Capital Systematics Review: Is It a Safe Broker or a Scam?

The Forex/CFD broker discussed in our Capital Systematics review, modestly presents itself as a reliable partner in the world of financial investments. The company promises traders ultra-low costs, ultra-fast order execution, and access to the “NO.1 Webtrader Terminal.” We’ve seen such claims before and know that most “generous” platforms are just looking to take clients’ money. Do you think this one is not a scam? You will find all the details about this scam project below.

Capital Systematics General Information

Website	https://capitalsystematic.org/
Phone Number	+44 776 764 05 56, +44 776 746 37 98
Email	support@capitalsystematics.email
Address	85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, England, W1W 7LT
License	None
Minimum Deposit	€250
Assets	CFDs
Leverage	Up to 1:100
Trading Platform	Webtrader

Registration and Client Portal Review

According to the creators of the Capital Systematics official website, all it takes to succeed is choosing an optimized template and a good color combination (black and gold) for the design. As for the content, its quality is entirely optional, as visitors rarely read the text.

This approach could work, but traders want to know more about the trading conditions, the terminal, the list of services, and the company offering them. This is why they notice all the flaws in the website’s content.

For example:

• Different figures for ultra-fast order execution: the homepage states 3 milliseconds, the Markets section shows 10 milliseconds, and the company’s description says 3 seconds for 50,000 orders, which averages to 60 microseconds per order.
• A super chart from TradingView (TV) directly on the website, which offers no practical use. Yes, it provides information about the instrument and technical analysis results, but naturally, you can’t make a trade there, and the quotes in the terminal differ from those shown by TV.
• Strange numbers in the Markets section. For example, they claim access to 24,000 currency pairs, which would mean pairs formed from currencies of 153 countries. Yet, such an abundance is not seen in the terminal.

There are many such discrepancies on the broker’s website. Perhaps the only place where they are absent is the registration form. It is very simple and requires filling in just a few fields:

• First and last name.
• Email address and phone number.
• Password.

Once the form is completed and submitted, the user receives an account and access to their personal cabinet. Very simple indeed, but we have a few questions for the broker:

• Why isn’t the client asked to review any documents upon registration? At the very least, they should accept and sign the Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Risk Disclosure.
• Why isn’t the client given a choice of account types?
• Why aren’t the contact details verified during registration?
• Why isn’t it necessary to provide full personal information when filling out the registration form and proceed with a questionnaire?

The client’s personal cabinet, although somewhat different in appearance from those offered by other brokerage firms, provides the standard set of functions:

• Filling out and editing personal information.
• Completing verification.
• Changing the password.
• Depositing funds and making withdrawal requests.
• Viewing transaction history.

There are also some interesting aspects:

• The website states that the account and deposit currency is euros, but in the personal cabinet, it is changed to US dollars.
• The user cannot enable 2FA.
• The client isn’t assigned a retail or professional investor status.
• There is no function to manage bonuses, even though they are heavily advertised on the homepage.
• There isn’t even a partner program, although the site claims it’s one of the ways to earn steadily.

Overall, we see a typical picture for scam brokers: the website claims one thing, but in the personal cabinet, the client gets something entirely different. Can you trust Capital Systematics in this case?

Account Types Review

The first thing traders are interested in when getting to know a broker is the trading conditions offered. On the Capital Systematics website, we couldn’t find all the necessary trading data for participants. Some important transaction characteristics are listed in a table with account types.

Clients are offered five tariff plans. For each, the broker publishes:

• The minimum deposit amount.
• The maximum leverage (by the way, it’s the same for all account types and is 1:100).
• The minimum spread size.
• A list of available assets for trading.
• A quality evaluation (Low Commissions or Individual offer) for trading commissions.

However, the differences in account characteristics are quite significant. For example, for the beginner plan, a deposit of just 250 euros is enough, while the next plan, Standard, requires 8 times more at 2,000 euros. The difference between the deposits for the Gold and Corporate plans is even more — 15 times more. According to the table, there are almost no significant differences in the trading conditions.

For example, spreads decrease from 0.8 pips for the Beginner plan to 0.4 pips for the Corporate plan. Is it worth paying 600 times more for such a small reduction in one of the components of trading costs? Does the difference in individual commission rates justify such a large discrepancy? Does the list of trading instruments for the latter plan look 600 times more attractive than the first?

Standing out in the list is the fifth account type — VIP. There’s really no information about this account, as all parameters are negotiated with the company’s representatives. Not even the minimum required balance is indicated. Can a trader start the “discussion” with just 100 euros?

On the other pages, you can find information about trading commissions in the Markets section. For example, for most stocks and ETF securities, the commission ranges from 0.01 to 0.3-0.4% of the transaction amount, but no less than 1 dollar.

Trading Platform

Capital Systematics preferred to remain silent about its trading platform. The only characteristic the broker mentions on its official website is the order execution speed (which we mentioned earlier, along with the different values provided by the company). No one stopped us from forming our own opinion about the terminal, and here’s what we concluded.

Let’s say right away that the software was not developed by the broker. Under the guise of the “NO.1 Webtrader Terminal,” we are offered one of the versions of Mobius Trader. The program is actually not the worst and includes:

• Multi-chart mode.
• One-click trading.
• The ability for users to develop and add third-party indicators and trading bots, even in the web version.

