CPT Markets

CPT Markets Broker Overview

CPT Markets is a forex and CFD brand used by several companies in different jurisdictions. Accounts opened through its global website, cptmarkets.com, outside South Africa are held by CPT Markets Limited, a Belize company licensed offshore by the Belize Financial Services Commission (FSC), while CPT Markets (PTY) Limited serves South African clients through its own website. Clients trade on MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 or the broker's own CPT App and CPT Desktop, through Classic, ECN and Prime accounts with advertised leverage of up to 1:1000, or through MAM and copy trading accounts. The brand presents itself as established in 2008, with 18th-anniversary branding on its site, while its Belize operating company was incorporated in July 2015. The site says it does not serve residents of the United States, North Korea or Singapore.

CPT Markets Regulation and License

Four licences are connected with the CPT Markets name, each held by a different company, and each was checked on the regulator's own register on 21 October 2026:

• CPT Markets Limited (Belize): licence number 6616058 from the Belize Financial Services Commission (FSC), shown as active. This offshore licence belongs to the company behind international accounts at cptmarkets.com, and the register records belize.cptinternational.com, a mirror of the global site, as its domain.
• CPT Markets (PTY) Limited (South Africa, registration number 2014/214730/07): financial services provider number 45954 with the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), authorised since 9 June 2015 in Category I for advice and intermediary services in derivative instruments, shares and deposits, and for intermediary services in crypto assets. It is not an over-the-counter derivatives provider licence, and it covers only the South African company.
• CPT Mena Financial Services LLC (United Arab Emirates): a Category 5 licence for introduction and promotion only from the UAE Capital Market Authority (CMA), formerly the Securities and Commodities Authority, under register reference CP-0001163 and shown as active. The register states that the company is not licensed to broker derivatives, unregulated commodity contracts or spot foreign exchange. The licence number the broker's site gives for it, 20200000245, returns no result on the register, and the Dubai address in the site's footer differs from the one the register prints.
• CPT Markets UK Limited (United Kingdom): Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) firm reference number 606110, authorised since 31 July 2014. This UK company trades as CPT Markets UK through its own website, cptmarkets.co.uk, and its authorisation does not cover accounts opened at cptmarkets.com, which does not cite it. The FCA register also lists clones of the firm, including cpttrades.com, cpttltd.com, pamcptmarket.com and cptmarketsig.com.

The site's footer also names two Cyprus companies, CPT Operation Limited (HE 459315) and CPTFintech Limited (HE 496878), without stating their role or any licence.

Is CPT Markets Regulated?

Yes, but a client of cptmarkets.com outside South Africa deals with CPT Markets Limited under its offshore Belize licence. The FSCA authorisation covers only the South African company's advice and intermediary services, and that company's terms say its clients' orders are executed through principal brokers, including CPT Markets Limited. The UAE licence permits introduction and promotion only, and the FCA authorisation belongs to the separate UK company, so the rules that apply depend on the company holding the account rather than on the brand.

CPT Markets Limited

CPT Markets Limited is named in the broker's Belize terms and conditions as the company providing its online trading services under the CPT Markets name, and it issues the terms of the site's USDT credit bonus campaign. Its company registration, number 155553 with an incorporation date of 8 July 2015 and a registered address at New Horizon Building, Ground Floor, 3½ Miles Philip S.W. Goldson Highway, Belize City, is shown on the GLEIF LEI register with data validated at the Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry. That registration records that the company exists; its financial licence is the Belize FSC entry above.

Is CPT Markets Safe?

WIKILIX's scam investigation, published on 21 October 2026, found no evidence that CPT Markets is a scam or a fraud but rates it high risk (unverified). It points to the offshore Belize company behind international accounts and to recent client complaints describing profits cancelled and funds frozen after the broker alleged abusive trading. The same investigation found some of the site's disclosures overstated or out of date: the introduction-only UAE licence is presented among its regulatory credentials, the Cyprus company HE 459315 is still listed after being struck off, and the 18-year claim covers a brand launched in 2017.

Protection depends on the company holding the account. The Belize licence comes with no investor compensation scheme, and disputes go to the broker, the Belize FSC and the Belize courts; FSCA supervision and the FAIS Ombud apply to clients of the South African company only, with no deposit compensation scheme; and the Financial Ombudsman Service and the FSCS cover only clients of CPT Markets UK Limited. The Belize terms say client money earns no interest and that a balance with no movement for at least a year may stop being treated as client money after 28 days' written notice. The MT4 page advertises negative balance protection, but the site's risk disclosure warns that clients can lose more than their initial deposit.

