Trading accounts

Trading account is a type of account held at a broker and used for conducting trading activities. Funds deposited in a trading account are used as a margin for trading instruments purchased where required margin is only a fraction of the overall trading volume and is in inverse proportion to the leverage provided by the broker.


There are Demo and two types of different-volume-range Real trading accounts available per trading platform:

DEMO1 BEGINNER 2 STANDARD Account Type DEMO1 MICRO3 STANDARD
1 USD 1 USD 200 USD Minimal initial deposit 10 USD 10 USD 300 USD
Unlimited 3000 USD Unlimited Maximum initial deposit Unlimited 3000 USD Unlimited
Unlimited 5000 USD Unlimited Maximum allowed equity Unlimited 5000 USD Unlimited
1:1 - 1:400 1:1 - 1:400 1:1 - 1:200 Leverage 1:1 - 1:400 1:1 - 1:400 1:1 - 1:200
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Margin Requirements

Account Type Leverage (Margin)
Micro 1:400 (0.25%)
Standard (Deposit < 50 000 USD) 1:200 (0.5%)
Standard (Deposit 50 000 - 100 000 USD) 1:100 (1%)
Standard (Deposit > 100 000 USD) 1:50 (2%)


In order to avoid any client liabilities towards the company, the company can close one or several client’s positions if there are losses over them. Closing is performed if margin level, i.e. ratio of the balance taking into account open positions to the margin value, reaches 10%. In this case the first position to close will be the most unprofitable. This situation is called “short margin”.


When total amount of open positions equals or exceeds $20.000.000, maximum available leverage is 20:1 (or 5% margin of a total open position volume).


For weekends and holidays margin requirements may be increased twice with prior notification. This means that leverage 100:1 or requirement margin of 1% will become 50:1 or requirement margin 2%. The client must get his opened position according to the increased margin demands by the end of trading. If the client fails to do so, the company has a right, but not responsibility, to reduce the client’s position according to the prices that set at the end of the trades. In this case the company will choose which of the client’s positions will be reduced or closed.

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Risk warning: Relatively small rate changes of trading instruments (currency pair, CFDs, etc.) when fulfilling trading operations on high leverage can cause significant changes to the customer trading account (proportionally to the leverage used). At movement of the market against the customer position he can incur significant loss of part or the whole deposit. The customer is fully responsible for using his financial resources and choosing the trading strategy.

Many financial tools have high volatility and/or have significant intraday time ranges of price changes that define high probability of reception of both fast profits and losses from trading operations.


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