Eightcap Partners

Eightcap Partners is the partner programme of Eightcap, an Australian broker founded in Melbourne in 2009 and now running six licences: ASIC (AFSL 391441), the FCA (FRN 921296), CySEC (246/14), SCB Bahamas (SIA-F220), FSA (Seychelles) (SD100) and FSC (Mauritius) (GB25204603). That spread of licences is the thing worth understanding before you promote it, because it decides what your traffic actually gets. A client onboarded to the Australian or UK entity is capped at 1:30 leverage and covered by negative balance protection, and in the UK by the FSCS up to 85,000 pounds, while a client onboarded offshore trades under looser limits with none of that behind them.

What you would be sending traffic to

Eightcap runs more than 850 instruments across forex, shares, indices, commodities and crypto CFDs, on MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, TradingView and TradeLocker. Having MT4 as well as MT5 matters more than it sounds, because a client bringing an existing expert advisor can keep using it, and that is a group most of the newer brokers turn away by accident. Raw spreads start at 0.0 pips with $3.50 per side in commission, the minimum deposit is $100, and Capitalise.ai, FlashTrader and Acuity come bundled rather than sold as an add-on.

The crypto side is the part they push hardest, with more than 250 crypto derivatives including coins, crosses and crypto indices, and it is where a partner with a crypto audience has something to say that a generic forex offer does not.

The partner offer

The programme pays up to $600 CPA per qualified client, or up to 50% revenue share of the brokerage fee, or a hybrid of the two, and they will negotiate a personalised deal rather than hold everyone to the published rate. Payments run weekly or monthly with a $100 minimum, through wire transfer or Skrill, and the portal is their own rather than a network platform.

Two things to be honest about here. The $600 CPA is at the lower end of what this site lists, and several programmes on it advertise double that, so if a flat per client payment is what your model needs then Eightcap is not the top of the list. What it does have is a tier one licensed broker behind the offer and a revenue share that keeps paying while the client trades, which is worth more over a year than a bigger one off payment on a client who leaves in a month.

They publish a 40% conversion rate, support for more than 125 countries and $9m in commissions paid in 2022. Those are the programme's own figures rather than anything we can verify, and the 2022 date on the last of them tells you how recently that page was updated.

Who it suits

This suits a partner whose audience asks who regulates the broker before they ask what the spread is, and it suits anyone building on lifetime value rather than on volume of first deposits. It is a weaker fit if you are buying traffic and need the largest possible CPA to cover the cost, or if your audience wants the leverage that only an offshore entity can give them.