However, it has quite a few drawbacks:

• The market overview (list of available assets) is poorly organized. Selecting a symbol to display in the chart window turns into a real quest, especially when there are many, such as cryptocurrencies or futures.
• Adding an indicator to the chart is also not so easy. A beginner will not be able to handle this seemingly simple task without reading the documentation.
• The standard set of technical indicators is very poor. It will be impossible to create an effective trading system with them.
• There are only 4 graphic tools available for analysis. This also significantly limits the trader’s capabilities.
• Placing pending orders is also not as simple as it seems. It’s easy to place them, but figuring out, for example, how to set the type (market or limit) without documentation is not clear.

In short, the platform is very similar to MetaTrader and even claims to surpass it. However, when it comes to user comfort, interface ease of use, and functionality, it still significantly lags behind.

Capital Systematics — Deposit and Withdrawal of Funds

In the broker’s personal account, there are three main payment methods for non-trading transactions:

• Bank transfers through the SEPA system.
• Transactions via VISA/MasterCard credit/debit cards.
• Payments in several cryptocurrencies.

However, things are not so smooth. Capital Systematics does not provide payment details either in the personal account or on the website. The client cannot perform the transactions independently, either. The payment service processing card transactions does not start. When selecting cryptocurrency or bank transfer options, instead of the recipient’s details, the sender sees empty fields and is advised to contact the account manager for the details.

Thus, we see the usual scammer pattern where only company representatives inform the client where to send money. Capital Systematics clearly has no desire to show its financial transactions to anyone, such as tax authorities or regulatory bodies. Most likely, the broker doesn’t even have corporate accounts or cards, and money is sent to wallets/cards/accounts of private individuals (drop accounts).

Verification

The document requirements for verification that the user sees in the Capital Systematics personal account are quite standard. They include submitting copies of:

• Government photo ID (passport, driver’s license, ID card, etc.) to confirm personal data.
• Utility bill (excluding mobile phone bills) or bank statement to confirm the address.
• Photos of both sides of the card (if the account was funded using a bank card) for verification of the client’s payment data.

Such verification is even conducted by scam brokers. What remains unclear is why Capital Systematics requires it. The broker has no KYC or AML policies anywhere. These are not even included in the Terms of Use. As a result, the user does not accept the provisions of these documents, as they are not part of the agreement with the broker and has every right not to comply with them. In turn, a company that has not included these provisions in the contract has no right to demand their enforcement. So why does the project owner need this information?

Additional Options

It is clear that the owners of Capital Systematics were eager to launch a powerful affiliate program and even advertised it on the homepage. However, something went wrong, and the program only exists as a promotional slogan on the site.

The same fate befell the loyalty program with bonuses for clients and the bonus program for those who deposit funds. There are lovely words about them on the homepage, but there’s not a single mention of them in the personal account or any documents.

What’s more, the only educational and analytical materials on the site are news updates, and they are outdated. The last publication is dated January 10, 2025, meaning that for the past month and a half, the global economy and financial markets have been at a complete standstill.

Is Capital Systematics a Scam?

Even the listed indirect signs are enough to clearly understand that we are dealing with yet another scam broker. We are confident that when analyzing official data, we will find direct confirmation of this.

Legal Information and License

The company has created a solid legend in the hope that potential clients will believe it and not check the provided information. Credit must be given to the project owners for carefully selecting these details.

The company publishes information about its registration in the UK and the presence of a license from the local financial regulator, the FCA. Moreover, it even provides links to the Companies House and the FCA registry, which appear to be legitimate.

As we can see, a company named CAPITAL SYSTEMATICS LTD is indeed registered in London. It has been operating since 2006 and is still active, with its primary activity being financial management (SIC 70221). In fact, this paints the perfect picture for a broker. Given that the company holds an FCA license, which authorizes it to accept, process, and execute client trade orders (dealing), one might conclude: this is a licensed broker.

However, more experienced traders will carefully analyze the official records and related information, uncovering the following:

• Since 2015, the firm has been authorized to manage client funds but cannot hold them.
• The company’s clients can only be professional investors.
• It has its own website at http://www.capsys.co.uk/.
• It has a staff of one person.
• As of the reporting date, March 31, 2024, the company held assets of £185,500, with liabilities of £26,000.

In reality, everything points to the fact that this company cannot provide brokerage services. This is further confirmed by the information on its official website, where it calls itself an investment boutique and states that it only works with companies and holders of their shares.

The conclusion is easy to make: the broker operates without registration and a license. To make its activities appear legitimate, it uses the name and license number of a real company to which it has no connection. Still have doubts that Capital Systematics is a scam project?

Capital Systematics Domain Info

To maintain its legend, the broker publishes information about the company’s creation in 2006. We’ve already shown that this information is false. The real creation date of the platform can be obtained from the Whois service.

As we can see, the operational domain capitalsystematic.org appeared only on February 13, 2025. However, we have information that the broker’s website was previously hosted on capitalsystematics.com, registered on December 24, 2024. Clearly, in a span of a month and a half, the scammers managed to deceive many clients, which led to a change in the domain name.

Contacts Review

On the contact page of Capital Systematics, the user will find:

• A contact form.
• An email address for support.
• A couple of phone numbers with the UK country code.
• A registration address in London.

Additionally, on the Company page, there is an address for the London office. As you might guess, it differs from the registration address because the company continues to operate. The contact numbers also seem interesting: they are mobile numbers. It seems that offices in London have stopped being equipped with landlines (or that the project owners did not anticipate that someone might notice the difference between them).

The scam platform also lacks links to social media accounts. They likely aren’t needed — after a month and a half of operation, the fake company changed its domain name. How long do you think it will continue to exist?

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