Connecting Capital.com

A key you make yourself, with a password that is not your account's.

Capital.com does not ask Tradeus to register anything. You create a key on your own settings page, and that key is what you hand over — so every customer's access is their own, and yours ends the moment you revoke it.

  1. 1
    Turn on two-factor authentication
    Capital.com will not offer the key generator until it is on. This is their rule, not ours.
  2. 2
    Settings → API integrations → Generate new key
    You give the key a label, set a password for the key, and optionally an expiry date.
  3. 3
    Paste three things into Tradeus
    The API key, your Login, and the API key password — then pick Demo or Live.
The password is not your account password
It belongs to the key you just made. Nothing Tradeus stores can sign in to the Capital.com platform, and deleting the key in your settings ends Tradeus's access without changing anything else about your account.
Which balance Tradeus shows
Capital.com reports a balance that already contains the profit or loss of your open positions. Tradeus takes that open amount back out, so the balance on your dashboard is the cash, and the open position is counted once — beside it, as open P&L — the way the daily figure and the account lock measure it.

To file the connection under a prop firm, pick Other firm… and type the firm's name — or pick a listed firm and then Show all brokers — before Capital.com: no firm the connect screen lists is catalogued on it, and the key form carries the firm either way.

Demo and live are separate
Capital.com keeps them on different hosts, and a key made on one is refused by the other. If a connection is rejected straight away, this is usually why.

Two things about Capital.com are worth knowing because they are unusual, and Tradeus already handles both. An order is acknowledged before it is decided — Capital.com answers with a reference and confirms the outcome separately — so a fill only appears in your log once the broker has actually confirmed the price. And an account can be in hedging mode, where an opposing order would open a second position rather than closing the first; Tradeus closes what is held instead, oldest first, so an exit never leaves a hedge behind.

One account per key
Capital.com does not name an account in its position or order calls — it answers for whichever account the key's session happens to be attached to. So if your key lists more than one account, Tradeus refuses to read, order or close on it rather than aim at an account nobody chose, and says so in the log. This includes an account you add later: the list is re-read on every attempt, not remembered from when you connected. Make one key per account, or remove the extra account from the key.

Open in Tradeus

Add a connection — requires an account.

Step-by-step

Send a TradingView alert to a Capital.com account

Capital.com is the one broker here you bring your own API key to, and it has two surprises that both come down to names. The password it asks for is not your account password, and the instrument it trades is not the ticker on your chart — XAUUSD there is GOLD. Neither is difficult once you know; both are confusing for an afternoon if you do not.

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