision-support framework within a regulated setting. Access to markets should be accompanied by tools that promote disciplined engagement, clear risk definition and ongoing review.

“As activity increased, we continued embedding structured risk discipline directly into the platform’s architecture. Capital.com does not aim to stimulate trading frequency; our focus is on building infrastructure that helps reduce cognitive bias, reinforces predefined risk parameters and supports more deliberate execution under volatile conditions.”

Key Highlights

• $3.42 trillion in client trading volume in 2025, up 92.1% year-on-year (2024: $1.78 trillion)
• 224.8 million trades executed, up 87.0% from 120.2 million in 2024
• Middle East accounted for approximately 50% of total trading volume
• Europe was the second-largest region, with volumes rising 73% year-on-year
• 22.59% of global positions were opened with a stop-loss attached.
• Platform coverage expanded to over 5,000 markets (up from 4,500+)

Market environment and activity drivers

Trading activity during the year coincided with monetary policy divergence across major economies, commodity price volatility and heightened sensitivity to macroeconomic data releases. Millennials and Gen X accounted for the largest share of trading volumes, followed by Zoomers and Boomers.

Gold was the most actively traded instrument globally by both volume and trade count during the period, reflecting its established role during episodes of macroeconomic uncertainty and commodity price fluctuation.

Behaviourally, gold trading in 2025 was characterised by heightened sensitivity to short-term price moves. 73.8% of gold trades were closed within one hour, and 95.9% within 24 hours, indicating a strong bias toward intraday decision-making. This concentration is consistent with intraday trading patterns typically observed during periods of elevated volatility.

Elevated market participation required sustained platform stability during peak trading windows. Systems performance and service continuity were maintained across regulated entities, including during periods of heightened cross-asset volatility.

Globally, 22.59% of all positions had a stop-loss attached, compared with 22.01% in 2024 stop-loss usage is monitored as a proxy for predefined risk parameters and disciplined trade structuring.

Usage was highest among Zoomers and Millennials. The increase suggests broader adoption of structured risk parameters during a year marked by volatility across asset classes.

All clients operate within the same regulated framework, risk disclosure standards and suitability requirements.

“Increasing the use of predefined risk parameters remains a structural objective, not a marketing metric. Our priority is to embed risk configuration into the decision-making process before execution, so that structured discipline becomes an integral part of how the platform is used, particularly during periods of heightened volatility,” added Osborne.

Decision-support tools and AI development

Throughout 2025, Capital.com said it continued to strengthen its structured decision-support environment and platform resilience. Key developments included:

• Expanded charting and analytical tools to improve price context and multi-timeframe analysis
• Enhanced trade journaling to support structured post-trade review and behavioural awareness
• Continued development of risk architecture, including stop-loss enhancements to reinforce predefined risk parameters
• Infrastructure and monitoring upgrades to maintain execution stability during peak trading periods

The Group’s product roadmap incorporates behavioural analytics and AI-assisted tools designed to support risk definition before execution, enable real-time exposure monitoring and facilitate structured review of trading patterns. AI is being embedded not as a predictive signal, but as behavioural infrastructure intended to help narrow the gap between trading intention and execution in volatile market conditions.

Looking ahead to 2026

While trading activity increased materially during 2025, Capital.com said it does not define progress by scale alone.

Strategic priorities for 2026 at Capital.com include:

• Increasing stop-loss adoption rates
• Expanding AI-driven behavioural safeguards
• Enhancing transparency around decision-quality metrics
• Continuing measured geographic expansion within regulatory frameworks
• Expanding multi-asset capabilities across equities, digital assets and long-term investment products

Capital.com operates under multiple regulatory licenses across several jurisdictions, and added authorisation from the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya in 2025.

The Group’s long-term focus remains the development of a global platform designed to improve decision quality within a regulated and governed structure.

About Capital.com

Capital.com is a global, regulated financial company established in 2016. It operates a technology-led trading platform providing its clients with access to financial markets, designed to support deliberate and informed decision-making.

The company’s operating model is structured around regulatory compliance, governance, and operational discipline. Platform design emphasises clarity, information sequencing, and risk awareness, with features intended to limit unnecessary urgency and support considered market participation.

Capital.com operates across multiple jurisdictions under established regulatory frameworks. The company’s focus is on long-term consistency, resilience, and stability across market conditions, including periods of heightened volatility.

Capital.com maintains operational offices in major financial and business centres, including London, Dubai, Warsaw, Milan, Nassau, Sofia, Limassol, and Melbourne. Capital Com (UK) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under registration number 793714. Capital Com SV Investments Limited is Authorised and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), under licence number 319/17. Capital Com Australia Pty Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) under AFSL Number 513393. Capital Com Online Investments Ltd is a Company registered in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and authorised to carry out Securities Business by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas with licence number SIA-F245. Capital Com Mena Securities Trading LLC is authorised and regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), under license number 20200000176. CC Kenya Securities Limited trading as Capital.com is regulated by the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya under license number 244.