Margin & Leverage

Margin is equity from your account set aside by FOREX.com to maintain a position when you’re trading on leverage.

Leverage is the ability to control a large position with a small amount of capital. It is usually denoted by a ratio. For example, if your account has a leverage of 40:1, that means you can trade a position of $40,000 with only $1,000.

Please note that increased leverage increases risk.

Click here for a full list of margin requirements by product.

You can either log in to your platform and change your leverage or margin in your account settings or submit a request to casupport@forex.com.

While our 100% margin requirement and real-time margin system is designed to limit your trading losses and help ensure that total losses never exceed your total account balance, you do risk incurring losses greater than your account balance, especially during periods of extreme market volatility. While it is not FOREX.com’s policy to hold clients responsible for modest negative balances, we do reserve the right to hold clients responsible for large debit balances and when special circumstances apply. For this reason, we strongly encourage you to manage your use of leverage carefully.

You can request a change to your level of leverage by accessing MyAccount.