Capital.com’s Biggest Market Traded $1 Trillion, With Stop-Losses on 18% of Trades

Capital.com's UAE clients traded $1.06 trillion in the first half of 2026 and attached a stop-loss to 18.3% of their trades, the lowest rate among the seven markets covered in the broker's H1 2026 Pulse Report, published on Monday. The UAE accounted for more than two-fifths of the $2.45 trillion traded across the platform between January and June, up 27.7% from $1.92 trillion in the second half of 2025. Closed trades rose 48% to 80.9 million. The Middle East supplied roughly half of Capital.com's $3.42 trillion in 2025 volume.

Across the platform, 22.43% of closed trades had a stop-loss set at entry in H1, compared with 22.21% in the prior six months. Germany led the seven markets at 34.06%, up 6.83 percentage points, followed by the Netherlands at 32.81% and Poland at 32.16%, the latter posting the largest increase at 8.34 points. Italy rose 5.45 points to 26.92%, while Australia slipped 0.92 points to 27.40%, which Capital.com linked to new trading during the second-quarter technology rally. The UK was flat at 24.71%, and the UAE rose 1.22 points from 17.08%. France was excluded because French rules require a guaranteed stop on every CFD position, a link the AMF established in 2017. The broker's July update put second-quarter stop-loss use at 26.6% of positions, a different base from the closed trades in the half-year report.

Capital.com said positions closed by a triggered stop-loss lost 39% less on average than positions with no stop, ranging from 55.2% less in Germany to 17.7% less in Australia. The broker cautioned that the finding is a correlation from one half-year of data and does not prove the orders cause better outcomes. Tarik Chebib, CEO for the Middle East and North Africa, said the focus is on helping more traders set an exit before they trade. Christoforos Soutzis, CEO for Europe, warned that stops calibrated for calm markets can be triggered by ordinary price moves when volatility picks up.

Gold Spot was Capital.com's largest instrument in both half-years. In January, the busiest month of the half, it accounted for 57% of $508 billion in volume, and in the UAE it made up 54% of volume over six months. Other brokers reported similar concentrations: ACCM said gold represented 91% of its CFD activity in a $2.14 trillion first quarter, while VT Markets put its first-half volume at about $8 trillion, up 212% year on year, with gold and silver among its most traded products. Capital.com also agreed this month to take over FxPro's Cyprus-licensed client book.

Second-quarter volume fell to $1.14 trillion from $1.31 trillion in the first quarter. US Tech 100 volume rose 48% in May and 37% in June, and the index ended the quarter as the second-largest instrument at $292.4 billion. US crude volume jumped 700% in March during a supply shock linked to the conflict involving Iran, then fell 10% in April, 5% in May and 37% in June. The report draws on more than 80 million closed trades, about 32.2 million of them in the seven markets it profiles. Capital.com noted that quarterly totals differ from earlier updates: in April it put first-quarter volume at $1.27 trillion, versus $1.31 trillion in the new report, and in July it gave $1.13 trillion for the second quarter.