Professional Client Account
- Negative balance protection
- Lower leverage limits
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Professional Client status details
We're not obligated to offer the following to Professional Clients but have elected to continue doing so:
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Client money remains segregated from our funds and will be unaffected in the event of our insolvency.
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Best Execution remains unchanged as we owe all our clients a duty of best execution.
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The detail of Trade Confirmations remain unchanged and are sent by the end of the first business day following the execution of the trade, or earlier.
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Key Information Documents remain available to you.
As a Professional Client, you will lose some FCA protections:
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Margin and leverage limits remain unchanged despite the changes that ESMA introduces for retail clients.
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Mandatory changes to product features which protect retail clients will not be mandatory for you (e.g. negative balance protection and margin close out levels).
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We will assume you have the relevant knowledge and experience levels to understand the risks in trading leveraged products.
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We may use more sophisticated language when dealing with you as a Professional Client than we do with our retail clients.
Professional Clients also:
- Remain eligible for the Financial Services Compensation Scheme if you are a natural person
- Retain the rights to complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service when trading in a personal capacity
More about Professional Client requirements
Trade Volume
You have traded, in significant size, in the forex/CFD markets or other leveraged products (e.g. indices, shares, spread bets, futures, options, other derivatives etc.) at an average frequency of 10 transactions per quarter over the previous four quarters (with FOREX.com and/or other providers).
Portfolio
The size of your financial instrument portfolio, defined as including cash deposits and financial instruments, exceeds EUR 500,000 (or equivalent in your local currency).
Acceptable examples of savings and investments: Cash savings, stock portfolio, stocks and shares ISA, trading accounts, mutual funds, SIPP (excluding non-financial instruments).
Unacceptable examples of savings and investments: Company pension, non-tradeable assets, property, luxury cars, jewellery.
Professional Experience
You work or have worked in the financial sector for at least one year in a professional position, which requires knowledge of the transactions or services envisaged.