CPT Markets Account Types

• Classic, listed in the site's menu as the Standard Account: floating spreads, no commission, STP execution and leverage of up to 1:1000 on forex, stocks, metals, indices, commodities and crypto. The page gives no minimum deposit figure and describes a low entry threshold.
• ECN: spreads from 0.0 pips with a volume-based commission, ECN execution and leverage of up to 1:1000 on forex, metals, energies, indices and futures. The page says a minimum initial deposit is typically required but gives no figure.
• Prime, presented as the Premium Gold Account: floating spreads, no commission, hybrid ECN and STP execution, leverage of up to 1:1000, a minimum deposit from USD 500 and one account per client. It is the only account with a published minimum deposit.

CPT Markets also offers a MAM account, in which one master account runs a strategy across sub-accounts on MT4 and MT5, a copy trading account and a free demo account on MT4 and MT5. Its account pages do not mention a swap-free or Islamic account.

CPT Markets Spreads, Commissions and Fees

The Classic and Prime accounts charge no commission and price trading through floating spreads, and the Prime page advertises gold spreads from 0.0 pips. The ECN account's commission is volume-based, and the broker does not publish the rate. A campaign page refers to an existing 7% fee that still applies when a client deposits without any valid trading activity, without stating what the fee is charged on or when.

CPT Markets Trading Platforms

CPT Markets offers MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, with MT4 on the servers CPTMarkets-Intl, CPTMarkets-Live01 to Live04 and CPTMarkets-Demo, and MT5 on CPTMarkets-Live and CPTMarkets-Real. Its own platform is the CPT App for iOS and Android and CPT Desktop for Windows and macOS. Its platform pages offer no browser-based web terminal. Copy trading runs through a separate Social Trading portal at copytrading.cptmarkets.com, and clients sign in at login.cptmarkets.com.

CPT Markets Deposits and Withdrawals

The global site has no deposits and withdrawals page and names no payment method in text apart from USDT, which appears in a credit bonus campaign for clients in India; the home page shows payment logos without names. The South Africa terms say approved withdrawal requests are generally processed within one business day after complete instructions are received, which is the company's processing time rather than the time the money takes to arrive, and that the client pays any bank transfer, intermediary or currency conversion charges. Until verification is complete, a South African client may be limited to a single deposit of up to USD 300. The site also offers the U Card, a CPT-branded virtual Visa or Mastercard topped up from the CPT account, whose Visa version lists a 1.50% recharge fee; it is a spending card, not a way to fund a trading account.

CPT Markets Support

The contact page and help centre say support is available 24/7. Live chat opens with an AI assistant and has a tab for human agents, who serve clients in Traditional Chinese, English and Arabic. The general email is support@cptmarkets.com, and the toll-free number 400-842-8992 is given without a country code. Complaints go to cs@cptmarkets.com under a Belize complaints notice dated January 2026, which promises an acknowledgement within 3 business days and a written response within 14 days, with referral to the Belize FSC as the last step.

CPT Markets Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Licences from the Belize FSC, South Africa's FSCA and the UAE CMA confirmed on the regulators' registers, each held by a named group company.
• MetaTrader 4 and 5 on desktop and mobile, plus the broker's own app and desktop platform.
• Copy trading and MAM accounts alongside the Classic, ECN and Prime accounts.
• Support stated as available 24/7, with a published complaints timetable.

Cons:

• International accounts sit with an offshore Belize company whose licence comes with no investor compensation scheme.
• WIKILIX's scam investigation rates the broker high risk (unverified), citing complaints of cancelled profits and frozen funds.
• The UAE licence covers introduction and promotion only, and the licence number the site gives for it returns no result on the register.
• A minimum deposit is published only for the Prime account, and the ECN commission rate is not published.
• Payment methods are not named on the site apart from USDT, and a 7% fee is mentioned without its terms.

CPT Markets Review and Assessment

CPT Markets combines MetaTrader and its own platforms with leverage of up to 1:1000 and copy trading, but its international clients deal with CPT Markets Limited under an offshore Belize licence rather than with the FSCA- or FCA-authorised companies that share the name. Before funding an account, confirm which company will hold it, because that decides the regulator, the protections and the complaint route, and get the payment methods and fees in writing.