Eightcap review: raw spreads built around TradingView

Eightcap's pitch to a TradingView trader is simple: keep the charts you already know and plug a live account straight into them. We opened a Raw account with the $100 minimum, connected it through TradingView's broker panel and spent two weeks placing the same trade pattern we run through every review, watching for the gap between what the chart promises and what actually fills.

01The Raw account earns its name

Raw account spreads on EUR/USD sat close to 0.2 pips across our test window, with a $3.50 commission charged on each side of a trade, so a full round-turn on one standard lot costs about $7 in commission on top of whatever the raw spread adds. Total cost worked out near $9 per lot in our own log, competitive with other ECN-style brokers charging a similar commission structure. Standard, by contrast, folds everything into the spread and quotes closer to 1.0 to 1.16 pips with nothing separate to pay, which suits someone who trades rarely enough that tracking a commission line feels like unnecessary bookkeeping.

02TradingView charts the trade, but does not always fire it alone

Connecting an Eightcap account to TradingView took under five minutes through the broker panel, and once linked we could watch price, draw on the chart and place an order without switching windows. UK clients get something extra for using it: Eightcap was the first broker to automatically assign a complimentary TradingView Plus plan to qualifying UK accounts, with no separate promo code needed at checkout. Independent testing we cross-checked found the same limit we ran into ourselves: some order types, including certain stop and OCO configurations, still route through the underlying MT5 connection rather than executing purely inside TradingView. That is not a broken feature so much as an incomplete one, and a trader expecting TradingView to fully replace MetaTrader should know it does not, yet.

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03Platform access depends on where you sign up

The platform list is not the same everywhere. UK clients are restricted to TradingView only, while EU clients keep MT5 and TradingView but lose MT4 entirely. A trader outside either region gets the full set: MT4, MT5, TradingView and TradeLocker. This regional split matters more than most brokers make it sound, because a strategy built around MT4 expert advisors simply will not run for a UK client stuck on TradingView alone.

04Regulation changes with the entity, not just the marketing page

Eightcap operates through several legal entities, and which one opens your account depends on your country. Clients who qualify get ASIC in Australia or the FCA in the UK, both genuine top-tier oversight. Clients routed elsewhere land with CySEC in Cyprus, or with the Bahamas Securities Commission, Seychelles FSA or Mauritius FSC, all of which sit well below ASIC and FCA in the protections they require a broker to carry. Two traders reading the same homepage can end up with meaningfully different regulatory cover, and the only way to know which applies is to check the account opening terms before funding anything.

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05Copy trading lives in its own app, not the main platforms

Traders looking for social or copy trading inside MT4, MT5 or TradingView will not find it there: Eightcap's Signals Market style features stay disabled on the core platforms, and copying trades happens instead through a dedicated Eightcap Copy Trading app. It works, and it is a legitimate route into following other traders, but it means running a second app rather than a single unified account view, which adds friction for anyone who wanted copy trading built into the same window as their manual charts.

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06Our verdict

Eightcap earns its raw-spread reputation: the Raw account's roughly 0.2 pip EUR/USD spread and $7 round-turn commission make it a genuine option for anyone trading often enough to benefit from it, and the $100 entry point removes any real barrier to trying it. The TradingView integration is the best reason to pick Eightcap over a broker without one, provided a trader accepts that a few order types still lean on MT5 underneath. Where we would slow down is the regulatory patchwork: check which entity actually holds the account before assuming ASIC or FCA cover applies, because for a meaningful share of new sign-ups it will not.

This review describes what we saw on our own accounts. It is not personal financial advice.