Alpha Capital Group Review 2026: Is It a Good UK Prop Firm?

Alpha Capital Group Limited is a real UK company, number 13719951 at Companies House, and one of the longer-running prop firms in the country, reporting more than 1.2 million traders, 100,000 Qualified Analysts and over $100 million in performance fees paid. Its rules are documented in an open help centre. Two cautions: accounts are simulated and the company is not FCA-authorised, and at the time of our check Trustpilot had suspended the firm's TrustScore, with 22,023 reviews on file, 85 percent five-star and 7 percent one-star.

Most traders who review it say yes, and the 85 percent five-star share is high. The reasons to be careful are specific: Trustpilot has suspended the score while it investigates reviews, and the one-star complaints cluster around accounts closed for device or identity checks and performance fees withheld under the 2-minute rule or the Best Day Rule. Read those two rules before you buy; they are the ones that turn a passed evaluation into a dispute.

Alpha Capital Group Limited is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales in 2021 (Companies House number 13719951) with its registered office in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, and a London address on its Trustpilot profile. Directors and shareholders are listed on the public Companies House record. It sits inside the wider Alpha Group with Alpha Futures, ACG Markets, the broker that powers its simulated environment, and Alpha Prime.

Alpha Pro, the two-step plan: 8 percent then 5 percent with an 8 percent static maximum loss and 4 percent daily loss, or 10 percent then 5 percent with 10 percent static and 5 percent daily, 3 minimum trading days per phase, forex leverage 1:100. Alpha One, the one-step plan: a 6, 10 or 12 percent target with a trailing maximum loss of 4, 6 or 8 percent and one minimum trading day. Alpha Swing: 10 then 5 percent, 10 percent static, weekend holding. Alpha Direct: no target, 3 percent daily, 5 percent trailing. No time limits.

The average duration of all your trades must be greater than two minutes, and at least half of your gross profit must come from trades that lasted longer than two minutes. It exists to stop tick scalping. Break it during an evaluation and you restart at Phase 1; break it on a Qualified account and all profits are forfeited and the balance resets. It is the single most common reason for withheld performance fees in the firm's reviews.

Performance fees are 80 percent, or 90 percent with an add-on. You choose bi-weekly or on-demand when you buy. Bi-weekly: every 14 days starting 14 days after your first trade on the Qualified account, minimum $100, and the first request needs five trading days on the same strategy. On demand: any time once you are 2 percent in profit and no single day is more than 40 percent of that profit (15 percent on Alpha Direct, which also needs a 3 percent buffer first). Alpha Swing is on-demand only.

Checkout prices on 21 October 2026, one-time: Alpha Pro $37 for $5,000, $57 for $10,000, $177 for $25,000, $297 for $50,000, $527 for $100,000 and $997 for $200,000. Alpha One 6 percent target from $37 to $647; the 10 and 12 percent targets cost more. Alpha Direct from $30 for $2,500 to $897 for $200,000. The fee is not refunded. Add-ons for a 90 percent split or swap-free each add roughly 10 percent.

Yes, on every plan. Alpha Pro: 4 percent (8 percent target) or 5 percent (10 percent target), balance based. Alpha One: 3, 4 or 5 percent depending on the target, rising to 4 percent on the Qualified 6 percent plan. Alpha Swing: 5 percent. Alpha Direct: 3 percent of the highest end-of-day balance or equity. Separately, Qualified accounts bought after 21 July 2026 carry a maximum risk rule: open drawdown on any single asset may not exceed 3 percent on $5,000 to $25,000 accounts, 2 percent on $50,000 to $200,000, or 1 percent on Alpha Direct.

Yes, and it is one of the few prop firms actually headquartered in the UK. The restricted list covers sanctioned and high-risk jurisdictions such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Vietnam; the UK is served and support runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm GMT. Being a UK company does not make it FCA-regulated: evaluations are simulated and the firm says plainly that it is not a broker and does not take deposits.

MetaTrader 5, cTrader, DXtrade and TradeLocker, with an in-house Alpha Trader platform announced as coming soon. Pricing comes from ACG Markets, the group's broker. Swap-free accounts are MT5 only and disable expert advisors. Forex leverage is 1:100 on Alpha Pro, 1:50 on Alpha Three and 1:30 on Alpha One, Swing and Direct.

As one input, yes, and they fit the funded-stage rules unusually well. Our signals are swing and intraday ideas held for hours or days, which clears the 2-minute rule by a wide margin, and each carries a stop loss that lets you size inside the 4 or 5 percent daily limit and the per-asset risk cap. The Best Day Rule is the one to watch: spread entries across days rather than loading one session. No signal service can guarantee you will pass or be paid.